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"I could always find a guitar to play."
Now he's found one at the Old Guard in Brick.
"At 80 years of age you can't get too crazy, but there's one guy around here who jumps around like a mosquito," he said.
Largey and Dobish have been attending the dances since they started.
"We like it too," Largey said.
"See, we don't go to the gym.
This is our exercise.
This is our gym."
Compared to the dances Largey attended in Newark and Irvington when she was 18, the dance at the Old Guard fares pretty well.
"They're a little older," she said of the band.
"They're good.
They're very good.
You're lucky if you get a recording.
We were on a cruise ...
and there was a disc jockey.
We asked him if he had any Tommy Dorsey or Benny Goodman and he asked me who that is."
The proceeds from the dances help the Old Guard fund the 10 $500 scholarships the organization gives away annually to high school stude...
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