Friday 03/14/2025
At 8:30 met with Joanne in the lobby for what is becoming our regular Friday morning walk. We kept it short this time, back by 9:15, and then at 9:30 we met again to get in my car and drive to the city where we toured the exhibit of Paul McCartney photos at the De Young. In 1963-64, when Beatlemania was just cresting, the Beatles did major tours of Europe and then the United States, including their first and second appearances on the Ed Sullivan(*) show. During the period Paul was using a Pentax 35mm camera to shoot everything around him, fans, security, the other Beatles and friends, agents etc. Not long ago McCartney found a trove of these photos and this exhibit has a couple hundred of them in two large halls at the museum.
We spent an hour plus looking at all these, then as it was too late to make lunch at CH, drove to Menlo Park to a restaurant Joanne remembered, Carpaccio’s, for a quiet lunch.
Later I trouble-shot a problem Jerry A was having in the auditorium, and practiced my music.
(*) When I first typed this sentence, my brain did that thing it often does these days: just blocked the name “Ed Sullivan”. I knew about the show, I could bring to mind a picture of the host with his jowly face, I had just looked at a dozen pictures Paul took of backstage at that show as Ringo tried out the drum set. Could NOT bring up the name “Ed Sullivan”. I had to go to a web browser and type in “beatles 1963 american tv” to find a reference. There it was, “The Ed Sullivan show”. Of course! But for five minutes, that name had been erased from my mind.
Codgerville 