BEE PHOTOS: Turn to The Era’s Web site (bradfordera.com) to
catch some great candid shots of young people at the Scripps
National Spelling Bee held at School Street Junior High.
Photographer Alan Hancock posted the images in our “photo
gallery.”

While we remain somewhat ambivalent about online news ventures,
we must admit that the added “space” on a website allows us to do
some things — like a photo gallery — that would otherwise be
impossible.

OH, ZIPPO: Nancy Houser Kania of North Fort Myers, Fla., came
across a familiar name while working on the New York Times
crossword puzzle in her local newspaper.

“Item 66 Across reads, ‘Part of a Zippo,’ which I knew to be
‘wick’ Then I tried to make Zippo the answer for 39 Across —
‘Company with the stock ticker symbol ZZZ’ only to discover that
the correct answer is Sealy. Gee, I think the company should have
used ZZZ to make it logical. Anyway, it is always fun to find a
Zippo reference pop up. And in good company, too: the NY
Times!”

TWO CONCERTS: Dick Mattison, who as student council president at
Bradford High in the 1960s was instrumental in bringing the Four
Seasons to Bradford, has a post script:

“Since we talked, Frank Sasso and I have also talked on the
phone. He has records of a couple interesting facts about the Four
Seasons concert that I thought you would find very interesting.
Their total cost was $1,400. We charged $1.25 a ticket to be sure
that everyone could afford it.

“We sold out 700 people for each of the two shows. Thus we broke
even, not really trying to make a profit in those days. We didn’t
even have sponsors.

“Frank recalls that they were great ‘young men’ and was wowed by
their powder blue tuxedos at one of the shows.”

On that other concert we wrote about, Jim in Erie says, “Spencer
Davis Group played for the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in
the BAHS auditorium because they only had the Emery Hotel, Emery
Hardware and Hamsher House buildings at the time. “

“It was part of an annual entertainment for a Pitt student
weekend in 1968. Danny Pais was the president of the Pitt Student
Council then. They opened with their then- current hit ‘Gimmie Some
Loving’ and then switched to a country western format.”