The TIME MACHINE – A Fleeting Peek at “Da Way We Was”

 

The lovely (?) and talented Warren “Mose” Boyer, saws away with lightning precision on “The Orange Blossom Special” at the beloved, And now defunct, blue-collar haven, The Mohnton Navy Yard Galley, in beautiful downtown Mohnton, PA. 

Stan Watinski,  Lee Schappell,  Mark Miller,  Mose Boyer,  and  Rick Guinan

 

Here’s ”Marvelous Mark Miller”, below, picking guitar and singing lead with Kitty Merkel’s  Berks Pals, a local, Traditional Country Music band with roots of origin dating back to the late 1940′s.  And yes, Miss Kitty, to Mark’s left, is still crooning old-time country music today!

 

And that’s “The Marvelous Markster” again; this time over there, plucking the bull-fiddle on the extreme right-hand side, in a shot from his previous Bluegrass  life, with the band “New-Found Grass”.

 

 

Now, here’s a classic shot of Tom and Slim “Booger”, of the bye-gone Booger Brothers Band, grinding out the blues standard, “Night Train”.   You’ll likely think we’re making this up, but that “Little Booger”, blowing harp on the right, is The NEW EARTH BAND’s  own Rick “Slim” Guinan !  Ooooh, yes it is!  Absolutely!  Trust us!

 

Jes’ look at ‘em!  Those little “tween-aged”, adolescent, whipper-snappers!  I can smell the Clearasil  from here, I tell ya!  They’re juvenile delinquents, every last one of ‘em!  And you say they’re called … what?   LeRoy & the Whaaaat?

Yup!  That’s Little Buford  on the far left, 51 dusty years ago!  And that motley-looking crew of record-hoppers is tagged, would you believe, LeRoy & the Spades.  Left to right are: Lee Schappell, Ted Wolff, Ken Hipple, John Allardyce, and Frank Paige.  Yikes!   Where’s a truant officer when you need one?

 

Now, what have we here?  Looks like Little Buford and adolescent co-horts Frank Paige and Bill Dougherty, mugging for the camera  -  for no logical reason other than just because they could  -  long ago, and far away, in that bye-gone year of 1960 !

 

Now we’ll fast-forward another year and find ourselves smack-dab in the middle of “American Graffiti” and “Happy Days”!  Below we see LeRoy & His Rockin’ Fellers, in September of 1961, at Chez Vouz, West Philadelphia. 

Where have you gone, Richie Cunningham?

 “The Time Machine”  is designed strictly for your enjoyment, and engineered to induce a few chuckles  and perhaps a good guffaw!