Hall. It was called the ‘Ray Little Show’ and was a country music show
with all the usual guitars and steel guitar type instruments. It was
probably in the early 1960s, if my memory serves me right. Although
I’m not certain, I think the 4H clubs sponsored the event as I remember
some of the 4H kids were involved in the ticket sales etc. Martha Lamb
Schepp was at the show and I think somehow involved which would then
probably mean the Mountaineers 4H club would have been included in the
promotion. Gary, was this something you can remember being involved
with? Maybe Martha remembers the deal. The City Hall was filled to
capacity and folks seemed to enjoy the music and the comedy acts that
were included. I remember how the lead singer (probably Ray Little)�
asked his steel guitar player how the new steel finger picks were
working out? The steel player said, “Just fine” and then proceeded to
pick his nose with them. Another more raunchy part was when he asked
one of the guys in the band what was so special about his new girl
friend? The guy reached in his guitar case and took out a big bra and
unfolded it and it had three cups on it! The crowd was laughing
hysterically.
Another event in the City Hall just came to mind. Can anyone
remember a school play or fun night where Jim McCoy was playing the part
of Elvis Presley and was really getting into the act when two guys
dressed in police uniforms with caps and all, came in and walked up on
the stage and grabbed him and escorted him out of the hall? The guys
were Harlan Nordquist and I believe, although not sure, one of the
Pigeon boys. Anyone remember that deal. Being a young kid, I wasn’t
sure if it was real or not! I remember how parent were really upset
about some of Elvis’s body moves and thought he should be arrested.�
That would probably have been around 1960 also. Anyone remember any of
these things?
Dick
Dick,I don’t remember that Country Musical event that was held in the city hall building, but if Martha Lamb and the 4-H clubs were involved, it would have been the Mountaineers 4-H club. Dorothy Lamb, Mary Ann Hagen and my mother formed the Mountaineers 4-H club in 1961. I remember that event so well too. Those 3 ladies were all members of the Kelvin Home Makers club too that is still in existence today.Gary
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Brock: You might be living in a boomtown…
Harvey Brock, Forum Communications – 10/16/2012Who knew that North Dakota is experiencing an oil boom? How do you know you are living in a boom town without waiting for USA Today or the LA Times to tell you?
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you might be living in a boom town if:• Unemployment is an election issue in the other 49 states, and if you can’t find a job here, you don’t want one or can’t read.
• Merchant signs now broadcast they need help instead of telling you how they can help you, and preference is given to prospective employees who brought housing with them.
• Fast food workers and maids earn more than teachers. You can rent an apartment or motel room cheaper in the Big Apple, despite having more motels than churches.
• Your neighbor’s house guest hasn’t moved his RV for three years, and your other neighbor has nine pickups parked in front of his two-bedroom house.
• Subdivisions spring up overnight and folks are still living in their cars.
• City and county zoning meetings require a dinner and supper break.
• You can’t find a dry cleaner but coin-operated laundry mats stay busy 24/7.
• Guns, bottled water and energy drinks don’t fly off the shelves because they don’t hang around long enough to make it to the shelves.
• You get a U.S. geography lesson counting license plates while driving through the Walmart parking lot.
• There is no such thing as fast food and ordering a cheeseburger would be easier with a translator.
• New fine dining features award-winning BBQ and moves around on four wheels.
• Three out of four vehicles on the road are white pickup trucks.
• Scoria is a color as much as a road building material.
• Driving on state highways require nerves of steel.
• Auto horns are no longer used for greeting each other, and usually used in unison with a raised middle finger.
• Police officers serve as mixed martial arts referees at closing time in bar and bowling alley parking lots.
• Newcomers and long-term residents think each other talk funny.
• Finally, star gazing has been replaced by counting gas flares more numerous than lakes in Minnesota.
That is all I have but if you can think of any, shoot me an email.