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Thread #67966   Message #1143335
Posted By: Franz S.
22-Mar-04 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: The Weavers and the McCarthy Era
Subject: RE: The Weavers and the McCarthy Era
Deckman.. Sorry, my memory isn't that good. I was only 10 when we moved away, and I never went back to Washington Hall after 1951 or so. My dad, who stayed in Seattle with his second family, wasn't that interested in the music except for its political content, so I didn't have much contact with the music scene (except for the New Years' Eve parties at the Hulls') until 1959-60 or thereabouts.   I was closer to the stuff going on in Portland in the middle and late 50s, both political and musical. I did do some of the Kress - Woolworth picket lines i Seattleduring the civil rights sitin time...another case where the music mattered and the Weavers were seminal.