--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg > > Great find. :-) > > I lived for a long time in Santa Monica and West L.A., > and Lawrence Welk was a well-known and visible figure > there. He had invested his money in beach-front real > estate, and was richer than Croesus (he owned pretty > much all of the buildings along the ocean between > Wilshire Blvd. and the Santa Monica pier -- those > who have been there, imagine what that was *worth*. > > Anyway, like many Californians, he had a "vanity plate" > on his white Rolls Royce. It said, simply, "A1NA2". > > Those who have seen his show, and how he started up > the band for each song will get it. > > My parents used to watch the Lawrence Welk show > faithfully. As someone one said sagely, "Lawrence > Welk wouldn't still be on television unless that's > what America was really like." A throwback to the > mindless-yet-safe era of bomb shelters and Ozzie > and Harriet, Midwestern Lutheran values and being > the world's biggest supplier of weapons for war > and the wars themselves. Head-in-the-sand person- > ified.
What I always found amazing about Welk is that he was born and bred in the USA but spoke with a noticable accent. According to Wikipedia, he didn't learn English until he was 21! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Welk
