• Lindy > Swing Talk
• Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2001
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Wow, what a weekend! You people are fantabulous!!! Thank you so much for coming to San Francisco and partaking in our exchange.

We wanted to take a minute to thank all of the people who made this weekend happen, because boy howdy did it take a lot of work.

All of our inspiring volunteers worked behind the scenes to help everything run smoothly. We love you all! Merci beaucoup to our wonderful hardworking shift leaders Charles Chun, Charles d’Harcourt and Kenny Brown. And the rest of our backstage crew, Andrew Sutton, Lila Patton, Nathalie Cheng, Bert Moberg, Deanna Ayres, Amanda Marchand, Danielle LaVigna, Bill Lindy Bear Chin, Heide Cannon, Jeremy Lewis, Erin Sweeney, Dorota Jozefiak, Kari Hopperstead, Natasha Roseberry, Niki Desautels, Marshall Leggett, Clark Breyman, Darren Holloway, Cary Tucker, Cathy Rigod, DJ Larkin, Bonnie Schulkin, Carolyn Cawres, Heather Jernigan, Jen La Sala and Rob Wooldridge. Thank you Heide and Jeremy for creating the Prom Booth, love those Polaroids!

Kudos galore to Josh Ellinger for the registration system, and to Dave Madison both for the website and for keeping his house open on Sunday night for the final afterhours. We can't believe you stayed up even later than you had to!

Endless shouts and props to Jeff Ho for designing our logo and graphics for the t-shirt. It is well adored by all.

Takk su meka to Julia Fennell, Derek Kim, Anne Valdersnes and all the other big hearted volunteers who jumped in and helped out when needed. We really appreciated the extra help!

Also special thanks to Deanna Ayres for donating that refreshing water outside at Café Cocomo.

Thank you Cliff Bar for the energy boost and way to go Mike Lin for getting the donation from them.

Our lovely tour guides explored some incredible sights around the bay. Thank you so much for showing off our city. Dorota Jozefiak, Greg, Brian Rothbart, Eileen Goldstein, Rob Wooldridge and Jesse Miner.

Muchas gracias to the Doghouse and Chad Kubo, Melanie Moore and Jason Christodoulou. Thanks for putting the late night together, the sound system was great. What a fabulous design on those “Late Night at the Doghouse” shirts, very cool, thanks for designing them Chad!

Extra special thanks to our bands for keeping our toes tapping and our feet stomping the wood: -Danny Caron and the Swingin' All-Stars with Lady Mem'fis -Johnny Nocturne Band featuring Kim Nalley -Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums with Carmen Getit -Surprise Saturday late night pick-up band; Toni Scruggs, Ken Lenga, Mat Marucci and Aaron Garner.

Thanks to Peter Vawter for arranging and transporting the late night surprise band.

And what about our DJ’s ?!?! Way too much inspiring music, you all made it impossible to sit down. Thank you so very much for your time and talent, we worship you! Opeyemi Ajojoe, Sharon Ashe, Bill Borgida, Reuben Brown, Chris Chapman, Collin Fok, Eric Hedman, Heather Jernigan, Larry Kang, Chad Kubo, Ron Leslie, Jeremy Lewis, Jesse Miner, Paul Overton, Lawrence Page, Harry Saito, Jenn Salvadori, Kyle Smith, Manu Smith, Kevin Tamura, Adriana Vivacqua, Ken Watanabe, Dave Wong, Rich Wons, Shana Worel and Justin Zillman. Of course extra special thanks to Jesse Miner for organizing this incredible line up of DJ’s.

Danke to Dave Wong and Ken Watanabe for the super long Lindy in the Park and hilarious swing karaoke. LitP rocks!!!!

Thank you NCLS for sponsoring and organizing one kick butt barbeque and working so hard to put it together. Special thanks you Naomi Walenta and Alex Harui. Arigato gozaimas to all of NCLS who helped create this event; Belinda Ricklefs, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Walenta, Cary Tucker, Dave Wong, Keena Beckmann, Kevin Takenaga, Margie Winn, Michelle Rehbein, and all of your volunteers.

Grazie, Jeremy Sutton and Move to the Grove for the welcoming night extravaganza.

Special thanks to the hardworking and helpful staff of Metronome, Cocomo and the Regency.

Thanks to Paul and Sharon again for keeping the 9:20 Special open until 1 am on Thursday and for loaning us of your water jugs and for all of the support and help you gave us with announcements and flyers.

Thanks also to Broadway Studios for opening their doors on Wednesday for a special event that kept us dancing all week. Thanks Tanoa, Julie, Jenna, Francesca and all the rest of Broadway Studios for making this happen and giving everyone a non-stop dancing week.

Plus thanks to all the folks who contributed equipment to the Lindy Olympics and helped out with the games and extra thanks to Kyle and Sarah for organizing the special Hey DJ! Name That Tune game.

Mucho thanks to A2 for showing such team spirit and awesome t-shirts, and to California Zoo and the Britney Spears Fan Club for also joining in on the games. Congratulations to all of our Lindy-O-Lympics winners and to Natasha Roseberry and Debbie Gitt, the winners of the Slalom jig walk, and to Dexter Santos for winning the Name That Tune game. Hooray also to Dave and Amanda for introducing Lindy Hoop to the world!

Salamat Po to all who hooked us up with pjs and fuzzy slippers. Our feet are much happier now and we loved the wine and flowers, too!

Thanks to Elliott Donnelley for helping scout out venues and for all of your early work and ideas.

Kisses and hugs to Claudine Co for keeping the world alerted to SFLX news via email and personal contact.

And on a more personal note, thanks to Rob Wooldridge, Seth Jennings and Peter Vawter who were our backbones and kept the three of us sane.

Lastly, thank YOU for coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lindy Love to you all,

The SFLX crew - Cianna, Maggie and Megan

Okay that was more than a minute. We can’t believe you’re still reading this. Really, we think we thanked everyone. Oh yeah okay, we forgot one. All of you wonderful people who left shoes, bags, sweaty t-shirts, dirty socks, keys, thank you for adding to our SFLX memorabilia, we love them all. Oh, you want them back? Fine, be that way. Contact me at sflxmegan@hotmail.com with what you lost and we’ll try to get it back to you. We’ll also put up a list of goods that were left over in the lost and found.