THANKS
FOR E-MAILING ME ALL THE PIX!
Especially JOHNNY PAIGE, who is
still living in Florida and just happened by the site, and I hope
will become apart of this growing adventure that was the
T.S.S. ATLAS. There is an
incredible story associated with this vessel and the living
participants are becoming rare. Dick, Johnny, and I,
plus Carol Teruya, Angie Borders,
Val Puig(She's got her own
radio show built on latin jazz in Miami) and some musicians....
Thanks, also, to PETER MOSS, who chose to use the name, Carl
Anthony because of another Peter Moss on the circuit.
Peter's one of the great band leaders from the 70's
who played the Southward, Skyward, and Starward circuit. He's supplied
me with some marvelous pix of the great way things were then. Peter
married one of the Gift Shop Assistants from the Southward, the
former Terrey Atkinson, now Terrey Moss. Peter, from the
UK, was quite the handsome lad. If you sailed on the ATLAS, SUNWARD
II, STARWARD, SOUTHWARD, SKYWARD, THE MONARCH SUN OR STAR,,
during the 70's and remember Dick Carpentier; Dave Barrett; Carol
Teruya; Johnny Paige; Ron Davisson; Peter Moss; Abe Weinstein; Lou
Marsh and Tony Adams; Frank Dorman; Charlie Gibson; Stan Harper;
Angie Borders, Dave Reed; Tommy Fletcher; the strange and wonderful
adventures aboard the ATLAS, the rumors of food fights; weird shows;
incredible parties,etc., and you have pictures, please e mail them
to me as jpg's and I'll add them to the slideshow and give you credit.
If you have a special story or rumor of something that Dick,
Johnny
or I did while drunk, the Statute of Limitations has to have passed
as it's been nearly 30 years ago.
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SNAIL MAIL: Ron
Davisson
18081 SE Country Club Dr.
Apt. 66
Tequesta, FL 33469 Some of these pix
are 30 years old. Thanx to Adobe PhotoshopCS2 and Ulead's
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for newer website/server language help.
was lucky enough to meet
and become fast friends with, in my opinion, the best cruise director in
the universe, Dick Carpentier. along with the extraordinary
people that worked with Dick on cruise lines throughout the world.
People like the wonderful Carol Teruya (Dick's right
hand person. EVERYONE secretly was in love with her), handsome
Johnnie Paige (he remained skinny no matter what he ate-BTW-John
just recently contacted me and sent me some beautiful new photos) and
beautiful , former dancer Angie Borders. Valerie, Joel
Wells, Dave Barrett, Dave Reed, Tommy Fletcher, George Hopkins (I actually thought that George was really Georgie Hopkins, a Jamaican Comedian,
when I first heard him), Jeanette Hopkins, (George's wife),
Frankie Graham, Art Averbook, from American Express.
- Event EXP #1. THE INCREDIBLE PING-PONG MATCH -
In 40 foot
seas off the coast of Gibraltar. It was for the cruise staff championship.
Almost everyone was seasick, including some crew. Furniture that wasn't
anchored entered areas of stationary humans. Rolling pianos and semi-drunk
passengers with slow reflexes make for interesting confrontations. This
is when the PingPong Finals were taking place....The finals were between
The American Express Representative Art Averbook, a fine young man, friendly,
outgoing and athletic. I was the other finalist. We battled for hours in
what had to be the weirdest sports ballet ever witnessed on a cruise ship,
with both of us chasing the ball and the table. This is just one of many
events that are described in ever so much detail in the book.
Back to reality. Abe Weinstein, Lou Marsh and Tony Adams, Jacqui
Jay and Taddy Mowatt, Aussie Bryan Blackwood, Brit John L. Sullivan,
and, oh yeah, the laid back BOSS, Peter Compton, who was a dynamite
singer and piano player, and I just heard recently from former hostess Ginger
Watters, who is now the head of an extremely successful company in the
Miami area and hundreds of very talented people I haven't mentioned, simply
because of my rotten memory, and it doesn't get any better as you grow older.
In point-of-fact the millions of my brain cells that were murdered while
I was on the ships have not returned because I don't drink or smoke
as much.
I had planned
on writing a book about my adventures. As of 2004 there were 497 pages of
snappy prose that could have concluded the project, but.....the holes in
the timeline have got to be filled. I do want to describe, with accuracy,
the good and the bad (I know it's going to be painful), for some of the adventure
I was taking a wild cocktail of 'greenies and rorers and booze', oh my!,
and my recollection may be colored with rapidly-firing synapses, so, I'm
counting on your recollections. (exp; Johnny Paige already corrected
one of my photo assertions - We were in Jamaica, not Martinique')
.By the way, Dick is now the Cruise Director on a Victoria Cruise
Lines Riverboat sailing the Yangtze river from Chongqing to Shanghai,
just like one of the old China Marines. (Dick was a former
Marine, as was I). Dick's having a great time back on the water ,
and we stay in contact, even after 30 years. I still think of
him as a brother, and would like nothing better than to be playing piano
on a Riverboat in China. Check out these great Chinese adventures at the
link below! http://www.victoriacruises.com/new/staff.htm
was lucky enough to meet
and become fast friends with, in my opinion, the best cruise director in
the universe, Dick Carpentier. along with the extraordinary
people that worked with Dick on cruise lines throughout the world.
People like the wonderful Carol Teruya (Dick's right
hand person. EVERYONE secretly was in love with her), handsome
Johnnie Paige (he remained skinny no matter what he ate-BTW-John
just recently contacted me and sent me some beautiful new photos) and
beautiful , former dancer Angie Borders. Valerie, Joel
Wells, Dave Barrett, Dave Reed, Tommy Fletcher, George Hopkins (I actually thought that George was really Georgie Hopkins, a Jamaican Comedian,
when I first heard him), Jeanette Hopkins, (George's wife),
Frankie Graham, Art Averbook, from American Express.
- Event EXP #1. THE INCREDIBLE PING-PONG MATCH -