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Yancy Street Gang Oct 15 2005 07:42 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 10 2006 11:29 AM

Here's a counterpart to our "Look Who Died" thread. It's for those who we may need to be reminded are still living. I'll start with Grandpa Al Lewis, still inhaling and exhaling at the age of 95.

seawolf17 Oct 15 2005 08:31 AM

John Wooden, who turned 95 yesterday.

Yancy Street Gang Oct 15 2005 03:36 PM

Will be 93 in December, and still gettin' it done: Lady Bird Johnson

Valadius Oct 15 2005 03:41 PM

Rosa Parks, 92.

TheOldMole Oct 15 2005 07:21 PM

Neat thread. Stanley Kunitz, 100. The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned camp-sites, over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings. Oh, I have made myself a tribe out of my true affections, and my tribe is scattered! How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses? In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends, those who fell along the way, bitterly stings my face. yet I turn, I turn, exulting somewhat, with my will intact to go wherever I need to go, and every stone on the road precious to me. In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers, not on the litter." Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written, I am not done with my changes.

Rockin' Doc Oct 15 2005 10:38 PM

I know he doesn't look it, but Keith Richards is still alive. He turns 62 on his next birthday in December. Those are 62 hard years.

Yancy Street Gang Oct 16 2005 11:10 AM

Art Linkletter is 93 years old.

Willets Point Oct 16 2005 02:09 PM

Osama bin Laden, still alive.

TheOldMole Oct 17 2005 09:01 AM

Al Lopez, now and then

Edgy DC Oct 17 2005 09:27 AM

Mets First Lineup: Felix Mantilla, ss, 71 Frank Thomas, lf, 76 Don Zimmer, 3b, 74 Hobie Landrith, c, 75 Roger Craig, p, 74 Plus: Ed Bouchee, ph, 72 Herb Moford, rp, 77 Clem Labine, rp, 79 (second-oldest living Met?) Jim Marshall, ph, 73

TheOldMole Oct 18 2005 01:54 PM

Pete Seeger, 87

sharpie Oct 18 2005 02:36 PM

]Mets First Lineup: Felix Mantilla, ss, 71 Frank Thomas, lf, 76 Don Zimmer, 3b, 74 Hobie Landrith, c, 75 Roger Craig, p, 74 Look at me! I'm still alive and leading off!

Edgy DC Oct 18 2005 02:38 PM

Well, you're only leading off because Richie Ashburn is too dead to climb into the batter's box.

sharpie Oct 18 2005 02:47 PM

Yeah, well, whatever it takes.

Yancy Street Gang Oct 21 2005 11:11 AM

Bob Barker, 82 in December, still hosting The Price is Right

Willets Point Oct 21 2005 11:42 AM

Fidel Castro, 79.

Willets Point Oct 21 2005 11:45 AM

Rosa Parks, 92.

Willets Point Oct 21 2005 11:48 AM

Milt Bocek, oldest living White Sox.

Yancy Street Gang Oct 21 2005 12:03 PM

The Twenty Oldest Living Mets Yogi Berra 5/12/1925 Clem Labine 8/6/1926 Duke Snider 9/19/1926 Joe Ginsberg 10/11/1926 Dave Hillman 9/14/1927 Herb Moford 8/6/1928 Frank Thomas 6/11/1929 Joe Pignatano 8/4/1929 Jimmy Piersall 11/14/1929 Hobie Landrith 3/16/1930 Frank Lary 4/10/1930 Tom Sturdivant 4/28/1930 Bob Friend 11/24/1930 Don Zimmer 1/17/1931 Roger Craig 2/17/1931 Willie Mays 5/6/1931 Carl Willey 6/6/1931 Norm Sherry 7/16/1931 Chico Fernandez 3/2/1932 Ed Bressoud 5/2/1932 Yogi inherited the title from Warren Spahn, who held it from April 14, 1965 until his death on November 24, 2003. I don't think we'll ever see anyone else with a 38-year reign. (Berra would need to live to be 116 for him to tie Spahn's record.)

sharpie Oct 21 2005 12:05 PM

At least we keep our streak of Hall of Famers representing us for Oldest Met. Labine will have to die before Yogi in order to pass it to Duke. After that it's a long way to Willie Mays.

Edgy DC Oct 21 2005 02:10 PM

Are we doing weekly updates on Rosa Parks?

Willets Point Oct 21 2005 02:34 PM

Shirley Temple, 77. Only 77. I guess that's the advantage of having your star shine brightest before you're ten years old.

Edgy DC Oct 24 2005 10:40 PM

Ms. Rosa Parks becomes the first person to graduate from this thread. Rest in peace, Ms. Parks.

mlbaseballtalk Oct 24 2005 11:03 PM

I don't what this is apropos of, but she was 32 when the incident occured. There seems to be an "reenactment" of the incident in one of those PSA things running on cable and local stations Well the actress in the Parks role looks about 60 I'm sure its more a representation rather than actual actual, but the message seems to be calling Parks circa 55 a "little old lady" as a victim of racism

Frayed Knot Oct 24 2005 11:56 PM

Edgy DC wrote: Are we doing weekly updates on Rosa Parks? Well yeah, cuz they were apparently needed.

Edgy DC Oct 25 2005 07:17 AM

History has a way of recording women thusly. I think it has something to do with sexism. If they're known for something that doesn't have a romantic component in it, well, then, they must be of a post-sexual age. Cartoon images of Betsy Ross I saw growing up were of a sweet grandmotherly type sewing a flag. Not unrelated is the portrayal of Pocahontas, who is famous for something with a romantic componenent, so Disney makes her a buxom young woman of 22 or 23, rather than a decade younger, as she was.

mlbaseballtalk Oct 25 2005 08:24 AM

For what its worth, my calculations were off last night, she was in her early 40's at the time, still young enough to be considered young, but that was and still is considered middle aged Steve

TheOldMole Oct 25 2005 09:30 AM

Senator Eugene McCarthy, 89

Edgy DC Oct 25 2005 10:12 AM

Write one fine novel, retire, and grow old on that single book's repuation. That's the strategy of Harper Lee.

MFS62 Oct 25 2005 03:45 PM

We can move Rosa Parks to the "Look who died" thread. No more weekly updates required. Later

OlerudOwned Oct 25 2005 06:45 PM

William Shatner, 74 and recovering after being hospitalized with kidney stones.

Iubitul Oct 25 2005 07:30 PM

="OlerudOwned"] William Shatner, 74 and recovering after being hospitalized with kidney stones. Denny Crane! of Crane, Poole, & Schmidt.

ScarletKnight41 Oct 25 2005 07:32 PM

William Shatner, recording artist -

TheOldMole Oct 25 2005 11:56 PM

Anita O'Day. I saw her at [url=http://www.newpaltz.edu/artsnews/release.cfm?id=277] this concert[/url]. She didn't always seem to know where she was, and of course couldn't scat any more, but there were moments of magic.[/url]>

OlerudOwned Oct 27 2005 09:55 PM

Innapropriate as it may be, I can't read Mole's post without giggling at the word "scat".

Yancy Street Gang Oct 29 2005 10:36 AM

Sid Caesar is 83 years old.

Iubitul Oct 29 2005 11:31 AM

Betty White is also 83

TheOldMole Oct 29 2005 02:12 PM

Bill Werber, 97, only living former teammate of Babe Ruth.

mlbaseballtalk Oct 29 2005 02:21 PM

Allegedy the only living man to pitch to Babe Ruth, Eldon Auker 95 alongside one of the oldest living HOFers (Feller and Berra maybe older, Monte Irvin 86

mlbaseballtalk Oct 30 2005 06:56 PM

="TheOldMole"] Al Lopez, now and then Two people, errm, leave this thread in the span of a week. Will there be a third? Whats the stautue on the "Bad things come in threes" adage?

mlbaseballtalk Oct 30 2005 07:03 PM

By the way, I say allegedly about Auker because his co-author Tom Keegan alwayes introduced him as such (sometimes adding Gehrig to the title) on his radio show, and I doubt Keegan would ever stoop to doing research (though now with both retrosheet.org and baseball-reference.com you might be able to in a matter of hours) to see if some young hotshot prospect from 1933-1935 is still living Steve

Willets Point Oct 30 2005 10:24 PM

mlbaseballtalk wrote: Will there be a third? Whats the stautue on the "Bad things come in threes" adage? I'm rooting for Bin Laden (in a non-martyrdom way).

Edgy DC Oct 30 2005 11:09 PM

Bob Feller definitely face Lou Gehrig --- on July 18, 1937 at least.

Valadius Oct 31 2005 01:09 AM

="mlbaseballtalk"] Allegedy the only living man to pitch to Babe Ruth, Eldon Auker 95 alongside one of the oldest living HOFers (Feller and Berra maybe older, Monte Irvin 86 AHH!!! It's Lyndon Johnson!!!!

Valadius Oct 31 2005 01:10 AM

By the way, with the passing of Al Lopez, the oldest Hall of Famer is now Phil Rizzuto, 88.

Johnny Dickshot Oct 31 2005 07:40 AM

Abe Kudisch, 100, celebrates his birthday with his granddaughter Jesica and his son Harvey at the Palm Beach Home for Adults in Sheepshead Bay. He survived more than four years at Auschwitz during World War II. At 100, he's waiting for Mets BY JOYCE SHELBY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Abraham Kudisch says he doesn't know how he managed to live to be 100. He certainly didn't expect to. But now that he has, he can tell others his secret to longevity: "I don't drink. I don't smoke. And I don't have sex," he said, laughing. Kudisch knows just how much longer he wants to live: "Until the Mets win another World Series. It's not impossible," the diehard fan insisted. With well over 100 of his nearest and dearest friends and family members, Kudisch celebrated his birthday Thursday at the Palm Beach Home for Adults in Sheepshead Bay. Wearing a bright red lapel pen that flashed, "Kiss me, I'm 100," Kudisch took about five minutes to make his way to the front of the home's recreation room to start the party. He stopped frequently to dispense kisses. Granddaughter Jesica Kudisch got a buss on the lips. Women residents of the home got kisses on the cheek. Favorite staff members got kisses on their hands. "Abie loves the ladies," said David Blatt, administrator at the Palm Beach Home. Born in Poland, Kudisch moved to Austria as a child. Before World War II, he owned a textile mill in Vienna. But to escape the Nazis, he and his first wife and son fled to Berlin. They were caught and sent to Auschwitz. Rolling up his shirt sleeve, Kudisch revealed numbers tattooed onto his forearm. "I was liberated after 4-1/2 years," he said. Asked for details about that time, he waved off further questions. "I want to forget," he said firmly. "His first wife and son were gassed right after they got there," said granddaughter Jesica, a public school teacher. "He talked about Auschwitz a lot when I was young. But he never allowed me to videotape anything." Kudisch met his second wife, Edith, right after he came to the United States in 1948. Within a year, they married. He worked in the garment district as a knitting mechanic for a manufacturer of ladies sweaters until he retired early in the '70s, Jesica said. His wife Edith died in 1998. Three years ago, the family decided the walk up three flights of stairs to his Kings Highway apartment was getting to be a bit much for Kudisch. "But he told us he was too young to be in a nursing home," Jesica said. "The only reason he came to Palm Bay was that we told him it was assisted living and they would have to help him only with meals." His birthday celebration included dancing, singing, a chocolate mocha birthday sheet cake, a Borough Hall proclamation and a presentation by state Sen. Carl Kruger (D-Mill Basin). "God has been good to you," Kruger told Kudisch, "and he's been good to us because we're able to have you."

Yancy Street Gang Oct 31 2005 10:05 AM

I hope he lives to see the Mets win another five World Series.

Yancy Street Gang Nov 04 2005 10:17 AM

Walter Cronkite is 89 years old today.

MFS62 Nov 04 2005 10:29 AM

]Three years ago, the family decided the walk up three flights of stairs to his Kings Highway apartment was getting to be a bit much for Kudisch. I quickly passed over that comment while reading the article. Then I realized he was still walking up three flights of stairs at the age of ninety-seven!! Mazel tov, Abe. And many, many more. Later

Willets Point Nov 04 2005 11:03 AM

Engelbert Humperdinck still alive at 69. But he's dead now. No no, no, he's all right, he's all right! He's fine! I think he's got a cold. No, a tan, that's it!

holychicken Nov 04 2005 11:11 AM

This thread gives me the willies. I feel like its title should be "All-Purpose People Who Are Still Alive But Probably Won't Be For Long Thread." It's like the kiss of death or something. Just remember, if you are going to off someone, make sure to make a post here right before you do so and then a post in the "All Purpose Look Who Died Thread" right after the deed has been done.

Yancy Street Gang Nov 04 2005 11:12 AM

holychicken wrote: This thread gives me the willies. I feel like its title should be "All-Purpose People Who Are Still Alive But Probably Won't Be For Long Thread." It's like the kiss of death or something. Just remember, if you are going to off someone, make sure to make a post here right before you do so and then a post in the "All Purpose Look Who Died Thread" right after the deed has been done. I prefer to think of it as the let's take a moment to remember them while they're still alive, rather than after they die thread.

MFS62 Nov 04 2005 11:17 AM

I'm ok with that, Yancy. So tell me, why is it exactly that we should be remembering Ebglebert Humperdink? (other than for that great George Hamilton tan? Later

holychicken Nov 04 2005 11:27 AM

]I prefer to think of it as the let's take a moment to remember them while they're still alive, rather than after they die thread. Damn optimists!

seawolf17 Nov 04 2005 03:20 PM

I noticed that once we jinxed Rosa Parks, this thread got quiet for a while.

Valadius Nov 04 2005 04:17 PM

Charles H. Townes, the guy who invented the laser, is 90.

seawolf17 Nov 04 2005 04:21 PM

You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here!

Yancy Street Gang Nov 11 2005 09:13 AM

Karl Malden is 93 years old. He was in the newspaper today; he just had a post office in Los Angeles named after him. Also at the post office ceremony was a kid named Kirk Douglas, who will be 89 on December 9:

Centerfield Nov 11 2005 12:23 PM

Is this thread really a jinx? Let's test it... Derek Jeter is still alive.

Yancy Street Gang Nov 11 2005 12:26 PM

Wow. I bet Karl Malden can't bend like that anymore.

Edgy DC Nov 15 2005 11:52 AM

Viva Harriet!

Willets Point Nov 15 2005 12:17 PM

Crikey!

Yancy Street Gang Nov 15 2005 12:33 PM

I love that Edgy was poking around on the Al Jazeera web site looking for articles about very old turtles.

Edgy DC Nov 15 2005 12:35 PM

I thought they might have sometihng on Mike Torrez.

Nymr83 Nov 15 2005 01:25 PM

the question is, what was he really looking for there? i think the FBI needs to investigate.

Edgy DC Nov 15 2005 01:43 PM

In most cases Al Jazeera's just another news source. I distrust their angle, sure. I distrust CNN's and Yahoo's also. And, no, I haven't seen War Room.

Nymr83 Nov 15 2005 02:42 PM

provided the article has nothing to do with Israel i actually trust al-jazeera more than i do CNN.

Valadius Nov 15 2005 02:59 PM

Wolf Blitzer never shuts up.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 01 2005 03:28 PM

Joey Bishop is 87 years old.

MFS62 Dec 06 2005 06:38 PM

A legend in Folk Music. Oscar Brand Unfortunately, I can't get his NYC station up here in the woods. I only remember this part of a song from his "Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads" albumn: "She's Charolette, the harlot the girl we adore. The pride of the prairies the cowpuncher's whore." He was Tom Lehrer with a "naughty" edge. Later ************************************************ 60 yrs. of his Brand of music By DAVID HINCKLEY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Brand early on as a 'volunteer' deejay Not long after he started a weekly folk music program on WNYC in 1945, Oscar Brand ran into Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. More as conversation than as a warning, LaGuardia told Brand he'd been getting complaints about some of the radical guests Brand had been inviting to sing on his program. "They'll write, 'I don't know how you can pay that guy to put those people on a city-owned station,'" LaGuardia said. "Tell them what I tell them," Brand replied. "I don't get paid." He didn't, either. From his first program over WNYC on Dec. 10, 1945, Brand has never gotten a dime. That means when he celebrates his 60th anniversary this coming Saturday at 10 p.m. on WNYC (820 AM) with a special show that will include Christine Lavin, Guy Davis and his old friend Jean Ritchie, he marks six decades as a volunteer. That ought to be some kind of record, and as a matter of fact, it is. The Guinness Book of World Records has just announced that "Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival" will appear in the next book as the longest continuously-running radio show. That isn't Brand's only recognition. The show also won him one of his two Peabody awards. But he says Guinness is still an honor, particularly because he finds it amusing that a near-teetotaler would be in a record book that sounds like a beer. One of the sticky points of his early WNYC career, he recalls, is that he was hanging out with singers like Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie who did like to drink, and his abstinence initially raised some suspicion. "The way I worked it out was I would buy their drinks," he says. "That convinced everyone I wasn't passing judgment." Brand is an encyclopedia of tales from those days, many involving the devastating impact of the McCarthy-inspired blacklist on the folk community. "I was the only place a lot of singers could get on the air in those years," he says. "And the station backed me 100%. I've always respected WNYC for that." As a progressive who had no use for Joe Stalin, Brand recalls how the government tried to recruit him to join the Communist party and become an informer. "I told them no and the man said, 'Okay, but don't you hang around with that Pete Seeger!'" His stories could go on. But what endures from his 60 years on the air, he says, is the music. "My first three shows, I sang Christmas songs," he recalls. "Once I got a regular show, at first I did a lot of traditional material and protest songs. "Then over the years I've broadened it out. We play gospel, rock 'n' roll, rap. That's what I love about folk music. It's always changing, always being refurbished." Ironically, one thing he could never play on the show are some of his own best-known recordings: nine "Bawdy Songs" albums that are often tame by today's standards, but are a little startling for someone who is expecting "The Blue-Tail Fly." Two days after this weekend's anniversary show, Brand goes into the hospital for a hip replacement. So he has put six shows in the bank for the weeks when he can't do them live. Then, he says, he'll be back. But he does have some long-term concern. "I fear that when I can't do this show anymore, the platform will disappear," he says. "And that would be a shame because this music is important." New York Daily News Originally published on December 6, 2005

Edgy DC Dec 06 2005 10:32 PM

Red Buttons, 86

TheOldMole Dec 06 2005 11:14 PM

Great story on Oscar Brand.

Edgy DC Dec 07 2005 10:26 AM

="Yancy Street Gang"]The Twenty Oldest Living Mets Yogi Berra 5/12/1925 Clem Labine 8/6/1926 Duke Snider 9/19/1926 Joe Ginsberg 10/11/1926 Dave Hillman 9/14/1927 Herb Moford 8/6/1928 Frank Thomas 6/11/1929 Joe Pignatano 8/4/1929 Jimmy Piersall 11/14/1929 Hobie Landrith 3/16/1930 Frank Lary 4/10/1930 Tom Sturdivant 4/28/1930 Bob Friend 11/24/1930 Don Zimmer 1/17/1931 Roger Craig 2/17/1931 Willie Mays 5/6/1931 Carl Willey 6/6/1931 Norm Sherry 7/16/1931 Chico Fernandez 3/2/1932 Ed Bressoud 5/2/1932 Yogi inherited the title from Warren Spahn, who held it from April 14, 1965 until his death on November 24, 2003. I don't think we'll ever see anyone else with a 38-year reign. (Berra would need to live to be 116 for him to tie Spahn's record.) A few things about this list from page one: Mr Moford has graduated. Who joins the list? Frank Thomas, therfore, moves up from seventh to sixth, though perhaps we shouldn't tell him that if he visits. Yancy apparently did know something about Ed Bressoud.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 07 2005 10:37 AM

Welcome to the list, Jim Marshall. +---------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Yogi Berra | May 12, 1925 | | Clem Labine | August 6, 1926 | | Duke Snider | September 19, 1926 | | Joe Ginsberg | October 11, 1926 | | Dave Hillman | September 14, 1927 | | Frank Thomas | June 11, 1929 | | Joe Pignatano | August 4, 1929 | | Jimmy Piersall | November 14, 1929 | | Hobie Landrith | March 16, 1930 | | Frank Lary | April 10, 1930 | | Tom Sturdivant | April 28, 1930 | | Bob Friend | November 24, 1930 | | Don Zimmer | January 17, 1931 | | Roger Craig | February 17, 1931 | | Willie Mays | May 6, 1931 | | Carl Willey | June 6, 1931 | | Norm Sherry | July 16, 1931 | | Chico Fernandez | March 2, 1932 | | Ed Bressoud | May 2, 1932 | | Jim Marshall | May 25, 1932 | +---------------------------------+------------------------------------+

MFS62 Dec 07 2005 11:12 AM

TheOldMole wrote: Great story on Oscar Brand. I kinda' thought you'd appreciate it. Later

Yancy Street Gang Dec 14 2005 10:16 AM

Our 38th president, Gerald R. Ford, 92 years old and in the hospital with a bad cold.

seawolf17 Dec 14 2005 10:28 AM

Hey! Gerald Ford was the Final Jeopardy question last night! It was "He is the only 20th Century President to have also served as House Minority Leader."

Frayed Knot Dec 14 2005 10:43 AM

seawolf17 wrote: Hey! Gerald Ford was the Final Jeopardy question last night! It was "He is the only 20th Century President to have also served as House Minority Leader." I even got that one. ]The Twenty Oldest Living Mets Down to 8 living Mets older than my father. I don't think I'll tell him that.

Willets Point Dec 19 2005 09:54 AM

Sharon: not dead yet!.

seawolf17 Dec 19 2005 09:58 AM

I hope not! She's an important member of the Pool.

MFS62 Dec 19 2005 10:25 AM

seawolf17 wrote: I hope not! She's an important member of the Pool. I think that belongs in the "turn a name into a pun" thread. Later

ScarletKnight41 Dec 19 2005 11:33 AM

Seeing one's own non-obituary in the precaffienated state is an odd experience.

TheOldMole Jan 07 2006 01:12 PM

] Mr. Hofmann will turn 100 on Wednesday, a milestone to be marked by a symposium in nearby Basel on the chemical compound that he discovered and that famously unlocked the Blakean doors of perception, altering consciousnesses around the world. As the years accumulate behind him, Mr. Hofmann's conversation turns ever more insistently around one theme: man's oneness with nature and the dangers of an increasing inattention to that fact. ... Rounding a century, Mr. Hofmann is physically reduced but mentally clear. He is prone to digressions, ambling with pleasure through memories of his boyhood, but his bright eyes flash with the recollection of a mystical experience he had on a forest path more than 90 years ago in the hills above Baden, Switzerland. The experience left him longing for a similar glimpse of what he calls "a miraculous, powerful, unfathomable reality." "I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature," he said, laying a slightly gnarled finger alongside his nose, his longish white hair swept back from his temples and the crown of his head. He said any natural scientist who was not a mystic was not a real natural scientist. "Outside is pure energy and colorless substance," he said. "All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings." ... MR. HOFMANN studied chemistry and took a job with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz Laboratories, because it had started a program to identify and synthesize the active compounds of medically important plants. He soon began work on the poisonous ergot fungus that grows in grains of rye. Midwives had used it for centuries to precipitate childbirths, but chemists had never succeeded in isolating the chemical that produced the pharmacological effect. Finally, chemists in the United States identified the active component as lysergic acid, and Mr. Hofmann began combining other molecules with the unstable chemical in search of pharmacologically useful compounds. His work on ergot produced several important drugs, including a compound still in use to prevent hemorrhaging after childbirth. But it was the 25th compound that he synthesized, lysergic acid diethylamide, that was to have the greatest impact. When he first created it in 1938, the drug yielded no significant pharmacological results. But when his work on ergot was completed, he decided to go back to LSD-25, hoping that improved tests could detect the stimulating effect on the body's circulatory system that he had expected from it. It was as he was synthesizing the drug on a Friday afternoon in April 1943 that he first experienced the altered state of consciousness for which it became famous. "Immediately, I recognized it as the same experience I had had as a child," he said. "I didn't know what caused it, but I knew that it was important." ... HE experimented with the drug, taking a dose so small that even the most active toxin known at that time would have had little or no effect. The result with LSD, however, was a powerful experience, during which he rode his bicycle home, accompanied by an assistant. That day, April 19, later became memorialized by LSD enthusiasts as "bicycle day." Mr. Hofmann participated in tests in a Sandoz laboratory, but found the experience frightening and realized that the drug should be used only under carefully controlled circumstances. In 1951, he wrote to the German novelist Ernst Junger, who had experimented with mescaline, and proposed that they take LSD together. They each took 0.05 milligrams of pure LSD at Mr. Hofmann's home accompanied by roses, music by Mozart and burning Japanese incense. "That was the first planned psychedelic test," Mr. Hofmann said. He took the drug dozens of times after that, he said, and once experienced what he called a "horror trip" when he was tired and Mr. Junger gave him amphetamines first. But his hallucinogenic days are long behind him. "I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore," Mr. Hofmann said. "Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley," who asked his wife for an injection of LSD to help him through the final painful throes of his fatal throat cancer. But Mr. Hofmann calls LSD "medicine for the soul" and is frustrated by the worldwide prohibition that has pushed it underground. "It was used very successfully for 10 years in psychoanalysis," he said, adding that the drug was hijacked by the youth movement of the 1960's and then demonized by the establishment that the movement opposed. He said LSD could be dangerous and called its distribution by Timothy Leary and others "a crime." [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/international/europe/07hoffman.html]source[/URL]

Yancy Street Gang Jan 09 2006 09:11 AM

I watched The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) on Saturday, which reminded me that Olivia de Haviland is still with us. She'll be 90 in July.

Yancy Street Gang Jan 09 2006 09:17 AM

And Ernest Borgnine will be celebrating his 89th birthday on January 24. McHale's Navy probably hasn't aired, even in reruns, for years, but Ernest is still getting it done as Mermaid Man on Spongebob Squarepants. In McHale's Navy Mermaid Man

MFS62 Jan 16 2006 11:04 AM

Today is the 32nd birthday of Kate Moss. Considering her lifestyle, some would consider that fact that she's still alive newsworthy. Later

Yancy Street Gang Jan 16 2006 11:29 AM

Today is also the 95th birthday of my amazing and inspiring grandmother. I can only hope that I age as well and as gracefully as she has. She was (maybe) born on the same day as Dizzy Dean: Some accounts have him being born in 1910, others in 1911. I prefer to believe the 1911 accounts, because I love the idea of him being born on the same day as my grandmother.

RealityChuck Jan 17 2006 01:27 PM

Charles Lane turns 101 on January 27. Lane appeared in over 250 movies (22 in 1940 alone) and hundreds of TV episodes, usually playing a short-tempered minor villain (he was, for instance, one of Potter's henchmen in It's a Wonderful Life). Best-known role was that of Homer Bedloe, the banker who wants to take over the Shady Rest in Petticoat Junction. His voice is immistakable and very often you'll hear it speaking up (often with a single line) in many old movies, where he'd play a nosy reporter, desk clerk, banker, or petty bureaucrat. [url]http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485272/[/url] has his filmography.

Yancy Street Gang Mar 01 2006 12:13 PM

Don Knotts is gone, but Andy Griffith is still around. He'll be 80 on June 1. George Lindsey (Goober) is 70. Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) is 75. Aunt Bee, though, is dead at the present time. (Since 1989.)

Johnny Dickshot Mar 01 2006 12:43 PM

Today is the 90th birthday of influential Mets executive Bing Devine:

Yancy Street Gang Mar 01 2006 12:55 PM

Cool, that's a birthday I didn't have on the UMDB. (Where did you find it?) Johnny, if you'd like to "share a memory" of Bing Devine, please do so. It looks like he's been pretty unremembered: http://ultimatemets.com/profile.php?PlayerCode=6618

Johnny Dickshot Mar 01 2006 01:55 PM

Done.

Yancy Street Gang Mar 01 2006 02:05 PM

Thanks! It's been approved and posted. Now I just need a good photo of him from when he was about 51 years old.

Willets Point Mar 09 2006 03:15 PM

Anyone looked at the first post in this thread lately?

seawolf17 Mar 09 2006 03:22 PM

Nice job, Yance.

Methead Mar 09 2006 03:23 PM

"Anyone looked at the first post in this thread lately?" I say we keep it. Presumably, she's still alive.

Willets Point Mar 09 2006 03:26 PM

Kind of ironic in that Yancy first came to the CPF over an issue of bandwidth theft from UMDB.

metirish Mar 09 2006 03:29 PM

What's it about anyway?

Yancy Street Gang Mar 09 2006 03:40 PM

That's not how I remember Grandpa Al Munster.

Yancy Street Gang Mar 13 2006 01:14 PM

Maureen Stapleton is dead, but Jean Stapleton is still alive. She turned 83 in January.

seawolf17 Mar 13 2006 01:34 PM

And Dave Stapleton, best known as The Guy Who Should Have Been Playing First Instead Of Bill Buckner, appears to still be kicking around at 52 after vanishing off the baseball planet after the '86 World Series.

Giant Squidlike Creature Apr 13 2006 03:46 PM

Jack Chick creator of religious tracts in comic form turned 82 today.

TheOldMole Apr 14 2006 11:16 AM

And happy 89th to Marvin Millier. And 70th to an old friend I've been out of touch with and should call, if I can find his number - Frank Serpico.

TheOldMole Apr 14 2006 11:42 AM

And Bettie Page turns 83 this month.

Edgy DC Apr 14 2006 11:46 AM

Hanging in there for the opening of her biopic.

TheOldMole Apr 14 2006 12:05 PM

Which I will definitely see.

Yancy Street Gang Apr 14 2006 12:13 PM

And Bob Sheppard, the Yankee's PA announcer, is 95. He's been introducing Yankees since 1951, when he was 40. What a horrible way to spend 55 years of your life.

ScarletKnight41 Apr 14 2006 12:58 PM

TheOldMole wrote: And Bettie Page turns 83 this month. Rolling Stone had a nice article about her. She doesn't like it that the title of her biopic refers to her as being "infamous."

TheOldMole Apr 14 2006 02:06 PM

Hard to blame her.

Edgy DC Apr 14 2006 03:48 PM

]Which I will definitely see. i'm thinking no.

TheOldMole Apr 14 2006 04:39 PM

Good review in the Times, and Bettie certainly an American icon.

ScarletKnight41 Apr 14 2006 04:40 PM

I can imagine mole and Ms. Page having a torrid love affair about 40 years ago....

Edgy DC Apr 14 2006 04:51 PM

Old Mole ain't quite that old.

ScarletKnight41 Apr 14 2006 04:55 PM

Edgy DC wrote: Old Mole ain't quite that old. In that case, my bad.

ScarletKnight41 Apr 14 2006 05:01 PM

Speaking of [url=http://news.aol.com/entertainment/movies/articles?id=20060410153009990001]The Notorious Bettie Page[/url]

Farmer Ted Apr 14 2006 07:56 PM

Yes, Abe Vigoda is still alive. Go, Fish, go.

TheOldMole Apr 14 2006 09:31 PM

But I like the idea.

Elster88 Apr 18 2006 08:29 AM

[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/us/18quake.html?hp&ex=1145419200&en=8c14008d5104d4f2&ei=5094&partner=homepage]Survivors of the 1906 earthquake in San Fran[/url][/url]

Willets Point May 09 2006 12:36 PM

Don Pardo -- iconic voice for Saturday Night Live and game shows -- is 88.

cooby May 31 2006 11:26 PM

Bless her heart Do I look like I'm dying, says Liz Taylor By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles (Filed: 01/06/2006) Dame Elizabeth Taylor, the Oscar-winning Hollywood icon, has dismissed reports that she is close to death and suffering from Alzheimer's disease. "Oh, come on, do I look like I'm dying?" the reclusive actress told Larry King, the CNN talk show host, in a rare television interview. "Do I look like or sound like I have Alzheimer's?" Elizabeth Taylor: 'Oh, come on, do I look like I'm dying?' Her appearance followed reports that said the British-born star was gravely ill and bedridden in her Bel Air home. She acknowledged that she used a wheelchair because of the back condition, scoliosis, a curvature of the spine, and osteoporosis, but otherwise appeared sprightly during Tuesday's hour-long Larry King Live show. "Let's clear up some things - a lot of tabloid stories about you," King said at the beginning of the interview after introducing his guest as "a legendary survivor, a true one-of-a-kind dame". "Oh, my God. Am I dead, am I alive?" Dame Elizabeth replied. Asked what had prompted the stories, the double Academy Award winner said tabloids ran such stories "because they have nothing else dirty to write about anybody else".

Frayed Knot May 31 2006 11:28 PM

"Oh, come on, do I look like I'm dying?" For about two decades now.

Willets Point Jun 29 2006 03:03 PM

Edgy DC wrote: Viva Harriet! No more

MFS62 Jun 29 2006 03:11 PM

How do you tell that a turtle died of heart failure? Did they actually perform an autopsy? Later

Yancy Street Gang Jul 13 2006 01:39 PM

Allan Melvin, who I mentioned in the M*A*S*H thread (I think) turned 86 in February. I think of him as Archie Bunker's friend and fellow lodge member, Barney Hefner, but Brady Bunch fans would remember him as Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher. He was also a voice actor for Hanna Barbera, most famously as Magilla Gorilla.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 13 2006 01:56 PM

If he's really still alive, then it's a shame he couldn't reprise his role as Sam in a Very Brady Christmas. The device of using another actor, then dressing him as Santa, fooled nobody.

Iubitul Jul 13 2006 02:05 PM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Allan Melvin, who I mentioned in the M*A*S*H thread (I think) turned 86 in February. I think of him as Archie Bunker's friend and fellow lodge member, Barney Hefner, but Brady Bunch fans would remember him as Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher. He was also a voice actor for Hanna Barbera, most famously as Magilla Gorilla. He made a great Dopey.

Edgy DC Jul 13 2006 02:05 PM

We also had to deal with a subsitute Cindy. That was Lewis Arquette, patriarch of the Aqting Arquettes, bringing Alice the meat in A Very Brady Christmas.

Yancy Street Gang Jul 13 2006 02:40 PM

Boy, Allan Melvin has really been a part of TV history. His resume includes not only All in the Family, The Brady Bunch, and Magilla Gorilla, but also McHale's Navy, Sgt. Bilko, Make Room For Daddy, The Flintstones, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Andy Griffith, Lost in Space, Green Acres, Perry Mason, The Mod Squad, Hong Kong Phooey, and The Smurfs. He was even the voice of Sgt. Snorkle on a Beetle Bailey TV series. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578510/

Johnny Dickshot Jul 13 2006 02:52 PM

Edgy DC wrote: We also had to deal with a subsitute Cindy. . Yeah. They nearly redeemed her by making her hot, though. As I recall it, no post-Bunch show or special ever managed to get the whole group together. There was a pinch-hitting Jan in the Brady Bunch Variety Hour (which was like Donny & Marie only they had swimmers and not ice skaters. Awful!) Carol & Mike weren't on the Brady Kids cartoons. Marcia skipped out on The Bradys. The Brady Brides had Alice, Carol, Marcia and Jan, but nobody else

Yancy Street Gang Jul 13 2006 02:54 PM

How did the Brady Brides explain the absence of Mike? Was Robert Reed dead by then, or was he just not part of the show?

Edgy DC Jul 13 2006 03:08 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 13 2006 03:19 PM

No, The Brady Brides pre-dated The Bradys and had Mike. TBB spun off a telefilm Dickshot is forgetting, called The Brady Girls Get Married. The Bradys followed A Very Brady Christmas. Mike was around for the few episodes of The Bradys (the character even ran for public office), but the show died before the season was out and Robert Reed before the year was out. The funny thing was that, for all the reunions from TBGGM and after, though they had trouble assembling the original cast to the last actor but, they were always able to get Jerry Hauser, the ice skating comic actor (Killer Carlson in Slap Shot) who played Marcia's husband Wally Logan.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 13 2006 03:12 PM

I wonder if they're still married and whether their rotten kid is in jail yet

Edgy DC Jul 13 2006 03:19 PM

The funny thing is she married a guy who looked like Greg and was a bigger dork*. Greg must've torn his hair out wondering where he went wrong. He had 15 years to make his move and Wally swept her off her feet in a two-week courtship. * For an illustrated definition of this term, see the Concerts thread.

Yancy Street Gang Jul 13 2006 03:23 PM

He does look like Greg, but he also has a Starsky or Hutch thing going that Greg didn't have. I assume, because Marcia, Jan, and Cindy had the last name of Brady, that they were adopted by Mike. Is it incest when those involved are adopted step-siblings? I really wish they had devoted an episode or two to this question.

Edgy DC Jul 13 2006 03:30 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 13 2006 04:58 PM

No, romancing and marrying adopted step-siblings and adopted siblings is generally OK, though it may raise an eyebrow. A few notable cases: Victor and Elizabeth Frankenstein. Johnny and Roxanne Blaze. Cher and whoever in Clueless. It's worth noting that those first two worked out just as bad as can be, though, leaving me with little hope for the third.

Frayed Knot Jul 13 2006 04:54 PM

You people know FAR too much about this shit.

Edgy DC Jul 13 2006 05:11 PM

Too much about the Bradys or about relations with step-siblings?

ScarletKnight41 Jul 13 2006 05:56 PM

Meanwhile, Christopher Knight's marriage is going to be televised on My Fair Brady on VH1 a week from Sunday. Previews show Barry Williams (Greg) singing at the reception. Cindy will also be in attendance.

TheOldMole Jul 13 2006 07:40 PM

]That was Lewis Arquette, patriarch of the Aqting Arquettes, bringing Alice the meat in A Very Brady Christmas. Wasn't Cliff the patriarch?

seawolf17 Jul 13 2006 07:49 PM

="TheOldMole"] ]That was Lewis Arquette, patriarch of the Aqting Arquettes, bringing Alice the meat in A Very Brady Christmas. Wasn't Cliff the patriarch? What does that make Alexis?

Edgy DC Jul 13 2006 08:08 PM

Cliff predates my time, but I gues you're right. Let's say, at the time, Cliff having passed, Lewis was the patriarch.

Frayed Knot Jul 13 2006 09:15 PM

Edgy DC wrote: Too much about the Bradys or about relations with step-siblings? C. All of the Above

Frayed Knot Jul 20 2006 11:37 PM

Sir Edmund Hillary; not only still alive but turned 87 today.

MFS62 Jul 21 2006 10:02 AM

Frayed Knot wrote: Sir Edmund Hillary; not only still alive but turned 87 today. At that age, he may not get as high as he once did. (Bad pun content = 94) Later

TheOldMole Aug 02 2006 05:01 AM

[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/garden/27art.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1154509196-x0xTE3J+VnQVbY9gk59SFw]Art Buchwald.[/url]

Edgy DC Aug 02 2006 07:28 AM

Supposedly, Fidel Castro is still alive, but some peeps aren't so sure.

MFS62 Aug 02 2006 12:38 PM

Update on Fidel: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/world/americas/02cuba.html?hp&ex=1154491200&en=a1ea90239fffb3c3&ei=5094&partner=homepage Later

Willets Point Aug 02 2006 12:42 PM

Oooh I like puzzles. Don't like registration for newsites though.

MFS62 Aug 02 2006 12:44 PM

Willets Point wrote: Oooh I like puzzles. Don't like registration for newsites though. That's strange. Did you have to register? I got to the article directly through a link on the Yahoo news page. Didn't have to register to read it. Later

Yancy Street Gang Aug 03 2006 01:31 PM

Brooke Astor, 104, has been in the news a lot lately. Her dogs, by the way, are named "Girlsie" and "Boysie."

cooby Aug 04 2006 09:55 AM

A Castro question: Do you think his brother would run the place any differently than he has?

Yancy Street Gang Aug 04 2006 10:03 AM

I think the key thing is that he won't run it for nearly as long as Fidel has. One way or another, I think a change is coming. My hope is that within ten years I'll be able to walt the streets of Havanna as a tourist.

Willets Point Aug 04 2006 10:35 AM

Just hope you get there before the big corporations and developers get there. One thing I hear about Cuba is that it has an unspoiled beauty lacking elsewhere in the Carribean. Not that tyranny is worth that, just a fringe benefit.

Yancy Street Gang Aug 07 2006 09:57 AM

Reading some old Marvel comics with my son last night got me wondering about some of the early creators. Here are some who are still alive: Mirthful Marie Severin is 76 years old. Steve Ditko will be 78 in November. Jazzy Johnny Romita is 76. Stan "The Man" Lee is 82. And Joe Simon, the co-creator of Captain America, will be 93 in October.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 07 2006 09:59 AM

Don't forget Marvel superhero Frank Springer, who's 76: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Springer[/url]

Yancy Street Gang Aug 07 2006 10:02 AM

We recently enjoyed his inking work in the early issues of The Invaders.

Edgy DC Aug 07 2006 10:58 AM

Dazzler made me tingly. I'm pretty sure I have a number one, at least I will until I offload my comics to the Dramatists Guild as promised.

Elster88 Aug 07 2006 11:03 AM

TheOldMole Sep 10 2006 04:25 PM

Peter Graves, but just barely, if that new Geico commercial is any indication.

TheOldMole Sep 15 2006 05:20 PM

Augusto Pinochet, 90 years old and under house arrest.

TheOldMole Sep 25 2006 10:20 AM

]At 85 years old, Brubeck has a touring schedule that would make most of us tired just reading about it. In the past three months, he’s played 22 dates including Carnegie Hall, the Toronto Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the Newport Jazz Festival, and Tanglewood. He’s here in Monterey to premiere a new work commissioned by the Festival, a tribute to American author John Steinbeck called “Cannery Row Suite.” http://www.jazzpolice.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,55/

MFS62 Sep 25 2006 10:23 AM

As I may have mentioned before, his Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein album was one of the first batch of five I got for joining the Columbia Record Club. Later

cooby Sep 25 2006 10:24 AM

Neat

Johnny Dickshot Sep 25 2006 10:33 AM

Coolest. Song. Ever.

cooby Sep 25 2006 11:42 AM

I'm guessing that is "Take Five" and as soon as I get home to a 21st century computer, I am going to check

Johnny Dickshot Sep 25 2006 11:59 AM

Yeah, it's Take 5 with an especially cool drum solo. What's amazin' is how CAHNfident he is. He barley taps the heads for minutes at a time. Restraint, control then power.

Edgy DC Sep 25 2006 12:22 PM

I heard you're mad about Brubeck.

TheOldMole Sep 25 2006 02:02 PM

I heard Max Roach in a club, right after the death of Paul Desmond. He did a piece he called "Five for Paul," which was an unaccompanied drum solo version of "Take Five." Amazing.

cooby Sep 25 2006 07:07 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Coolest. Song. Ever. OUT-standing

Willets Point Oct 31 2006 05:46 PM

Bump.

MFS62 Oct 31 2006 06:34 PM

Thanks again, WP. In the regular answer/ask someone asked a question about what White artist would you want to listen to playing jazz. I said Dave Brubeck. And this youtube cut shows why i felt that way. Later

Giant Squidlike Creature Nov 29 2006 01:58 AM

Madeleine L'Engle, 88 today.

TheOldMole Nov 29 2006 03:28 AM

Mose Allison. Jack Teagarden. Paul Desmond (which is the same as Brubeck, I guess). Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. Benny Goodman. Anita O'Day. And my old friend, the late [url=http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Monterose/index.html]J. R. Monterose[/url], who had an outstanding career in the 50s and 60s in New York with the likes of Mingus (he's on the Pithecanthropus Erectus album) and Kenny Dorham, before returning to upstate New York, where he became a legend in Albany for many years.

Edgy DC Nov 29 2006 08:32 AM

That video is no longer available. I hadn't seen it yet!

sharpie Nov 29 2006 09:06 AM

Madeleine L'Engle may be 88 today but she has had Alzheimer's for some time now and, I'm told, has totally checked out of things. Sad.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 12 2006 10:39 AM

="Yancy Street Gang"]The Twenty Oldest Living Mets Yogi Berra 5/12/1925 Clem Labine 8/6/1926 Duke Snider 9/19/1926 Joe Ginsberg 10/11/1926 Dave Hillman 9/14/1927 Herb Moford 8/6/1928 Frank Thomas 6/11/1929 Joe Pignatano 8/4/1929 Jimmy Piersall 11/14/1929 Hobie Landrith 3/16/1930 Frank Lary 4/10/1930 Tom Sturdivant 4/28/1930 Bob Friend 11/24/1930 Don Zimmer 1/17/1931 Roger Craig 2/17/1931 Willie Mays 5/6/1931 Carl Willey 6/6/1931 Norm Sherry 7/16/1931 Chico Fernandez 3/2/1932 Ed Bressoud 5/2/1932 Yogi inherited the title from Warren Spahn, who held it from April 14, 1965 until his death on November 24, 2003. I don't think we'll ever see anyone else with a 38-year reign. (Berra would need to live to be 116 for him to tie Spahn's record.) The death of the oldest person in the world reminded me of this post, which, surprisingly, I put together way back in October of 2005. Yogi Berra has now been the oldest living Met for more than three years. Warren Spahn lived to be 30,165 days old, (that's 82 years, 215 days) which I assume is a Mets record. To tie that record, Yogi has to hang in there until December 13, 2007. Berra, Labine, Snider, and Ginsberg are the only current octogenarian Mets. Aren't you glad we cleared all that up?

Edgy DC Dec 12 2006 10:46 AM

Warren Spahn was the oldest living Met for about 38 years. I'd like to see Yogi break that one.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 12 2006 11:13 AM

If that happens then poor Duke Snider will have to live at least 115 years in order to get his turn!

Yancy Street Gang Dec 18 2006 11:50 AM

JANE JARVIS turned 91 years old last month! ="Wikipedia"]Jane Nossett Jarvis (born November 1915 in Vincennes, Indiana) is a renowned jazz pianist. She is also known for her work as a composer, a baseball stadium organist, and a recording industry executive. Jarvis, the daughter of Charles and Luella Nossett, was recognized as a piano prodigy at the age of five, and she studied under a Vincennes University professor as a young girl. Her family moved to Gary, Indiana soon afterward, and Jarvis was hired to play the piano at radio station WJKS in Gary in 1927. At age 13, she was orphaned when her parents died in a train-auto wreck, and she returned to Vincennes, graduating from high school in 1932. By then, she had already studied music at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, the Bush Conservatory of Music, Loyola University Chicago, and DePauw University. By 1954, Jarvis was on television at station WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, hosting a show called "Jivin' with Jarvis" while serving as staff pianist and organist. At the time, the Milwaukee Braves had just relocated from Boston and sought out Jarvis to be the organist at Milwaukee County Stadium. In a 1984 interview, Jarvis told John S. Wilson of The New York Times that she asked when she would get to perform, and a Braves official replied, "When the umpire says 'Three outs.'" Jarvis, a sports neophyte, then asked, "And when would that be?" Jarvis stayed with the Braves for eight seasons and then headed to New York City, where she took a position with the Muzak Corporation as a staff composer and arranger. She would rise to become a corporate vice-president and its director of recording and programming. In 1964, she was hired by the New York Mets to play the organ at Shea Stadium. She is remembered at Shea for playing an alternate theme song, "Let's Go Mets", as the team took the field before every game, as well as for her renditions of the Mexican Hat Dance during the seventh-inning stretch. Jarvis left Muzak in 1978, and the next year she left the Mets to concentrate on her first musical love, jazz piano. She became a fixture at New York nightclubs, frequently playing alongside bassist Milt Hinton. She became a founding member of the Statesmen of Jazz, a group of jazz musicians age 65 and older sponsored by the American Federation of Jazz Societies. One goal of the Statesmen is to present the wonders of jazz music to young audiences across the United States. The Statesmen have also traveled abroad, performing in Japan among other places. Jarvis has released several albums of her jazz piano work, including Jane Jarvis Jams (1995) and Atlantic/Pacific (2000). In addition to Hinton, Jarvis has often collaborated with trombonist Benny Powell and bassist Earl May. As a member of ASCAP, she also has over three hundred compositions to her credit. Today, Jarvis lives in Cocoa Beach, Florida, where she was honored in 2003 by the Space Coast Jazz Society for her lifetime achievement. "She is remembered at Shea for playing an alternate theme song, "Let's Go Mets", as the team took the field before every game..." They're referring to Meet the Mets aren't they? I don't remember it being played as the team took the field, but I could be wrong. Sounds like this article could use a little wiki-editing. There should at least be a mention of Meet the Mets.

Edgy DC Dec 18 2006 11:59 AM

Here she is at 87 at that Space Coast thigie: Last I heard, she still performs.

SteveJRogers Dec 18 2006 06:48 PM

Meet The Mets, the 80's version was used in the late 80's as the team hit the field and I've heard "airchecks" of a live Jane Jarvis playing it at Shea so I assume that was the practice back then BTW, The Mets put together a nice compliation of Meet The Mets on a Stadium Give Away CD a few years back. On it was the regular versions of both the original and the 80's version, the instrumental version of the original that is still in use (not continuious though) by the Mets radio broadcasts, and a studio recording of Jarvis playing it on the organ.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 28 2006 10:21 AM

Saddam Hussein is hanging in there. Still alive, for perhaps another four weeks or so.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 28 2006 10:35 AM

And while we're at it... I'd love to visit Cuba some day. I wish Fidel would go ahead and kick the bucket so that Cuba can move on to the next chapter. NPR's Morning Edition is doing a series on Cuba this week, and it seems that there are a lot of people here in the U.S. planning for the transition to a post-Castro Cuba. They don't seem to consider that Raul, and whoever may succeed Raul, might continue Castro's regime for years to come.

Willets Point Jan 11 2007 03:53 PM

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Yancy Street Gang Jan 16 2007 08:50 PM

My inspiring and amazing grandmother, 96 years old today.

Willets Point Jan 16 2007 08:56 PM

Happy Birthday Grandma Gang!

SteveJRogers Jan 16 2007 08:56 PM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: My inspiring and amazing grandmother, 96 years old today. Happy Birthday to her!

ScarletKnight41 Jan 16 2007 09:00 PM

Happy Birthday to Yancy's Granny!

cooby Jan 17 2007 05:42 PM

Christ, I accidentally looked at the very first post in this thread, and now I may not want supper

Willets Point Jan 22 2007 03:48 PM

Ernest Borgnine.

RealityChuck Jan 27 2007 01:05 PM

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lane_(actor)]Charles Lane[/url], one of Hollywood's most prolific character actors, celebrated his 102nd birthday yesterday.

TheOldMole Jan 31 2007 03:08 PM

Not yet time to say goodnight, Dick...85 years old.