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i may have mentioned that i can not locate my ticket stubs for the cure.  which is causing me considerable heartache.  so, i am going through boxes searching. 
i found a box today that held a treasure trove of ticket stubs!
i think i have mentioned that i was a big fan of the door's when i was a kid.  they were my first band.  but, when i tell someone that my first concert was for the doors, i am often met with a look of, "sure i believe you saw the doors." when they don't believe me at all.  so i opened a cigar box and found within ticket stubs for some amazing points in my young life.
there it is!  a stub from the doors playing the long beach arena on february 7, 1970.  a little googling will confirm if you still don't believe me.

 i found a ticket stub for a show i can't find any additional info on.  but, what was awesome was that led zepplin played the night before this show and jethro tull the day after!  so who knows who played this show!

this one is for elton john at the hollywood bowl 1973.  this was before tommy and a huge year for him.
daniel, goodbye yellow brick road.  this was an amazing show.  $4.50 for elton john at the hollywood bowl!

now some one off odd shows, three dog night and earth, wind and fire.  i remember steppenwolf and eric burdon and the animals at the three dog night show.  i do remember the performance of house of the rising sun by eric burdon.

now some sports tickets.  i loved the lakers from early on.  the stubs here are when the lakers had jerry west and wilt chamberlin playing for them.  i also remember that one of the games i went to was against the milwaukee bucks and they had just acquired a ucla grad named lew alcindor who we know later became kareem abdul-jabbar!  i saw some great players from those days, pistol pete maravich being one of my favourites!  i am adding one of my most prized give away treasures, the der wienerschnitzel tribute to the longest winning streak. classy!

the scan cut off the some of the names.  if you want to know who they are email me!!

my parents were gamblers.  not anything big and we never lost our possessions or anything but they spent a lot of time at the race track betting on horses and going to las vegas.   i sat in many las vegas casino lobbies watching the interesting people walk through.  the sands, the dunes, the stardust.  i remember them all.  it was a very glamorous time for las vegas.  i knew that drive from long beach to las vegas like the back of my hand!  i could pick a winning horse, daily double and trifecta by the time i was ten.  i knew jockeys and kept a recipe box with horse stats on index cards.  i knew the paddocks at hollywood park, los alamitos and santa anita.  i could read track conditions and won more than a few dollars for my parents!  i also loved the roller derby.  the los angeles t-birds played the long beach arena usually on friday's.  i always pulled for the opposing team.  never the t-birds.  i felt sorry for them.  no hometown fans there to pull for them.  only boos from the t-bird fans.  my little contribution to the sport!!

check out the prices for these laker games!

and some roller derby stubs...

now if only i could find my bob marley ticket stubs, i have the terrible photos i took though..
and the search continues for the cure...