This is the story about how we identified the photos of
Hamilton Streetcar.
We have a place on our site where we have listed all of the names of groups that we believe we have photos. This information is based on the notes that Doug left with the photos. You can view this listing
here. One of the groups we believed we had photos of was Hamilton Streetcar.
Connie did not know a thing about them nor did I. On several occasions we tried to find something about them on the Web... but no photos of the players were available. One day in 2006 we receive an email from
John Burge who identified himself as "
Ian Hamilton" from the group Hamilton Streetcar. He had found us on the Web and saw that we claimed to have photos of his old group. We explained our situation and that our information (from Doug's notes) said that the group had played with The Doors and the Sunshine Company at the Phoenix Memorial Coliseum on 2/17/68. He confirmed that information.
We were pretty excited. We came up with a plan to put the photos up that were from that concert on a private viewing page so that he could identify his band. Of course, he agreed and the rest is, as they say, history!
Since then, another member of the group,
Michael Georgiades, has been in touch with us and added some information to our gallery. We like to think that we have contributed a bit to Rock and Roll history with our efforts. As far as I know... we have the only live performance shots of Hamilton Streetcar on the Web. Pretty cool!
Next time I'll tell you about how we recently were able to identify photos of The Beans.
Until then...
Rock On!
Noel & Connie
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