Hey Floyd,

St. Charles is my hometown. I grew up there. I was born in St. Louis in 1947. We moved to St. Charles in the early 1950s when it was a town of 6,000 people. The population now is about 70,000! We played at a dive called City Club. It's on the corner of Main Street and First Capitol Drive. It's down by the Missouri River where the old brick streets are in the historical district. I just saw on Google maps that it's now a restaurant. We lived on the corner of North Six Street and Lewis Street. I played there from the summer of '64 through May of '65. I remember the very first song I played in the band was "Welcome To My World" by Jim Reeves. My father had just bought me A 1961 Gretsch Tennesseean Chet Atkins model. I thought that Bixby was way too cool - and I used it way too muchI We played on Friday and Saturday nights making $8.00 each. We had a 5-piece band. I never realized that night was the first step I made to making over $60,000 a year just by playing with my G-string!.

What took you to St. Charles?

BTW, we were there at the same time. When I retired from the Army in 1988, I went back to St. Charles and stayed until 1992, when I moved to Bakersfield, California. who knows, we may have crossed paths!

Last edited by Al-David; 10/19/25 09:21 PM.
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