Griff Williams

Pro copywriter, editor, music reviewer, eventual proprietor of the website about to the greatest American musician you've never heard of: Griff Williams.

[Griff Williams @GriffAMDM]

@UnionStationKC Ho boy, Railway Express! There's a grand old name from the past that's now totally forgotten. But from around the time the Station was built until the 1960s, they were UPS, DHL, and FedEx combined! Makes sense that they'd be very busy in Kansas City.

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@Crutchfield The current car cartridge holds: 3 CDs of Griff Williams & His Society Orchestra (big band), a James Bond music compilation, Viennese operetta waltzes, and a 1980s synth pop mix.... Ya gotta keep it eclectic because you're limited to those 6 CDs when you're driving!🤣

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@Crutchfield Yep, a very well-thought-out design. I have a coupla Pioneer home CD changers that use the same cartridges, so you can swap them between the car and the main home rig. (Radio Shack also sold as part of their "Optimus" line.) There's still life in CDs!

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@LeonardSlatkin That cover's probably 50-60 years old.... and still totally relevant today!

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@UnionStationKC Ha, streetcars! A curiosity that totally disappeared from the streets of American cities by the 1960s. My mom has stories about taking the streetcar in Chicago in the 1940s and '50s. She DID NOT like them!

But the one in this foto looks cool.... or it it the background?

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@UnionStationKC As always, I love these historic photos, which really show off the beauty of the Station AND all the hard work that's been done to restore it. A Kansas City trip this spring is sounding really, really good! {:-)

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@briannalyman2 Erica is, as always, totally adorable! And her response to the gentleman's assessment of the crime wave situation is perfectly spot on. "Oh." Yep, that's what we call "cause and effect."

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@UnionStationKC Yes, there are quite a few historic train stations still around, but as far as I'm concerned, the one in KC is THE Station.😉👍🚉🚉🚂

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@UnionStationKC I'm away from Twitter ("X"?) for long stretches, but when I come back, I always enjoy these historic views of The Station!

A photo archive is a compendium of MANY lifetimes of experience trapped in file drawers. Great that social media lets it to be shared with new generations!

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@LeonardSlatkin Sigh.... Art Dept. run amok! But yes, an interesting program, which has nothing to do with the odd artwork.

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@andrewlitton_ @nycballet I remember a couple of very enjoyable visits to Saratoga in the late 1990s - wonderful setting to enjoy great music AND dance! Wish I could've been there for your performances. (Road trip in 2024?)

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@czusafirearms Common, well-known model: my CZ-75 DA/SA, purchased early in the CZ-USA Era (glad to see you're thriving, guys!).

Slight rarity: my CZ-40, just because not a lot of 'em were made. Looks like a 1911, handles like a CZ.

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@UnionStationKC Same impression I got walking into the old C&NW Station in downtown Chicago as a kid: These train stations really were the *original* indoor shopping malls!

You have to think local residents periodically popped into the Station just to buy something because it was convenient.

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@UnionStationKC @BankofAmerica @kcsymphony Ah, the telecasts of this concert on @IowaPBS were what encouraged me to go down to KC to check out the KCSO in person - and I've been going back ever since.

Won't be at this concert, tho' - Memorial Day weekend with the family, etc.

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@BrucemoreSite John Culshaw (Decca record producer & Wagner expert) said the most devoted Wagner fans tended to be either very young or very old. I started out as the former, and I'm becoming the latter!!😉

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@Crutchfield *Powering a pair of "vintage" (i.e., old) Realistic Minimus-77 speakers. P.S. I do have a lot of newer gear, too - some of it from Crutchfield, of course!

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@Crutchfield It was good stuff for a poor college kid. Nowhere near TOTL tho! The original STA-450* still lives - 40 years old and it still gets daily use in my office at work. I have a pair of Nova-15s but not the originals. And the SCT-29 met its demise in 1988 - my fault, alas.

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@BrownellsInc @AguilaAmmo I kinda feel sorry for the little piñata......

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@BrucemoreSite ..... on a rainbow bridge struck by the junior gods Donner and Froh. Or it depicts something else, and I'm totally wrong!😉 (But there *is* a rainbow bridge here....)

Note to Self: MUST visit Brucemore again, soon.

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@BrucemoreSite Actually, one of the things I love about Brucemore (ONE of them!) is the murals with the scenes from Wagner operas. Right here looks like the entrance of the gods into Valhalla from the end of Das Rheingold.....