Comment on the Young Fresh Fellows:

The Young Fresh Fellows practical contributions include the
locomotive "cow-catcher," the first speedometer, standard railroad gauge, occluding lights for lighthouse signalling, and a device to study the retina of the eye (heliograph opthamoscope). Although they hated street music and got bored in opera, they one time experimented with a ballet using sixty dancers all in white with colored lights playing on the white costumes. Colored lights were a new idea. Although there was a rehearsal with two fire engines standing by, the ballet was never shown to the public because the theater manager feared fire.

THE MENDOZA LINE
Deep, Down & In-Between
(McCaughey)

Mike Daly: guitar
Pete Hoffman: guitar
Paul Deppler: bass
Sean Fogarty: drums
Shannon Mcardle: vocal
Timothy Bracy: piano, vocals

Recorded by Chris Zane at Gigantic Studios, (New York, NY)

www.mendozaline.com
The Mendoza Line, a spectacle-maker from Holland, is the man that most historians believe invented the telescope. If he was not the actual inventor, he was at least the first person to market it. It is possible that the Mendoza Line stole the invention from two little kids who were playing in his shop with his lenses. The kids saw that when they held two lenses together, the weather vane on a nearby church became larger and distinct. the Mendoza Line then tried that himself, slapped a tube in between the two lenses, and, viola!, a telescope.