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GODEI1161, ONTARIQ, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964 -
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By Stan Hills
It was a 'wonderful experi-
ence I'll neer forget. On
June 6, a group of 18 .men
and myself, the Harbouraires,
represented Goderich at a .
a.m. the next morning, the lion -Royal York 1otel corn- a toughtime of it: Laguardia International Scene thing co'
liuge sing at the New York
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World's -Fair.
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nit* back to the hotel to get
out of wet clothes. • "
At the afterglow, the men.
Here is wheiyou can really
gather into small groups ta
iriplex,-tuf-nOt hear the music.-
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day of the concert. . ,Each nation had its oWn
plex 'in Toronto, you can go airport, was two miles away ing what; Mexico was sirnilar; 7? That night some of ,us went
But that train trip was well 'almost anywhere and stay with transatlantic jets taking building, ,some of them very , and Polynesia was a breath to Radio City, Music 'Hall.
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, 4 g • pose there were a few who .ed off in different directions.so we could nave a Chinese Singer Bowl.• But then i
.ours, 74 clubs, brought to- ing down just as we reached
weren't •used to singing until They were good to us at that dinner. We couldn't find it, found that there were dozens
ether into one choirfor a
• three in the morning. On the -- hotel. the climax in the music. So
so we settled on the Japanese ' of identical water fountains.
Saturday night concert.
whole -trip my wife and, I Groups of three ,or four - ' foreRCA saidthat topa pickr flitsIudp again just b ea --
and had a wonderful meal for , There was something like a
estimated we had about six • went on tours. Some of the giant . Christmas - tree orna-
jet came crashingin, in exact- $1.75.
,hou,r&„slepP,•,. „wives went up Fifth Avenne.-..ly the .same place. - 1 -don't -Hong Ktinthatt--advertise•----ment ,that I had noticed -out-,
At Waterford our part' of to try on 'wigs at 'Saks and side the bowl. And- there
.... think we ever did get a per -
28, including nine wives, wvas look -in Ginth'el's, Lerner's and feet recording. ments promising a seven-• course' dinner for 99 , cents. were dozent,f those, too.
joined by the Waterford choir • Macy's. hey had lunch in
ArieLn.a. -
or , • Arervar."'''`"Fireintramtryiltrilifirreger-1- or'nelijit"Tgirrret Faiire7ra; ChiltiraVITiffir''''gr"V-gnitte-ttr'retrate-l'ffr—tin It."-Str-We—rtsrte Tinter--
bers of simil r lee clubsqo
'During the past year we've
spent most of our time,
Tall'ingi_itiotieY-forThe- trip '
and the rest of the time re-
hearsing 16 pre -chosen chor-
uses for the program. ,
We had concerts and fund -
B t• t th' J anese • avilion
coach to ourselves.' • was really sornething.• ed in the Sing,er .Bowl,•put up w.e had 'a big bowl of some- We found -our way back by
u a e ap
e concert was to be stag- G9t Lost
of 22. • We.' -had •the whole an automat and -thought that
' thing I can't quite define. king a guide for directions
raising affairs for a year to • Bruee Clifford Ken Sower- by the sewing machine corn-
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171 e•T,Tei LY •
Square. ••
There we splurged, had, a
steak dinner, and examined,
our foot , blisters and sore
feet The women refused to
_walk any Panther._ By .3. ,a -m.„
we were in 13cl.
Sunday was spent in tours,
(unforgetable twohourobus
trip through thecity and an-
other visit to the Empire
State, tower., You can see .
_town_. granted -us By the -tine vve,,hadrreanhed•wrnthr orni-ngieoneitu, - :this -time ,a y ear! s .anticipation, tom, -,1-,thifek-rwast beere.n-top Hong Kon„,, turn s arp --has- ex • bu
and you're there.” cursion,, t e
with the men's transportation. Buffalo We were having ---a- tional.ar-Ound the block and had brought us'a high pOint with een ()Mud and globs
h right
scriptions the ghides give,you
ended up looking down --04t-etrient , la"s1161;141ffe cu.•.•••44.0.41.- Nvas •raionifit by
But b3r far the most money wonderful time. By that time, are weirtforlif it.
came from our own savings the trains generator had atOA'•
the time the, choit was to -
Nevi( York from the Empire •,. I do't know what I ex- tard but was, supposed to be
"WitatWer...,Taled--.1Yr thegilar--.,:',gradual lost, mos(-zot-i.t!s,: , -,..ftdritem,fm6:e3do
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---'bourai-re..s.,7-*Pg. 'llittWilimsti-"•-rciid itre".'''lights'=Weit awly - ' y ---sin-krni, *---Th,:ere----see-m-ed-be
' Such wonderful music as dimmer and dimmeeWe •
FrOm there" we took th '' But 'n the rehearsal I found frififf-alimixe-d up.
We had Japanese beer with • feeling while officialspeered less parades going on through- •
• '.,.. . % 2,000" sinaers would be like.
Beethoven's The Worship of never really .got checked by New York subway to the fa1i thatall you could hear was it; it tasted like a strong at the sky to decide hether out New York. Sunday • was
• to cancel out a year of pre- Memorial Day. We , saw a
God in Nature;,Handel's 'Hal- , customs. One man' was sent Canadian ale.
grounds for a 1 p.m. rehears your' own part, in my case the •
lelujah, Amen and Richter's -out to represent 'us. The im- paration, money saving and three -car Collision and found ,
al. And I've g,ot to say some- baritones. -The rest was com- By this time it was 'really
The Creation was rehearsed migration men called in to plans. '• . we were the only ones witch -
thing about those subways. pletely lost. pouring. .The street hawkers
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for presentation. And for ask if we were all Canadians The rain: slowed to a driz- -ing the, after elncts. New
fun, Richard Rodgers' There and that wa. that. And we • Speedy Subways • Just after rehearsal, mid-. with plastic raincoats ha,d zle at . concert hour so we , Yorkers walked on
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is Nothing Like a Dame. ° sang For They are Jolly Good The trains go 85 Mafternoon ra
Miles an ibegan to only plastic hats left. So we began. • The stadium was less - We went to ask one man on
• The experience was impres- Fellows as ,the train pulled hour . on the straightawaywent running from pavilion . sprinkle from a dark sky. than half full of people, about the street for direction's. As
sive,, particularly when we
sang The • Creation. The
whole trip was unforgetable
—even New York's rain that
• nearly drowned us out. •
— -We left-Goderich by ear
mid Friday afternoon for
London and St. Thomas to
board a special railway car
for New York. We got into
• Grand Central Station at 8
We joined our wives again _.. to pavilion. _ _
away. ' They're noisy, they rattle' and- • - - 7,000 people, which is not we walked up to him I pre -
The wives had brought they're a lot of fun. They and started to tour the fair, The Indonesians' had a bad considering the situation. dieted he'd say. "I'm a strang-
sandwiehes, so, from there to- don't really stop at stations. the first good look. Every ex- great silver ship, two feet . . About t h r e e -q u a r t er s . er here myself." He did, Ile
New, York it was an endless - They glide inkeep on glid- hibit we .wanted to go into, long, looking as if i•t, was , through it began to p our was from Minneapolis.
Gut it particularly the industrial made of screen door material, again, I could g
\Ve luft-Isrel-CYTifk (atmost
o on and on. •
string of songs and jokes with ing and then pull so we skipped two'
some ..4).f ....u.s,„..try.ing witli__Tpa__4041k__2a_nfnutes_to_ga „frolyi___pavilions, had a 1,0 mg bat all sterling silver- _11-1,7_as,--niturbers---artd- litrrriro on -to .
our show stopper, Richters missed the train) Sunday night
The Creation. and were back In Goderich
There was what wascalled the next morning. , •
an "afterglow" in the Schae- • Was it worth it, despite the
fer Pavilion but we hur- rain? Absolutely!
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success to doze off.
Grand Central Station was
a phenomenal thing. The
sheer size of it was hard to
realize. Like the Union Sta-
the centre of Manhatten to, lineup. a beautiful thing.
Flushing Meadows, tile fair ' So we passed by these giant The Danish furniture was
site. • advertisements and went on ' nice; India's culture was over -
RCA Victor attempted to to the national pavilions and, w•heiming and left you feel -
record the rehearsal but had I think, had more fun, ing you'd experienced soine-
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