Through another’s eyes…briefly…
Posted By Norm van Maastricht on December 27, 2012
A certain reviewer for the San Francisco Weekly, Casey Burchby, had arrived at the Fox Theater on a Wednesday night to see and write about a certain character making an appearance there.
For those of you who don’t know, there is a night club setting adjunct to the Fox Theater called the Club Fox and it was my habit to go there on Wednesday nights.
When I go to Club Fox, since it is a music venue I go in “full regalia” that being black boots, pants, a black vest, white shirt a very colorful cravat and my legendary black hat with its long tail feather from a Blue and Gold Macaw and a gold filled ebony walking stick.
Some nights I would go there with Kevin Jarvis and some nights I would go alone. On my ‘loner’ nights I liked to take a cab.
Imagine my surprise when the owner of Club Fox told me this Casey Burchby had written about me…
You wonder how you look to others…
Sometimes you find out…
There were no costumes, sadly, amid this Wednesday afterwork crowd. There was, however, a very tall older gentleman who alighted gingerly from the rear of a limousine in front of the theater, sporting a Western-themed mode of dress, a long salt-and-pepper beard, and an oversized black cowboy hat with a two-foot pheasant feather sprouting from its band. Sadly, my technical ineptitude with the camera means that there is no photographic evidence of this cane-wielding Deadwoodian character — but he lives in my memory like a mythic specter of the old West.
This guy pretty much nailed it, Norm!
Hi Norm,
I stumbled on to this website by chance and recognized my friend Norm with the feather in his hat……who had that painting of the red head with the hot short shorts on hanging in Barney Steel’s and everyone used to think it was me….anyway, how are you Norm, long time! I have seen you once in a while walking in downtown Redwood City and I’m always driving, sometimes I honk. I sure miss those days at Barneys. I saw in one of your talks on here you were talking about a guy named Dan, and how he was the doorman at Barney’s, did he pass away? I don’t know if I remember him. I do remember a guy named Dan, he was funny, sometimes he wore a floppy hat…going bald….do you remember him? How about Terri the bartender? I Don’t remember her last name. Well it’s so nice to find you and I hope your doing good and still have that feather….your a sweetguy, I hope this reaches you and I hear back soon. Take care Norm.
Stacy