Okay, I have one for the record! It's a bit lengthy, but here it goes...
This involves my whole family, Mom and us 5 kids, of which I'm the youngest.
Starting back in the early 70's, we would go the the Auditorium Theater in downtown Chicago, driving in form the western suburbs, to see Gord. Mom usually worked 2 jobs to support us kids and money was always tight. and the car was what I would now call a "beater". But we all went to see Gord every year until he stopped playing the Auditorium in about '78 or '79. That I suppose is a bit goofy in itself, but there's more...
Mom would usually bring a bouquet of flowers, and one year she wrote a request note but forgot to stick it in with the flowers. Anyhow, there was Gordon, on stage picks up Mom's flower, takes a whiff and starts looking for a note, turns towards the audience and remarks how there is usually a request in with flowers! I'm on the ground floor snapping photos with my trusty 300mm lens and Moms in the balcony shouting out her request!! funny as all get out! I got the pictures, though.
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