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Hey, he's gotta be
busy with something
the rest of the year!
Fresh off the boat in New
York  1946 with older
brother Richard, sitting.
Governer Ronald Reagan invited the Mickie
Finn gang to entertain at his party.
Eddie Peabody and I playing a wild
chorus at the San Diego Speak-Easy.
Richard and I in our
swimming pool in Holland  
1935.
My good friend Charlie Khederian
always  provides the perfect harmony.
At a show for blind and handicapped
children a little girl gives me a hand
with the rhythm.
Generally a good
student, but a
cut-up!!
That's "Sugar" Willie and me at the original Shakey's
Pizza Parlor in Sacramento.  He's saying . . . "play a
flatted 5th darn it!!!
The Mickie Finn gang on location for the TV show.
"The Silver Dollar Jazz Band", also know as "King
Good Time Pleasure Rag And His Front Street Levee
Loungers", 50 years later at a  reunion.
Sacramento High School's annual Variety Show
features the Original Silver Dollar Jazz Band.
Hall of Fame member, Marvin "Smokey"
Montgomery poses with brand new inductee.
In 1976 Rich Richelieu made me this
fancy bicentenial banjo and presented
it to me at the San Jose  Rally!
The NBC Mickie Finn Television show in 1966
jazzin' it up at the Burbank studio taping
session.
My friendship with Phil Howe,
clarinet and Burt Wilson, trombone
started in Junior High in 1947.
That's me on my recumbent Bike-E!
You wouldn't believe the miles per gallon.
This was about 1948 in Sacramento.   I
bought this secondhand Salzberry Motor
Scooter for about $150.  It was my
transportation back and forth to school.  I
drove it all the way to Lake Tahoe one
day.  It would cruise comfortably at 65
mph and get around 100 miles per gallon.
I saw one on Ebay the other day  for
$2000!!