[Dixielandjazz] Hambone Kelly's - 1950

[EDWIN COLTRIN]

I must stand corrected. It was two cornets, Bob and Lu had not split, until later. Hambones was a building in El Cerrito, and formerly owned by Sally Rand.,  Up a couple of blocks was a Dog Racing Track, operated by Black Jack Jerome. Closed down just before the War.. I think the parking lot was part of the street that went to the Race Track. Used to deliver newspapers in that area in the 1930s
 
Lizzie Miles sang there for a while, dont recall any other band performing  there.  Lizzie made a mean bunch of "Red Beans and Rice"
 
Slainte
 
Ed Coltrin

--- On Wed, 1/28/09, EDWIN COLTRIN <boreda at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: EDWIN COLTRIN <boreda at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Hambone Kelly's - 1950
To: "Ed Coltrin" <boreda at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 12:11 PM

You are absolutely correct, Jim
 
I also was a customer at Hambone's, You bought your ticket from Mother
Scobey and gave the ticket to Pop Scobey, Entered Hambones. The bar was on the
right when you entered ,seating dead ahead, with dance floor and a serving
counter closer to the bandstand on the right. In the back was another room,
which featured Wally Rose on Piano on tues, wed, thurs. 
 
I followed the band from Big Bear Inn on Redwood canyon road, in Oakland to
Dawn Club , Annie Street, SF.
 
Many fond memories of my times at both Dawn and Hambones.
 
Slainte
 
Ed Coltrin

--- On Wed, 1/28/09, James O'Briant <jobriant at garlic.com> wrote:

From: James O'Briant <jobriant at garlic.com>
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Hambone Kelly's - 1950
To: "Ed Coltrin" <boreda at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List"
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 10:26 AM

I have a friend who's a big Trad Jazz Fan. She's in her 80's and
she says the first time she heard this music was at Hambone
Kelly's (Kelley's?) in 1950. She would like to know who was
playing there at that time.

I'm assuming that it was Lu Watters and the one-cornet version of
the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.  Is this a safe and correct assumption?
If no, who else might have been playing there?

Thanks!

Jim O'Briant
Tuba
Gilroy, CA


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