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[HUGH]

John,

I remember the films and the music, but the rest is beyond my ken, it being set in the USA.  Life here was nothing like that - was it ever like that over there, outside of films and musicals?  We didn't have big cars and girls with bobby sox and pony tails.  In the early 50s I listened to modern jazz in dark places and trad jazz in bright places, walked the hills and Greenock Esplanade while setting the world to rights with my pals, then had a milky coffee or some hot orange juice and a Blue Riband in the Grey Place Cafe while plotting out a film scenario.  There was a subterranean Gents across the road - on a wet day it reminded us of a Humphrey Bogart film, God knows why.

Hugh.
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