FIRST FRIDAY - BOHEMIAN GALLERY

Friday, August 6, 2004, Page 4

Here is another Bill Williams photo collage. Subject here is the world famous jazz/blues master, Jay McShann.

This is the first of several photos in what I am calling for now, the Vaudeville Room. I understand that all of these shots are of Kansas City vaudeville type people who were here in the 1910 - 1930 timeframe. Many of them, you would know as they left KC and made big names for themselves. The photographer is Orval Hixon. Mr. Hixon's son was in the room last night explaining many of the photos and the processes his father used to make these wonderful shots.

This is a self portrait of the photographer, Orval Hixon.

Here you see the camera Mr. Hixon used. His son is standing on the right - the guy with a beard.