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How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?
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The
inspiration for the photo above was the shot you ran awhile back of
Valerie Ziegenfuss '67 on the runway. The photo above shows her singing
her signature song, "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window," at the
Christmas Eve party held at my parents' house in 1953. Kenny Ziegenfuss
'62 accompanies on piano.
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(Left)
Fritz Ziegenfuss '61 on trumpet and Ken Ziegenfuss on piano. They are
wearing a strange type of shirt that was in vogue -- or in the stores --
then, made out of a shear synthetic material (rayon?). They came in
bright colors. They didn't feel like fabric at all. When wet they were
airtight. Maybe other Crawford guys remember them from that era. I have
no idea where they came from, but do know that authentic Levi jeans,
which Fritz and I were allowed to wear beginning about then (5th grade)
came from the Rocking Horse Kiddie Shop on El Cajon Blvd, just about
next door to the taxidermist. It was embarrassing going there because
everything else they carried was for infants and toddlers.
(Right) shows Jim Schrupp '61, me, Fritz, and Kenny playing
some Christmas tune -- we kids were required to perform at these things.
We all went to the Campus Lab School where playing an instrument was
required starting in 4th grade. Jim played clarinet all the way through
high school, but Fritz and I pretty much quit playing after CLS days.
Kenny of course was a seriously good piano player and got a Masters in
music from Stanford.
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For
a number of Christmas Eves this same group gathered: Richardsons,
Ziegenfusses, Schunerts, Schrupps (our dads all taught at San Diego
State). From left to right, without regard to rows: Fred
Schrupp(Hoover), Dick Schrupp ‘64, and Jim Schrupp, Kenny Ziegenfuss,
me, Valerie Ziegenfuss, Polly Schunert '59, Janie Schunert '63, and my
sister Margaret Richardson '59. Missing is Sally Schunert. She was still
in her shy phase, out of which she erupted about three years later.
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One
more picture from the same season, but of my birthday nine days before
Christmas. From left to right the participants were: Steve Kaplan '62
(lived a block east on Hardy), Larry Felson (a CLS classmate who went to
Sweetwater as I recall), Chuck Briggs (neighbor on Hardy who went to
Montezuma, but then went overseas with his family to Liberia, then
Guatemala), me, Fred Cairns '61, Spencer Milne '60 (they lived behind us
on Linda Paseo), Steve Welch (CLS classmate who went to Grossmont, then
Harvard), Kenny and Fritz, and Steve Campbell '60 (he lived down the
street to the west. When my sister was in labor with her second child in
1966 at UCSF hospital she was startled to find Steve present as an
intern!).
Note the large bottle of Pepsi. I was very proud to be able
to serve some to each kid -- in an era when Kool Aid or Hawaiian Punch
were more the norm, or perhaps Cragmont cola. Big bash!
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