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