Birks/Birk's/Birks'

[Mark Stryker]

21 hours ago, Al in NYC said:

Mark, nice to hear that Dave is still with us and still doing OK.  Back in the late '40s and early '50s he was in a group of jazz-crazed (and otherwise-crazed) young men that included my father.  But Dave was the one with enough money to put his passion into action, so while my dad was penning record reviews for little neighborhood shopping papers Dave was in a recording studio with Dizzy Gillespie and many other greats.  I later went to high school with his son, and Dave hired on a few of my classmates for part-time work at his company cleaning up ugly messes.  I still have a few of my dad's old DeeGee 78s stuffed in the shelves over at our family place in Ontario, and a photo of my 2 year old self shaking Dizzy's hand at a benefit for one of my father's organizations.

Nice stuff. Thanks for sharing.