Most weekends when the weather was fine our very large, friendly balloon man would be seen walking up and down the street with a huge cluster of balloons saying "Make the ladies happy...make the children happy" in his booming baritone.
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They are big, they are beau-ti-ful, the beautiful balloons, with LOVE and DAISIES, to decorate! They make the ladies hap-py, make the children hap-py! When you make the lit-tle ones hap-py, then everyone's hap-py! PICK them up, GET them now. Don't forget to make the lit-tle ones hap-py! They are big, they are beau-ti-ful, the beautiful balloons...
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I were just talking about the Balloon Man of Georgetown in the car when my Blackberry rattled that someone had commented on my blog. Wouldn't you just know it? It was your post about the Balloon Man; thanks for the memory.
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"make the ladies happy, make the children happy"
ReplyDeleteMy God! I remember the Balloon Man well from Dupont Circle to P-street 'beach' to Wisconsin and M Street.
I've lived in Los Angeles most of my adult life and was telling my better half about my wild days in Georgetown. The Balloon Man was a fixture -
There was a story, perhaps and urban myth, that the balloon man (I remember him well, used to work at Prospect and Wisconsin, saw him every day at lunch) used the balloons as a front for selling drugs. Someone would come up, buy a balloon and hand him money. He got busted around 1976. Never saw him actually sell a balloon. Did anyone ever see him after the mid-70s?
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