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PG has been blogging for almost four years. There have been a total of 937, about a variety of topics. The one missing subject is tall awareness.
PG is 6’5″ tall. This is also 196 cm, or 5’17”. He has never played team basketball, and cannot remember the last time he watched a game. Ceiling fans do make him nervous, as do doorways in old buildings.
In 1938, Kae Sumner was a cell painter at Walt Disney Studios. One of her projects had been “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Miss Sumner was 6’2″, and always banging her knees under the desk. Finally, she wrote an article for a Los Angeles newspaper about the perils of being tall, and mentioned that she would like to hear from other tall people. On May 1, 1938, the first meeting of the ” Longfellows Club” was held. This later became the California Tip Toppers, and was the start of Tall Clubs International.
In 1984, PG had heard about the Atlanta Sky Hi club from numerous people. One night in September, he attended a get together at a house in Stone Mountain. He was voted into membership at the November business meeting, and has paid his dues every year since then.
TCI has a convention every year (Atlanta hosted in 1989 and 2000). At this convention, there is a Miss Tall International pageant. When PG joined the Sky Hi Club, Miss TCI® was Anna Rowan, from the Atlanta club.
“The club” did not change PG’s life, but it did make it more fun. It is now known as the Atlanta Tall Club, after years of jokes about the mile high club. ATC is in a slow period now, and there is talk of disbanding it. This has happened before, and somehow it kept going.
Getting back to tall awareness, there is not a whole lot of there there. Numerous celebrities are known for being height enhanced, and maybe a historic event or two was influenced. PG promises to do research on the subject, and have a suitable post about tall awareness before the end of the world.