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As
the youngest child of John and Mary Sullivan, I was fortunate to have 2 older
brothers and 6 older sisters to look up to.
One of my earliest recollections revolves around my brother
John
(J.C.). JC and his friends had
this device which we labeled the “Record Making Machine.”
This device actually allowed him and his friends to record 78rpm records.
They would come over to our house on E. 116th St. go in
the basement where magic occurred. They
would sing and play their instruments and we would listen and behold we had
records to play and hear them even when they weren’t around. Once “The Band”
set down their instruments and started viciously attacking myself and
slightly older siblings and maybe even a niece or nephew or two. They set upon us without
any warning and TICKLED us viciously and ferociously. As we laughed and laughed.
Till we could laugh no more they were recording us. “The Laughing
Record” became one off the
highlights and greatest memories of my youth.
We constantly asked JC to play it for us and with no further action
needed we laughed uncontrollably while listening to ourselves laughing on the
record. JC and his friends 40 odd
years later still get together once a year or so to play music and sing.
From the bottom of my heart I want to say Thank you for the great
memories to Jerry Toolis, Don Toolis, Ronny Wasi and of course my big brother JC.
Angela Trimm is the youngest daughter of Rita Sullivan Trimm. Angie is known to belt out a few tunes during a kareoke session. Angie prefers to sing songs of the country western variety and can be heard around town as often as she can find a baby sitter for the kids.
Sean and Megan have given countless
people joy over the years with their Irish Step Dancing. They have
performed all over the USA-Canada-England-Scotland and Ireland. 2008 Sr Men's and Ladies Mid American Champions At the 2007 Dublin, Ohio Irish Festival, Sean was captured (on a cell phone) having some Craic at the after party, and this appeared on You Tube.
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