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Does anyone out there have The Chet Atkins Fan Club Newsletter #1
from the 50's?
Phil

Phil, do you find anyone your age who is so into all of this like you are? I'm always so impressed with your enthusiasm at such a young age! I was the same but then so were so many others of my generation around me. Now we've all grown older and many of us remain enthusiastic but it's sad to see the slow disappearance of what used to be so current. You give me comfort that it isn't all fading away.

We need to start a full hunt for that. I think Chet got them so maybe his daughter Merle
might find them in some of Chet's stuff. Just an idea.

And does anyone have the #10 ??
Regards, Jean-Luc

Newsletter number one from the original fab club, I think, was printing on the old printing system with the purple lettering and probably did not hold up to time. I have copies or photocopies of all except number 1. Ted Walters let me borrow his copies one time to copy from. Number 2 was his earliest copy. I think Al Baggeta has copies of all of them except # 1 as well. I sent him copies to scan when he was doing his research on the newsletters.
Thanks, Jere

I have scanned copies of them from 2 to the last. However 10 was a copied file in black and white.
I have been working on reassembling it in Word and finding the photos where possible.

"purple lettering"

You really date yourself if you can remember the smell of the ink in the mimeograph machines they used in school...

From that to laser jet desktop printers....

Hey guys,

The old purple ink DITTO machine was an item whose demise could not come soon enough! You haven't lived until you have experienced the "joy" of writing a piece of music on a 'ditto master' . What was called "correction fluid" was a horrible joke. The razor blade was the only thing that would help correct an error. The mimeograph machine was another nightmare in and of itself. When the photo copy machine first "enrolled in kindergarten", the copyright laws became very well known to the music teachers in the public schools. By the time the copy machine became the printer for all the computers, "graduation time" had arrived! Isn't it great getting old?

Paul Storm, Caledonia, Michigan

The newsletters are in PDF format on the Web page of Al Bagetta except #1 and #10
Jean-Luc
http://208.68.104.115/baggetta/ChetAtki ... arNews.htm