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Topic: Terminal Island Naval Base In Long Beach, Ca. |
Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 6:37 pm |
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| How many of you So. Calif. players ever played at the "Chief PettY Officer" or "Acey Duecy" clubs on the Naval Base. The hours were usually 7:00 to 11:00 PM. on week nights. That way you could still get six hours sleep before getting up to go to work at your day job. In later years the base was closed and torn down and now is used for Ocean Containers. |
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
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Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 8:57 pm
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I worked there with Cliff Crofford for about a year, along with Frank Arnett on steel. Paid better than the 357 union gigs in the area.  |
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 10:39 am
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I worked there and most of the bases around the area when I was in Martha Lou's band? Do you remember here? What was the club which had the very long staircase you had to carry your equipment up? I think that might have been on Terminal Island or Long Beach........JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!! |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 3:20 pm
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Jerry:.
I worked quite a bit in the 70's with a 4-piece band that Martha booked the gigs for. One time she booked us into a large "Radar Tower" high on the hill behind San Pedro Harbor. It must have been hundred feet in the air and the little club was at the very top. You had to ride up in a freight elavator in the middle of the Tower. The Club circled aroung the Elevator. I believe it was an Air Force Club. When you get thinking back over the years, there was a lot of highly unusual gigs that we all played for. If only we had kept diaries we could write a book and nobody would believe it. |
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