Evening on the Avenues - 8/17 - w/ Lake Worth Talk.com

We had a great time at Evening on the Avenues last night. Lake Worth Talk.com set up a booth for the second time this year. Jim Stafford, the host of the site will try to do this once a month or so. The picture below is of the booth in the early part of the evening. From left to right is Jim Stafford, Matt Falvey (the Fish Doctor), Don Cavanaugh (Rainbow Radio) and me, Wes Blackman (Truth Matters). Nice group shot of hosts of the various talk shows on the Internet site. Notice the nice displays from all the site's sponsors on the table in front of us.

Here's local Talk Show host celebrity Walter Baker (the Lunch Box). Walter did lots of meeting and greeting, handing out Ed Morse tote bags kindly provided by Ed Morse Honda and Dan Winkel.


And the always lovely Mary Lindsey (former Mayoral Candidate and President of the Tropical Ridge Neighborhood Association) made an appearance at the booth. We had a nice talk and caught up on some things. Always nice to see Mary.


Maggy, from Pali's Pizza dropped off some tasty pies that we gave away to passers-by - nicely cut into manageable squares for easy munching. Here she is yucking it up with us early on.


Jim attracted a bevy of friends - I think the pizza helped a little bit.


Below is a little bit of original artwork by Matt Falvey. Matt worked on more art while hanging out in the booth with us. We're going to have to go fishing again soon.

Some of the early group enjoying the band in the Cultural Plaza.

Here are some vendors setting up for the evening.


Dan Winkel with Erica. Erica is recovering nicely from knee surgery.


More interested and interesting on-lookers to the booth. Nice steady flow of visitors throughout the evening.


Pictures of Vicent and J.R. Stafford, respectively. Gina Stafford came down with the kids about mid-way through the evening.


Some general shots as the evening progressed. The band was good and played a lot of juke box favorites (also some big karaoke hits that had us singing along in the booth).


Meet Tony. He's from Connecticut and has been here about a month and a half. He moved down here with his girlfriend and is looking for work. Happens to live on North O Street. He says that he can do shipping and receiving, roofing, waiting tables, dishwashing, etc. and is hearing from everyone to come back in October or November. And, he says, everyone says "Go on to the Compu-derrrr." - something he doesn't want to do. He said he had the same job for 25 years up north. Anyway, he turned out to be quite a character as his story was sort of on a loop that didn't have a beginning or an end. So if you see Tony around and can help him out with a lead on a job, I am sure he'd appreciate it.


Our canine friends were well represented too. I nearly brought Mars and Venus with me - maybe next time?


Well, the crescent moon told us it was time to pack up and say good night to the nice folks that came to visit. "I'm so glad we had this time, together...just to have a laugh or sing a song, seems we just get started and then before you know it, comes the time we have to say good-bye."


Well, not quite, on the way home we made it to the Mad Hatter. Here's me doing an "Artie Johnson" imitation through the roses that our guy Felix brought by a few minutes earlier. Felix has a regular route up and down Dixie Hwy . He stops in the local watering holes and offers fresh roses for sale. He is a Lake Worth institution, for sure.