[Dixielandjazz] FW: Zimmertime

[Don Kirkman]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:26:28 +0200, you wrote:

Billy Sunday spent his early years entertaining Chicago with the White
Stockings (now the Cubs) in pre-conversion days.  It was a different
kind of entertainment in Chicago after his conversion and the change
of career as an evangelist who apparently tried to shut the place
down, but to some he was probably part of the celebrity/entertainment
world in town.  And it's not true that he shut down the Cubs' World
Series chances.  :-)

>Jude wrote about Zimmertime:  
>
>I gather that it is a funny version of Summertime referring to the
>artificial limbs, etc., created by the U.S. company Zimmer.  Zimmer & the
>other biggest name in these products (can't remember the company name now)
>are both located in Warsaw, Indiana.  Approximately half of the town (which
>is halfway between South Bend & Ft. Wayne) works for these two companies.
>Why this small town became the world capital in artificial gadgets for the
>human body is beyond me.
>
>Another interesting fact about the area is that encompassed within Warsaw is
>another town, Winona Lake, where Billy Sunday had his church.  That is the
>Billy made famous in the song "Chicago", the town that Billy Sunday could
>not shut down".  Billy stood on the pulpit with his trombone in his hand
>preaching & playing with the band & choir.  I've seen pictures at the museum
>in Winona Lake.  
>
>Now, it may sound as though I'm trying to replace Bill Haesler as the
>"expert" on this list, but that is not so.  It just so happens that my
>mother & sister live in Warsaw, and since my mother is now 96, I tend to go
>to see her about every six months.  Therefore, I now know more than I really
>ever wanted to know about Warsaw, and decided to pass all of this
>interesting information off to my listmates on djml (since it includes the
>two musical references mentioned above).
>
>I'll be in that town for 6 days early next month, actually, using up some of
>my free miles on Iberia Airlines.  Unfortunately, the Madrid/Chicago route
>is still flying older Airbus planes.  The new models have an updated
>entertainment system which features our latest cd on the Jazz music channel.
>I could sit there & nudge the person next to me saying "that's my band", not
>that he/she would care........
>
>Jim 
>P.s.  I finally figured out how to get a cup of coffee served in a proper
>cup in Winona Lake, instead of those horrid paper cups with a plastic top &
>a baby-sucker type hole to suck your coffee from that you now get all over
>the U.S.  First, you have to look to see if the place has a wash-up
>area...many don't as all they use is paper, & then insist & insist on a
>proper cup.  No musical content on this matter, but a major gripe I have
>when I go to the U.S.  Even Starbuck's coffee tastes half decent when served
>in a proper mug.
>
>
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