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A Barbershop History - General Knowledge Quiz - Answers below (if you really need them)
Author: Mark Axelrod, editor of "Blue Chip Chatter." Teaneck, NJ - from P. R. O.B.E.
Questions:
1. The very first meeting of what would become our Society occurred where and when?
2. The first two songs sung at that meeting were?
3. How many men attended that first meeting?
4. When did the second meeting take place? For extra credit, what was the highlight of that meeting?
5. Where and when was the third meeting? For extra credit, how many barbershopers attended that meeting?
Answers:
1. In Tulsa, OK, on the Roof Garden of the Tulsa Club, on April 11,1938.
2. "Down Mobile," and "I Had A Dream."
3. Twenty Six
4. The second meeting occurred on May 2,1938. The highlight was the reunion of a WWI era quartet (unnamed by my source) which was evidently quite good. This helped to keep the momentum going for a third meeting.
5. The third meeting took place on May 31,1938 at the Alvin Hotel in Tulsa. There were 150 men in attendance. In fifty days (in Tulsa, a small city) we went from 26 guys to 150! Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had that kind of a growth curve these days!
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