Peggy Lee comes home
February 24, 2010 3 Comments
In a comment under my last post, Jim Z. wrote:
When Lawrence Welk left N.D., he NEVER came back. It’s been said he hated everything about North Dakota. But visiting his birthplace is a real trip, so I’ve heard. L.W. wouldn’t have known… because he never visited!
The ungrateful oaf.
But some people came back: Peggy Lee returned in 1950. And she brought Stanley Kubrick with her. They say you can see Kubrick on the corner in this recently digitized 1950 video from Valley City:
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Angie Dickinson is a North Dakotan – came to visit someone she knew on my block in Imperial Beach in 1974 – still have a photo somewhere. Wonder if she ever made it back to North Dakota?
Looks a little like the Tour de Fat!
Just like the Tour de Fat! Of course. Why didn’t I see that? LOL