On Wednesday mornings at Showtime Deli in downtown LP, you’ll find a group of geezers sitting around, eating breakfast and talking about everything imaginable and unimaginable.
Usually it is just a handful of attendees, but for some reason, this past Wednesday there was a full house.
Here is a good photo that managed to squeeze in all 14 of us. If I do my Catholic school math correctly, approximately over 1,000 years in the rear view are gathered around this table. (Maybe renaming it Old Time Deli would be more accurate.)
From right to left starting with the front row: Gary Gelrud, Joe Stone, Barry Desimone, Steve Fadley, Pat Guy, Jerry Gibson. Back row right to left Paul Gelrud, Gary Rue, Mike Hautsenrodder, Hal Cole, Gary Milburn, Art Shepherd, Pat Adams and yours truly looking like I should be skipping breakfast and going to the gym instead.
Also there Wednesday, but not in the photo, was St. Mary’s College men’s basketball Coach Chris Harney. He gave me a couple of their schedules to put on display in Buzzy’s Country Store. He told me that he has the makings of a fun team this year and to plan on bringing some of my Buzzy friends to a game or two as we have done in the past. Told him I would do that and now have it on my Buzzy-to-do list. (Note that they have a home game today at 3:00.)
Back to the Breakfast Club, if you are out and about looking for a quiet place to enjoy an early Wednesday morning breakfast, Showtime Deli may not be the place for you to show up at. On the other hand if you want to bs, laugh, joke, tell lies and hang out with a bunch of old farts, this may indeed be your kinda place.
Speaking of hanging out with good friends, English rocker Jackie Lomax was fortunate to have hung out with George Harrison. George produced several of Jackie’s albums for Apple Records. Listen for the George influence on Jackie’s guitar playing here.