To the editor: Because of contributing author Susan Straight for the great piece on Artwork Laboe (“He DJ’d radio for 79 years. The late Artwork Laboe’s followers are nonetheless tuning in,” Sept. 28). After I was a younger woman mendacity in mattress at evening, I used to be tuned to the radio each time Laboe was on. He turned me on to so many alternative sorts of music and I nonetheless, at 82, am an enormous music fan and concertgoer. I keep in mind one time, whereas I lived in Westchester and was in most likely the tenth or eleventh grade, my good friend and I talked two of our man buddies into taking us to the El Monte Legion Stadium for one among Laboe’s occasions, and it was and nonetheless is one among my favourite nights. What a present this column was. Rock on!
Mary Ann LaVasseur, Santa Monica
