[AGL] Fwd: Ghetto & Dirty's

[michelemason]

Hey! Its Wali!  I'm on the list. Where you be? What's goin on in your 
life? I miss you. Michele
coltrane at ev1.net   Did you ever record? Now I could contribute a bit.
I remember Houston(sp?) and Gary White up top. Of course I saw Janis 
and Freda(sp?) down at Powell's. Porterfield and Ed G had the attic at 
a house about 27th?—bought a dump truck of peyo and cooked forever to 
cap and support themselves in New York trip '64?—Worlds Fair that yr. 
Fontaine(sp?) and I went up later. I learned at least one good lesson 
that summer. Also Bob V showed up... Ah, memories. Oh, saw Janis in a 
Bowery(sp?) bar—she got skinny—couldn't believe someone would yell my 
name in a bar in NY. Well, I'm off subject. All be well and all be 
well.
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On Jun 27, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Frances Morey wrote:

> Happy to learn more lore on the eponymous ghetto as well as the 
> possibility that Wali might show up.
> See ya',
> Frances
>
> Wali of Austin <wali_of_austin at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:20:56 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Wali of Austin <wali_of_austin at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Ghetto & Dirty's
>> To: Frances Morey <frances_morey at yahoo.com>
>>
>> Frances, Brady, and all:
>>
>> I've been trying to remember for a minute, that is,
>> years, how many "apartments" made up "the Ghetto."
>> When I lived there, one of the ever-changing
>> configurations was John Clay and his banjo upstairs in
>> the "front" apartment with his own outside staircase;
>> below him Ted and his sweet wife (name? uh oh, a
>> senior moment again--Mary Margaret?) and their
>> peyote-eating dog below; downstairs in the back Powell
>> St. John and Steve Porterfield; and upstairs with our
>> own private indoor staircase that went straight up to
>> a door, Jack Smith, my brother Tom, and me.
>>
>> Yet somehow I have believed for years there were five
>> apartments.. I also remember a frame house in the
>> front that at one point Joe Brown had control of
>> enough to throw a party there. This would be
>> somewhere in the 1962-1964 era.
>>
>> Many other half-elusive memory images and weird
>> egvents. Hershberger lived next door in a little
>> house that May still be there. I had occasion last
>> winter to visit the frat house that now and forever
>> squats broodingly next door to the Carrels and there
>> was a little house in the back but I remember there
>> being two or maybe three.
>>
>> Ah well.
>>
>> Seemed like there were almost always constantly at
>> least twice as many people in our "pad" than lived
>> there.
>>
>> Once I decided for some strange reason to "mop" the
>> "floor" Yes! Wali Working! the hardwood ancient
>> floor. I was leisurely swishing the mop back and
>> forth when Janis J walked in.
>>
>> "Shit! What are you doing?! Gimme that!"
>>
>> Janis grabs the mop and begins swabbing the deck
>> vigorously like some sailor. "This is how you mop the
>> damn floor. Shit man!" she sweetly proclaimed.
>>
>> So what's up Frances? I don't get into town much but
>> if I understand correctly, Brady and whatsername and
>> the charming whosis (senior moments again) will be
>> entertaining the grease chompers at Dirty's Kum-Bak
>> Hamburgers this Friday. If I'm in the neighborhood
>> I'll definitely drop by.
>>
>> Hope all is well with you and yours.
>>
>> Love,
>> Wali
>>
>>
>>
>> Welcome, accept, enjoy, and make good use of all this wonderful 
>> prosperity.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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