My SoCal family has checked in, everyone's okay, but the club (uncle owns a jazz club and cafe in Fullerton) will be shut down for the night, due to the speakers falling in one part, and the cappuccino machine breaking all over the kitchen area.
Showaddywaddy - I loved them when I was tiny! When I was about 3 or 4 years old - I think it was because of their coloured suits, if they were on TV it was a good way to show off to various aunties that you knew all your colours. I didn't know anyone outside the UK had heard of them.
I'm the Queen of knowing British singers/pop groups that no one in the US knows. (Billy Fury, Shakin' Stevens, Unit 2 Plus 4, etc.) Basically Sha-Na-Na were the US version of Showaddywaddy. Same whole retro schtick.
I only know Sha-Na-Na from Grease and Woodstock - but I thought they were cool. I think Showaddywaddy engineered their look to take advantage of the rise in colour TV ownership in the UK :)
When we were about 15 (late 1980s), one of my old schoolfriends met Shakin' Stevens backstage at a gig after writing one of those letters that begin with "Please" written about 10,000 times. She'd been a fan since he first got famous, when we were 7 or 8. I was never particularly a fan, but his stuff was OK and always fun, and even now I always think of my junior school friend when I see his name.
YAY! It sounds like one that mostly scared people and knocked things around. I was in San Francisco for Loma Prieta, so I'm semi-jaded about the smaller ones. But 5.8 is nothing to sneeze at.
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One of my East Coast friends was wondering if I felt it.
*eye roll* Somehow the vastness of our great state tends to elude them who don't live here.
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When we were about 15 (late 1980s), one of my old schoolfriends met Shakin' Stevens backstage at a gig after writing one of those letters that begin with "Please" written about 10,000 times. She'd been a fan since he first got famous, when we were 7 or 8. I was never particularly a fan, but his stuff was OK and always fun, and even now I always think of my junior school friend when I see his name.
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knocked things around. I was in San Francisco for Loma Prieta, so I'm semi-jaded about the smaller ones. But 5.8 is nothing to sneeze at.
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I was here for Loma Prieta and a few others. Give me a California Earthquake over a tornado, hurricane etc.
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We're definitely due for the next big one up here in the Northern park of the state.
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