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Post by job on Dec 5, 2013 9:41:24 GMT -6
No Frankie Yankovic either. Bump...TTT So CUZ........................who is this Wojcik, and when did the PNA take over the Polish Picnic from apparently the K of C's? I thought perhaps you might know and be able to inform us. How uncanny that I just found this old playbill the other day here, thought I'd share, lol. M As I recall, both PNA and K of C had picnics. One did not take over for an other. Wojcik? Alas, fame is fleeting. He was a big name polka guy in his day.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Dec 5, 2013 9:47:00 GMT -6
Oh, ok then thanks...... I just assumed because it had this big polka band, that it was started by the K of C's, and the Polish food hadn't been added into the mix yet. Polka must have been a huge hit back in the day, eh? Do you happen to know what year though that either of these so-called picnics started? It would have been nice had this playbill been dated. Thanks for the info regarding............... M
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Post by job on Dec 5, 2013 14:55:32 GMT -6
Oh, ok then thanks...... I just assumed because it had this big polka band, that it was started by the K of C's, and the Polish food hadn't been added into the mix yet. Polka must have been a huge hit back in the day, eh? Do you happen to know what year though that either of these so-called picnics started? It would have been nice had this playbill been dated. Thanks for the info regarding............... M I don't know when the "Picnics" at Oakland Park started. Polkas were popular because of several of the town's ethnic groups: Poles, Hungarians, and Slovakians. Polkas are/were popular in all of those countries, and a large percentage of Streator's population in the 30s, 40s and 50s came from those countries. Many did not speak English. After WWII, there were a number of Polish Displaced People who came to town. For some odd reasons, the word "Slovak" has been used in Streator to cover people from all of the countries mentioned above.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Dec 5, 2013 15:01:31 GMT -6
Thanks CUZ I figured you'd know alot more then I did on these events. Now, of course you know that I am 1/2 Slovak...so I have to tell you one of my favorite little tunes that at least being Slovak..I can then in fact poke humor of, lol. "My favorite girl she's a Czechoslovakian, and I am a nervous wreck...I took her home to meet my folks and my folks said they don't accept checks." LMAO.........ahahahaha!! M
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Post by job on Dec 5, 2013 15:05:47 GMT -6
Thanks CUZ I figured you'd know alot more then I did on these events. Now, of course you know that I am 1/2 Slovak...so I have to tell you one of my favorite little tunes that at least being Slovak..I can then in fact poke humor of, lol. "My favorite girl she's a Czechoslovakian, and I am a nervous wreck...I took her home to meet my folks and my folks said they don't accept checks." LMAO.........ahahahaha!! M Probably because I never dated a Slovak girl. I never learned how to Polka. Some of the old timers could really dance. The "old country" Polka was much faster than the American version of the dance.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Dec 5, 2013 15:20:48 GMT -6
Ahhh, so you apparently didn't accept "checks" then either, eh?..lol. Polka dancing used to be alot of fun, and it's quite easy to learn too. No wonder I couldn't keep up with the natives then from the old county. I have Zedo's old accordion here, and I remember him playing many polka's on that. M
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Post by job on Dec 6, 2013 6:33:47 GMT -6
Ahhh, so you apparently didn't accept "checks" then either, eh?..lol. Polka dancing used to be alot of fun, and it's quite easy to learn too. No wonder I couldn't keep up with the natives then from the old county. I have Zedo's old accordion here, and I remember him playing many polka's on that. M It wasn't the checks; instead, I was concerned with what Meatloaf later sang about in his song "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights."
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