[78-L] ^Kenny Hagood [was Pee Wee Marquette]

[Michael Biel]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
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>> From: "Geoffrey Wheeler" <dialjazz at verizon.net>
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>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:02 AM
>> Subject: [78-L] Kenny Hagood [was Pee Wee Marquette]
>> Julian Vein says: “Kenny "Pancho" Hagood I'm even more familiar with--I
>> spoke to him in
>> Paris in 1960. He was depping for an indisposed Stephane Grappelli at
>> the Chat Qui Peche.”
>> From mid-December 1962 to early March 1963, I lived in Paris near Le
>> Chat Qui Peche. I don”t recall ever going in the place. I did go to the
>> Blue Note several times to hear Kenny Clarke’s group. I remember once
>> leaving the club late at night and encountering bone-chilling weather,
>> as can happen in cities with large rivers. I stayed in cheap hotels
>> that allowed only stays of about a week. I would then transfer to
>> another nearby cheap hotel. When that stay ended, I would return to the
>> first hotel. To celebrate Christmas, I bought a small tree from a
>> seller on Isle de la Cite´near Notre Dame and set it up in my hotel
>> room. In addition to general bathrooms on each floor, there were
>> urinals located in the middle of each flight of stairs. A curved metal
>> sliding door opened onto the cramped space. One would step in and slide
>> the door closed. It was like being in a tiny oubliette.
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>> Sounds like a luxury toilet. In those years I had to put up with the hole 
>> in the ground, the chain to hold yourself upwith (suspension design)
>> and the two concrete footprints on the floor so that you knew exactly 
>> where to put your wet shoes.
>> And of course the old lady in her chair, watching you.
>> Un autre bier sil vous plais.
>>
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> The French realized that the consumption of beverages created an inevitable
> need...and thus invented "Pissoirs" which were located wherever the need
> thereof became apparent...?!
>   

In 1983, the first time I was in Amsterdam, after a long day of 
sightseeing, my wife and I found a bench in a public square and sat to 
rest.  There was a cylindrical metal construction about 20 feet away.  
We thought it was just another advertising billboard pole, I suppose.  
After a few minutes a man stepped inside and soon there was a yellow 
stream flowing downhill.  I don't think we could stop laughing for ten 
minutes.

> The North American equivalent would seem to be finding a large and dense
> tree...and positioning oneself therebehind...?!
>
>   

Actually, in more recent times in Amsterdam I understand that dense 
trees or metal contraptions are no longer necessary.  About 15 years 
later we were on a long line outside the Anne Frank House and a guy on a 
passing houseboat emptied his bladder over the side to the cheers of 
about 100 onlookers. 

I love Europe.

> Having served in the USAF in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, I quickly
> became accustomed to the idea that when one consumes beer, there is an
> inevitable result! In Germany, one simply stepped up to the nearest 
> wall...?!
>
> This is technically illegal; however, I have yet to be arrested 
> therefor...?!  Steven C. Barr

Considering what goes on in German parks and beaches on sunny days, this 
doesn't seem too extreme.

Mike (care for a stroll thru Munich's Englisher Gartens?) Biel  
mbiel at mbiel.com