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The reason for the image is The Rellim Hotel (what is Miller spelled backwards?), built by my grandparents Jack & Harriet Miller) wass on St. Pete Beach (Pass-a-Grille). It is the most endearing image I could think of. The history of the Hotel & my relationship with my family who would all come each year for a family reunion at Christmas time, is below under Miller Family Reunions. The hotel had been sold, but we still have the Miller Family Reunion each yr. for MFR'23 there were about 80 people - cousins (11 & Aunt Marilyn, the only surviving parent - 93!) & their families. All the info is further down. Scroll down to find what might interest you. My idea for the creation of The Country of Palestine is important as well as my idea for ending homelessness & the shelter system - Community Living Centers

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1 - If you want to maintain our democracy & not live in a dictatorship than you MUST vote for Biden & Must vote for a Democratic House. Presenters will be organized (famous stars like you & me) & "Neighborhood Presenters" will go door to door to talk about the election & to leaave a brochure.

2 - Community of "The Cult of Trump"

3 - Idea for the Creation of the Country of New Palestine (not to be confused with Palestine). When Golda Meir immigrated to Israel, she said she got a Palestinian passport. Jews & Arabs were Palestinians. Before the creation of the country of Israel, Jews used to say at a Holiday meal "Next year in Palestine". Arafat started a campaign to confuse people - & he did! My letter to Prince Harry & Megan Markel to "spearhead my idea is below. I propose that New Palestine (& The West Bank) will become a member of The Commonwealth. The Commonwealth will govern New Palestine so there is no chance that if a leader comes in, or one that takes over the government (like Hamas), that wants to invade Israel, kill all the Jews & destroy Israel. The Commonwealth will be an effective & safe governing body. New Palestine will be rebuilt as a Community Living Center (see #4) to allow the Palestinians to become functioning members of the new Palestine. Palestine can also be built as a tourist destination with its beautiful beaches on The Mediterranean Sea! Scroll down to #4 to read the letter.

4 - Dominique Polles & the Sculpture Nathanael

5 - Community Living Centers - A practical "no cost solution" to homelessness, the shelter system, an alternative to poverty & a secure place for wayward youths +++.

6 - DonaldWeissPhotos.com (under construction). My 1st series is 20 iages call Las Vegas Abstract Expressions.

7 - Ideas for NYC including:

Community Living Centers - A practical "solution" to homelessness, the

shelter system & an alternative to housing the poor - see below

Fix NYCHA (NYC Housing Authority)

Clean up NYC Garbage

Define NYC Neighborhoods

Why Zoning? - Allow all office buildings to have up to 50% of the space to

be rented or sold as residential - good 4 all!

Twice a Month Opposite Side of the Street Parking

Improve Times Square - "Kick out" Minnie, Mickey & all them guys

& replace them with actors in costumes from B'way shows to perform &

sell TKTS & advance tickets with hand held devices

Classic Broadway Hits as a show

Paint Street Lines with Reflective Paint

Dress Up NYC buildings (in a tux!)

8 - St Pete Ideas & Art Additions - MassMOCA-StPete - The world's greatest venue for contemporary art & "culture" should have an "annex" in St. Pete, Fla. To move their massive installations to buildings (or floors in multi floor buildings) the same size & configertion that exist at MassMOCA. Moving The Judy Garland Museum to St. Pete to give her the exosure she deserves. Youtube MassMOCA in 2 miniuts & check it out on Google. Judy would get more attention In St. Pete than in Grand Rapids, Minn

9 - Have You Heard of Judy Garland? (From a convicted Judy Garland

addict - no to worry, I start rehab soon) - have fun! Begin by youtubing Judy Garland Playlist Get Happy - 80 songs & videos & Battle Hymn of The Republic. She was very friendly with John Kennedy. He came to her Grand Opening at the Palace Theater on Times Sq that was renovated for her. He "fell in love" with her & would call her once a week to say hello & ask her to sing part of Over Rainbow. She could call him when ever she wanted, even when he was President - he always took her call. She spent a month with her 3 children at the Kennedy compound one summer 7 was in The White House many times. She had The Judy Garland Show on CBS in '63 & '64. Her original contract was for 4 yrs @ $24 million - The highest amount pd an entertainer on TV through today. She was only on for 1 yr because she was in the same time slot as Bonanza. It was the most popular show on TV & was in color. Pople were buying their 1st color TV in the early 60's. She wanted to sing Battle Hymn of he Republic in his honor but CBS said No - it would be too controvertial. So she conspired with er orchestra leader to sing it at the end of a show & did not put it on the playlist given to CBS execs. I read that before she sang it she said "This is for you Jack". Get out a handkerchief!

Youtube

Judy Garland Playlist Get Happy - choose the 89 videos - many other Judy Garland playlist & mixes

Judy Garland - Battle Hymn of the Republic

Judy Garland - Old Man River - She said"No woman has ever sung Old Man River - I'm gong to sing it!" After you listen to her just youtube Old Man River & choose any other singer - She is a 15 out 10 - all the other a are a 6 or 7 - That is the brilliance of Judy Garland

Judy Garland Songs For Kids (Adults & Dogs 2 -Toto had his own agent!):

Mr & Mrs Clown

Be a Clown

Ten pins in The Sky

Do the La Conga + Many more below in the Section about her

10 - Dots on Lots - Lots of dots on lots of lots (or numbers). No more "Where the F is my car?"

11 - Everyone Should Celebrate Passover - It was Jesus' favorite holiday - He loved to hide the afikomen. It is the most festive, meaningful, joyful Holiday dinner. It way better than an Easter ham. Passover is The Last Supper so non Jews can tell the story form the Bible & recant parables & teachings of Jesus. Let everyone enjoy his important, joyous experience.

12 - When I Die Make Me Into a Tree or a vine (bogenvilla is lovely) - Or just send me to Ibiza for some R & R

13 - A Better Apple (Corp.) - Great, but many things could be corrected.

Siri's a lovely girl, but that poor child is learning disabled + more

14 - Requirements to speak English - Radical!

15 - St. Pete, Fla. - Visit there, winter there, live there. Maybe the most

exciting & interesting newly gentrifying city in the world (according

to Judy Garland - & me)

16 - Miller Family Reunions & The Rellim Hotel (what is Miller spelled backwards?). 64 years of family reunions - now about 80 people show up in St. Pete during the Christmas Holiday.

17 - The Precepts of Kabbalah - The ancient wisdom of Kabbalah was begun by Jacob (the original one, not Jacob Miller, my grandfather) who taught the wisdom, until The Kabbalah Centers began, from 1 religious, 40 yr or older Jew, to another. There are now 100's of Kabbalah Centers all over the world & there are many apps & there is much on line info. The basic principal is we live in the 1% & spirituality is the 99%. Spirituality is the spirits of OUR own ancestors. Mine care about me, & don't know you. Yours care about you. Read Many Lives Many Masters. It is the story of a Psychiatrist who used hypnosis as part of his practice. He had a woman who not only recanted previous lives but told of tie in between lives where there were "Spirit Masters" who taught the many poor, misguided, confused souls they had to deal with. Mr Oy Vey ha a comment on this one!

18 - Spirituality

19 - Enjoy Unitarian Universalism (UU) - I belong to uucsr.org. The history of UU is very interesting & includes Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emmerson & Henry David Throeau. Step right up & learn all about it, folks

20 - Playing bridge, eZeBridge & the app Funbridge. Bridge is the most amazing card game ever!

21 - Require PIN #'s for credit cards so if the card is lost or stolen the liklyhood that it can be used is very slim.

22 - "American Houses for American Familes". Congress should pass a law that an individual, corp, or any entitity can not buy mor. thn 3 houses for investment with a sufficient penalty large enough that all will comply with the law. Corporations have been buying houses for investment as they g up in value more than the stock market. This effects the supply of housig & real estate prices are supply & demand & since this has significantly reduced supply & demand is strong, prices have gone up & many can not afford a house.

23. Paint lines on streets in reflective white & yellow so you can see your lanes at night!

Balance - "Under Construction" - Union labor, only

Who Will Help Move This Plan Forward

I Never Got a Call From King Charles! - This section is "Under Construction"

I was ver aggressive in getting my idea out there. Things were much different even 1 year ago, about when I had my Spiritual Intervention with the idea. At first, I thought it best to gt Harry & Magan to move it forward. Whoops - things are way too complicated for them. My idea is that what I cafl "New Palestine" would be part of Th Commonwealth. This would assure no future aberrant leader take over & decide to kill all th Jews. England has

a "storied" history with Israel. And my idea engaged King Charles to be instrumental in the archecture & "city plan" for what will be known as New Palestine.

The term Palestine is misunderstood. When Golda Meir immigrated, she said she got a Palestinian passport. Jews were Palestinians, Arabs were Palestinians. Jews at holiday meals used to say "Next year in Palestine". It was the name of the land before independence in 1948 when the UN decided to call it Israel, as that is how it was referred to in the Bible. Jews do have some history in the Land of Israel!

Here is a "history" of the coming & going of Jews in the land.

"Coming"

Arafat decided to confuse everyone to thinking that this group of Arabs, called Palestinians now, were indigious to the land - WRONG. But thier situation has become a rally point. And they DO deserve a state. The new "idea" to "ship" the Palestinians somewhr & reddvopmnt th land for Jewish expansion. Donald Trump, and Jarred, got excitd about this. Ntanyahu still want to save his ass from jail! The right wing in Israel have a lot of power.

Israel's response to the October attack is wrong & immoral. It can be corrected, even now by inplemeting my idea. Israel has always taken pride in its humanitarian posture. This blows that away!

I got the letter to King Charles out to about 75 people, everyone one from Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama, King Charles & Prince William. No response from anyone - I thought people would be jumping up & down in excitement.

My idea is below & can easily be implemented to allow for a rebuilt New Palestine with Community Living Centers for work, learning or care.

My idea for the West Bank is unique also.

How To Get Some Attention for Israel Palestinian Peace

My Idea For Israeli Palestinian Peace Make Sense!

I decided it would be best if "New Palestine" was part of The Commonwealth as his would insure no aberrant leader took over & decided to destroy Iarael! So going to King Charles seemed to be the way to go. Never heard from him. England DOES have a history with Israel & the land.

I’m a bit miffed. I was so excited about my idea. I thought that everyone would just jump up and down with joy and say we found a solution to all the problems in Gaza and with the Palestinians and creating a state and what to do with the West Bank and how to make sure that Hamas is eliminated.

I sent out about 75 letters that were addressed to King Charles and Prince William to many world leaders and included a nice multi the one that’s in the section below. I got zero response.

It seems Netanyahu is only interested in taking back all the land of Gaza for Israel & will try to have the Palestinains move somewhere. Maybe LA! Stupid. I know he is under a lot of pressure from the religious right, but, hey, the Palestinians have been in "the neighborhood" for a while. Of course, the term "Palestinin" is a bit of a misnomer. The land was callefd Palestine before it beame known as Israel when Israel became a State. Gola Meir said "When I immigrated, I got a Palestinian passport - Jews were Palestinians as well as Arabs". Jew used to say at Holiday meals "Next year in Palestine!" Arafat confused everyone. There were approximately 140,000 Arabs in Gaza in 1940. Today there are 2 million +. The Israelis & Arabs had a peaceful co existence & Israel thouhgt it was doing good haveing 30,000 Israelis leave Gaza to give it to the Arabs. HAMAS was not elected, but took over the government & only taught the children "Kill a Jew - Kill a Jew!"

Egypt has not been too kindly to the Palestinians in Gaza. They erected walls to keep them out of Egypt! Trump looks at Gaza as real estate and has forgotten that there was a Palestine in population that had lived there and has been desirous of a homeland. I think they deserve one and my idea gives them one with the creation of new Palestine.

My idea s still possible & would allow Israel to take the moral high road!

I listen on the news two people questioning how to eliminate Hamas what to do about the Palestinians and what to do about the West Bank. Well, don’t you know my Idea sells all those problems but who knows if anyone will grab a hold of it and move with it I certainly hope so.

I have also sent out a lot of emails and will continue in addition to making phone calls to particularly Senator Schumer, Senator Sanders and Senator Shiff. They are all Jewish and certainly have a strong interest in creating a solution.

Jared Kushner is already talking about building a hotel in Gaza! My idea includes the eventual building of Hotels. I also sent the letter and the idea to Jared, but he hasn’t called yet.

My Idea For a Real & Lasting Israeli Palestinian Peace

New Palestine Will Become Part of The Commonwealth Hence the Letter

To: King Charles & Prince William: (This letter was sent out to many "important" people addressed to King Charles is my idea is that "New Palestine" would be part of The Commonwealth. This wold prevent any aberrant leader coming in to destroy Israel! England has a storied history with the formation of The State of Israel as well as he entire Middle East. No rseponse yet - I was hoping I would get a call from the King - did not all yet!. Like Judy Garland, I'll sit next to the phone.)

My idea would:

1 - Eliminate HAMAS.

2 - Create a “home” for the Palestinians I call New Palestine

3 - Solve the problem of the Palestinians & Jews in The West Bank creating states, or provinces, of New Palestine in what is now The West Bank

4 - Renaming the balance of The West Bank Judea Samaria as a new country with Jews having duel citizenship with Israel & Arabs, if they wish, with New Palestine.

5 - New Palestine would become part of The Commonwealth (thus my letter to King Charles & Prince William). This would assure no leader comes in who “decides” to kill all Jews & destroy Israel.

6 - New Palestine would be razed & rebuilt in my Community Living Center concept. This would make all Palestinians functioning humans.

Both of you can be the “force” behind Israeli Palestinian peace, eliminating HAMAS, with creating what I call “New Palestine” being part of The Commonwealth.

Peace & a functioning Palestinian population, using my Community Living Center (CLC) concept, could be a reality very soon. My idea is outlined below. I believe, it is the ONLY solution & accomplishes all the goals of both populations & will eliminate HAMAS. England has had the most important history regarding Israel & this area of The Middle East.

King Charles: You did a beautiful job helping to create Poundbury. Working with Palestine architects & planners, you can also help create & design New Palestine.

I call it New Palestine so there is no confusion with Palestine. Before Israel became a country, the Jewish homeland WAS Palestine! Golda Meir said when she immigrated she got a Palestinian passport. Jews were Palestinians & Arabs were Palestinians.

1 - Egypt will give land to the south of Gaza, about 2 sq miles to build a tent city. After building New Palestine, this land would become a high end luxury Egyptian resort. It would be the place where the Palestinians would be moved to a new tent city with water & many common bathrooms with showers & tubs. They would remain there until what was Gaza is rebuilt (plan below).

2 - All of Gaza will be razed except the hospital. Israel will update the hospital, as needed. After all buildings are razed the tunnels will be flooded to “abolish” Hamas. After floodimg, tunnels would be filled in. Israel has a long history in caring for Arabs in hospitals, clinics, etc.

3 - With the flooding of the tunnels, Hamas members will either drown or be captured for a trial (& jail ?). The old Gaza will be cleared & rebuilt by the world in my Community Living (CLC) concept to create a functioning New Palestine population.

4 - The buildings would be a mix from high rises to tiny houses. Larger units would be built for those who want to live in New Palestine to participate in the CLC. There would be four types of CLCs:

a - A Working CLC where people would work in a profit oriented business & live there. CLC’s would have common dining rooms, as well as private kitchens in each unit. There would be shared cooking, cleaning, etc.

b - A Learning CLC where people go to get a degree &/or a Certificates of Excellence in some speciality. They will then be able to get a job anywhere in the world.

c - A Caring For CLCs for people who didn’t fit into a or b.

d - A Retirement CLCs for old farts like me.

At the beginning, there would also be an intake CLC to derermine which CLC each individual would go to. CLCs will allow the population of New Palestine to become fully functioning.

5 - Areas in the West Bank that are occupied by Arabs would become States or Provinces of New Palestine. Negotiators can settle the boundries. These areas are not physically connected to the main land mass of New Palestine (like Alaska & Hawaii being part of America) but would be part of the country of New Palestine. The balance of The West Bank would be a new “legal entity”, or country, Judea & Samaria. It would not be part Israel. There are abour 700,000 Jews living in what is now The West Bank. Judea & Samaria would also become part of The Commonwealth.

I think you’ll agree this the ONLY idea that will work. Both of you can make peace & New Palestine a reality.

Most do not understand the history of Jews, Israel, the Palestinians, the West Bank & Gaza. There is lots of misinformation out there! When Golda Meir immigrated to what was then Palestine, she said “I got a Palestine Passport - Jews were Palestinians and Arabs were Palestinians.” At Jewish holiday meals, before 1948, it was common to say “Next year in Palestine”! That was the name of the newly hoped for homeland. The UN called it Israel as that is how the land is referred to in the Bible. Arafat confused everyone to think The Palestinians were indigenous to the land. Sorry - the history is Jews were the 1st to settle, & live, in Judea & Samaria - what is now Israel & The West Bank. Arafat was offered 90% of what he wanted at the Camp David Accords with President Clinton and Begin. This is before Jews has settled in the West Bank. He refused! Why? Because, I read, he took about 50% of the money that came into the PLO and put it in his private Swiss bank account. He had a wife who lived in Paris - she liked nice clothing & nice jewelry. There was no way he was giving up his cash flow for something as unimportant to him as peace!

Would you nominate me for a Nobel Prize (I could use the $!) & I’ll nominate you!

Long live The King!

Warm regards,

donald weiss

January 8, 2025 917 923-2441 dweiss5348@aol.com

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Idea for The Creation of The Country of New Palestine

Here Goes!

New Palestine - Creating the Country

This is a duplicate of the letter above, but a older version

To: King Charles III: (The letter is addressed to King Charles, but sent to many "important" people, with the thought that "New Palestine" would be part of The Commonwealth go make sure no leader comes in who decides to dessroy Israel. And England has a powerful history with the creation of The State of Israel & in The Middle East)

My Idea is for the Creation of the Country of New Palestine to be governed by, or overseen by, The Commonwealth. This will assure no leader, or someone who overtakes the government, decides they want to kill all the Jews and destroy Israel. It will assure a lasting peace between Israel & The Palestinians. After

Would you, could you “assist”?

I call it New Palestine so there is no confusion with Palestine. When Golda Meir immigrated to what was then Palestine, she said that she got a Palestine Passport - “Jews were Palestinians and Arabs were Palestinians.”

1 - Egypt will give land to the south of Gaza, about 2 sq miles. If Egypt is not interested, Israel can use Israeli land East of Gaza. This land would be the place where the Palestinians would be moved to a new tent city with water & many common bathrooms with showers & tubs. They would remain there until what was Gaza is rebuilt (plan below).

2 - A major hospital will be built in Israel East of Gaza with Palestinian doctors & nurses. This is to make sure no Palestinians are in Gaza (New Palestine) when all buildings are razed & tunnels are flooded to “abolish” Hamas. After floodimg, tunnels would be filled in. [Israel has a long history in caring for Arabs in hospitals, clinics, etc. Israel is only country in the world where Arabs have full human rights. 20% of Israel’s citizens are Arab - Arabs sit in The Knesset & there is an Arab Supreme Court Judge].

3 - With the flooding of the tunnels, Hamas members will either drown or be captured for a trial (& jail ?). The old Gaza will be cleared & rebuilt by the world.

4 - The rebuilding will be in the form of Community Living Centers (CLCs). There would be four types of CLCs:

b - A Learning CLC where people go to get a high school degree, Jr College or Bachelors’ degree & Certificates of Excellence in some speciality (from plumbing to computer tech).

c - Caring For CLCs for people who didn’t fit into a or b.

d - Retirement CLCs for old farts like me

There would also be in intake CLC to d derermine which CLC each individual would go to. CLCs will allow the population of New Palestine to become functioning

My idea was originally for dealing with homelessness and the shelter system in America, but it would function very well in New Palestine. CLCs would be a mix of high rises, mid rises & tiny homes. Larger homes & apartments would be built & sold, or rented, to those who want to participate in the CLC concept or just want to live in New Palestine.

5 - The new land “donated” by Egypt could later (after New Palestinians are moved out) be built as a high end resort area.

6 - Areas in the West Bank that are occupied by Arabs would become States or Provinces of New Palestine. See the map on my website

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These areas are not physically connected to the main land mass of New Palestine but would be part of the country of New Palestine. The West Bank would be a new legal entity - The West Bank. It would not be part of the land mass of Israel. The Jews living there (there are now about 700,000) would get whatever benefits Israel decides they should get (probably full benefits including voting ?) &, I presume, the obligation to serve in the Army. Both New Palestine and the West Bank would become part of, & governed by, The Commonwealth. Becoming part of the Commonwealth is the best solution to assure a lasting peace. Great Britan has a long history with this part of the world & with the creation of Israel.

I think you’ll agree this the ONLY idea that will work.

Long live The King!

Warm regards, donald weiss

July 4, 2024 917 923-2441 dweiss5348@aol.com.

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To: Prince Harry & Megan 51824 (Originaly sent to them thinking they woud be the "best" choice to move this forward, but then realized their "situation" was too complicated & decided to go to King Charles - he never called me! Busy with Camilla, I guess - all all that pagentry - Trooping of The Colour & then 2 days later The Order of The Garter - busy, busy!

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You both can be instrumental in creating the country that I call New Palestine (no confusion with Palestine).

My idea is that New Palestine would be governed by The Commonwealth - no chance of a leader or despot wanting to invade Israel & kill all the Jews!

Maybe this will help you reconnect with your family in a meaningful way. Please take the time to read it & respond. TY

1 - Egypt will give land to the south of Gaza, about 2 sq miles. This land would be the place where the Palestinians would be moved to a new tent city with water & many common bathrooms w showers. A large hospital would be built by Israel just to the East of Southern Gaza with primarily Palestinian doctors, nurses & staff. The Palestinians would remain there until what was Gaza is rebuilt (plan below).

2 - Once all are relocated, tunnels will be flushed with water. Hamas members will either drown or be captured for a trial (&jail ?). The old Gaza will be cleared & rebuilt by the world.

The rebuilding will be in the form of Community Living Centers (CLCs). My idea was originally for dealing with homelessness and the shelter system in America, but it would function very well in New Palestine. CLCs would be a mix of high rises, mid rises & tiny homes. Larger homes & apts would be built & sold, or rented, to those who want to participate in the New Palestine CLC or just want to live in New Palestine. The new land “donated” by Egypt could then be built as a high end resort area with uxury hotels & condos.

There would be four types of CLCs -

a - A Working CLC where people would work in a profit oriented business

b - A Learning CLC where people go to get a high school degree, Jr College or Bachelors’ degree. In addition Certificates of Excellence in some speciality (from plumbing to computer tech).

c - Caring For CLCs for people who didn’t fit into a or b.

d - Retirement CLCs for old farts like me

CLCs will allow the population of New Palestine to become functioning.

Areas in the West Bank that are occupied by Arabs would become States or Provinces of New Palestine. See the map below

http://DonaldWeissIdeasForChange.com

These areas are not physically connected to the main land mass of New Palestine but would be part of the country of New Palestine. The West Bank would be a new legal entity - The West Bank. It would not be part of the land mass of Israel. The Jews living there (there are now about 700,000) would get whatever benefits Israel decides they should get (probably full benefits including voting ?) & the obligation, as is now the case, to serve in the Army. Both New Palestine and the West Bank would become part of, & governed by, The Commonwealth.

This would assure that there is no chance that the new leader, or despot of New Palestine, like Hamas did, decides they want to kill all the Jews and bomb and destroy Israel. Becoming part of the Commonwealth is the best solution. Great Brittan has a long historty with the creation of Israel.

I’m contacting you because both of you are the logical humans to be able to create New Palestine. I think you’ll agree this the ONLY idea that will work. And I think it might put you in a better place with your family (Harry).

I tell people how wonderful you both are. I read Harry’s book, Spare, and now understand the complicated life that you have had, & still have with "The Royal Family" & how both you made the right decision. I have great respect for both of you and I tell people how responsible and involved in issues of consequence you both are and how you met someplace in Africa doing something - I forgot!

You both you are wonderful human beings (with knock out kids, and deserve peace, happiness & enough money to pay your $5 million/yr cost for security (+ quarter pounders & mocha frappe for the kids). If for some reason you are not interested, I will approach Netanyahu. Let me know

Warm regards, don weiss 917 923-2441. dweiss5348@aol.com.

I’ll leave with the wise words of Woody Allen: "Live every day of your life like it’s the last and one day you’ll be right", and a Snoopy Philosophy I got on Facebook (I have the postcard of The Rellim Hotel as my image if you want to follow me!) - Life is like riding a bike. You must keep moving otherwise you lose your balance.

I hope to hear from you and I hope we can move forward and enjoy the pleasure of knowing that we were responsible for creating the country of New Palestine.

Old Text:

Well, well! Since I posted this over 1 yr ago, starting with "The history of the Jews & Arabs in Israel" below, much has changed! I "forgot" Hamas was "in charge" in Gaza & they have the destruction on Israel in their charter. They teach young kids to carry a pastic machine gun and chant "I want to kill a Jew!" Not a great partner for peace. There is much talk about the need for a "two state solution", but what land is being planned for the Palestinians? They are not a desirable commodity - Egypt & Jordan are not interested in helping them. The history of Israel offering a state for the Palestinians in The West Bank is history. Arafat did not want to give up the large cash flow to the PLA which he took a good share fore himself. Then the Jews decided they wanted to live in Judea/Samaria, the ancestorial homeland of the Jews. Beautiful country & cheap housing could be be created there. Now there ae almost 700,000 living there! Just gt thm all to leave? I think not. So there are 3 problems: 1 - Who is th partner for peace; 2 - Who will be their leader & 3 - What land will become Palestine. I cannot answer the first 2, but maybe my idea, below, could be a foundation for what land will be in The Country of Palestine.

The history of the Jews and Arabs in Israel and the West Bank is complicated. The country of Israel has a population of approximately 9 million of which approximately 2 million are Arabs with a good majority of them being citizens of Israel. There is a Arab Supreme Court Judge & Arabs who are in other government positions, including the Knesset. They live a comfortable life as Israeli citizens. A recent post stated that Israel has about 400 mosques in Israel, 73 in Jerusalem. This is an 8 fold increase since 1988. Walls had been built surrounding some West bank Arab towns because people from those communities went out killing Jews in settlements. The killings dropped dramatically after thecwalls were built. Arab citizens of Israel are not required to serve in the Army unlike Jewish Israelis. About 1,000 Arabs enlisted themselves in the Israeli army.

Over the years, there have been many attempts by Israel to create a Palestinian State. This includes in 2000 an offer from Ehud Barak, then Israel’s Prime Minister, to Arafat at a Camp David. The meeting was with Pres. Bill Clinton. Arafat was offered approximately 90% of what he asked for.

This was before the influx of Israelis into settlements in the West Bank. Arafat rejected this offer because being the leader of the PLO was a cash cow for him. Tens of millions of dollars every year went to his private Swiss bank accounts and to help support his wife living comfortably in Paris.

In 1967, Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the Six-Day War when Israel was attacked by all the surrounding Arab countries. Over in 6 days! Israelis started building settlements and towns in the West Bank as they felt this was their historical homeland. There is now a huge Jewish population in the West Bank, and territorial divisions are complicated.

My idea for a Country of Palestine is as follows:

To: Prince Harry & Megan 51824 (I originally thought they would be the perfect ones to work on this

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You both can be instrumental in creating the country that I call New Palestine (no confusion with Palestine).

My idea is that New Palestine & New Palestinian would be governed by The Commonwealth - no chance of a leader or despot wanting to invade Israel & kill all the Jews!

Maybe this will help you reconnect with your family in a meaningful way. Please take the time to read it & respond. TY

1 - Egypt will give land to the south of Gaza, about 2 sq miles. This land would be the place where the Palestinians would be moved to new tent cities with water & many common bathrooms w showers. They would remain there until what was Gaza is rebuilt (plan below). 2 - Once all are relocated, tunnels will be flushed with water. Hamas members will either drown or be captured for a trial (&jail!). The old Gaza will be cleared & rebuilt by the world.

The rebuilding will be in the form of Community Living Centers (CLCs). My idea was originally for dealing with homelessness and the shelter system in America, but it would function very well in New Palestine. CLCs would be a mix of high rises, mid rises & tiny homes. Larger homes & apts would be built & sold to those who want to participate in the CLCs or just want to live in New Palestine. The new land “donated” by Egypt could then be built as a high end resort area (with gambling ?).

There would be four types of CLCs -

a - A Working CLC where people would work in a profit oriented business

b - A Learning CLC where people go to get a high school degree, Jr College or Bachelors’ degree. In addition Certificates of Excellence in some speciality (from plumbing to computer tech).

c - Caring For CLCs for people who didn’t fit into a or b.

d - Retirement CLCs for old farts like me

CLCs will allow the population of New Palestine to become functioning.

Areas in the West Bank that are occupied by Arabs would become States or Provinces of New Palestine. See the map on my website

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These areas are not physically connected to the main land mass of New Palestine but would be part of the country of New Palestine. The West Bank would be a new legal entity - The West Bank. It would not be part of the land mass of Israel. The Jews living there (there are now about 700,000) would get whatever benefits Israel decides they should get (probably full benefits including voting ?) & the obligation to serve in the Army. Both New Palestine and the West Bank would become part of, & governed by, The Commonwealth.

I tell people how wonderful you both are. I read Harry’s book and now I understand the complicated life that he has had, & still has with The Royal Family & how both you made the right decision. I think if both of you want to move forward with this idea, it might help with your connection with the Royal Family and how you are treated by them. I have great respect for both of you and I tell people how responsible and involved in issues of consequence you both are and how you met someplace in Africa doing something - I forgot! You both you are wonderful human beings and deserve peace and happiness & enough money to pay your $5 million year cost for security (plus quarter pounders & mocha frappe for the kids). If for some reason you are not interested, I will approach Netanyahu.

Warm regards, don weiss 917 923-2441. dweiss5348@aol.com.

I’ll leave with the wise words of Woody Allen: Live every day of your life like it’s the last and one day you’ll be right, and a Philosophy I got from Snoopy Philosophy on Facebook (I have the postcard of The Rellim Hotel as my image) - Life is like riding a bike. You must continue moving otherwise you lose your balance.

I hope to hear from you and I hope we can move forward and enjoy the pleasure of knowing that we were responsible for creating the country of New Palestine.

"Israel is an Apartheid State" (NOT!)

Maybe Not - It's Complicted!

The History of Life in “The West Bank” is Complicated (as are many things in life!)

422 Million Arabs Live in The Middle East. Only 1.6 million of them have complete political & religious freedom, gender equality, freedom of speech & freedom of the press - All of those 1.6 million live here? Israel!

Israel has a population of 8.84 million with 1.9. million arabs, most citizens of Israel with all the rights & benefits of being Israeli citizens. The Knesset, the governing body in Israel has 120 “members” - 17 or 14% of the are Arabs.

The are now 400+ mosques in Israel, 73 in Jerusalem. The number of mosques in Israel has increased 5 fold since 1988 when there were just 80. 300 Imams receive monetary grants from the Israeli government.

But, life IS complicated in The West Bank & so is the history. The West Bank was “won” from Jordan in the 6 day war. All the Arab countries surrounding Israel started the war against Israel on June 5, 1967. In 6 days, Israel defeated all the aggressors & this was part of the peace agreement. The Arabs lost 20,000 soldiers, Israel lost !,000. It was after the 6 day war that Jews started developing settlements in The West Bank. It is the ancestral homeland for the Jews, is beautiful & housing was cheap! East Jerusalem became a hub of activity because the commute to Jerusalem was short & a 2BR in Jerusalem might be about $500,000 + where as a 2 BR in, say Gilo, might be $200,000. Good reason to make that choice. The settlement activity grew as Jews found this to offer many things they wanted - cheap housing, living in the original homeland (Tel Aviv did not exist in ancient times), beautiful topography +++.

A barrier between Abu Dis and East Jerusalem was constructed in June 2004. The barrier was built by Israel following a wave of Palestinian political violence and incidents of terrorism inside Israel during the Second Intifada, which began in September 2000 and ended in February 2005. The Israeli government cites a decreased number of suicide bombings carried out from the West Bank as evidence of its efficacy, after such attacks fell from 73 between 2000 and July 2003 (the completion of the first continuous segment) to 12 between August 2003 and the end of 2006.

Israeli checkpoints are barriers erected as intended to enhance security of Israel and Israeli settlements.

There are over 700 road obstacles to control Palestinian movement within the West Bank. This is not to punish the Palestinians but to prevent killings! It has mostly worked.

Community Living Centers - CLC's

A Workable Solution to Homelessness,The Shelter System & an Alternative for the Poor

My idea s a practical solution to begin to end homelessness & the shelter system. CLC's could also provide an alternative to wayward "youth" My “vision” is to begin with the approx 30,000 homeless Vets. I call the plan Community Living Centers (CLCs). Units will be in a wide range of structures. Anything from a high rise to tiny homes.

My idea is to build CLCs on vacant, inexpensive, land or in cities that need revitalization or just want a CLC in their city. My plan involves construction of CLCs as condominiums (not for the CLC's in New Gaza). Units will be purchased by CLC sponsors. This could include a wide range. Maybe 1 or 2 “Oprah Winfrey CLC), by Corporations, the wealthy - individual units or as a full CLC Sponsor. Even with 1 sponsor, the CLC will still be built as condo units so the sponsor can decide what they want to do. Governments may be sponsors too. Units would be bought with a down payment with the balance at closing. They are condos, so a mortgage can be taken out. This will help pay for the construction.

Medical systems where the CLC is being built will be involved to set up all the medical needs. The “member” will live there and then the sponsor may eventually sell it or even give it to the previously homeless.

I propose each CLC will have 300 - 500 “members” (that means about 100 CLC's just for homeless viets!) & units would be built for homeless, families & “outsiders” who want to live in a CLC.

CLCs would be built as high rises, mid rise, 2 story &/or tiny homes (Elon Musk shows tiny homes for $15,000). Larger units & homes would be built for those described above. There would be a common dining room where members would share cooking, cleaning, maintenance, etc. Each unit would have its own kitchen also.

There would be 4 types of CLCs:

1 - A Working CLC where members would work in a profit oriented business.

Members would receive a weekly stipend but their housing & food is taken care of by the CLC.

2 - Learning CLCs where members would get a degree or a Certificate of Excellence in a specialized field . This should allow them to get a job anywhere in the world.

3 - A Caring For CLC if the member did not fit into 1 or 2

4 - A Retirement CLC for old farts like me

5 - An Intake CLC (only at the beginning of that CLC) to determine where that new “member” should go.

I lived in Israel (’84 - ’87) & spent much time on the kibbutz where my wife’s cousins lived - Kibbutz Bachan. I have fond memories of how wonderful life was for these financially poor Argentinians who immigrated to Israel when it became a State. I soon thought how wonderful something like that would be for America. I have had the concept of Community Living Centers (CLCs) for many years but only now am I starting an aggressive campaign to present the plan to all as outlined above.

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Where is Aladin?

Wish #3

I guess if I were to make a "pecking order" for which one of my ideas would become a reality before I "go" (it's not on my calendar, but, for sure, it IS in my future!) it would be:

1 - Creation of "New Palestine". It makes lot of sense to me & COULD BE accomplished. It seems to satisfy all, except the new "proclamation" that all the Palestinians should move (where?) to allow Israel (& Donald Trump) to develop this land) & maybe, I would get a Nobel Prize. The recognition would be nice I could use the $1 million prize - TYVM.

2 - Creation of Community Living Centers in America (& all over the world). A better living choice - starting with eliminating Vet homelessness (about 20,000), then ALL homeless, then anyone who wants to live in that environment. Maybe all those disenfranchised "loonies" would find a home & solace in a CLC & decide maybe a mass murder will not look so good on their resume. My idea of making CL's condos, for the living space, would allow the "rich & famous" to participate & get satisfaction for doing something for those less fortunate than themselves. And they own real estate. They could sell t, hold it, or give it to the homeless as a "gift". Nice gift - TYVM. Elon Musk (you've heard of him!) makes lovely tiny homes (in his spare time) for under $20,000. We could become a nation of Elon Musk Tiny Home CLC's. He would need a separate one for all his kids & their eventual families. BIG family holiday meals.

3 - Changes for NYC. I have had a "love affair" with NYC since I was a kid. I grew up in St. Pete, Fla & when school was out, my mom would drive us up to be with her sister who lived in Mamaroneck. She would tke me into the City to see a show & I was "hooked"! We would park to the West of 8th Ave & crossing 8th, I would see these "creatures". "Mom - they don't have girls like that in St. Pete! She would take my hand, drag me & say "Come along Donnie." My 1st show was Damn Yankees with Gwen Verdon. The section below go over the various ideas I have for NYC.

Idea "A Revised Times Square", TKTS & 14 Shows a Week

Some Ideas That I Think Make Sense

Times Square is About Broadway & Theaters:

Sorry, Mickey and Minnie and the naked cowboy, and all the other characters that are throughout Times Square soliciting tourist to take their picture and then bothering them for money, have NOTHING to do with Broadway or Times Square. New York City needs to pass an ordinance that only allows people sanctioned by Broadway or off Broadway theaters to be in Times Square in costume & to solicit. These other characters can be relegated to the side treats to ply their trade.

No more TKTS Booth & Waiting in line, sometimes up to 1 hr. FINISHED!

1 - What I propose are TKTS people, dressed in a special TKTS outfits, that would carry a hand held device to sell DKTS at the discount for that day and to sell future tickets at full price. They would be able to take the credit card on the machine and to send a QR code to the customer as their ticket. This should increase sales dramatically because it makes it easy to buy tickets. You don’t have to wait on line at TKTS. You don’t have to pay a service fee at one of the brokers online you don’t have to go to the theater. You just have to go to Times Square and find a TKTS live human being representative. No so difficult! I recommend the GoDaddy smaller handheld device.

2 - I am proposing that the bleachers behind the TKTS location on 47th St. be torn down and a stage be put there and another stage we put just north of 1 Times Square. Every half hour, young actors (or hungry older ones( will perform from a show, in costume. Now Times Square is what it should be - about Broadway & Off Broadway Theater! Goodby Minnie & Mickey (& Goofy too - I heard Mickey & Goofy were gay - shh!( & Mr. Naked Cowbowy (dd he retire?). Hello Broadway & Off Broadway Theater.

2 - Theaters that have strong demand for their show should have 14 performances a week. Many people prefer a matinee and why leave the theater vacant four days a week during matinee when money could be made.

3 - I am proposing that the bleachers behind the TKTS location on 47th St. be torn down and a stage be put there and another stage we put just north of 1 Times Square. Every half hour, young actors (or hungry older ones( will perform from a show, in costume. Now Times Square is what it should be - about Broadway & Off Broadway Theater! Goodby Minnie & Mickey (& Goofy too - I heard Mickey & Goofy were gay - shh!( & Mr. Naked Cowbowy (dd he retire?). Hello Broadway & Off Broadway Theater.

4 - I have presented my idea of the reopening of The Palace Theatre in Times Square with "Judy Garland Sings Some of Her Highlights with Video & Live Duets & a Sing a Long" to the 2 owners, James Nederlander (Pres. of The Nederlander Organization) & Stewart Lane. The letter is on my website JudyGarlandAddicts.com.

I also sent a letter to Elton John asking him to write a theme song, perhaps incorporating it with her orchestral intro. I have also asked if he & his husband, David Furnish, would like to produce the shows. Or maybe Barbra Streisand would like to - she & Judy were "tight". I have also asked Susan Stroman do the sets & choreography. I read she is interested in new & often young choreographers. She could use differnet ones for The Judy Garland Highlights shows. So many of Judy’s songs in the Highlight shows could have new choreographers present their work. ne good example is got a pair of new shoes probably half hour 40 minutes could be work just from that one song from Judy singing it to people singing duets with her to dance numbers to the audience participating in the sing-along just one song of hers could entertain an audience for easily 30 or 40 minutes. I don’t think they’ll be anything to compare to lion King, but the music is brilliant and her creating the animals and everything else about the show is above spectacular.

Perhaps Simon Cowel could pass talent one for 1 Highlight performance. I envision big stars being able to come on even at the last minute and sing with judy. Of course you’ll have to know what they’re going to sing so there might be some planning involved, but the idea is to have the show open to whoever wants to come to sing with Judy Garland and to sing a little bit on their own.

Did you got in my story would be presented in two parts the first half of her life from her being an unwanted baby until she was fired from Annie get your gun for not showing up at all for filming in XXX until the end of her life in 1969. My idea is that those shows would run just three or four days a week and the balance of the shows both matinee and evening shows. I’m calling Judy Garland highlights and basically that is taking any of her body of work which is almost unlimited and using videos of her singing Both solo where people can join in singing with her they can’t be famous people they can be in famous people people who will be chosen by maybe Susan Stroman, as I understand she has an interest in finding new talent. But I think there’s a lot of a found talent that would love to sing with Judy Garland maybe Barbra Streisand who sang the most beautiful duet ever created. Get happy that was Judy Garland combining happy days and get happy. It is on show number 9 - if you watch the entire show scroll past the stupid comedians unless you like stupid comedians I guess one of the things about to do Garland show is that they still look contemporary even though they were made in the early 60s Judy had her hand and everything and she was like a good architect who built a building that is timeless She knew how to create a show that was timeless look at any other show made in early 60s not the Judy Garland show. Parts of all the shows could become part of the highlights. Really, the possibilities are almost limitless. I am proposing that Liza Minnelli and Lorna left can show up for any show whether it be a life story show or a highlight show to take over part in the show or to sing with their mama and sing by themselves also. They will get paid as all the other people who show up and that would be union wage the actor or actress who was supposed to play the part that night will either play another part or sit out and get paid. This will create a new excitement on Broadway not knowing who is gonna show up for one of the highlight shows. People can know what is in that show in advance. For example, it could be a highlight show. Just using Judy Garland show number three and people could listen to that show before they come to Broadway and familiarize themselves with some of the songs that will be in the show as sing-alongs. I’ll have to look at show number three myself to see which songs might be appropriate for that particular show, but like I said it is unlimited. The interview with Liza Minnelli is something remarkable and the interview is on the left is also quite telling about Judy Garland’s life and interest, forcing the interviews with songs and duets and dances I think would be very entertaining.

I am also proposing that the retail store created when they raised the palace theater to create that valuable retail space should be used as a Judy Garland and Wizard of Oz showroom selling all the Judy Garland and Wizard of Oz products that are out there.

I suggest that the Judy Garland story went told be told either in a live performance or by video by John Frickey, who I call Mr. Judy Garland he knows everything about that woman and his presentation is something that would be a asset to both Of Life story and her highlight shows. He has written many books on Judy Garland as well as books on the Wizard of Oz.

I am so enthusiastic about this idea. I think it may be a huge blockbuster where there might even be two theaters having Judy Garland highlight shows and maybe just in the palace theater the Judy Garland life story would play every day matinee and evening and another theater would have Judy Garland highlights. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how strong demand is, but I know once you get to know this woman and listen to her. It’s hard to stop. She has a unique ability of transcending time and space when you watch your thing on video even though she’s been dead for 60 years somehow you feel like she is singing just to you and you actually develop connection with her and as you get to know about her life, you become very sympathetic to her as a human being very enthusiastic about her as her humanity was remarkable on many levels on so many levels with so many stories although that can be part of Judy Garland highlights it really can go on forever and what pleasure there would be in creating different highlight chose And having new talent come to perform with her and having old talent come to perform with her.

Oh boy, I’m so excited. There are so many Judy Garland mixes and playlist on YouTube that just a few songs from each of these can be a highlight show. I just came across a YouTube blah blah blah that has his number videos often times I’ll put the news on and listen for a few minutes because that’s about all my Nervous system can take and then I put onto Judy Garland and often times she is singing to me when I wake up because there’s so many songs in the playlist in the mixes that I can now say that I truly slept with Judy Garland you can too. Like I tell everyone how can you find a woman who is so easy to get along with and always sings to you whenever you ask her to and her voice isn’t so bad either I guess the one unique thing about listening to Judy Garland is a very rarely hear a song that’s less than wonderful. Oh that one was wonderful. The next one is more wonderful. I guess that makes it wonderfuler!

In case you don’t know, the Palace theater was renovated for Judy Garland in 1951 and had abandoned for 18 years and she loved who became with her husband after Judy Garland was fired from Annie get your gun knew that she was the greatest star of her day and had the most beautiful voice ever, and he was in Times Square and saw the theater was abandoned and knew the owner and called him and said why don’t you renovated it for Judy to sing there and the owner did and her show lesson for 40 weeks she put on two shows a day also down all great reviews and I think I told you the story about John Kennedy, but I will go back and read what I read what I wrote. Everyone falls in love with Judy Garland. You can’t help it except my cousin DAVID who happens to be a singer himself, but said to me, I don’t give a rat ass about Judy Garland. Well, that’s too bad David.

Judy Garland Returns to The Palace Theater?

Judy Garland & The Palace Theater, in Times Square, Have a Storied History.

With access to all her almost limitless Youtubes, Judy Garland Could Sing at The Palace Till it closes! More Info on JudyGarlandAddicts.com about her life (under construction). She is the only person who has a book about, almost, every day of a life. Many suggestions on how to get to know someone who may become a "good friend". Almost everyone fall in love with her - hard not to. I rarely hear a song that is less than wonderful. John Kennedy "fell in love" with her - all that is on the website.

To: James Nederlander & Stewart F. Lane, Owners of The Palace Theater, Times Square

Idea 1

Could This Happen?

“Announcing The Grand Re Re Opening of The Palace Theater (abandoned in the 40’s & renovated for Judy Garland) - The Grandest of All Shows - Judy Garland At The New Palace Theater Sings Highlights & Duets with Current & Future Stars (+ a sing-a-long). Ads will encourage people to come in costume - anything from a Munchkin from The Wizard of Oz (Remember The Lollipop Guild) to Judy as Dorothy or in her famous poppy dress. Is it possible that a new restaurant & store can be opened in the retail space? “Judy’s” - ala Ellen’s Stardust with waiters singing Judy Garland songs & some sing-a-longs. Dining time will be limited or they will stay forever! A connecting store can sell Judy Garland & Wizard of Oz merchandise. The “plan” for the show is all on JudyGarlandSongs.com. My idea is that anyone famous (including Liza Minnelli & Lorna Luft -& Joey, if he takes singing lessons) can come at ay the to sing with Judy. What famous stars might want to sing with her? Would Barbra (they sang the most beautiful duet every made - Get Happy). How about Barry Manilow who already did a duet on YouTube (sound is bad) Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart (chose 2.50 minutes). Who doesn’t want to sing with Judy?. There would be sing a longs with the lyrics as an insert in th program. He available songs, movies, concerts, documentaries, interviews with her & others is almost unlimited. It could change regularly & not know who might show up that performance could make it an exciting adventure. All would b pay union scale.There would b an MD (John Fricke ?) to go from story to story. My proposed outline for the show Is here:

Some Ancient History

Welcome to DonaldWeissIdeasForChange

Info you should not give a flying f about, but if it a gloomy, rainy day, & you want to pass some time.

Nice to meet you. The photo on the bottom right is in the living room of my grandparent's home right on the beach of Pass-a-Grille (St. Pete), Fla. They eventually bought land & built the Rellim Hotel (what is Miller spelled backwards?),

My grandfather wasy dying but all were there as it was Christmas time when my mom's 2 sisteres & their families came down & stayed at the Hotel. I thought my mom was a "movie star". She was a beautiful woman. That is me in my Derby outfit in antiicpation of The Inaugural MFR Derby @ The Miller Family Reunion in St. Pete, Fal during the Xmas Holiday.

I moved to New York City after I graduated college in 1970 and within a few years I was hired by an attorney who is buying apartment houses. This is like 1973 and apartment houses and we’re not assets. They were liabilities if you’re losing 20 or $30,000 a year and the city is considering filing bankruptcy and there’s drug dealing graffiti and prostitution and everything bad Including the white population fleeing New York. There’s not much demand by these money losing apartment houses and there’s a huge supply many owners couldn’t sell their building so they decided why don’t we just burn it maybe we’ll get some insurance money. I had a car and I would drive around New York and look for real estate to buy and he gave me a view of New York City in the early 70s. The first building I bought was at 2:80 and 282 E. 10th St. and I was living at 210 E. 83rd St. and on the upper side the numbers are all the same between the avenues so I thought I would take the second Ave. bus and walk to the west but then I found out in fact that the numbers were different and the lower side, and I started walking to the east And when I got to Avenue B I continued noticing that there was not one building on that block that wasn’t burned out there were trash cans with fires and prostitutes and drug dealers and these two buildings were standing attacked about halfway down the block with the old Italian couple sitting in the store. It was a Saturday and they came every Saturday to collect rent and keep an eye on their buildings.

I used to buy brown stones and what were secondary neighborhoods of Brooklyn like Boreham Hill and blank plan. I have to spend 80,000 bucks to buy a whole brownstone. I would fix it up and sell it for 120 now the brownstone sell for about two or 3 million and the Change in New York City has been beyond dramatic. I love New York with a passion so I will continue with ideas I have for New York City.

Why a Post Card for My 1st Image?

Glad You Asked

My grandfather was born in Vilna, Lithuania & immigrated to America with his 2 sisters. The went trough Ellis Island & settled on the lower East side of Manhattan. He met my grandmother and moved to Brooklyn where her parents had a woman’s clothing and notions stores on Flatbush Ave. In the late 30s, he had a friend who moved to St. Pete, Fla, and he drove down to check it oWhat is Miller spelled backwards? My grandfather immigrated with his two sisters from Vilna, Lithuania around 1910. They went through Ellis Island and settled on the ut. He liked it and decided to move his family there. In St. Pete, he wanted to get a job, as a new resident, but no one would hire him because he was Jewish. So he opened a women’s clothing store in downtown St. Pete called Miller’s - that was their last name. Soon they joined the beach club of a big new hotel on St. Pete Beach, The Don Cesar. They played cards on the terrazzo patio in the back of the hotel. But they were told at the end of the first summer that they couldn’t join the next year because they weren’t accepting Jews anymore. So he got a “bug up his ass!” He wanted to build a hotel that would be open for Jewish clientele or anyone else to stay there. He found a piece of property just south of The Don Cesar, in Pass-a-Grille. It is the Southern tip of St Pete Beach & is okly about 200 yards wide from Boca Ciega Bay on the East & the Gulf of Mexico & the beach on the West. He couldn’t buy the property because there was a restrictive covenant in the deed. You couldn’t sell to a Jew, a black person or an Asian! He got a friend to buy the property for him, and they transfered the deed to my grandparents. He built a beautiful, two-story Art Deco hotel with 40 rooms. It is on the postcard - the white 2 story art decco structure. When I get my new (reconditionrd) Mac, I should be able to dowliad ikaged tobthr desjtio Then move them to thev2 imafr u r entiyrd to on eac sectio ga big lobby, a large dining room overlooking Boca Ciega Bay, a patio & dock in the back. It was an American plan hotel, which meant everyone staying there got their meals included in the price of the room. So there were no prices on the menus. Everyone keot their table throughout their stay as well as the same waitress. In the first year, they didn’t know what to do to get guests & they tried to flag cars down sitting on the front patio. The next year they had a friend who would take his wealthy clientele out to sea for the entire winter. But the ships weren’t going out anymore because of the war. His friend said he would take over the hotel and bring his clientele down. It turned out he had a very wealthy group of clients, including Henry Crown, who built and owned the Empire State Building, and Morton Blumenthal, famous Broadway producer! They all loved the hotel because, even though they were wealthy, they weren’t “Miami Beach glitzy” wealthy. They liked the quiet life in St Pete. My grandparents were gracious hosts & the food was amazing. They could walk across the street to the beach where cabanas and changing rooms were constructed. St. Pete Beach is beautiful & is considered one of the most beautiful in the world. The guests said they loved staying there & most said they would come back the next year. So now my grandparents had a built-in group of guests. And the help all came back every year also. They all worked in a hotel in Maine and when that hotel closed after Labor Day, they could come down and stay at homes my grandparents had bought near the hotel and have a vacation until they had to start getting the hotel ready to open. It was only open from the middle of December to the middle of April. My grandparents had bought homes near the hotel, and everything on Pass-a-Grille is near the beach. They called the hotel The Rellim - what is Miller spelled backwards? It was like a sitcom because everyone knew everyone. My mother’s two sisters had married & moved north. They would come down with their families at Christmas time for a family reunion. My mom & I lived in St. Pete & her brother, Iwin, when he graduated from Cornell School of Hotel Management, came “home”, married my Aunt Sonya (she was a beauty - inside & out) & they helped run the hotel. Everyone loved them because they were a charming, intelligent wonderful couple. Being at The Rellim was like going to camp & our “annual” family reunion was a highlight of all the family. In the early 50s they build 8 villas on the gulf side. Each villa had three motel rooms with a beautiful walkway to the new clubhouse & pool. The clubhouse was large with tables set up for a buffet lunch. Guess it’s good now have lunch in the formal dining room, or at the clubhouse.

There was a room to serve the Buffet & a kitchen and bar in the clubhouse. Breakfast, lunch and dinner was served in the main dining room & only lunch (& a weekly cocktail party) in the clubhouse. In the dining room, every guest had the same table for every meal, and the same waitress. Ours was Libby, She was a short redhead woman who was a happy waitress because she had her “cocktail hour” every day at 6:30 in the morning. “Good morning isn’t it a beautiful day!”She always had a smile on her face. People would line up in front of the Buffay room to make sure they were early for all the wonderful food. Every afternoon at 3 o’clock a man will come around the pool with orange juice on a tray and then as the sun was setting people would often go into the cocktail lounge in the clubhouse for a drink. The dining room opened at 6:45. w

Women got dressed in nice dresses with jewelry and high heels. Men wore coats and ties. After dinner, every night at 9 o’clock, there was an activity in the clubhouse. One night might be bingo, horse racing another night, a movie, a fashion show, a lecture +++. Every Saturday night was a live band with dancing. Every day was full - swimming in the pool & Gulf of Mexico, vollyball & football on the beach, a visit to the solarium for naked wirship to “the sun.” Every day was fun & joy! If it was nasty out, Aunt Sonya would plan activities - bowling, a trip to the dog track, whatever. Always keep the guests busy & happy. You were never bored at The Rellim! Uncle Irwin knew how to get the best food & serve it beautifully. It was called the realm because my Grandpa & Grandma Miller opened The Rellim Hotel just S of The Don Cesar Hotel - here is a picture of Grandma & Grandpa Miller & the land where the Hotel was built. They called it The Rellim Hotel. Anyone kTheir children were Lillian Berni, my mom, Dorothy Halperin & Irwin. Aunt Lillian & Aunt Dorothy married & moved north. Every christmas holiday, the whole family came down to St Pete & we all stayed at The Rellim! What fun we all had. A wonderful breakfast with our regular waitress, Libby. Then a walk across the street, past the beautiful villas, to the clubhouse, pool, beach & Gulf of Mexico. What to do? Maybe a nice rest on a chaise lounge. Oh, time for a swim in the pool then vollyball on the beach. It’s aporoaching 1 o’clock & everyone is “excited” about the fabulous buffet lunch in the “buffet room” at the clubhouse. In the large room, long table were set up, with tableclothes, for people to sit at.

Grandpa, who was Jack Miller, grew up in Vilna, Lithuania. You can see right here on the map exactly where Vilna was, & still is. Here are some images of Vilna then & now. He was born in the late 1800s. When he was about 17 years old, he immigrated to America with his two sisters, Faye and Frieda. Here’s a picture of them. They went through Ellis Island (see photo) & settled on the Lower East Side in New York City. Here’s some pictures of what that looked like in the early 1900s. It was filled with Jews from Eastern Europe and that’s exactly what Grandpa was - a Jew from Eastern Europe! He met Grandma. Her name was Harriet Sher (what are the odds?). She lived in Brooklyn. Here are some photos of Brooklyn from 1910 & 1920. Her parents were immigrants from Russia, but Grandma was born here. Grandpa and Grandma fell in love and got married. Grandpa moved to Brooklyn to help run Grandma‘s parents’ clothing and notions store on Flatbush Ave. It was called Miller’s (clever n

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Full List of Judy Garland Songs - All on Youtube

Enjoy - a lifetime of listening!

This should be. pretty complete list of all the songs she has sung that are on youtube - about 600, or so. Try 1 & you will finish in less than 2 years!

A - 39

A Cottage For Sale

A Couple of Swells (w Fred Astaire)

A Foggy Day

A lot of Living to Do

A Journey to a Star

A Pretty Girl & Her Goat

A Shine on Your Shoes

A Wonderful Guy

Abe Lincoln Had Just One Country

Abide w Me

About Me

After the Holidays

After You’re Gone

Alabame Bound

Alexander’s Rag Time Band

All Alone

All I Do is Dream About You

Alice Blue Gown

All God’s Chullin got Rhythm

All the Things You Are

All Through the Day

Alone

Alone Together

Always

Am I Blue

America the Beautiful

Americana - Swing

Among my Souvenirs

An Angel of Joy

Anchors Away

Any Place I Hang my Hat

April in Paris

April Showers

Are You Having Any Fun

Aren’t You Kind of Glad we Did

*As Long as he Needs Me

At Long Last Here I Am

At the Stroke of Midnight (The Letter)

Auld Lang Syne

B - 23

Ballin’ The Jack

Barbershop Chord

Battle Hymn of the Republic - Tribute to JFK

Be a Clown w Gene Kelly

Be A Football Player

Beautiful Trouble (The Letter)

Bei Mir Bist du Shein

Ben Blue Dance

Better Luck Next Time

Biden my Time

Bill

Blue Prelude

Blue Skies

Blues in the Night

Boise Idaho

Bombshell From Brazil

Born in a Trunk

Boys & Girls Like You & Me

Broadway Rythym

Buds Won’t Bud

But Not For Me (My Sweet Embraceable You - Crazy Girl)

By Myself

Bye Bye Blues

C - 26

Call me up Some Rainy Afternoon

Call The Press

Can Do, Will Do - Patriotic

Can This be the end of the Rainbow

Can’t Help Lovin Dat Man of Mine

Caro Nome

Carolina in the Morning

Charlie’s Blues

Changing my Tune

Chicago

Chin Up, Cheereo, Carry On

College Swing

Come All Ye Faithful

Come Rain or Come Shine

Cole Porter Medly

College Swing - Swing

Come Back (The Letter)

Comes Love

Comes Once in a Lifetime

Confess

Conn. Is the Place for Me w Bing C

Consider Yourself

Could You Pass in Love

Could You Use Me

Cry Baby Cry

Cryin for the Carolines

D - 24

D’ Y’ Love Me

Daddy

Danny Boy

Dardenella

Day In Day Out

Dear Mr Gable

Deck the Halls

Dinah

Dirty Hands Dirty Face

Dixie

Dixieland Band

Do I Love You

Do it Again

Don’t Ever Leave Me

Don’t Forget Me

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

Don’t Rain on my Parade

Don’t Tell me That Story

Do the La Conga

Down on Melody Farm - Everybody Sing

D’Ya Love Me

Doing What Comes Naturally

Down w Love

Drummer Boy - Swing

E - 6

Easter Parade (w Fred Astaire)

Easy to Love

Embraceable You

Ever Since the World Began

Everybody Sing

Eyli Eyli

F - 19

Falling in Love w Love

Faraway Part of Town

Fascinating Rhythm

Feeling Like a Million

Figaro x - Swing

Fight For USC

Fly me to the Moon

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Football Hero

For Me & My Gal (w Gene Kelly)

For Once in My Life

For You For Me For Evermore

Forget Your Troubles

Franklin D Roosevelt Jones

Free & Easy

Friendly Star

Friendship

Friendship Medley w Ethel Merman

From This Moment On

G - 15

Get Happy

Get me to the Church on Time

Get Off Looking Good

Give my Regards to Broadway

Glen Miller Melody

God Bless America

God’s Country

Go Home Joe

Good Morning

Good Night my Love

Goody Goodbye

Going Home Medley w Bobby Daren

Got a A New Pair of Shoes

Gotta be This or That w F Sinatra

Gotta Have me go with You

Great Day

H - 27

Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe

Happy Days are Here Again

Happy Harvest

Happy New Year

Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair

Have Yourself a Merry Christmas

Here’s That Rainy Day

Here’s to Us

Heartbroken

He’s Got the Whole World in his Hands

Hello Bluebird

Hello Dolly w Liza M

Hello Ma Baby

Here’s That Rainy Day

Here’s To Us

Here’s What I’m Here For

Hey Look me Over

Hoe Down

Hold that Bulldog

Holiday Melody (JG Show)

Hooray for Love

*How About Me? -

How About You

How Could You Believe Me

How Insensitive (When a Love Affair is Over)

*How Long has this Been Going On?

How Lovely to be Me

How You Gonna Keep Them Down on the Farm

I - 91

I am Loved

I Belong to London

I Can’t Give You Anything but Love - Bday

I Concentrate on You

I Could go on Singing

I Cried For You (Babes in Arms)

I Don’t Care

I Feel a Song Coming On

I Get the Blues When it Rains

I Got Rhythm

I Got the Sun in the Morning

I Gotta a Right to Sing the Blues

I Hadn’t Anyone Till You

I Happen to Like NY

I Hear a Rhapsody

I Hear Music

I Left my Heart in SF w Tony B

I Like Men w Peggy Lee

I Love a Piano

I Love Paris

I Love Paris Medley

I Love You

I Love You Today

I Loved Him

I May be Wrong

In the Valley Where the Sun Goes Down

I Never Knew

I Remember You

I Want to go Back to Michigan

I Will Come Back

I Wish I Were in Love Again

I Wish You Love

I’d Like to Hate Myself in the Morning

If He Walked into my Life m

If I Had a Talking Picture of You

If I Had You

If I Forget You

If I Love Again

If Love Were All

If You Feel Like Singing, Sing

I’ll Be Seeing You

I’ll Get By

I’ll Plant my Own Tree

I’ll Remember April

I’ll Show Them All

I’m Always Chasing Rainbows

I’m an Indian Too

I’m Confessin I Love You

I’m Following You Medly w Robert Goulet

& Phil Silvers

I’m Glad There is You

I’m in Love w a Wonderful Guy

I’m Just Wild About Harry

I’m Nobodys Baby

I’m Old Fashioned

I’m on my Way

In Between

In Came Upon a Midnight Clear

In My Merry Oldsmobile

In The Valley Where The Evening Sun Goes

Down

Island in The West Indies

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

It Never Rains but What it Pours

It Never Was You

It Only Happens When I Dance w You

It’s a Great Big World

It’s a Hap Hap Happy Day

It’s a New World

It’s All For You

It’s Lovely to be Back in London

It’s Love I’m After

It’s Yourself

In Between

In the Good old Summertime

In the Valley

Island in the West Indies

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

It Never Rains but it Pours

It Never Was You

It Only Happens When I Dance w You

It’s a Good Day

It’s a Great Big World

If’s a Great Day for the Irish

It’s a Hap, Hap, Happy Day

It’s a New World

It’s All For You

It’s Love I’m After

It’s So Lovely to be Back in London

It’s Yourself

I’ve Confessed to the Breeze

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

I’ve Got The Sun in The Morning

I’ve Got You Under my Skin

J - 12

Jamboree Jones

Jitterbug

Joey Joey Joey

Johnny One Note

Judy at The Palace Medley

Just a Memory

Just Imagine

Just in Time

Just Once in a Lifetime

Just One of Those Things

Just The Way You Are

Just You Just Me

L - 22

Last Call For Love

Last Night When we Were Young

Laugh? I Thought I Split my Sides

Let’s Dance

Life is a Bowl of Cherries

Limehouse Blues

Little Drops of Rain

Little Girl Blue

Liza

Long Ago & Far Away

Look for the Silver Lining

Loose that Long Face

Lorna

Lost in the Stars

Love

Love in the Villiage (The Letter)

Love is Sweeping the Country

Loved Him But He Did’t Love Me

Lover Come Back

Love of my Life

Love Sweet

Lucky Day

M - 35

Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me

Maggie Mae

Make Someone Happy

Making Whoopee

March of the Doagies

Maybe It’s Because

Me & My Shadow

Mean to Me

Meet me in St Louis

Meet me Tonight in Dreamland

Meet the Beat of my Heart

Memories of You

Merry Christmas

Mine (w Bing C)

Minnie from Trinidad

Minstrel Girl Medley

More

My Buddy

My Country Tis of Thee

My Heart is Taking Lessons

My Intuition

My Man’s Gone Now

My Old Kentucky Home

My Romance w F Sinatra

My Ship

My Wonderful One, Let’s Dance

Moon River

More Than You Know

Mr & Mrs Clown

Music That Makes Me Dance

My Heart is Taking Lessons

My Melancholy Baby

My Man’s Gone Now

My Romance

My Ship

N - 8

Nearer to You

Nelson Eddy, Jeanette McDonald Medly

Never Walk Alone

Never Will I Mary

Nobody

No Love No Nothing

Nothing but You

Notre Dame Victory Song

O - 15

Oceans Apart

Oh Johnny

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Ol’ Man River

Old Devil Moon

Old Man River

Olio

On the Atchison, Topeka & The Sante Fe

On the Bumpy Road to Love

On the Sunny Side of the St

One For My Baby

Ooh What You Said

Opera vs Jazz

Our Love Affair

Over The Rainbow

P - 15

Paging Mr Greenback

Paris is a Lonely Town

Peanut Vendor

Pennies from Heaven

People Will Say We’re in Love

Play Overture Play

Play that Barbershop Chord

Please say, Ah (removed from I Could Go on Singing)

Porgy & Bess Medley w Vic Damone

Poor Butterfly

Poor Little Rich Girl

Poor You

Purple People Eater

Put Your Arms Around Me

Putin on the Ritz

R - 3

Roses Red Violets Blue

Rock a By Your Baby

Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer

S - 43

Sail Away

Salute to NYC

Sam’s Song

Savoy

Say SiSi

Send my Baby Back to Me

Serenade

Seventy Six Trombones

Shall I Sing a Melody

Shenandoah

Shine on Harvest Moon

Silent Night

Singing in the Rain

Skip to my Lou

Slap That Bass

Sleep My Baby Sleep

Smiles

Smiling Through

Sophie

Some of These Days

Someone at Last

Some People

Somebody Touched Me

Something Cool

Somethings Coming

Something in The Air

Something to Remember You By - w B Crosby

Somewhere

Speak Low

Stars & Stripes Forever

Stay With Me Till After the Holidays

Stepping out w my Baby

Stomping at The Savoy

Stormy Weather

Strike up the Band

Sun Shine

Sun Showers

Suppertime

Swanee

Sweet Danger

Sweet Sixteen

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Swing Mr Charlie

T - 54

Take my Hand Paree

Taking a Chance on Love

Ten Pins in the Sky

That’s All

That Old Black Magic

That Old Feeling

That’s All There Is (The Letter)

That’s Entertainment

That’s the Good Old Sunny South

The Belboa

The Bells are Ringing

The Birthday of a King

The Boy Next Door

The Christmas Song w Mel Torme

The Jitterbug Song

The Joint is Jumpin

The Land of Pretend

The Land of Promises

The Last Call for Love

The Last Dance

The Man I Love

The Man that got Away

The Music That Makes me Dance

The Nearness of You

The Party’s Over

The Peanut Vendor

The Red Baloon

The Right Romance

The Star of the East

The Stroke of Midnight (The Letter)

The Texas Tornado

The Trolly Song

The Way You Look Tonight

The Worst Kind of Man (The Letter)

Theme from Mondo Cane

Than You’ve Never Been Blue

There’ll Always Be an England

There is no Breeze

There’s A Lull in My Life

There’s No Business Like Show Business w Barbra S & Ethel Merman

There’s Only One Union

These Lush Moments

They Can’t Take That Away From Me

This Can’t be Love

This Could be the Start of Something

This Heart of Mine

This is It

This is New

This is the Army

This is New

Three Cheers For The Yanks

Through the Years

Till After the Holidays

Till the Clouds Roll By

Time After Time

Tom, Tom The Piper’s Son

Too Late Now

Too Romantic

Toot Toot Tootsie Goodby

Two Lost Souls

Tzanna

W - 38

Waltz with a Swing

We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together w Liza M

Wearing of the Green

We’re Off to See The Wizard

West Side Story Melodies w Vic Damone

What Childs is This

What’ll I Do

What now my Love

What the World Needs Now

When I Look at You

When I’m in Love

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

When my Sugar Walks Down the Street

When the Midnight Cho cho Leaves for Alabam

When the Saints go Marching In

When the Sun Comes Out xl

When You Walk Through a Storm xl

When You Wore a Tulip

When You’re Smiling

When Your Lover has Gone

Where Are You

Where is the Clown

Where The Butterflies Kiss the Buttercups

Where There’s Music

Whispering

Why, Because

Why Can’t I

Why Was I Born

Winter Wonderland

Wish You Were Here

Wishes

Who

Why Can’t I

Why was I Born

Wish You Were Here

Wishing

Without a Memory

Wonderful Guy

Ya ta ta x (w Bing Crosby)

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Y - 23

Yes

Yes, Indeed

You Are my Sunshine

You Belong to Me

You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun

You Can’t Have Everything

You go to my Head

You Got me Where You Want Me (w Bing Crosby)

You’ll Never Walk Alone

You Are My Sunshine

You Belong to Me

You Can Do No Wrong

You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun

You Couldn’t Be Cuter

You Made me Love You

You Wonderful You

Your Broadway & My Broadway

You’re Just in Love

You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You w Frank S & Dean M

You’re Nearer

You’re So Right For Me

You’ve Got me Where You Want Me w Bing C

Yours & Mine

Z - 1

Zing went the Strings of my Heart

"Some" of My Favorite Judy Garland Songs (all on youtube)

You may also "fall in love" with Judy Garland & don't forget "Judy Garland loves you"!

One of the unique things about Judy Garland is that she "transcends" time & space It is as if she is singing just to you. - good trick! It's hard to narrow the list down because there are very few of her songs that are less than wonderful!

Judy Garland songs for kids (& adults too):

Mr. & Mrs. Clown - with Van Johnson - so much fun - so brilliant

Be a Clown - with Gene Kelly - How do they wiggle their ears?

Got a Pair of New Shoes - From her movies “Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry”

Ten Pins in the Sky - From a movie of hers

The Jitterbug - Originally made to be in The Wizard of Oz but never made it into the movie. All her “friends” join her in this song.

Swing Mr. Mendelssohn - Great song also in a movie of hers

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - She wrote this one - a beauty!

Dear Mr Gable - Her song to Clark Gable - info above

Franklin D Roosevelt Jones - Many black families were naming their sons Franklin in “honor” of FDR

God Bless America (soon, please!)

Over the Rainbow - Info above. She would end many of her concerts sitting at the edge of the stage, with no shoes, & sing this song. It was so powerful, people would cry.

Zing Went the Strings of My Heart - Info above

Palace Theater Medley - Sooo beautiful. It is almost her true life story!

76 Trombones - She created this new “version” of the classic song from The Music Man.

All God’s Chillun' Got Rythyem

On The Bumpy Road to Love (It can be very bumpy!)

Here’s to Us - info above

A Couple of Swells - Dressed in hobo outfits with Fred Astaire from the movie “Easter Parade”

Born in a Trunk - Another one almost the story of her life story.

Daddy - Luv it!

Mean to Me - Decide who to sing this to - “Sweetheart, this is for you!” “Mom - for you!”

Could You Use Me - From 1 of her movies with Mickey Rooney

Barn Dance - With Gene Kelly from the movie Summer Stock. Both Gene Kelly & Fred Astaire said they never had a partner who learned so quickly & was the one the audience paid attention to - not them!

The Trolly Song - From Meet Me in St. Louis

On the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fee - from the movie The Harvey Girls. Ask Mr. Google about the story behind this movie - it’s sooo interesting.

Who - From a movie of hers - choose the 2.29 min video

Ballin! The Jack - w Gene Kelly

Barbershop Quartet - Also from a movie

I Don’t Care - A good answer when Mom says “Clean up your room!”

Get Happy - Brilliant

Swanee - Brilliant x 2

Mickey Rooney on The Judy Garland Show - They made many movies together

Happy Harvest - Forgot what movie this is from

Do The LaCondo - Go Judy!

Radio - Judy Garland & Jack Benny - “Spring is in The Air” - (Gregory & Gwedolyn & Herman & Mertyl) - She was a popular guest on many radio shows & sang & “performed”. She plays all the female parts in this one. She sings Alice Blue Gown at the end. This show is a favorite & very funny.

Judy Garland, Phil Silvers & Ribert Goulet - I’m Following You - more joy

I Want to go Back to Michigan - Really? Detroit?

Yah Ta Ta - Duet with Bing Crosby

Boy, that was fun! Never get tired of Judy singing to me. She has the super natural ability to transcend time & space! She’s been dead since 1969, but it’s as if she is singing to YOU! Good trick! That’s how she connected with her audiences in her aporox. 1,100 live concerts. The audiences were wild for her & she would do anything to make them happy. There a few songs of hers that are less than wonderful.

Judy Garland Songs for Adults (& Kids Too)

Come Rain or Come Shine (in her beige dress)

Hello Bluebird - a Wowie Zowie

When The Sun Comes Out

Paris is a Lonely Town on Jack Paar Show

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Aren’t You Kinda Glad We Did - Great duet with Bing Crosby. She sang many songs with him including:

Connecticut is The Place For Me

Mine

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

I am Loved

I Get the Blues When it Rains (not me - I love the sound of rain!)

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

Me & My Shadow

As Long as He Needs Me

I Got Rythym

The Letter - It’s like an opereta with a beautiful story of “lost love”. The full album is not on youtube & on

If You Feel Like Singing Sing

The Man That Got Away - From her brilliant movie A Star is Born. She was “supposed”to win the Academy Award, but Grace Kelly won - because of her “political” connections

Sail Away

A Cottage For Sale

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries

Poor Butterfly

Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody -

I Got The Right to Sing the Blues

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Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall ‘63 - Still called “The Greatest Night in Entertainment History”.

Judy Garland Musical Special April 8, 1956 - I believe this was to be a GE Theater show but the execs thought Judy’s skimpy dress did not properly represent their button down style. Go Judy!

Judy & Liza at The Paladium - whole concert or just listen to Judy & Liza Hello Dolly

Judy Garland Shows - Google it for list of guests - The best are with her daughter, Liza Minelli, #3 & Barbra Streisand - #9. I would scroll past ll the dumb Jerry VanDyke stuff & anything else that is not Judy or her guest singing. Her producers, for some reason, included all this "junk"

Long list of Judy Garland songs in top section of pg 2 - Go to the top of the webite & click on pg 2 at the top. To get back to pg 1 - click Home Page at the top.

Have You Ever Heard of Judy Garland?

Judy Garland is the only person in history who has a book written about every day of her life!

Begin by YouTubing Playlist Get Happy - about 85 videos of her at many different times in her life. She had the JudyGarland Show in '63 & '64 After I saw the movie, Judy, & started doing "research" on her (there is soo much - on the web, youtube, books +++) & listening to her, I became an "addict". So many people of import have recanted glowing things about her, even JFK! I think she can be presented to kids as they have an immediated connection because.of The Wizard of Oz (do kids still watch it? It IS a wonder!). Judy Garland - Songs 4 Kids (& Adults 2!) is listed below. In addition, I have listed all of her songs (on youtube). I guess the best example of who is Judy Garland is her singing Old Man River. When she had The Judy Garland Show in '63 & '64, she said, "No woman has ever sung Old Man River - I want to". Listen to her & then youtube the song & listen to anyone else - she IS the best, by far!

Song suggestions are in the section below my “dissertation!”

I am a "Judy Garland addict", but not to worry, I start rehab soon! Addicts like to share their addiction!

She is a wonderful singer/entertainer for kids (& adults) to be introduced to because her life story is so interesting. She is the only person who has a book written about almost every day of their life (Stephen Schecter).

Many of her songs are wonderful 4 children, including Over the Rainbow which she sang in the movie The Wizard of Oz in 1939. It still is considered the most beloved, popular song of all time. She was Dorothy in the movie (not Mrs. Gulch!). Her dog, Toto was very well paid.

Judy Garland is the only entertainer in history who began their career in show business before being born. How was that? Her mother played piano in silent movie houses and in the vaudeville house she and her husband owned in Grand Rapids, Minn. When she was pregnant she stayed home, playing the piano - jazz, and music from silent movies and where was little Judy? She was just 1 ft away, snapping her fingers and twitching her toes and dreaming “I’m going to be a big star one day!” And she did become the most popular, famous & beloved movie star of her day. She made The Wizard of Oz in 1939 when she was 17 years old and became a worldwide phenomenon after that movie came out.

Judy said her years in Grand Rapids were the happiest of her life because it was pure joy in their home. Her two older sisters performed in the vaudeville house, as well as her mother and father. They were all practicing their singing & dancing at home & Judy would be running up and down the stairs - just a happy little kid. She kept begging your parents “Mommy Daddy - I want to sing on the stage like my sisters.” When she was 2 1/2 years old her mother made for her beautiful little white knit dress and on the day after Christmas, after her two sisters had finished performing at the vaudeville house, her father gave her a bell and she went on stage and sang Jingle Bells. The audience went wild clapping, and she loved the clapping so much she came out and sang it 7 times before her grandmother had to come on the stage and take her off! And she got a good review in the newspaper the next morning! Even at the age of 2 1/2, she did not have a mature voice, but she had a very unusual & powerful voice.

When she was about 8 or 9, the family moved to Lancaster, California about an hour and a half north of Los Angeles. Her mother wanted to start taking her to auditions in Hollywood and they couldn’t afford to buy a vaudeville house in Los Angeles. So they bought one in Lancaster. At an early age she was already on the radio. There’s one cd I have where the announcer says “And here’s little Judy Garland - she’s just 10 years old, but she’s got the voice of a woman of 40 - who’s been hurt!” WOW!

They later moved to Los Angeles. An executive with MGM heard her sing the song Zing! Went the Strings of my Heart on the radio. He was so impressed, he went to find her & took her, took her to the chief executive of MGM, Louis B Mayer, who was also the highest paid executive in America. She sang the song for him & he put it under contract immediately, without a screen test. Now, at the age of 13, Judy was under contract with MGM. But they didn’t know what to do with a 13 year kid. They didn’t have any other 13-year-old movie stars. She was working with a composer by the name of Roger Edens. He wrote all the music for The Wizard of Oz, as well as many beautiful songs.

She told him that she’d “fallen in love” with Clark Gable, who was the most famous movie star of his day. He starred in a movie Gone With the Wind and was very handsome. So Roger Edens uses the song: “You made me love you, I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to do …”, and in the song he writes a soliloquy where Judy talks to a picture of Clark Gable. It’s on YouTube - Dear Mr. Gable. It was on the radio & everyone listened to it because Judy Garland has a remarkably beautiful voice, the song is beautiful and she’s talking about the most famous movie star in the world! At the age of 13 Judy Garland was now a household name in America - everyone knew Judy Garland!

She went on to make movies with Mickey Rooney. Originally he had top billing, but soon Judy did. She made 28 movies in the 12 years she was with MGM. MGM worked their movie stars to death & she was tired of the work & the control of Louis B Mayer & she & MGM “parted ways” in 1949. She had married her band leader when she was 18. She had wanted to get away from the control of Louis B. Mayer. That marriage lasted less than 2 years. She met Vincint Minelli when she was staring in the movie she was making - Meet Me in St. Louis. He was the Director. They married & soon had a daughter, Liza Minelli. She is famous i her own right winning many awards & staring in the "classic" movie Cabaret.

After she “left” MGM, a man by the name of Sid Luft wanted to help her get "back on top". When he was in Manhattan in 1950, in Times Square, he saw the Palace Theater was abandoned. He called the owner up and said, “Why don’t you renovate the theater and Judy Garland will sing there.” They agreed. The original contract was for 20 weeks, 2 shows a day, 7 days a week. But singing was not work for Judy Garland - singing was what gave her her joy.

John Kennedy, one of America's most famous Presidents, came to opening night and he fell in love with her. He would call her once a week to say hello and ask her to sing the end of Over the Rainbow. She could call him whenever she wanted, even when he was President of the United States. She spent a month at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod with her three children (she had 2 with Luft who she had married). When Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, she has The Judy Garland Show on television. Her original contract was for 4 years @ $24 million - the highest amount paid an entertainer, even through today. She wanted to dedicate a show to honor Kennedy by singing patriotic songs. The CBS executives wouldn’t let her so she conspired with her orchestra leader, Mort Lindsley, to sing the song Battle Hymn of the Republic. They didn’t put it on the playlist that they gave to the CBS executives & she just sang it at the end of one of her shows. It does not show up in the video, but I read before singing it she said "This is for you, Jack!" It’s a beautiful song to listen to on YouTube.

Then Sid Luft said "I’m going to put you in opera houses all over the world". She was the first female to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan. She did sang at opera houses all over the world. All sold out - all with rave reviews. She went on to make the movie a Star is Born, which is a beautiful movie. In it she sings a gorgeous song - The Man That Got Away. She was called a "shoe in" to win the Academy Award, but Grace Kelly (who became a real "princess" when she married the Prince Rainier of Monaco) won because of her "political connections".

She made a few more movies, but mostly she had live concerts. She had about 1,100 live concerts. In a few movies she did not sing & was a wonderful actress. She got an Academy Award nomination for one of her dramatic movies, Judgment at Nuremberg.

Her concert at Carnegie Hall in 1963 is still call “The Greatest Night in Entertainment History”. It’s not available on video because at that time most concerts were not filmed because it required a large camera which took up space in the auditorium and obstructed sight lines. When you listen to this concert, or any of her many concerts that were recorded, you can hear the relationship she developed with her audience. It was as if she had invited people in the audience into her living room. She connected with them on a very personal basis. She loved them & they loved her. It was a love fest.

Judy had a contract to play for a number of weeks at the Palladium in London. She invited her daughter Liza, who is only 18, to join her. She was reluctant at first, but finally consented. That entire concert is available on YouTube because it became a television show. All you have to do with YouTube Judy and Liza at the Palladium. There’s one song in particularly that is fantastic. YouTube Judy and Liza Hello Dolly. At the beginning of the show, Liza’s on the left-hand side of the stage and Judy’s on the right hand side of the stage and Liza sings out “Hello mama” and Judy sings “Hello Liza - it’s so nice to have you here with me." Then they walk to the middle of the stage, hold hands, hug & sing together.

Although the original contract for The Judy Garland Show, in 1963, was for four years, it only lasted a year. CBS put her in the 9 o’clock time slot on Sunday night against Bonanza on NBC. Bonanza was the highest rated show of the time and also was in color. The Judy Garland show was in black-and-white. People were buying their new color TVs in the early 60's &, although her ratings were good, she did not knock Bonanza "out of the box". There were 26 episodes. Most are available on YouTube and they’re all wonderful. Some of guests are Barbra Streisand (subline), Liza Minelli, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Lena Horn +++. The thing about them is Judy Garland had her hand in everything - she controlled everything about the shows and you’ll see that even though the shows are 60 years old they’re still contemporary. Any other show that you YouTube from the 60s looks dated. One of my favorites is The Judy Garland Christmas Show. She had all her kids on. Being the loving mother she was, she let her young son, Joey Luft, sing a song from the play Oliver. He did not inherit Judy's voice & Judy never let him sing on TV again - he was consigned to playing the bongos!

On the Judy Garland Show, she said “no man has ever sung Old Man River - I want to sing that song!” Listen to her sing it, and then just YouTube the song. No one compares to Judy Garland! A good example of her joy of singing is the song San Francisco. The genius she was, she begins the song with a dedication to Jeannette McDonald. Why? Jeanette McDonald sang the song in the rubble of a San Francisco earthquake & became famous because of that. Judy is on the stage, singing, hopping, skipping like a kid in a candy store. She lifts her leg to get a note out!

Another great example of "Who is Judy Garland?" is the song Here’s To Us. She wrote the music & the lyrics. It was to be on her last Judy Garland Show. It never made it on the show, but he video is on youtube. She’s in a clown costume & she had champagne at the edge of the stage. She gives glasses to people in the audience and pours champagne for them. Her two children that she had with Sid Luft, who she had married, were sitting in the front row. They were about 10 years old then. She gives them a bottle of milk!

She truly had a "storied" life , but died at the young age of 47. There’s a biography called Get Happy (great song of hers also) available on Kindle to read on your phone or ipad, if you like to read that way. There are many documentaries that have been made of her life. I think Judy Garland is someone that children will enjoy, because the songs give you so much pleasure and many are “fun”. Sooooo - here goes:

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