Bristol Mod Scooter Club

Posted: **Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:09 pm**

OK all of you trivia freaks. Why is "STAX" actually called "Stax"??

Answers below please.

Chris

Posted: **Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:37 pm**

founded by Jim Stewart and sister Estelle Axton hence STAX :stomp:

Posted: **Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:32 am**

ain't Google wonderful :-D

Yep- correct

Posted: **Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:36 am**

Cus they have "stax" of great records ??? lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stax_Records

Ah the mighty power of the internet !!!

Posted: **Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:33 pm**

Chris Powell wrote:ain't Google wonderful

Yep- correct

thats why triva questions on here are a waste of time to be honest, everyone just uses google to find answers :roll:

Posted: **Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:23 pm**

where would we be without it !!! :wave:

Posted: **Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:43 am**

OK smartasses!!!

This one won't be on Google:-

What was the entrance fee IN OLD MONEY, to get into The Locarno Ballroom on Monday nights back in 1967?

Chris

Posted: **Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:12 am**

Complete guess, as these days I can`t remember what happened last week, let alone 40 years ago!

2bob? or perhaps 2/6?

Posted: **Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:17 am**

Posted: **Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:17 pm**

1 shilling and sixpence but like Steve a bit of a guess as I didnt come back to Bristol till 1968. :stomp:

Posted: **Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:05 pm**

Posted: **Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:35 pm**

Hi Chris

When i visited The Locarno on a Monday night (1967) the entrance fee was 3s6d.

Dave M

Posted: **Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:00 pm**

First Prize to Dave Merchant :clapping:

Spot on..........3/6d in old money (17.5p)

Posted: **Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:35 pm**

Bl**dy Hell Dave! How did you remember that? It was 43 years ago!

Now give us a list of the girls you met there. Names, Addresses, Tel numbers.......................

Posted: **Sat May 01, 2010 8:34 am**

Steve Holloway wrote:Bl**dy Hell Dave! How did you remember that? It was 43 years ago!

Now give us a list of the girls you met there. Names, Addresses, Tel numbers.......................

That could end up very interesting! Any cross references??

I'll start:-

Lynne Yerbury- Bedminster
Carol Thomas- Bedminster Down
Gerry (no not ours)- went to a party at her place, bottom of Kings Head Lane
Christine Mitchell- Bedminster Down

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Stax Records- trivia question.....NOW LOCARNO BASED Q

Stax Records- trivia question.....NOW LOCARNO BASED Q