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Latest Reunion this past Saturday

I cannot believe it's been a year since the last reunion. But it has, and we did it again. Thanks to Emily, Joe, and Eric, a bunch of us gathered once more at Dillworth Billiards in Charlotte to get reacquainted with old friends from bygone days. Jack was there, talking about his new business venture and website, cabinetworksofcharlotte.com, and Pete was there almost seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Tucker and Linda promised to be at Spring SOS, Donna was going to try, and Frank and Sissy and Joe and Sally said no, and no. How are we going to make a reunion video without you guys?

TALKIN’ ‘BOUT TREE TOP

Just this last Saturday, we had a reunion for a lot of  people who used to lived at the Tree Top  apartment complex in south Charlotte. Most of us who attended lived there during the 70's. What made this reunion so  special? Well, back in those days,  Charlotte really had no club/bar or social scene of  any real significance, and your apartment complex friends were your social family. We all  had other friends, of course, but Tree Top was the first really all singles complex in that part of Charlotte, and it became the mecca (if you will) for young, single working adults, people who liked to socialize and party without having to drive home. The  Tree Top clubhouse and pool area WERE the place to gather socially.

During the evening of our special reunion, one of  our founding residents, Emily, had composed and read out to all of us there, a special poem that summarizes a lot of  everything that symbolized that special time in our lives. It's copied here with her permission (I hope):

"         TALKIN’ ‘BOUT TREE  TOP  

Thank you old neighbors and friends for coming to this Tree Top Reunion in 2011.

Who but us could remember living off Nations Ford Rd as a little slice of heaven.

It was the 70’s when love was in the air along with the sweet smell of marijuana.

You could say no to getting high but if you inhaled at Tree Top…well, you were gonna.

When I told other friends about this reunion they gave me that “I don’t get it” stare.

Is it a high school, college or family reunion?  No, it’s Tree Top…you just had to be there.

There’s no explaining Tree Top.  We had no common ground other than being young and loving life.

There were only parties and more parties and suffering hangovers was our biggest strife.

Do you remember the parties at the Clubhouse?  I can still smell the popcorn and the beer.

It was like Cheers where everyone was welcome and you just walked home…no DUI fear. 

We somehow dragged ourselves to work each weekday for whatever jobs we had.    Disco’d Friday night in Charlotte.  Drove to Myrtle Beach Saturday for shagging at the Pad.

The patriarch of Tree Top was the beloved and truly unforgettable Joe Galyan.

He can be a man of few words but has the heart and spirit of a true stallion.

But you had to guard things around Joe because if he could see it, touch it or smell it

He would back up the Truck of Fortune, load it up and drive somewhere to sell it.

And then there were the beach trips.  Sabbash over Easter and Gotcha over Labor Day.

Thank you Chief Gotcha Dick Hale!  We still talk about those trips to this very day.

If you walked down a certain hallway at Tree Top and heard the sexy sounds of Barry White

You could be certain that Jack Lemons was entertaining some lovely lady in the night.

Or perhaps the melody you heard on that same hallway was the sultry Donna Summer

Which could only mean Charlie Lavene’s evening was not going to be a bummer!

Many great love stories began at Tree Top and the couples are still together and strong.                            Frank and Sissy deserve a prize for something.  They finally got married…..but they dated for SO LONG!!

And then there were Charlotte Knight’s nights with Dan Pfeifer and they were just the cutest pair in town.

But so were Pete and Myra and all these years later they are still making the “Rounds”.

Gladys and Mike Vaughan were such a sweet couple and they are still sweethearts today. Mimi and Charlie Crisp….how they used to make me laugh with all the funny things they would say.  

My first roommate at Tree Top was the cute Mary Hinson who will always have a special place in my heart.

My last roommate at Tree Top was the floozy Donna Reeves, a special friend and I hope we’re never far apart.

I never dated many guys at Tree Top  because I was “in love” with  Barry Porter …the  bad boy with class.

Tucker told me years later he was her prom date….if I had known that then I would have knocked her on her ass.

E-Rack was always a cutie but the atmosphere in his apartment was so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Now I know that he was simply a very spiritual person and enjoyed being high on life.

Jill Kinney…I heard she had a party once and had a horse brought in. That girl had class!

I always wondered Jill…was it really a horse or just a horse’s ass?

And sweet Martha Bailey and Linda Tyler were always the parties’ loveliest belles.

We Southern girls say “Bless your heart” so sweetly when we really mean “Just go to Hell”.

Fred Parker was a party animal at Tree Top and could often be quite the rascal

But he had the sweetest roommate by the name of Zissel….we just called him Pascal.

Did you know that Mecklenburg County Sheriff Chip Bailey was a Tree Topper?  Yes, he surely was.

In the midst of all the sinning and debauchery at Tree Top, there lived the future fuzz!

Who wins for the nicest guys at Tree Top?  Joe Moody, Larry Harmon and Sam Tyler…that’s a slam dunk!

I have never heard them say an unkind word about anyone but I have seen them all drunk.

Did you know that our very own Susan Ratledge was in a movie with George Clooney.

She really is a movie star although until I saw it, I thought she may be a little looney.

Tree Top without Charlie House would be like Santa Claus without his deer.      

You could always count on good old Charlie unless he met a floozy and she had beer.

Did you know that today is Elvis Presley’s 76^th birthday?   So a toast tonight to the King.

Joe Galyan took me to see Elvis in 1974 along with Shirley Stokes and Larry Springs.

We all moved away from those apartments on Farmhurst Drive & High Meadow Lane.

We moved on with our lives but somehow the Tree Top day memories still remain.

We have lost some dear friends but I think they are smiling down on this reunion from above.

Charlie, Ceil, Doug, Helen, Mike, Patsy, Ted and, Tommy….we celebrate your lives with love.

It’s easy to see tonight that we are all older, life is not as simple and certainly not as much fun.

But for a few years at Tree Top we were all together, we were all happy, we were all young.

If I had to compare those long ago days to something more poetic it would have to be Camelot.

“In short, there was simply not a more congenial spot for happily ever after than there at our Tree Top”.

Written by Emily Stephens Tadlock

for the 2011 Tree Top Reunion

Dilworth Billiards

Charlotte, N. C.

January 8, 2011

I agree with Emily, it was our  "Camelot" for the swingin' swingles 70's. May it, and the friends we made there, live in our hearts forever.

Hey you all, please leave a comment, and tell what you thought. This is a perfect venue for that kind of thing. AND, as Emily and Joe mentioned, we're planning an Oct 1-2 weekend Tree Top Reunion here @ the beach, so comment on that as well. That's the weekend after the end of Fall SOS.

TTFN,

Your ex-Chief Gotcha

BTW - whatever happened to Barry (fire-starter) Houston?

History of the Ebook Reader, or EReader

If you’re interested in any eBook reading device and the role it can play in your life, then you might also be interested in the way in which both the reader - and the eBooks they are designed to display - have evolved over time.

The Book’s Journey Into the Digital World

Books themselves are nothing new, with origins centuries back. However, they were something that most people did not have access to until the development of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. Since then publishing has gone from strength to strength, and the book made its first appearance in the digital world in 1971, with a digital version of the Declaration of Independence: Project Gutenberg was launched (which now houses many free books available to download right to your reader!)

The First Readers Available on the Market

As the popularity of the eBook started to grow, the first eBook reading device was developed in 1998, and websites first begun selling popular books in eBook format. Though the popularity of downloading and sharing eBooks on the internet caught on, the eBook reader itself wasn’t so quick to follow suit, until recently.

The Evolution of Today’s eReader

When it comes to the modern form of the eBook reading device, Sony led the way with its first release in 2006 - being the first to make use of e-Ink technology. It was 2007 when Amazon launched its Kindle in the US, and popularity of the device began to grow at a rapid speed.

Modern eBook readers make use of technology similar to that employed within a computer, with the main difference being the e-Ink screen: designed for the most pleasant reading experience possible. These screens mean that we don’t experience glare as we would with a traditional computer screen or other handheld device.

The Future of the eBook Reader

Readers continue to evolve, bringing bigger and better features to book lovers. These features include larger screens, as seen in the Kindle DX, and will also, in future, involve color screens and perhaps a larger amount of applications and software added onto the main function of reading eBooks.

eBook readers have received some criticism from those who are worried that the book will lose its purpose. However, the popularity of the eBook reading device shows no signs of slowing down, prompting major manufacturers to get in on the act and release their own models.

To see the full array of Ebook readers, or EReaders, visit:
http://jphvideoventures.com/ereaders/

Till we talk again,
The Beachmiser