| It was a dark and stormy night. Whoops,
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| | contest.Rick and Shawna were more
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| wrong story. It was the early 1980's and
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| | familiar than I with Mrs. Whitney as they
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| my girlfriend and I at the time were
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| | also ran a horse-drawn carriage business
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| hanging out a lot with our good friends
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| | that Marylou had used the services of.
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| Rick and Shawna, the original owners of
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| | The event was to take place at Siros, a
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| Madame Jumels restaurant in Saratoga
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| | popular upscale restaurant and watering
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| Springs, New York. I'm not sure what's
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| | hole near the Saratoga Racetrack.
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| there now, but Madame Jumels was at the
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| | Everyone agreed this would be a blast. As
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| bottom of Caroline Street and quite the
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| | seasoned veterans for several years at
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| popular place in it's day. I was a big
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| | the infamous Bolton Landing Bed Races on
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| fan of the early morning radio show on
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| | Lake George, we had a fair idea on how to
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| WPYX hosted at that time by Bob Mason and
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| | make headlines while having a good time.
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| Bill Sheehan, a gnarly pair of shock
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| | It's kind of a Ratpack thing. Dean
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| jocks known for their over-the-top
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| | Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.,
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| pranks. (It is now known as the Wakin' Up
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| | Peter Lawford and Angie Dickinson; we had
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| With the Wolf show, hosted by Bob
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| | learned from the best. Back when men were
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| Wolfeld.) They came up with the idea of
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| | men...and booze was your buddy. Growing
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| having a Marylou Whitney look-alike
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| | up in the sixties surely had it's
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| contest. For the ill-informed, Marylou
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| | benefits. We set about making our
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| Whitney is the widow of millionaire
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| | strategy.It was decided the horse and
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| Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and a local
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| | carriage would help make our entrance
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| celebrity, socialite, philanthropist, and
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| | memorable. As Rick and Shawna would be
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| all-around nice gal. The thought of
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| | manning the carriage and I was ugly
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| spoofing her in a look-alike contest was
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| | enough as a man, let alone the
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| more than I could stand. I set out to
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| | well-preserved Whitney, that left my
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| talk my friends into joining the
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| | girlfriend to be Marylou.
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