george canyon. george canyon, whom i met in birmingham, alabama, loves to start his shows occasionally by singing "ring of fire" as a tribute to johnny cash. now, we've often heard about great artists--in the country field especially, like cash, like others--that they're just like us. they're good, down home people singing about real life. and certainly in country music that's truer than in opera and in many other areas of music, but it's not always true that somebody who gets that much admiration and adulation can stay a truly simple person, but george canyon has, and you'll be convinced of that the minute he starts talking, which is right now. george canyon, i have heard of paying dues, but you have been a bill collector, a hospital-- - oh, yeah. i forgot about that. - a hospital orderly, a beef inspector. let's go through some of these. how did you collect bills? - i didn't. i was terrible at it, so i didn't do it. i didn't keep that job. - what was it, though? - it was, you know, collection agen

he sang a duet with george canyon. - he was wonderful, he was wonderful. and josh has a cognitive disability, and somehow, some way, he knew every word to every song. - i'm told he knows all of elvis. - yeah, everything of elvis. - you can just say the title, and-- - we have on elvis' birthday in january--we've had it for several years--an elvis impersonator come out, and it was... it is a blast. i mean, everybody's up dancing. everybody loves elvis. - and josh performs. - and josh performs. and a lot of other josh's who are up there, and of course there's elvis walking around giving out his scarves to people, and then being a part of it. and it's... it's fun. it is just fun. - and as i went around looking for the washroom, i see these lockers, and some of them had poems on them and prayers. there were a couple of prayers. very nice prayers. that's spontaneous? that's not something... i mean, it's obviously... - that's those individuals. that's their lockers. it's just like our business locker. we encourage things like that. they're full of expression. we

george green who's a second generation built the truckdaro club house. there was a hotel then. it was said this was the place to go if you were weary of the dirty city and the police. there were a couple of gun fights the front door has bullet holes. i don't ever repair them. 1931 stig mond bought the property from the green family. she donated it to the city of san francisco and had a specification, i'm giving it to the city that will be used forever for the enjoyment forever of the people of the city of san francisco. it has ever since. every summer the stern grove association in san francisco rec and parks put on 10 free concerts. usually people come out at 10 in the morning it's a family affair. everybody is on the lawn with picnics and it's free. anybody can come out. it's a great way to spend a sunday. >> goes to 1-2 in the afternoon and runs until 5. [music]. thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the