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David Haist's avatar

And what kind of actress was Kathryn Crosby? A dramatic actress? A comedian? A stage actress? Was she a jazz singer? A torch singer? A Singer sewing machine? And what color were her shoes?

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Sandra Reel's avatar

Thoroughly enjoyed your story. Even though we have lived here 22 years now, I didn’t know that backstory about Bing’s clambake and colorful friends. The colorful characters I read about were more recent: Bill Murray’s antics come to mind. Sure would like to know identity of the editor who tried to juice up your writing style. Thank you.

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Joe Livernois's avatar

The place was crawling with an odd assortment of celebrities. Telly Savalas. George C. Scott??! Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. James Garner once punched a drunken fan in the middle of a round. Jack Lemmon was famous around here because he played for decades and never made the "cut." Jerry Ford played a time or two. They also used to invite a bunch of baseball stars. Joe DiMaggio played. So did Johnny Bench.

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Trish's avatar

Thank you for the colorful writing - that yellow hat must have been Claes Oldenburg's inspiration for the Salinas sculpture. Another mystery solved! LOL - joking of course.

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