Thank you everybody for the kind words. We really enjoy having everybody Its alot of hard work to prepare but the result is worth it. Was great to see OGR members.
FYI- The organist's name is Sy Mendel He and his wife are professional musicians. His wife was the woman selling chances and calendars. She suffered a stroke last year and has been recovering since. Her doctors asked her to think of something that she would work the hardest at to make her recovery bearable. Her answer was to play the violin as she once did. She played for us at one of our meetings and is awesome at it. Maybe next year we can get her to duet with Sy. Sy belongs to the GArden State Organ society. The society recovered the organ from a theater that was being demolished but had nowhere to put it. When I was asked if we had any use for it I told them to bring it down. It worked for other train layouts like Northlandz and Roadside America why not us.
Here are a few pics I snapped with my phone
Alex is a true Brooklynite with the Nathans hat
It was tough getting Bob to smile when he was wearing a Giants hat
People were having such a great time they started throwing chairs around
It was nice meeting a new friend
Erica liked the Canoli's so much I had to give her a triple shot of straight canoli cream
