From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Gerald Clough"  wrote in message   
   news:3FF8499C.3010406@texas.net...   
      
   Gerald,   
   Sorry it took me so long to reply.  I've been off the net, out of town, busy   
   on a project, visiting a sick friend in the hospital, and ..... simply out   
   of touch.  Your post below is noted with interest.   That Handbook article   
   should be a great chance to tell an almost forgotten story.  If you don't   
   tell it now, it's not very likely anyone in the future will stumble across   
   it and be able to tell it, is there?  SO go for the gusto!   
      
   The Goggan vs Brick question is a point that needs to be studied, I   
   s'pect.... There may have been two music stores on that street.  In a fairly   
   big city I am familiar with, there were only a few old-time music stores and   
   two were on the same street.  Sorta like theaters, clothing stores, variety   
   stores, etc., they may have merely located in what they felt was a good   
   location, location, location.   
      
   San Antonio had three movie theaters (Majestic, Texas, and ???) within one   
   city block of each other until the 1970s or so.  And another only one   
   (Aztec) only two short blocks south of one of those.   And another about   
   four blocks to the west, very near a music store!  I think that was the   
   Empire, but am not sure...   
      
   There is a great museum in Galveston, a very active geneological and   
   historical bunch, good libraries, also.  How about spending a vacation of   
   two weeks or so down there studying?  I've been to SLC to do that for a two   
   week period and it was a neat way to really get into a topic.  OR do family   
   obligations get in the way of that?  Happens.   
      
   Let us hear when your article is finished.   
   David   
      
   >   
   > Hey. I'm about finished with the article on my grandfather that Mark   
   > Odintz wanted me to do for the Handbook. Things like that seem easy,   
   > until you try to put one together while maintaining the rigor the   
   > Handbook wants and should have. Family members tell you specifics that   
   > are hard to confirm from records. Here's an example -   
   >   
   > I knew that my grandfather worked as a motion picture projectionist at   
   > the time he introduced King Vidor to cinematography. In his papers are   
   > early radio station licenses for the station in his home and for a   
   > station he engineered at Goggan & Bros. music store on Market Street in   
   > Galveston. My mother (his daughter-in-law, who first met him 20+ eyars   
   > later) said that was where he worked as a projectionist. Goggan & Bros.   
   > is well-documented as being owned by the Goggan family throughout its   
   > history.   
   >   
   > King Vidor, in his autobiography, says he (Vidor) worked as a ticket   
   > taker and relief projectionist at a music store owned and operated by   
   > Claude Brick - on Market Street. (Music stores were frequently where   
   > early motion micture theaters were set up.) Vidor doesn't talk about my   
   > grandfather being the projectionist, and he immediately goes on to began   
   > talking about finding him building a camera and joining up with him to   
   > film a hurricane.   
   >   
   > With that, I can't legitimately write that my grandfather worked as a   
   > projectionist at Goggan's (can't even say if Goggan had a theater,   
   > although they clearly had their own early radio station) or that he and   
   > Vidor worked at the same music store/theater. Were there two music   
   > stores with theaters on Market Street? Was Vidor's memory hazy when he   
   > wrote in 1953? It may take some inquiry with local Galveston historian   
   > types and old city directories.   
      
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