[AGL] Fwd: Ghetto & Dirty's

[Michael Eisenstadt]

fantastic letter, letting it all hang out, raising ever so many questions.

early in the history of AGL Ed Guinn was subscribed, so was Wali,
Porterfield may be reading the list. I dont know for a fact that
he does but an email address of his doesnt bounce messages so it
still exists. otherwise impossible to know one way or another.

Fontaine also used to be a subscriber but she left in a huff. Houston's
wife Dian Donnell is subscribed and although Houston doesnt do computers
she does. even posts here occasionally.

you learnt "one good lesson that summer" but you dont tell us what it
was. perhaps we too could learn the lesson unless its too late and
applies only to you.

that summer my sister-in-law and Martha Hartzog also went to NY.
Did you know Miss Hartzog? (aka Wonder Wart-hog)

oh how i wish Janis J had ever sung out my name in a Bowery bar!

Jaxon sung out my name at his coming back to Austin bar bash
(Soap Creek), this would have been in the late 70s????

very nice to have one's name sung out in a bar: a pleasant alterity
to the usual sense of alienation.

type with you soon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michelemason" <coltrane at ev1.net>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Cc: "michelemason" <coltrane at ev1.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Fwd: Ghetto & Dirty's


Hey! Its Wali!  I'm on the list. Where you be? What's goin on in your
life? I miss you. Michele
coltrane at ev1.net   Did you ever record? Now I could contribute a bit.
I remember Houston(sp?) and Gary White up top. Of course I saw Janis
and Freda(sp?) down at Powell's. Porterfield and Ed G had the attic at
a house about 27th?—bought a dump truck of peyo and cooked forever to
cap and support themselves in New York trip '64?—Worlds Fair that yr.
Fontaine(sp?) and I went up later. I learned at least one good lesson
that summer. Also Bob V showed up... Ah, memories. Oh, saw Janis in a
Bowery(sp?) bar—she got skinny—couldn't believe someone would yell my
name in a bar in NY. Well, I'm off subject. All be well and all be
well.
mm

On Jun 27, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Frances Morey wrote:

> Happy to learn more lore on the eponymous ghetto as well as the
> possibility that Wali might show up.
> See ya',
> Frances
>
> Wali of Austin <wali_of_austin at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:20:56 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Wali of Austin <wali_of_austin at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Ghetto & Dirty's
>> To: Frances Morey <frances_morey at yahoo.com>
>>
>> Frances, Brady, and all:
>>
>> I've been trying to remember for a minute, that is,
>> years, how many "apartments" made up "the Ghetto."
>> When I lived there, one of the ever-changing
>> configurations was John Clay and his banjo upstairs in
>> the "front" apartment with his own outside staircase;
>> below him Ted and his sweet wife (name? uh oh, a
>> senior moment again--Mary Margaret?) and their
>> peyote-eating dog below; downstairs in the back Powell
>> St. John and Steve Porterfield; and upstairs with our
>> own private indoor staircase that went straight up to
>> a door, Jack Smith, my brother Tom, and me.
>>
>> Yet somehow I have believed for years there were five
>> apartments.. I also remember a frame house in the
>> front that at one point Joe Brown had control of
>> enough to throw a party there. This would be
>> somewhere in the 1962-1964 era.
>>
>> Many other half-elusive memory images and weird
>> egvents. Hershberger lived next door in a little
>> house that May still be there. I had occasion last
>> winter to visit the frat house that now and forever
>> squats broodingly next door to the Carrels and there
>> was a little house in the back but I remember there
>> being two or maybe three.
>>
>> Ah well.
>>
>> Seemed like there were almost always constantly at
>> least twice as many people in our "pad" than lived
>> there.
>>
>> Once I decided for some strange reason to "mop" the
>> "floor" Yes! Wali Working! the hardwood ancient
>> floor. I was leisurely swishing the mop back and
>> forth when Janis J walked in.
>>
>> "Shit! What are you doing?! Gimme that!"
>>
>> Janis grabs the mop and begins swabbing the deck
>> vigorously like some sailor. "This is how you mop the
>> damn floor. Shit man!" she sweetly proclaimed.
>>
>> So what's up Frances? I don't get into town much but
>> if I understand correctly, Brady and whatsername and
>> the charming whosis (senior moments again) will be
>> entertaining the grease chompers at Dirty's Kum-Bak
>> Hamburgers this Friday. If I'm in the neighborhood
>> I'll definitely drop by.
>>
>> Hope all is well with you and yours.
>>
>> Love,
>> Wali
>>
>>
>>
>> Welcome, accept, enjoy, and make good use of all this wonderful
>> prosperity.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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