I'm not going to tell you how old I am 'cause I'd just lie, but I've been in show business for over 40 yrs. I came to New York as a youngster from Spartanburg, South Carolina, and settled in a part of Harlem known as Sugar Hill. I remember seeing famous people in the neighborhood who were in show business, people like ManTan Morlen, from the Charlie Chan movies, the jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams, who went to our church, and often had a kind word for us kids, Dinah Washington, and the Ellingtons. So as you can guess, I was awe strucked, and wanted to go into show business. My first public appearence was as a stand up comedian when I was thirteen. I did a show for the Children Of Mary Society at my Church, Our Lady of Lourdes. I lifted a Bob Newhart routine I'd seen on the Ed Sullivan show....psst..if you see him don't tell him.

	A dab of Cab Thanks for the memories I always loved those pictures of my uncles and their friends from the '40's, so when I got a chance to do a shoot dealing with that era I jumped at the opportunity. I wanted the shots to look like they were taken with a Kodak Brownie at Coney Island somewhere.