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| + | 53, "Red Lester" in Waukesha likely refers to Les Paul, born Lester Polsfuss, who used the stage name "Red Hot Red" as a teenager before becoming famous as Les Paul. While known for his later innovations and the iconic Gibson Les Paul guitar, he started his career as a young musician in Waukesha, performing under various early names. As an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor, he was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQH0-ro-GM Les Paul playing "On the Sunny Side of the Street"] | ||
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Revision as of 10:44, 6 October 2025
Learn Oriental Attitude
35, ad on a paper match cover Hicks finds on the sidewalk;
Lester, "Red"
53, "Red Lester" in Waukesha likely refers to Les Paul, born Lester Polsfuss, who used the stage name "Red Hot Red" as a teenager before becoming famous as Les Paul. While known for his later innovations and the iconic Gibson Les Paul guitar, he started his career as a young musician in Waukesha, performing under various early names. As an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor, he was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul. Les Paul playing "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
Little Missus Middle-classiness
22, Pynchon song sung by Hicks, to April
loophound
A "loop-hound" is a dated, vulgar slang term for a person who frequented a specific downtown district, known as the Loop (in this case, Chicago), in search of amusement and cheer. The term implies someone who "hounded" after such entertainment within the crowded and noisy Loop, a reference that is now mostly found in older texts; 101;
Lugosi, Bela (1882-1956)
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known by the stage name Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian–American actor. He was best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the horror film classic Dracula, Ygor in Son of Frankenstein and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956. Wikipedia; "Hungarian oomph," 47;
