Pine Nuts with McAvoy Layne: Louis Prima and the summer of 1961 at Lake Tahoe
By McAvoy Layne On my way to college away back in the last century, I landed a summer job that a boy could only dream of having, "lifeguard at the Sands, South Shore, Lake Tahoe." So it was with a broad smile that I drove my â55 Chevy to the lake and found a room to rent for those three months of summer, 1961. I arrived at dawn to my first day on the job, to clean the pool, and remember the spectacle of sunshine as it bounced off the walls of the Tahoe Basin and into the pool. I was in awe, and ever so grateful to have such a slack-key job. Soon enough the sun...