Crooked Little House reunion...

Ted & Lynn Bird

10 members of the Crooked Little House, a club created by me and several of my teenage friends, from the late 1960s, got together for lunch recently at 'The Mandarin' in Newmarket.   My partner Pat and I were among the attendees.

The Crooked Little House was created from an old  concrete block chicken coup, located next to the ancient farmhouse my parents, Emerson and Muriel Wallace had purchased in the early 1960s, just north of King City.   

Back then, my friends and I had guitars, a wash-tub bass, and banjo and sang ourselves silly each night into the early hours of our folk-music early 'twenties'.  A few beers were consumed as well, I must add, as we made the  music.

Ted and Lynn Bird (pictured above), of Schomberg, were on hand for the mini-reunion at The Mandarin. Ted was one of the founding members of the Crooked Little House. 

Now, 65 years later, 10 of us got together for lunch and some reminiscences.   Not all of the original members are still around, but we remember them well.

There was only one outhouse adjoining the Crooked Little Hose, which the guys used.   The Gals used the washroom in my parents house.   God bless Muriel and 'Em' for their goodwill and patience.   At least my parents knew where I and my friends were most of the time, and not roaring around the backroads of King Township doing God knows what.

By way of a footnote, my younger brother Bob, with two of his high school friends used the Crooked Little House for musicmaking also.   They called themselves The King City Slickers.   Bob's two friends, Russ deCarle and Keith Glass went on to become Canadian music icons as Prairie Oyster! 

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Barry Wallace