Freda and the ice storm

[Jon Ford]

Mike-- That's a good story about the ice-storm. I'm sure Ramsey and Joann 
got married, although I don't think Ramsey was really the marrying type-- 
none of his turned out too well, although both Joann and Fontaine, his other 
ex- that I know, seem like they would be good companions for the long term.

Claude Allen was a long-time Civil rights activist in Austin, alright; I 
remember him picketing the Texas Theater for integration when I was still a 
high school kid. If he got a job at Antioch, I've sure he would have fit in 
pretty well.

Talking about Tommy Hall, I was down in Santa Cruz today, where they have 
more used record stores than you could shake a stick at; bought a twenty 
song album ,"Absolutely the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators" on Fuel 
Records. I'm sure Tommy Hall would  be horrified by this release, which I 
suspect no one  in the band made a cent from. It also takes the songs out of 
context, so it would be hard to obtain the "horizontal release" obtained by 
listening to the original albums in the proper sequence. Still, a little 
nostalgia for me as I used to own several of the original vinyls.

Jon




>From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@HotPOP.com>
>Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: Freda and the ice storm
>Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:00:05 -0600
>
>Jon,
>
>Wayne & I both remember Claude Allen well. He was
>active in the local NAACP & the civil rights struggle.
>
>I vaguely remember that he was teaching English
>lit at Antioch but didnt get tenure.
>
>Wasn't Joann married to Ramsey? Their apartment
&t;must have been across the yard to the south. Later
>on Rip Off Ralph Macelroy lived in one of those apartments
>with a German guy named something German. And they
>started importing Mercedes cars bought in Germany.
>This was enterprising.
>
>I seem to remember that when I knew Freda she
>was living in far West Campus perhaps near
>Grandview. That was when I was living in a now
>torn down apartment on 17th street near Congress
>just north of the Catholic Consistory building (still
>there). One morning at dawn Freda phoned me
>waking me up and telling me to look out the window:
>an ice storm had coated all the trees and shubbery
>with icicles. What a gal!
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster@hotmail.com>
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:35 AM
>Subject: Re: Sept. 18, Spencer Perskin & the Shiva's Headband 
Experience
>
>
> > Mike--
> > The Tommy Hall schedule  is listed on the flyer; it must be a 
"homage"
>band, since the focus of the whole concert seems to be on his era. Your
>memories are pretty  good; the woman with the baby carriage must have 
been
>Joann, who lived across from Tommy and me a year or so earlier than your
>observation.  Gilbert I think lived in the house next door to the one I
>described in this morning's post.  Did you ever run into the mysterious
>English lecturer Claude Allen , who managed the building? I heard he 
moved
>to Cleveland shortly after, having been bounced from UT. Tary was living
>with Madeleine when I was there, but no baby that I remember.
>
>

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