{"id":28502,"date":"2020-12-30T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=28502"},"modified":"2020-12-30T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:51:13","slug":"good-vibrations-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/30\/good-vibrations-from-california\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD VIBRATIONS <br>FROM CALIFORNIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>How come<\/strong><\/span> documentaries about California musicians &#8212; Hal Blaine, the Sherman brothers &#8212; have poolside shots, but no outdoor ping-pong shots? The musicians are sunbathing poolside.\u00a0Are they embarrassed to show their ping-pong moves?\u00a0(<em>The Kids Are All Right<\/em>, a comedy-drama set in California, had an outdoor ping-pong table. No musicians, though.)<\/p>\n<p>My father, Toby, had an old friend in Los Angeles, Irv Drooyan, who taught high school, wrote math textbooks and played outdoor ping-pong. Toby kept in touch with Irv and another Kinsman Road old-timer &#8212; Sol of San Diego.\u00a0In the 1950 and 1960s, California was just an extension of Cleveland. My dad\u2019s friends switched their first names to sound more American. Irv was Red.\u00a0Sol was Al.\u00a0Toby was Ted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My introduction<\/strong><\/span> to outdoor ping-pong was on Red Drooyan\u2019s patio in Woodland Hills, California, in 1962. Unforgettable because A) it was outdoors, and B) I didn\u2019t know my dad had any friends.\u00a0In Cleveland my father hung out exclusively with my mom\u2019s friends and their husbands.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to get back. To 1962? Cleveland? California?<\/p>\n<p>To the ping-pong table. Your serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How come documentaries about California musicians &#8212; Hal Blaine, the Sherman brothers &#8212; have poolside shots, but no outdoor ping-pong shots? The musicians are sunbathing poolside.\u00a0Are they embarrassed to show their ping-pong moves?\u00a0(The Kids Are All Right, a comedy-drama set in California, had an outdoor ping-pong table. No musicians, though.) My father, Toby, had an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28509,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions\/28509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}