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Old 11-28-2022, 10:29 AM
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Default Ike and Tina Turner Revue

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Happy Birthday this November 26, 2022 to Tina Turner.

It was late 1969 or early 1970, and I was a US Navy Reactor Operator working swing shift in the engine room aboard the USS Bainbridge (DLGN 25). We were in port at Long Beach Naval Shipyard between West Pac cruises. Sharing an apartment “on the beach” with two other guys, I was headed home after my shift, driving through the dark and dingy superstructure of the rail bridges fronting the shipyard when I passed a local bar tucked away between the steel girder supports. The marquee read “Ike and Tina Turner Revue”. I immediately wheeled around, pulled into the parking lot and went inside. Amazing. There they were - complete with the Ikettes, performing at a local bar in bowels of Long Beach, CA - right the middle of one of their world tours. It was one of those rare, amazing and unexpected coincidences we all have experienced that have enriched our lives in this great country. I made that night.