BEAT RED PHONE BOX

Below is the original telephone box used by locals and visitors to the museum and the Two Red Shoes Ballroom. Located by Cooper Park and the top of High Street in Elgin, Scotland, the box is listed although available for multi-use for charities per BT adoption scheme.

You Know My Name [The Beatles]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZndVv-jl-U I am not sure if the Beatles used this phone box when they arrived at Elgin’s Park Café to meet up with promoter Albert Bonici for their January 1963 tour.

Stuart Harris behind Elgin Museum [mid-1970s] . The events that took place between this parking lot and the stage door of Two Red Shoes and the Park Café were “happy days” for those who remember though this guy isn’t the Fonz. Touring musicians parked here to lug equipment up to the stage door located across the street.

The first door to the right of The Park Café, is the door leading up to the Two Red Shoes stage. The photo was been taken standing in front of the telephone kiosk.

You can find articles on many beat bands who visited NE Scotland on SCOTBEAT posts.

Cabaret dancer, Julie La Rosse [later known as an film actress and vocalist] was among dozens of popular entertainers to perform in Elgin on the cabaret circuit.

Bonici and the Two Red Shoes show was hosted by Elgin Museum from 2020 to Spring 2022. The exhibit was previously unfinished during the Corona pandemic lockdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUaiBR9uoIY – “This short video was created to allow remote access to our 2020 displays. It provides a short insight into the fascinating life and times of Albert Bonici – the man who brought The Beatles to Elgin! If you were a fan of the dance halls across the North of Scotland during the “Bonici Years”, please share you memories at http://www.scotbeat.wordpress.com”

One of eight shelves featuring the beat era in the north of Scotland. At the Bonici/Two Red Shoes exhibit, you can see a few of the highlights of the ’60s beat music scene in NE Scotland and this shelf includes a signed copy of the LP produced for Windy Miller band. It was recorded in the hallway of Two Red Shoes and mixed by the Copycat’s Bill Cameron. Included also, is one of the etched images of the Rolling Stones used to promote them in Scotland [produced by Albert Bonici]. When gathering info for scotbeat blog, I learned interesting bits about the Rolling Stones speaking to one of Albert Bonici’s co-promoters, Gordon Hardie. He noted that Mick Jagger was intelligent and well spoken when meeting him in ’64. Coming from a guy who was more of a jazz enthusiast it was heartfelt. The fans in Aberdeen loved the band and when they returned the following years, and some school kids got to see an early show when school buses showed up in 1965.

Exhibit includes the “print blocks” used to design posters and adverts for upcoming shows promoted by Albert Bonici

Some of the artist who appeared at Elgin’s Two Red Shoes Ballroom

The Beatles began their first tour in 1963 at Two Red Shoes Ballroom

The way to the newest Beatles exhibit [not to be confused with London’s Abbey Road].

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