Can you imagine this….. for your work, job, and whatever…… you have to be lock up in a Apple Store…….all night……must be tough…..especially if you own an Note 4……..

Christmas Eve coffee lets one reflexs on other Eve’s some good, and some sad…….on old friends, old loves, and countless others who have been lost in time…. sometimes there is more in a picture then meets the eye….

The other day I went to coffee with a friend and he took me to a new place it’s called Vive la tart it’s on Howard St.  I must say it’s a bit unusual with the way it’s set up.  As I was sitting and looking around I noticed an old stereo up against the wall.  It was an old looking amp but as I looked more carefully I could not believe my eyes….. It was an fisher model KX-200….So you ask what’s so special about that???  Well it was nearing Christmas 1964….  and I wanted a real stereo amp.  So I begged my father to get me one… and at Christmas morning I opened up a box….. and there was a fisher tube amp 100 watts per channel…..then I open it up…and suddenly realized that it was a box full of parts….wires, resistors, knobs, and all kinds of stuff…. My father looked at me and said you have to put together yourself…. OMG how can I do this….. well it took the better part of 1965 to finish it…but I did and it was the most beautiful sound I have ever heard….. it made my Beatles 65 record sound sooooooo good. I had the amp around my father house for many years and it always made great sound…..  It was lost after I went into the Marines…..it just disappeared….and for the most part I never really seen one again….well not until yesterday…… and suddenly all those memories came crashing back……all those year ago…..and for a short time as I set there listening….. it was 1965 all over again…..and I could hear No Reply, Baby’s in Black…..and of course “I’ll Follow The Sun” and I’m a Loser……

Each night beginning at around 4 this is how it looks…

around 5:40 am……

A few years back I was up the coast near the border….. found this great place…..

Use to be where we parked our cars…..