Four Seas Redux

Thanks for the memories. The description of the Four Seas milieu, as well as McBurney Y was right on target.  I remember curly headed Dick Lee, tall and gentlemanly.  There was another “personality” who figured into the Chinatown scene in general and the Four Seas Club and that was a tall youngish Irishman, whose last name was O’Hara.  He had a great affinity for the Chinese, a little unusual for those times.  He frequented the Four Seas Club with his sister.

 

The club had a piano, ping pong table, and held dances.

 

I remember names like Yukon Chang, who was one of the “older” crowd and editor of CAT and frequented  Lonnie’s Coffee Shop, across the side street from Transfiguration Church .  Lonnie’s was also almost adjacent to a basement restaurant, Wo Hop! Roast Pork Wonton, noodle soup and all the tea you could drink for fifty-five cents. Those places were lifesavers when you were a kid on a shoestring budget.

 

In addition to Snow Chin in the Drum and Bugle Corp, I remember Edna Wong, tall, long hair who marched as a majorette and twirled a baton.

 

Thanks for the memories . . . 

Jane

 

January 2015