Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?

Subject: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 08:11 PM

Well now you can!

Subject: RE: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: C-flat
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 09:24 PM

I own a packet of "genuine" brick dust from the original Tavern club in Liverpool.
It must be "genuine" because the nice people at "The Hard Rock Cafe" in London told me so!
I laughed so much that I HAD to buy it!
I'm not laughing quite so hard when I see the price of the "Ryman"

Subject: RE: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: khandu
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 09:49 PM

Yeah, but do you own any of the mountain of Black Oak, Arkansas?

khandu

Subject: RE: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 10:51 PM

Reminds me of the Paul Bunyan tale called "The Winter of the Blue Snow".

It seems Johnny Inkslinger, Paul's accountant, who used so much ink in keeping the books that he had to buy it by the vat, had some accident--don't remember what--but the huge quantities of blue ink were exploded into the air and absorbed by the clouds and spread all over the earth.

This had two big effects, as I recall: The snow that winter was BLUE from the ink, and so much sunlight was absorbed by the ink up there that it was a horribly cold, long winter. And all the time BLUE snow! The blue snow lasted all through the summer.

The following winter (without any intervening summer) the ink had finally been snowed out, so that one day there was a WHITE snow! Everybody was amazed! They'd forgotten about white snow! So they gathered some of that white snow for souvenirs, kept it in their freezers to tell their grandkids about the WHITE snow!

"And I can prove it's true! Here's one of those white snowballs that I've saved all this time from that day!"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: johnross
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 12:44 AM

Seems like they've been selling off pieces of that place for years.

Somewhere around here, I've got a boxed set of LPs called "Stars of the Grand Old Opry" that includes a little piece of the original velvet curtain from the Ryman. About the size of a playing card, as I remember.

Subject: RE: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: GUEST,Foe
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 07:57 AM

I bought an album of C&W at a garage sale many years ago with a real piece of the Ryman curtain in a packet on the cover. Looks real!

Subject: RE: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 02:36 PM

Nope!

Subject: RE: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: SharonA
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 03:03 PM

Maybe if it wasn't in a Washburn guitar... Put that piece in a Martin or a Taylor, and then I'll wish I could afford it!

Subject: RE: Wanna Own a Piece of the Grand Ole Opry?
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 05:07 PM

I've seen this guitar. It sure is pretty BUT the body is THINNER than any guitar I've ever seen.

A few years ago, when a tornado blew down some 100-year old trees at the Hermitage (home of President Andrew Jackson), Gibson (I think it was Gibson) made a few special edition "Old Hickory" guitars out of the downed trees.