TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I also seem to recall that when he died his kids said that despite the
music on his show being "square" he liked to listen to jazz.
