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Monday, October 12, 2026
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On the edge
I have seen a lot of fun photos that George had taken at the Pollack's home in Miami recently. So it was s treat to find this shot of George on the diving board. Jump George!
Paul's sock are still noteworthy
When Paul was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show -- he was wearing "Help!" socks. This man and his socks will always fascinate me. Did he buy that box of Beatles socks? We have seen him wearing the Yellow Submarine ones in the past....
Thursday, October 8, 2026
She Knew the Beatles When... (1966)
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| "The Beatles were really very friendly at first," according to Roslyn. "One of my friends had a date with George, but it really wasn't so much fun because she just sat in the audience while he played on stage. George's sister took a lot of pictures of the Beatles for us. That is, if we bribed her a bit." Photo by Thornton |
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| Short-haired Beatles, sporting leather jackets and trousers as they performed in the Cavern, from left to right, are John, Pete Best (no longer with the group), Paul, and George. Their wit reflected the wit of Liverpool, says Rosalind, whose friend managed to snap this picture one crowded lunch hour in the Cavern. |
She Knew The Beatles When....
By Dannye Romine
The Durham Sun
October 8, 1966
Roslyn Owens is a girl with a past. Lurking behind those big, mysterious brown eyes are scenes she'll never forget. Scenes the whole world is talking about today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Back in 1962, when Roslyn was just a slip of a 14-year-old, she witnessed the rise of one of the most famous singing groups in history: the city Liverpool, the place the Cavern, the group the Beatles.
Today, Roslyn lives with her parents on Marion Avenue in Durham, while her father serves a year's exchange professorship in Duke's engineering department. Now she's a sophisticated young lass who vows she wouldn't be caught dead in the Cavern. But she hasn't forgotten the thrill of being there, and her eyes shine as she talks of the whole, the most unique place in the whole world, and the group of whailng millionaires who've been dubbed "the most popular entertainers in history."
"It's really quite a dump, this Cavern. It's in the cellar of an old warehouse, and it's so hot down there that the sweat rolls off the walls and clogs up the guitars, and it's so loud that no one tries to talk. If a boy wants to dance with you, he comes up and sticks his elbow in your back.
"But the place is unique. I've never been in any other like it. When you first walk in, it smells of disinfectant. Then, as you go down, it smells of old soup. My parents didn't like me going a bit, but they didn't understand what it was really like. It wasn't wicked; it was just dirty."
And there, in the midst of the dirt and the smell of stale soup and powerless disinfectant, were the Beatles strumming their guitars, singing, joking, and pushing their way through the cavern to chat with the patrons. Roslyn sums up their appeal this way: "We really didn't have the time during school days to visit a lot of clubs in Liverpool, so the best thing to do was to hear the Beatles because they had good music and a good personality too.
They were really friendly at first, and the people liked them as well as their music. Mainly, we liked their wit. John made straight jokes, while Paul was quite suave and subtle in his humor. George could say the most funniest things with the most deadpan expression, and Ringo, well, he was new to the group then, and he never said a word. Now his sense of humor has developed into sort of twisted jokes."
And the patrons of the Cavern back in '62, those young Liverpudlians, who recognized the uniqueness of the Beatles and packed the house day after day, paying just one shilling a piece. "It was quite a high social class that the Beatles appealed to at first, but the kind of people who were trying to displease their parents and liked to give a show of not caring about anybody or anything. But as the Beatles became more and more popular, a whole cross section of Liverpool society came to hear them."
They came for different reasons too. Some came only to hear the Beatles. Some came to see what the "talent" was-that's Liverpudlian for checking out the good-looking boys or girls-and some were there simply because they didn't have any other place to go. Yet there was a definite unity to the crowd in the Cavern; their attire was amazingly alike.
"There were certain things you just had to wear to the Cavern. One was a black polar neck sweater, and I shudder to think of those 100 black sweaters dancing to Beatles music in that tiny space. And of course, you wore either blue denim dungarees or blue denim skirts. Girls wore their hair very long and very, very straight"
. Although Roslyn still wears her hair very long and fairly straight, and although she still likes the Beatles' records, she's a little too old to be at the height of the Beatles' craze. In fact, she has a quite dignified position at the University of North Carolina. She's secretary to the dean of men there, but when she returns to Liverpool, she says she'll not be there long.
She's representative of her generation who wants to be on the go. "We don't like restrictions. She says it would be the worst thing for a girl in Liverpool to be married before her 21st birthday. To be engaged, maybe, but married would be the end.
"When I return to Liverpool, I'll go abroad. I'd rather do dishes in Denmark than do typing in Liverpool."
Roslyn Owens is a girl with a future as well as a past.
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3,400 View Yoko Ono's Exhibit (1971)
3,400 View Yoko Ono's Exhibit
No writer listed
The Post-Standard
October 11, 1971
P oor weather could not keep an estimated 3400 persons away from Everson Museum yesterday, as Yoko Ono Lennon's art exhibit went into its second day of public display.
The Lennons left Syracuse about 4p.m. but not before paying a visit to the Onondaga Indian Reservation in the morning; they met Chief William I Lazor. The chief was unavailable for comment on the meeting because of the beginning of a week-long religious ceremony.
Museum spokesman said it was difficult to estimate the exact attendance since persons under 16 are admitted for free. James Harithas, director of Everson, said almost 9000 people had seen the exhibit over the weekend.
Umbrella-toting youths huddled under the overhangs of the museum yesterday, waiting to get in. The line continued outside until the 5 p.m. closing time. At Hotel Syracuse, about a dozen youths kept a vigil, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Lennons, apparently unaware that they had left the city.
The exhibition This Is Not Here was scheduled to open Saturday at noon, and at 11 a.m. the crowd outside the museum was so large it overflowed into South State Street. As expected, the majority of the early birds were of high school and college age, but what surprised museum security personnel were the many who were carrying knapsacks and sleeping bags.
"Some of these kids were here as early as 8o'clock this morning," a security guard said. In fact, the first people to arrive were a group from San Francisco in a VW bus. Kathy Singleton, a well-tanned UCLA coed with sun-bleached blonde hair, said, "I came up here yesterday with nine other UCLA students. We heard about Yoko's show a few weeks ago on the Cavett Show." John and Yoko Lennon plugged the exhibit during a taped interview broadcast coast to coast September 21st to September 24th on the Dick Cavett Show by the ABC Television Network.
It was about 12:30 p.m. Saturday when the building opened. City police manned the doors to regulate the flow of spectators. By that time, many spectators entered with a sneeze and damp clothing, for they had been met by intermittent showers, overcast skies, and chilly temperatures while waiting outside.
Peace marshals volunteered from Syracuse University were posted throughout the museum to keep the lines moving and safeguard against the theft of exhibition pieces. Many of Saturday's museumgoers were primarily there to see the Lennons. "If I don't get to see him, my four hours of hitchhiking from Rochester will be worthless," claimed 16-year-old Bev Johnson.
Some caught a glimpse of the couple, who for a time were seated at one exhibit, a garden court with white chairs and a table, and could be seen from the museum balcony.
Other notable personalities appeared at the show throughout the day. Cries of "There's George" or "Hey, it's Ringo" were common.
About 240 peace marshals told spectators that the museum was temporarily closing and that they had to leave. Some spectators, many of whom paid the $1 admission price, greeted the news with four-letter words and left. Others who saw the action as a ploy to empty the museum to make room for the hundreds still outside remained in the building and continued their tour when the exhibitions reopened minutes later.
So this is 50
Today (October 8, 2026) is my 50th birthday. Yes, I am a bicentennial baby. I think this photo of Paul from the Apple Anniversary concert earlier this year is a good one to celebrate with. Hope you all are having a good day. What am I doing for my big day? Nothing. I am working somewhere near the Chicago area and tutoring. It is just another day....
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