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December 01, 2003
Love, Togetherness, Devotion
In 1978, I was a senior in highschool. A lot of things may have been screwy and dysfunctional in black communities during the seventies, but there was one thing I was absolutely proud of. Every time I saw it, it warmed my heart. It was a giant mural on the back of a theatre at Crenshaw and Adams in my old neighborhood. The Togetherness Album by LTD. In the center, a big red heart larger than a man.
Jeffrey Osborne was (and still is) the man. Lots of us lament the loss of songs of love and love lost. But the memory is clear and the meaning is manifest still. If you haven't heard this old R&B, do yourself a favor and recover it.
Posted by mbowen at December 1, 2003 10:02 AM
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Did you go to LA or Dorsey? (I went to LA, graduated in 78; lived on 25th St. and 7th Ave.)
Posted by: Juliette at December 4, 2003 07:10 PM
My spoiled ass went to Loyola. Can't you tell? Two of my brothers went to Dorsey, my youngest brother went ABC to Minnesota and my sister went to Pali.
My senior year, I rode my tenspeed to school - from Crenshaw and Jefferson to Vermont & Venice, so I wasn't *so* spoiled. Before that, I took the bus of course.
Posted by: Cobb at December 4, 2003 10:16 PM
A little. LOL!
The guy who would eventually become my ex-husband, his sister and I rode from roughly my old house to Venice Beach and back. We were hard core.
Posted by: Juliette at December 7, 2003 01:46 PM