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Post by jimwalker on Apr 30, 2016 19:55:24 GMT -5
I just want to submit a couple of comments. I am reading Simple Dreams. The stories keep reminding me of my mother. I was an air-headed kid in the early 70s and commented to my Mom about Linda Ronstadt. Something I said must have been along the lines of, "Well, she is from Tucson too, so surely you are familiar with her." My mother was born in Liberal, Kansas in 1907. She was an orphan who was Shainghaied to Tucson with her wicked step-mother who went to marry my mother's uncle. That's the way they did it back then when a man died. She never did tune in to the music of Linda Ronstadt. However, she did point out to me that she was an acquaintance of a gentleman named Carlos Ronstadt. She put me in my place.
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Post by Nobody's Nobody on May 1, 2016 14:30:19 GMT -5
About 5 years ago, there was a 94 year old guy in my church (last name Riddley) who was an Air force pilot lifer going all the way back to WW2. He was stationed at the Air force base there Tuscon in the mid 50's, where a famous Air Force pilot by the name of Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr. taught him how to fly the B-47. Well Riddley and and Deutchendorf Sr would play golf together, and Deutchendorf Sr. had a son about 12 years old named Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. that he would go over to their house and listen to Henry play his 1st guitar, a gift from his grandmother. During this time, about 1956, Henry also sang in the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus! So I was always curious if Linda's brother who also sang in the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus knew young Henry? Of course we all later knew Henry as John Denver! Another one of those small world stories.
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Post by the Scribe on May 1, 2016 15:17:15 GMT -5
Don't want to horn into your story but here is another interesting connection that I have here. Shortly after I moved to Arizona to come to grad school I became residence hall director of the graduate hall on campus in Tempe. (late 1970's) It was filled with many talented people (all older than me) and was also the home to the Goldwater Chair. That first chair honor went to Herman Kahn, a futurist. We shared a bedroom wall and he snored like you wouldn't believe lol. Anyway, my secretary at the time was a lovely person who like to talk on the phone too much but she was still lovely. Her sister's daughter married Henry John Deutschendorf Sr.'s other son Ron. I got to see all the family photos, wedding pictures and family news. It's a small world. Some Deutschendorf family stuff you might find interesting: The subject of the interview with Ron is Bobby Hayden Jr. who has quite a story in his own right. Great musician too. And speaking of the Goldwater chair, Barry Goldwater III (grandson of our Senator) lived in the house behind me on the other side of our alley for many years. Interesting when you think of all the connections in ones life one way or another. I grew up on Long Island, NY where my neighbor was the granddaughter of Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the US and daughter of the Vermont senator (not Bernie). She was the head nurse at Brookhaven Laboratory where lots of really strange government experiments were going on. She was pretty good at keeping quiet but I was just a kid who played with her kids. This link is sure bringing up memories. I had a crush on the older daughter and fell out of a tree while doing a failed gymnast manuver, fractured my arm and spent the entire summer in a hot, sweaty cast. So much for being a show off. If anyone has more connections to any of this it would be cool to hear about it. I would like to see if six degrees of separation is really true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized by a 1990 play written by John Guare. Maybe someone reading this was experimented on at Brookhaven Lab  |
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Post by Nobody's Nobody on May 3, 2016 21:36:16 GMT -5
That's a great bookend to my story Ronstadt Fan! Sorry I didn't get back sooner. Hopefully other folks will have some small world stories to contribute?
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 17, 2018 2:32:27 GMT -5
That's a great bookend to my story Ronstadt Fan! Sorry I didn't get back sooner. Hopefully other folks will have some small world stories to contribute?
I think there are a lot of stories scattered around the forum. If I ever get the time I will have to copy and paste into one thread. Some of them are very cool and worth remembering and sharing. Once any of us go to the great Ronstadt forum in the sky the stories will be lost forever unless we share them here in writing. |
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Post by TEXFAN 0 on Apr 17, 2018 19:25:28 GMT -5
Here ya go, here's one of those 6 degrees of separation videos! The second part of the video everybody's familiar with. Everybody's seen that 50's photo of Linda's brother Pete wearing that Arizona Boy's Choir t-shirt. I'm sure there's probably ABC's class pics somewhere?
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