Terry, did you ever hang out at Nuncio's when you...

[fauxmaha]

...went to Creighton?

Mark's post about EVH guitar hacking linked to an article where he talks about his dad, the clarinet player.

Which got me thinking about Nuncio Pomodoro, owner/operator of Nuncio's Licorice Stick on Cuming Ave near Saddle Creek. 

Around 1978 or so, Nuncio's daughter, Michelle, married the guy, Bob, who was my dad's Production Manager. Through that relationship, we started hanging out at Nuncio's on a fairly regular basis. He'd have (IIRC) monthly jam sessions that always included Luigi Waites on drums.

Nuncio was a killer on the clarinet. Kind of an up-tempo, New Orleans jazz sort of vibe. 

The place was always packed (and packed with smoke...gotta love the '70's) on jam session nights. 

Nuncio is long gone, as is the bar. There's a cafe in the location now:




Anyway, just taking a stroll down memory lane and wondering if that was you I saw over there...

[TKennedy]

Hey Jeff,

We lived on 34th and Cuming in med school and 49th and Underwood a few houses from the Golden Budda when I was an intern and the next year when I worked for a cardiovascular surgeon.

I probably drove by Nuncio’s a million times but was not into jazz at the time and only went in there for a beer maybe twice. My loss as I bet it was a swingin place.

Unfortunately in those days as a married guy with two babies and the all consuming life of a med student we kind of retired from the bar scene. Not to say there were not some great parties at classmate’s apartments and the Phi Rho Sigma house at 40th and Davenport.

I lived there before I got married and there was essentially a nightclub in the basement with a bar and booths. We had a coin operated beer machine. The mailman would time his lunch break so he could go down the basement, sit at the bar, and have a beer.

One afternoon we came back from class and the mail drop box on the corner was open. We found him inside passed out.

You got me reminiscing, sorry😊