[Dixielandjazz] How fleeting is fame, alas!

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/2/2007 11:35:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "G. William Oakley" <gwilliamoakley at wispertel.net> writes:

>Hi  All:
>Below is an interesting bit of an email from an old friend in San Francisco.
>
>"Hi Bill,
>  San Francisco, as you know, is a world class, cosmopolitan city. A few 
>weeks back I treated myself to dinner at Boulevard, an absolute 
>wonderful experience. Top chef Nancy Oaks is frequently featured on the 
>food network, and in all the hotrod food mags. This place pretty much 
>invented "fusion" cuisine, which loosely translated means the plates are 
>of strange shapes and very large. In the middle of such a plate is a 
>tiny amount of actual food. However, this is of the best quality and has 
>been stacked into a little tower and usually surrounded by 
>artistic drips of various emulations. You sort of want to either 
>photograph or pray to it.
>  No one there, from the slinky clad hostess to the crispy bartender, 
>knew that the location was formerly Earthquake Magoon's. To them Turk 
>Murphy might be a terrorist."
>
>Best
>Bill

Hey Bill he was!  Why do we know that?   He played a trombone didn't he ?  :))  And he played Dixieland which terrorized most rock & rollers and other genres of Jazz players in the City.

Cheers,

Tom
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