Larry & Mary.The Song.

Our first date & years later...
When Mary & I married (1000 years ago), her Irish uncle Franny stood before the crowded room of (crazy) Italians to entertain us with Santa Lucia. To the amazement of our guests he performed it with the great gusto of an Irish tenor.

If you were there you never forgot it, if only because his version consisted of three words, repeated throughout the song. The entire room sang with him. Unfortunately video was new, so there is none available of his classic performance. But to this day, guests still sing his version to us. Many years later he performed a brief encore at Mary's family reunion. He has since passed but he left us with a wonderful memory.Click to hear the now infamous encore of Santa Lucia: 
Larry & Mary Song Encore!

His second performance was found captured years before at Susie & Jays wedding.
RECENTLY FOUND! Captured months later at the backyard wedding reception of Mary's sister Susie, Francis Trimble's encore of the Mary & Larry song he performed months earlier at our wedding:

Larry & Mary THE SONG HD
Mary & Larry THE SONG!

 
Performed at Susie's wedding it's a :30 second slide show:
Mary & Larry Song Slide Show

The slide show: Larry & Mary's Wedding

The only footage of our wedding day which occurs before the ceremony. Read the video description to see what it's all about & why it's so dark:Wedding Day of Larry & Mary
Mary's Gown! Listen to Pat describe Mary's gown & 
Jim talk about Larry's vacuum. Mary's Gown
Recently FOUND (READ the description in the video):1982 Baptism Of The Queen (READ the description)

All four of our weddings:
Weddings of Doug Diane Donald Larry Tocci

This is one of my favorite (fake) images. Pictured are Mary & I photographed about the same year. Mary is really in a chair & so am I. Except I'm in Pleasantville & she's in Canada!
The Honeymooners!

Mary would lose an apple under her seat. Only my mother could make that a laughable moment:
Mary's Apple
YEARS later Mary slides into animation. If you like Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas you'll understand:Mary's Slide Mary Slides Again!

Mary Otter

The 80's, Larry on local TV:Struminski Part 1 of 2 (Long Version) Struminski Part 2 of 2 (Long Version) Struminski Part 1 Struminski Part 2 Struminski Part 3 Struminski Part 4 Viewers Outlet Opening
Viewers Outlet GHANDI!

Viewers Outlet Tie Time

The classic:
Agent One

Mary & Loreto = MARETO
A quick mix of 8mm home movies featuring each:

Little Loreto acting badly:

Little Brateto

A quick run through real & well, not so real photos in this Anniversary video.
Can you tell which are the real images?Maybe. Maybe not.

Happy Anniversary

Some things never change. Mary 1978 & about 14 years later....
Marys Wave

WHOOSH!

My parents bought me a 3M /Wollensak cassette player in the 1960's which I still have.
Batteries were not as inexpensive as they are today. I was going through those flashlight batteries as quickly as my mother drained spaghetti. The deck had an input for a special AC adapter, but the "plug," didn't come with it, and I'm sure it was expensive. Why buy a plug when I could make one.
I'm a genius!
I cut an extension cord & splicing the open end I soldered it directly to the input of the cassette deck. I then plugged it in the wall. So far. So good. What could possibly go wrong?I'm a genius!
I was sitting on my bed when I pushed play followed by a sound I'll never forget...
 
Whoosh!

Flames shot out of the wall! 
I mean FLAMES!

The cassette deck caught fire on my bed. A gray cloud of smoke blanketed the room. The wall was covered with black soot about 2 feet above the plug. The deck smelled of burnt plastic.

Like a good Italian I removed all evidence of any wrong doing washing the wall, & opening the windows.

The cassette deck was next. Wait. It still WORKED. Fast forward, rewind, it played too. Except there was no sound. I fried that component. I later told my parents, 
"I dunno what happened. It just died."I never had it repaired, nor did I attempt to do so many years later when I was studying TV/radio repair.
I left it as "EVIDENCE," of my youth. I swear every time I light the bar b q I think of that day.
Now where'd I put those matches?  
Whoosh!
 
This is my 1979 TV: AS OF TODAY 2015 it still works:

1979 Zenith System 3