Hudson people are everywhere

I play the euphonium (baritone horn) in the UNLV Community Band. There's an old guy, Stanley Rosen, that sits next to me in my section. We've known each other for at least a year, but our conversations are usually about the music we're playing. Just before the western regional, I told him I was driving my Hudson to San Jose that weekend. "HUDSON??!!" It turns out that Stanley was a member of HET in the 70's and had restored a 1930 Hudson Rumbleseat couple. He sold it in the late 70's or early 80's when he lived in Cleveland and then stopped with the club.

Now it gets stranger.....
Before the San Jose trip, I asked one of the cross country piano movers I use what I should go see in San Jose. He said I should visit his client's store, San Jose Piano. Well, I never made it to his piano store - too many Hudson people to visit with. This past Sunday, Bob Whitmeyer, the owner of San Jose Piano, called me to see if I could help him with getting a piano to one of his clients that moved here to Las Vegas. After we worked out the details, I mentioned that I should have stopped to visit him last week when I was in San Jose for a Hudson meet. "Hudson meet??!! Oh boy, I sure wish some one would have told me about it" To my surprise, Bob has a '54 Super Wasp Hollywood and two Jetliners in his garage plus some parts cars in Oregon. Bob had been in HET in the 70's but had gotten away from it because he got busy with business and life. I had Sam send him a copy of the WTN; Bob said he's going to join HET again.

The moral of the story....tell everyone you run into about Hudsons and HET. You never know who you'll run into.