I was born in Newark, California. Thats about 30 minutes away from San Francisco, across the bay bridge and southeast. My parents divorced when I was so young I couldn't remember it. Early on my father rented a room in an old hotel where Charley Chaplin used to stay when Niles was the "Hollywood" of the silent film era.
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Now there's a small theater at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. The have many silent movies sheduled to be shown there, see the links below...
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http://nilesfilmmuseum.org/
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http://nilesfilmmuseum.org/movies.htm
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My wife, Wendy, is going to have a booth at the Niles 46th Annual Antique Fair and Flea Market, on August 29, 2010 from 6:00am to 4:00pm. She's going to sell her ceramic works.
I wanted to create this blog as a place where I can store and retrieve information for future reference. I chose the name Humble Uker Ramblings because I have started out strumming my father's 1950's painted Harmony ukulele. I think that the greatest appeal of the ukulele as "the people's instrument" is it's humble simplicity. My contact email is HumbleUker@gmail.com. I have also been working on a blog for the Baritone Ukulele called Humble Baritonics.
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