Thanks for the photos on the blog, especially of the Garibaldi Villa. I was asked once to play someaccordion music there for a women’s club. I think I drove there by myself, which means it was in1954 or later.
I wore a powder-blue suit which I had used for the graduation photos, with a maroon tie borrowed from my father. (Guglielmo "Baffi" Campioni).
I set up my spindly music stand, which could be folded into a bundle of about a foot in length.
While I was playing, a waitress came by with a large tureen of minestrone, and stumbled on the music stand and SPLAT! Minestrone all over the suit and the accordion. After a dry cleaning, the suit was as good as new. The tie went back to my father, and it is with him to this date. It went well with his brown suit.
The accordion still has minestrone stains on the white parts of the bellows.
By the way, one of my first tasks on my first full-time job with Costella and Caiocca TV & Appliance was scraping river mud out of TV cabinets.
Oh yes, and did you hear the one about the older couple living in that hotel, and when the flood waters started rising, their furniture began to float. When the water was up to the windows, the old man had his wife sit on the floating couch, and floated her out the window. Then he accompanied her on the piano.
I hear your groan.
Saluti e stammi bene.
Gino
Ivano says: Thanks Gino. And yes a big "groan" at your "joke". SA Ivn0
Comment from Gino Campioni:
ReplyDeleteCiao Ivano,
Thanks for the photos on the blog, especially of the Garibaldi Villa. I was asked once to play someaccordion music there for a women’s club. I think I drove there by myself, which means it was in1954 or later.
I wore a powder-blue suit which I had used for the graduation photos, with a maroon tie borrowed from my father. (Guglielmo "Baffi" Campioni).
I set up my spindly music stand, which could be folded into a bundle of about a foot in length.
While I was playing, a waitress came by with a large tureen of minestrone, and stumbled on the music stand and SPLAT! Minestrone all over the suit and the accordion. After a dry cleaning, the suit was as good as new. The tie went back to my father, and it is with him to this date. It went well with his brown suit.
The accordion still has minestrone stains on the white parts of the bellows.
By the way, one of my first tasks on my first full-time job with Costella and Caiocca TV & Appliance was scraping river mud out of TV cabinets.
Oh yes, and did you hear the one about the older couple living in that hotel, and when the flood waters started rising, their furniture began to float. When the water was up to the windows, the old man had his wife sit on the floating couch, and floated her out the window. Then he accompanied her on the piano.
I hear your groan.
Saluti e stammi bene.
Gino
Ivano says: Thanks Gino. And yes a big "groan" at your "joke". SA Ivn0