Unable to do anything actually constructive this evening, I have been wasting lots of time on WWL television's 50th anniversary web page. I've been wasting hours strolling down video memory lane, including revisiting the John Pela Show, New Orleans' local teen music-and-dance show, for the first time in well over 30 years.
ABOVE IS A STILL from the early-'60s incarnation of the Pela show, where you see Channel 4's affable host presiding over the musical undulations of the very young Vic 'n Nat'ly, Vic 'n Nat'ly, Vic 'n Nat'ly, Vic 'n Nat'ly Vic 'n Nat'ly, Vic 'n Nat'ly and . . . Vic 'n Nat'ly.
Here's a latter-day picture of the young sweethearts, now four decades older, a lot grayer and living in a FEMA trailer in front of their upper Ninth Ward house, which they've had gutted for a year and a half but are waiting on Road Home money to finish renovating.Nat'ly is hoping that she'll be able to choose avocado green as a color option when she buys her new kitchen appliances.
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