Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Narrowing Down Paul's Apparent "Underwear" Incident

In the September 27th. (2012) post I talked about the Los Angeles radio station's fan magazine KRLABeat's July 2, 1966 column describing a "dream" about Paul running in his underwear into "a posh fountain in front of a posh bank."  I went researching and I believe I've found the bank and the fountain mentioned in the column's "dream."

I posted the lyrics to Procol Harum's Lime Street Blues in the June 19, 2012 post.  The song talks about a man (who I believe is Paul) being arrested.  So I started looking for a bank and fountain near Lime Street.

In the book, Seaport  Architecture & Townscape in Liverpool by Quentin Hughes (Percy Lund, Humphies & Co Ltd, 1964), Hughes described the area in Liverpool in 1964 that had the main civic buildings (See map from book on below right.)  In the upper right hand corner of the map is a little island bounded by LIME STREET, William Brown Street, and Islington.  On that island is the Duke of Wellington monument and the little circle in front of it on the map is the STEBLE FOUNTAIN.
(See photo below).  On Page 104 of the Seascape book, Hughes says:  "Along the east side all pretence at monumental grandeur ends and the Wellington monument stands against a row of mean buildings relieved only by the small-scale stone facade of a branch of the MIDLAND BANK."
It looks like this was the site of Paul's "incident."  The next thing to find is more details of it.
 
                                              

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