More recollections!:

First, there are photos of Joe Klee in my folk photo collection.

http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html

Frank Hamilton and Mark Clark are there too.

I also remember walking down Rush Street and seeing Toni Knox walking Lenny Bruce to keep him from passing out and/or passing away 'cause he had, once again, overdosed himself. And it was Toni's sister, the beautiful (amazing, for her age) Sydni, who was waiting tables at the Gate Of Horn one of the the major nights Lenny was busted there. Ostensibly, it was S.K.s under-aged status that was the reason for the bust --- but it was a ploy to get Lenny, as Frank said, because of his church-based comedy shticks. It wasn't comedy so much as social commentary and philosophical treatises by Lenny. He talked about what if Jesus came back today and saw the princes of the church with huge diamonds on their fingers and the people of the parish starving in the gutters.

AND Guy Guilbert played bass for Josh White a ton of times around Chicago. He did that for Bob Gibson too. Up at my photo site there is an interesting, but not-too-good, photo of Bob and Guy on stage at Richard Harding's original Quiet Knight folk club on Wells Street---before he moved it to the upstairs place at the corner of Belmont and Sheffield. --- And Gibson was "dating" Brigid Baslin then. She was "The Blue Fairy" on a 1950s Chicago kids TV show. Her mother was Maggie Daley, who was well known for something-or-other in Chi-town, but I don't remember what it was. All of this was tied into the old Bateman School --- and Latin School too -- where Jim McGuinn was...

John Carbo the banjo player was manager of the OLD TOWN FOLKLORE CENTER---I was asst, manager there 1965-'66 & '67.

Of course, Frank Hamilton, along with Win Stracke, Dawn Greening and Gert Soltker, were the founders of the Old Town School Of Fake Music. (pun intended) Same Frank Hamilton who is in this good thread. He was also a member of the illustrious folk group THE WEAVERS!!

The Weavers were second only to the group I started with Patti Page, Rosemary Clooney and Elvis.

We were called "Presley, Page, Rosemary and THIEME!"--- (But ya had to be there!!)

At the photo site there is a nice shot of Frank Hamilton and Win Stracke on stage at the Chicago folk club called Holstein's.

Art THIEME