Thanks be to Immortal Ephemera for gathering together more info about Wally Van (Charles Wallace Van Nostrand, 1880-1974) than I might otherwise have easily gotten. Born in New Hyde Park, Van had performed in vaudeville as a comedian and singer of dialect songs. He was also a trained electrical and mechanical engineer with an interest […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AM on September 27, 2020