Bourbon Street Paraders

Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", April 1997, page 11

As you know, I make my living as a jazz saxophonist and band leader (That's me on the far right!) here on Cape Cod. I thought you and your readers might get a kick out of this photo of us performing in our "workplace" of the past three years.                                                              
                                                 

We play in the lobby or atrium of Jordan's Furniture Store (Yes, folks, really, a steady jazz gig in a furniture store!) in Avon, Massachusetts, which is close to Boston. Jordan's is the largest furniture store, volume-wise, in the country. And look at the display area in the lobby where we perform -- right above our heads on a small telephone pole, are four purple W.G.M. Co. CD 121 toll insulators. Actually, there were four Hemingray CD 121's in aqua, but since one of the store's "colors" is purple, I replaced them with the W.G.M.'s. I would guess that I am one of the very few people besides professional linemen who actually have insulators as part of the "decor" in their work. And every time I look up, instead of stars, I see purple!

Lee Childs, 
Bourbon Street Paraders