Last weekend, we were cleaning out my parent's house, as they

have down-sized and moved to an apartment. As I was looking through

things, in a small box of pictures, I found a ticket that my dad saved.

It was from June 25, 1966. It was a ticket for a Louis Armstrong

concert at Cedar Point/Sandusky, Ohio. The ticket cost was $3.00.

On the back of this ticket was a signature. Turns out to be

Cozy Cole's autograph!! Dad met him that night of the concert, and

got the autograph. The Cedar Point ballroom was in the second floor

of the arcade building. It's used for storage, now. Thought this was

a neat piece of drumming/music history that could have been thrown

away. The date of this concert was a day after my 10th birthday.

Dad is 90 years old, started playing drums at a young age. He played

snare for his local high school band while in elementary school. We

have several pictures of him in band as a youth. My grandfather used

to turn/make his drumsticks on a lathe in the garage.