Silver Spring, MD, February 18, 2007 - page 3
Heller's Bakery (Mount Pleasant Street, DC) made a cake to look like
the old sign from Merv's 14th Street accordion school.
Photo by Dean Evangelista
The co-conspirators. Photo by Dan Grauman
Joan
and Dan Grauman
Photo by Dan Grauman's
stand-in
Manny
Bobenrieth
Photo by Dan Grauman
Jeff
with his parents in the lobby
Photo by Dan Grauman
Karen
and Joan with the WMAS banner
Photo by Dan
Grauman
Joan shows Merv the
scrapbook she made him to commemorate the event.
Photo
by Dan Grauman's stand-in
Joan and Dale at the WMAS table in the lobby
Photo by Dan Grauman
Merv
said he was turning "78 backwards."
Photo by Dean Evangelista
We never did cut the cake. Instead, Jeff's parents took it --
and several dozen cupcakes -- home to store in the freezer.
We served them at the encore screening a week later.
Photo by Dean Evangelista