I enjoyed a wonderful new experience yesterday afternoon. The Ocean Keys second floor addition. Includes a new bar, the Sweet Bird Bar. Going to be a big time success! I predict it will out do the Chart Room once it takes hold. A fantastic welcoming place for tourists and locals to mingle and enjoy.

Sweet Bird is an inside and outside facility. Great seating accommodations in both areas. The help warm and cheerful.

I plan on visiting often. Suggest you do, also.

Before the Sweet Bird Bar, I did my usual Tuesday afternoon Happy Hour at The Grand with my guests Fran and Tom Dixon and Cindy and Steve Thompson. We gouged ourselves on appetizers. Excellent!

Hair premiered on Broadway this day in 1968. 

I saw Hair twice. The first time at a theater 40 blocks south in East Village. An off Broadway show. Rumored to be unusual. I had to see it.  The second time was on Broadway two years later where it ran more than 1,700 performances. Still something new.

Hair was a musical suggesting hope that the world was going to change. And soon. You sat and absorbed Hair’s music and words to “let the sunshine in.”

Nudity in 1968 was not as it is today on stage and in movies. A no no. Nevertheless, at the end of the show the entire cast, and it was a large one, came on stage entirely nude. Front and rear bodies exposed. I found it shocking the first time. Everyone had to. We were not accustomed to such.

The Kentucky Derby. This Saturday. The 152nd running. Reiley and Cricket will be there. Reiley’s profession is the raising and selling of race horses. Operates out of Saratoga. He presently is working with 40 horses.

At brunch at the Celi’s, the ladies wanted to know how the women dressed. Cricket laid their entire attire including hats. Hats required for women in the group Cricket would be attending with.

I have enjoyed many major sporting events over the years. Never a horse race such as the Kentucky Derby. Though I did spend much time each year in August at Saratoga. Only because it was a close 2 hour drive from my Utica home. I did not go for the gambling. Not part of my forte. I went for the partying. Outstanding!

There was an article yesterday on the internet which spelled out the identities of the original Mouseketeers. One was Annette Funicello. Annette spent her early years living in Utica. We all were excited to see her on the Mickey Mouse Hour. Annette was one of the original stars.  Numero uno!

Interesting how we all watched Mickey Mouse. Even when I was in college. We all ran to the wreck room at 5 to watch the show and sing along…..Who’s the leader of the band…..M I C K E Y M O U S E, MICKEY MOUSE! It was part of the education process.

Federal employment for Blacks is down. Especially female Blacks.

Some things are difficult to understand. The following one. However Trump and his tariffs and other foolish activities obviously the cause. California uses a lot of gasoline. No one cutting back at the moment. I doubt anyone in the U.S. has.

California in its need for gasoline has begun importing more gasoline developed from Russian oil.

Oldsmobile died this day in 2004. The last one rolled off the assembly line in Michigan. Oldsmobile had lasted 106 years.

My first automobile following graduation from Law School was a blue and white Oldsmobile convertible. My last automobile purchased and which I am still driving is a blue and white Volkswagen convertible. 

In the last 65 years my only change in vehicles has been re size. Never thought about it till this morning.

I hope to spend some time with the Dixons this afternoon.

There is much to share regarding Trump. I leave it to tomorrow.

Enjoy your day!