Yes, we are devoted Steeler fans who are supposed to hate the "mistake by the lake". But, we did have a very enjoyable Palm Sunday weekend in Cleveland, celebrating Jonathan's mom's birthday. Happy Birthday Grandma Deni! We actually liked the city so much that we returned a few days later, although that was really just an excuse to shorten our drive to Michigan for Easter. On our Cleveland vacation we visisted the zoo, a great open-air produce market, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We stayed at the beautiful Hyatt at the Cleveland Aracade (shown in the picture). Isn't priceline.com the best invention in the world? At the R & R Hall of Fame we learned quite a bit about Les Paul, creator of both the electric guitar and the eight-track. Interesting, right? However, we actually lived in his hometown for a year (Waukesha, WI) and near there for several more years and never once knew exactly who he was. The only thing we had heard of him was that a few years ago Waukesha was trying to designate his birth place as a historical landmark, but unfortunately realized that they had built a Walgreens where it once stood. So unfortunately they are just left with the Les Paul Parkway, appropriately marked with a guitar symbol.
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Read your post while looking for blog material. Thought I'd just let you know a couple of things: Les Paul was the inventor of multi-track recording which was done on wax disks, not tape. William Lear, of Lear Jet fame, invented the 8-track tape. Besides the Les Paul Parkway, the band shell in Cutler park is named after him and the Waukesha County Historical Society is going to have a permanent exhibit honoring Les.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul ***
http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/8track1.htm ***
http://www.waukeshacountymuseum.org/exhibitsFuture.asp
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