Fred Ohleth. 2015. In the shadows of the Great Auditorium. Paul Goldfinger photograph Re-post 2017.
2015: Fred has one of the most familiar faces in the Grove. He and Linda have family ties in town, and the two of them, with their fellow volunteers, ran the concessions during big Saturday night shows in the GA.
Then as the CMA ended secular shows, Fred and his merry band of Grovers had to move on. It was another rent in the fabric of time which used to bring the CMA and the residential secular community together.
Last year Fred and Linda moved from the Grove, but the melody lingers on.
ELLA FITZGERALD and THE PAUL WESTON ORCHESTRA, with an Irving Berlin song.