Sad to report that Arnold "Arnie" Panitch [[aka Jjaba) died just a couple months ago.
https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obit...ry?id=53620805
His DYes handle Jjaba was derived from the first initials of the names of his three children, his wife, and himself: Joel, Jason, Adam, Barbara, Arnold.
Back in 2007, he honored me with a selection of postcards in honor of my 2000th DYes post. Just weeks later I sent him a prize honoring his 5000th DYes post.
Thats tragic. That answers my question. I used to love his wit and humor.
Hey old timer... Remember how Jjaba used to talk in the 3rd person about himself... it was one of the things that made him such a colorful character! As I mentioned to Kathleen... Jjaba used to reminisce going to Tiger games with his girlfriend... where "he kissed her on the strikes, and she kissed him on the balls"!!
Last edited by Gistok; January-16-24 at 09:13 PM.
Thank you Lowell! As I mentioned in another thread Detroityes is a great reference point for historical information for Detroit! Happy New Year!
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