Word: pegboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very small boy, to Preservation Hall. Sweet Emma the Bell Gal and Her Dixieland Boys were playing that night. I was nine years old, so it was already late at night when we sat down on folding chairs in the front row. I noticed a small sign on a pegboard wall that said, "Traditional requests $1. Others $2. The Saints $5." My father explained the sign to me, and while the band played a lot of bouncy songs I didn't know, I watched the banjo player and each soloist in turn and waited to hear "When the Saints Come...