La Capricciosa Polka and St. Raphael's

Reminded of Joe Maggiolo by Phil's recent post, I'll clarify some words handwritten in the upper right corner of La Capricciosa Polka, which appears in Volume 1. What's there is "St. Raphael's Social Hall," and what it refers to was a practice session for Joe's accordion band, made up of about 20 or 30 of his students sometime during the late 1950s.

Yes, accordion bands were around and prospering in those days in San Rafael, and in the handwriting that is just off the page as xeroxed for the book, it notes the date was "May 5th." At the top of the right-hand corner, the piece we evidently were playing is listed: "Carnival of Venice."

Must have been something...