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Re: The EllGab Slice of Life Thread
« Reply #60 on: March 23, 2024, 03:43:49 AM »
It was 1992.  There was a rally called for The Old "Slave" Market on La Plaza de la Constitution in St. Augustine. Now the old market had nothing to do with slavery.  It was the traditional open air market typical of Spanish settlements in the New World.  But back in the 1880s Henry Flagler in promoting his railroad posed an old Black man in front of the market and deemed it a slave market. Anything to lure in a damnyankee tourist.

Anyway, back to 1992.  The rally was called by the Ku Klux Klan and the Pan-African Inter-National movement or PAIN, a Black separatist group. They marched in from opposite sides of the market - the Klan in white sheets and hoods, the PAINs in red, black, and green.  Both leaders spoke and denounced race mixing. Osiris Akkebala, also known as Jack Mitchell, chief elder of PAIN said you don't see red birds and blue birds together, so humans shouldn't be either. 

John Baumgardner, Grand Dragon of the Imperial Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Orlando said he supports reparations from the US government and its allies. The money would be used to establish a new nation in Africa and to move Blacks to that new country.

"We need the descendants of African slaves to rise above the perception of the Ku Klux Klan forced on them by the mass media," said Akkebala. "They are in support of our objectives, and we do not discriminate when groups support us."

"It's time to replace racial hatred with cooperation," said Baumgardner. "We were wrong in the past, and we're big enough to say that we were wrong. We believe that separation cannot be achieved through intimidation but through education."

After the speeches the two groups marched out separately.

Baumgartner said his group had about 30 active members. Akkeballa refused to say how many members his group has.

I'll just add that this was the last time I've seen Ku Klux activity anywhere and I have not heard of PAIN before or since.

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« Reply #61 on: March 23, 2024, 05:54:02 AM »
Yeah, I should have clarified.  I was standing behind those window panes, waiting for the school bus to arrive, tapping on one of the windows with the dime.  When we first moved in, that area behind the windows was separate from the living room.  Sort of a walled in entranceway.  Dad knocked the wall down and the living room was instantly bigger.

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I pictured the house being brown.
I can see that place being fun for a young Rikki.

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Re: The EllGab Slice of Life Thread
« Reply #62 on: March 23, 2024, 10:13:33 AM »
My usual crawling across the web in the early morning hours was interrupted by a noise downstairs. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I thought it was a clicking sound. Then the power went out. Then it came back on again. Out on, out on, like a pulse. The rest of the family witnessed this as well. The porch light of the property across the street was pulsing in unison. I was about to check outside to see how far this went, but it stopped.  I phoned the power company the next day. Nothing untoward had happened. No one had complained of anything.

Those were power flickers, Bob, as opposed to power outages.  We will get an occasional flicker out here in the pacific northwest.  A quick 'power off' and just when you think outage, the power comes back on. It only happens once or twice a year, the same with full outages, possibly a couple times a year at best, usually during wind storms that cause tree branches to hit the power lines.  Your multiple 'flickers' were most unusual and I'm surprised that the power company didn't have a record of them.       

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« Reply #63 on: March 23, 2024, 10:21:46 AM »
It was 1992.  There was a rally called for The Old "Slave" Market on La Plaza de la Constitution in St. Augustine. Now the old market had nothing to do with slavery.  It was the traditional open air market typical of Spanish settlements in the New World.  But back in the 1880s Henry Flagler in promoting his railroad posed an old Black man in front of the market and deemed it a slave market. Anything to lure in a damnyankee tourist.

Anyway, back to 1992.  The rally was called by the Ku Klux Klan and the Pan-African Inter-National movement or PAIN, a Black separatist group. They marched in from opposite sides of the market - the Klan in white sheets and hoods, the PAINs in red, black, and green.  Both leaders spoke and denounced race mixing. Osiris Akkebala, also known as Jack Mitchell, chief elder of PAIN said you don't see red birds and blue birds together, so humans shouldn't be either. 

John Baumgardner, Grand Dragon of the Imperial Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Orlando said he supports reparations from the US government and its allies. The money would be used to establish a new nation in Africa and to move Blacks to that new country.

"We need the descendants of African slaves to rise above the perception of the Ku Klux Klan forced on them by the mass media," said Akkebala. "They are in support of our objectives, and we do not discriminate when groups support us."

"It's time to replace racial hatred with cooperation," said Baumgardner. "We were wrong in the past, and we're big enough to say that we were wrong. We believe that separation cannot be achieved through intimidation but through education."

After the speeches the two groups marched out separately.

Baumgartner said his group had about 30 active members. Akkeballa refused to say how many members his group has.

I'll just add that this was the last time I've seen Ku Klux activity anywhere and I have not heard of PAIN before or since.

Well I certainly didn't expect that outcome. I thought there would have been fisticuffs.   Fascinating.

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Re: The EllGab Slice of Life Thread
« Reply #64 on: March 23, 2024, 10:32:09 AM »
I pictured the house being brown.
I can see that place being fun for a young Rikki.

You are most correct, Bart.  That was a wonderful house to live in & it was lots of fun.  That upstairs window belonged to my two older brothers' bedroom.  Mine was upstairs too, and was at the far end of the second floor.  I could open a window and climb out onto the roof and make my way down to the carport and onto the ground.  From there, I could hike up a nearby hill and look out over the entire valley.  I could then make my way back to the bedroom and nobody would even know that I had left.  (Also you are psychic, Bart.  The house was indeed brown at one time.)

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« Reply #65 on: March 23, 2024, 06:12:12 PM »
First year of college.  Working at Sears & Roebuck, bunch of kids working the 6 to 9 evening shift after the lifers went home for the day.  Sears was part of the big mall on the outskirts of town, where the highway turned into the long drag running North-South through town before turning back into the highway on the other end of town.  The employee parking lot was in the back, behind the back lot was the river, with a tree canopy, so completely isolated and out of sight from any streets.  Or police.  The back lot ran the entire length of the mall, plenty of room, broken up by the light poles.

It snowed a lot in winter, the plows would usually clear it, not always, and plenty would melt during the day and freeze again later creating a really slick, slippery surface.  If not compact snow and ice, then just black ice.

What fun.

After punching out at 9 pm, after any managers or older employees left, we'd get in our cars and race around the lot.  Getting a good running start, then throwing our cars into sideways slides.  Doing it all over again, but this time instead of mere slides throw them into tight spins.  Races from one end to the other and back, slaloming around the light poles and any hapless cars still parked out there.  A person could go through a whole tankful of gas in an hour, easy.

I'll say this though, driving around on the roads and streets in normal traffic with snow and ice on the road was a breeze after that.  Hitting black ice unexpectedly was no problem.

Yeah, kids.  You're better off not knowing.


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Re: The EllGab Slice of Life Thread
« Reply #66 on: March 23, 2024, 08:01:17 PM »
Yeah, I should have clarified.  I was standing behind those window panes, waiting for the school bus to arrive, tapping on one of the windows with the dime.  When we first moved in, that area behind the windows was separate from the living room.  Sort of a walled in entranceway.  Dad knocked the wall down and the living room was instantly bigger.

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« Reply #67 on: March 23, 2024, 09:30:23 PM »
Love that picture!

So glad you like it.  Wish we could travel back into the past.  I'd show you around the place.

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Re: The EllGab Slice of Life Thread
« Reply #68 on: March 26, 2024, 01:55:29 AM »
Click here for a picture of Pat:
https://www.last.fm/music/Pat+Benatar/+images/657f4165a3fb463b818faa8c25853360

That's the way she looked when she and her band performed at a local county fair, many years ago, I should add.  We've had a lot of big names at the fair and it used to be you could wander about the grounds and watch the performers, or you could be part of a big crowd that gathered in front of the stage.  Your choice.  But then a rich, car dealership owner built an amphitheater and walled it in, and made you pay extra (after having already paid to gain entrance to the fair) to be able to see the performances.  I remember Cheap Trick was the first band to play in the closed off setting. 

Anyway, Pat Benatar and her band played at the fair when you didn't have to pay extra to watch.  I wasn't all that big of a fan or anything, but I did like some of her songs and it was fun to see her belting them out as I walked about the fairgrounds.  She started to sing Heartbreaker, just as I was walking next to the concert area, so I stopped to listen to the song.  I still wasn't a part of the concert crowd, just a little bit off to the side, on a sidewalk.  There was nobody around me.   

She started to sing...

"You're a heartbreaker
Dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around with me."

When she sang the words heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, she would point to various dudes in the audience.  Then she started to repeat the verse and swung her arm away from the crowd and pointed right at me and sang, "You're a heartbreaker."  Yes, Pat Benatar pointed at your Rikki Gins and called him a heartbreaker! 

I've had a lot of fun memories of that fair, and that one with Pat was definitely one of them. 
 

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Re: The EllGab Slice of Life Thread
« Reply #69 on: Today at 03:48:49 PM »
Click here for a picture of Pat:
https://www.last.fm/music/Pat+Benatar/+images/657f4165a3fb463b818faa8c25853360

That's the way she looked when she and her band performed at a local county fair, many years ago, I should add.  We've had a lot of big names at the fair and it used to be you could wander about the grounds and watch the performers, or you could be part of a big crowd that gathered in front of the stage.  Your choice.  But then a rich, car dealership owner built an amphitheater and walled it in, and made you pay extra (after having already paid to gain entrance to the fair) to be able to see the performances.  I remember Cheap Trick was the first band to play in the closed off setting. 

Anyway, Pat Benatar and her band played at the fair when you didn't have to pay extra to watch.  I wasn't all that big of a fan or anything, but I did like some of her songs and it was fun to see her belting them out as I walked about the fairgrounds.  She started to sing Heartbreaker, just as I was walking next to the concert area, so I stopped to listen to the song.  I still wasn't a part of the concert crowd, just a little bit off to the side, on a sidewalk.  There was nobody around me.   

She started to sing...

"You're a heartbreaker
Dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around with me."

When she sang the words heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, she would point to various dudes in the audience.  Then she started to repeat the verse and swung her arm away from the crowd and pointed right at me and sang, "You're a heartbreaker."  Yes, Pat Benatar pointed at your Rikki Gins and called him a heartbreaker! 

I've had a lot of fun memories of that fair, and that one with Pat was definitely one of them.

I dated this French pop singer girl before I moved to L.A.
About six months after I left I got an email from her asking if I was interested in coming back for a week and do a TV show with her.
Her plan was to become more of a rock singer and would be playing Heartbreaker the show to debut her new image.
She had a heavy French accent so I tried to help her pronunciation but it was still pretty brutal.
It was a live show but they recorded a safety show in the afternoon just in case there was a technical issue during the live.
This camera guy was trying to get a fancy shot that made it look like the camera was attached to the guitar.
He kept hitting my hand  with his camera and then he stepped on my pedals.
I tried to back him up with a gentle hip check and ended up making him drop and break his camera.
30 seconds later security was escorting innocent Bart out of the building and I was replaced with the house band nerd.
She sent me an email the next morning say she was heartbroken.
I guess we are Heartbreaker brothers, @Rikki Gins




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Re: The EllGab Slice of Life Thread
« Reply #70 on: Today at 07:16:30 PM »
I dated this French pop singer girl before I moved to L.A.
About six months after I left I got an email from her asking if I was interested in coming back for a week and do a TV show with her.
Her plan was to become more of a rock singer and would be playing Heartbreaker the show to debut her new image.
She had a heavy French accent so I tried to help her pronunciation but it was still pretty brutal.
It was a live show but they recorded a safety show in the afternoon just in case there was a technical issue during the live.
This camera guy was trying to get a fancy shot that made it look like the camera was attached to the guitar.
He kept hitting my hand  with his camera and then he stepped on my pedals.
I tried to back him up with a gentle hip check and ended up making him drop and break his camera.
30 seconds later security was escorting innocent Bart out of the building and I was replaced with the house band nerd.
She sent me an email the next morning say she was heartbroken.
I guess we are Heartbreaker brothers, @Rikki Gins

Yes, fellow Heartbreaker!  We have certainly left a trail of tears in our wake.