Black & Whites from Neal Flomenbaum

Too cool ... pictures from way back when ... including a couple from Cimmaron City! Thanks Neal.

One More from Neal Flomenbaum

Got this one from Neal ... the challenge?  Who's in the picture???

I took the photo, and blew it up a zillion times; here's who I think is in the picture:  (from left to right) --

• Sheldon Lederman
• Bernard Domanski
• Sheldon Handelsman (from Bolivia)
• Jerry Lefkowitz
• Robert (Red) Seidman
• Mark Flomenbaum
• Harold Messer, and
• Sidney Nachman

If I blew it, please fix me.  Here's the cropped picture that I blew up a couple of zillion times;  You should be able to just click on the image and get a blown up version. I hope you can see what I saw.  Note, belated apologies and likely from Jerry as well as to how dorky we looked with sailor hats on!

Stay good!   :) boynot

From Sidney Nachman (thanks to Barbara Z)

Thanks to Barbara Z - just before the reunion, she relentlessly tried to track down Sidney Nachman, knowing only that long ago he was teaching for a NY area college. She made lots of phone calls and left lots of messages ... and voila, Sid called her back last week! A little late, but better late than never!

Sid supplied a couple of recent pictures, and a set of memories for all of us to share - Thanks!

:) boynot

Random Memories --
on the swings singing 100 bottles of beer on the wall
renee and toby on swings singng --malecha ha yom
the "frucht and vegetable man" on the loudspeaker (also telephone calls for ellen medvedev, mary messer and francis abramowitz---from three different years)
mosquito bites from sitting at the front fence at night
freddies stick with the nail for picking up paper
sheldon bergers lecture on leverage and judo
a dixie cup, orange crush, joyland road walks to thhe concord and breezy corners (uptown for those days)
collecting salamanders after a big rain
cannonballs at the pool
rain storms on the main house porch
eddie don's salami sanwhiches in the casino
allenoff and his accordian, foot maraccas, and tape recorder
neil flommenbaum's black and white photo essay and his 35mm color slide viewers
roy blums batman costume, and ability to jump into the pool in yoga position (legs crossed and double jointed)
the time capsules we buried at the plateau (different from slide rock)
th eold water pump that looked like a bear in the dark as you walked up to the main house
the old community kitchens in the main house before it was 'modernized"
pizza made from ketchup, white bread , american cheese and dora lefkowitz's secret ingrediant---oregano---which was also a big hit in 1969
my mother's blueberry cake and butter (renia messer also produced stellar baking
the 18 and 1/2 acres where we all went blueberry picking
renee lederman singing i enjoy being a girl
hitching into town (my mother wouldn't let me---she knew)
vanilla extract
the original 78 jukebox with such great tunes as domino, charlie brown, yakety-yak,; and the 45 juke with respect, and its so groovey now that people are finally getting together (don't be afraid was renee's best sing along lline)
hot shoppee on the way up
howie hoople, mark rosen and dave (our swan buddies)


thats all for now Sid

House of the Rising Sun - HippieFest 08

A problem on YouTube is preventing my video of House of the Rising Sun by Eric Burdon and the Animals from appearing in the blog post below ... so here, I'm just trying to post it a different way. Read the subsequent post so you understand what's going on ... and then watch the video!

Thanks! :) boynot

HippieFest 08

Eric Burdon (The Animals)


Flo & Eddie (The Turtles)


Terry Sylvester of the Hollies


Joey Molland of Badfinger


Melanie


Jack Bruce

The Official Hippiefest 08 Lineup:

• Jack Bruce Of Cream
• Eric Burdon & The Animals
• The Turtles Featuring Flo & Eddie
• Melanie
• Badfinger Featuring Joey Molland
• Terry Sylvester Formerly Of The Hollies

Went to Bethel Woods (site of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival 1969) last night to see Hippiefest 08. Among the entertainers were (what's left of) the Hollies (Bus Stop), Badfinger (Come and Get It), Melanie (Candles in the Rain), The Turtles (Happy Together), Jack Bruce (Cream), and Eric Burdon & The Animals (House of the Rising Sun).

With my little camera in hand, I took a couple of pictures and a couple of videos of Jack Bruce and Eric Burdon ... all are here to share ... hope the music brings back a nice memory or two.



House of the Rising Sun






Sunshine of Your Love





Sittin' on Top of the World

The Last Capitol Inn Reunion Video

Last one ... my eyes and ears are too tired. Fran Abramowitz emailed me saying she really couldn't identify alot of loonies at the reunion. So in my final round of editing, I added a bunch of photos, and tried to put identifying captions on them ... hopefully, that will help. A little music, a couple of transitions, and voila, the finished product.

All in all, a great day ... I think we captured the good feelings had by all.

See you next year?????

:) boynot

The Capitol Inn Reunion Video

Click To Play

The Full Length Capitol Inn Reunion Video is Ready ... give yourself about 20 minutes, and turn your speakers on. Then just sit back ad click play.

It's likely that this will be edited a bit more and an audio track with music of the era will be added too, but if you can't wait, just click now!

Thanks to everyone who could come for coming ... thanks to everyone for helping ... thanks to everyone who wanted to be there, but couldn't ... and thanks to the Bilenkis family for the Capitol Inn !!

:) boynot

Sorry for the delay in starting to work on this ... real life sometimes even asks me to actually work! Really! And I had to wait until the right wire to be shipped to me. Sigh.

This is just a tease ... about 2 1/2 minutes ... turn up your speakers for the sound. I'm still working on a better version, but this should get you started. And in case you lose this email, you should be able to play it from the blogsite where I've been storing all the other stuff (http://boynot.blogspot.com )

Enjoy the draft of the video -----> http://www.youtube.com/v/WiTYAa_0l94


:) bernie

A Couple of Ancient Photos from Neal Flomenbaum

Mark, Roy, Fred and who???
See below ...


Neal


Mark


Mark, Roy, Fred & Roy's older brother Ivan (thanks to Harry Feder for recognizing this so quickly!)


Who is who here???

Neal gave me a box of slides ... forgive me, but I only recognized these ... so here they are! See if you can figure out who is who. :) Boynot

Dana's Pictures

Dana Ben-Benyamen uploaded 58 terrific pictures to the Snapfish website. Honestly the easiest thing to do is to just log into snapfish.com and look at them there ... Kudos to Dana for adding captions of who is who to many of the pictures (which I really didn't do!)

This is a picture of Isabelle Renee Barbara Judy Rosette and Toby.

Thanks Dana ... here's the direct link to Dana's album:

http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=234360562/a=41237496_26191074/t_=41237496

If you have a snapfish account, just log in. If you don't, get one - it's free and really fast. Again, it's free.

Ok? Hope so!

From Howie ...

From Howie Rotblatt ... photos that actually created using film! Whoohoo! Thanks Howie ... who promises to send more!
























From left to right: Sam Bronner, Judy & Toby Zysberg, Howie, Linda Himmelfarb-Housman,Lonny Rosenberg, Jeff Zysberg, Barbara Zysberg (behind Jeff), Chaiku Lederman, Rose Zysberg (bending), Ira Wafel (partially blocked), Roy Blum, Abe Zysberg, Spencer Seidman

The Slide Show ...

Thanks to Linda Bronner-Seidenstein for posting her photos ... I love them. They are right underneath this post!!

Dana Ben-Benyamin (Rosette's daughter) sent me 58 pictures. Howie Rotblatt sent a bunch with more coming.

Can I keep up? I'll try my best!

Meanwhile here's the slideshow video ... just click on the play button in the window.