Just before the start of the Summer Band concert at 8 pm, August 24, 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo © Re-posted from summer 2016.
Scene: The crowd was entering the great Auditorium prior to the Summer Band concert celebrating their 64th anniversary. Among the visitors to the free concert were some out-of-towners. We sat down on an aisle.
Man overheard speaking to his wife: “Look Betty, they got an organ!”
Another out of towner behind us speaking to his wife:
She: How many seats in this building?
He: About 600
She: Wow
Me: (turning around) The Auditorium seats 6,500.
He: Oh…I just left out a zero.
Another conversation:
We: Let’s sit here on the aisle (Behind us is a couple—they discuss our presence in muffled tones.) Then they get up and move to different seats.
Another couple sits in those seats behind us:
She: These are wonderful seats!
VINCE GIORDANO and THE NIGHTHAWKS from the movie The Aviator “Stardust”