Freda and the ice storm

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Jon,

Wayne & I both remember Claude Allen well. He was
active in the local NAACP & the civil rights struggle.

I vaguely remember that he was teaching English
lit at Antioch but didnt get tenure.

Wasn't Joann married to Ramsey? Their apartment
must have been across the yard to the south. Later
on Rip Off Ralph Macelroy lived in one of those apartments
with a German guy named something German. And they
started importing Mercedes cars bought in Germany.
This was enterprising.

I seem to remember that when I knew Freda she
was living in far West Campus perhaps near
Grandview. That was when I was living in a now
torn down apartment on 17th street near Congress
just north of the Catholic Consistory building (still
there). One morning at dawn Freda phoned me
waking me up and telling me to look out the window:
an ice storm had coated all the trees and shubbery
with icicles. What a gal!

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster@hotmail.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: Sept. 18, Spencer Perskin & the Shiva's Headband Experience


> Mike--
> The Tommy Hall schedule  is listed on the flyer; it must be a "homage"
band, since the focus of the whole concert seems to be on his era. Your
memories are pretty  good; the woman with the baby carriage must have been
Joann, who lived across from Tommy and me a year or so earlier than your
observation.  Gilbert I think lived in the house next door to the one I
described in this morning's post.  Did you ever run into the mysterious
English lecturer Claude Allen , who managed the building? I heard he moved
to Cleveland shortly after, having been bounced from UT. Tary was living
with Madeleine when I was there, but no baby that I remember.