[ March 13, 2006, 03:06 PM: Message edited by: Si Allen ]
Posted by Ellen Day (Member # 5365) on :
Thanks for sharing the pictures... wonderful pictures, too! Really sorry we missed seeing everyone this year. Like Raymond says "See ya next year"! p.s...did you and Marty have a Happy Anniversary?????
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
Hey!
There's a milk crate!!
Thank you Si for posting all 4 of these pic-posts!! You took some great pictures!! It's almost like bein' there!
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Thanks for posting the photos, Si. I have a CD going out to Steve and Barb for them to choose whatever they may want to place here.
It has a little over a hundred shots, so it should cover a few folks.
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
I have just got to make that one next year!
Lotta gray hair at Fred's Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Lotta no hair, too.
Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
You shoulda borrowed some from Bob Harper, Ray! Love....Jill
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Bob's hair has as much celebrity status as Bob. And it's still full and swept back as ever. Mine just swept away a long time ago.
Bob is now 83 and can't see as well as he once did, but he still can get up really close to sign panel and pick it to pieces.
After viewing one of the panels I was working on he said, "You've still got it". That was probably the best compliment of the weekend.
And Bob still likes to flirt with the young ladies. It didn't take him long to spy out the crowd and find some female so that he could inspect their work (signs, that is). He hadn't been there ten minutes until he was already admiring Karyn's work.
Way back there in the old days, Bob and I continually exchanged photos of the show cards we were doing. He led the way for many of us.
He was awarded a special place in the new Sign Museum in Ohio and was there for the grand opening. He showed us a plaque that he had received as a member of the Hall of Fame.
It was well deserved. Good to see you again, old friend.
Posted by Roy Frisby (Member # 736) on :
Ray, I hear you're going to start having a letterhead meet at your shop every year in Texas. Anything to that? Posted by Steve Shortreed (Member # 436) on :
Another wonderful job on the photos Si. Don't know what we would do without you.
Can't wait for the photos Raymond. I hate missing meets. Got our fingers and toes crossed in hopes that health improves for next year.
This is one meet eveyone should try and make at least once in their lifetime. Letterville salutes Fred, Marilyn and everyone else that keeps this going strong year after year. That includes Pat and Monte Jumper. We miss you all.
[ March 15, 2006, 04:02 AM: Message edited by: Steve Shortreed ]
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Roy - my, how words fly.
No...and maybe yes. How's that for being Politically Correct? - and I'm not even a Democrat.
Whenever Fred gives up his yearly gathering I MAY CONSIDER having something to replace it...although nothing could replace what he and Marilyn accomplish.
I'm already praying that Fred has a long, long life.
You've seen my studio - there's not enough room for a gathering like Fred's, but down the line somewhere I may be in a different location.
And then, Fred may outlive us all.
Posted by Roy Frisby (Member # 736) on :
Fred is a tough bird! I'll give him that much. Just ribbing ya!
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