August-24th Saturday, Projected to be a social lunchion only at China Inn, Castle Hills. More information forthcoming from the Activities Committee.

September-18th WEDNESDAY! Cruise to Commemorative Air Force San Marcos on 18 September WEDNESDAY-11am. Lunch in San Marcos first at Chuy's Restaurant. Cannot visit on a Saturday due to WWII Aircraft not being there as they are flown to other air events on weekends. Full details have been emailed to members.

October-to be discussed by Activities Committee.

November-normally a month with no meeting due to Thanksgiving but there are several events earlier in November that we may want to attend.

December-Christmas Party? YES!!! STTC Members vote to keep this tradition. Committee to determine when & where. More information to follow.

Thanks to all who participated in our In-Town visit to new members John & Pam Talbot and their Neon Sign & Player Piano Restoration facility after our July 27th Business Meeting! If you missed attending, you missed a lot to see regarding his great display of collectable gas, oil, and other signs. Not to mention his excellent collection of Player Piano's and Nickelodeons! He demonstrated how the Player Piano's work with their rolls of sheet music installed. I remember as a child that my family had one and I remember watching it play itself from the music roll you installed in it. In fact, I started learning how to play the piano on it. Then he demonstrated one of several of his Nickelodeons with its built in percussion and other musical instruments. These are fairly new devices that some companies have been buying to entertain their customers. John told us those Nickelodeons contain some 20,000 pieces of music installed on an internal hard drive! We enjoyed watching it play and I was able to record a very short video clip of it. Watch the keyboard as it plays itself! It had been thought by some that his facility, which does not have AC, would be to hot to attend, but that was not the case with the many and big fans he has in it to keep us cool which it did. He provided a lot of sausages wrapped in a flour tortilla, with potato salad which were very good, along with free soft drinks. We thoroughly enjoyed the visit and he has invited us to come back later in the year or next year during a cooler part of the year. See the included very short video of the Nickelodeon play (which are created by QRS Music starting about 5 years ago). They also market player piano's and the music rolls needed to make them work. Go to their website, Click on the top video to view it and scroll down to the second one to hear it play. QRS Music Then the other video. Info on the Nickelodeons by QRS. QRS Nickelodeons! Here are a few Photos as to what we enjoyed seeing during our visit, with a lot more to come in the next STTC Newsletter. View the very short video I took from my cellphone. I wish I had continued recording longer, but I was trying to keep the size of the video down. Click on the little [] in the Task bar to go Full Screen.