You may remember former WAPL personality Roc Dawg. Or perhaps you know him as Toeknee V from his years as video jock and manager at Mill Creek in downtown Appleton. Or maybe you know him as Tony Van Elzen from Kimberly. Well, Tony now runs the awesome-looking Vintage Rock Club in New Orleans. When Ida hit, Tony was in his apartment on the top floor of a 21 story building just up the street from the Karnofsky Store.
The store was built in 1913 and was originally a tailor shop and home to a family that took in a young Louis Armstrong when he didn’t have much of a family of his own. Louis lived and worked there and the family loaned him the money to buy his first horn. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places. Their son eventually converted it into a music store.
Sunday the building totally collapsed under Ida’s heavy winds. Roc Dawg captured the historic building’s final moments as the last wall came tumbling down.
For the record, Tony survived his first hurricane but, like most people in the area, is still coping without electricity.
If you’d like to help folks in the New Orleans area impacted by Ida, a good way to do so is by donating to Chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen whose emergency food responders are working to feed thousands who are currently without food and/or without places to refrigerate or cook it.
You may remember WAPL personality Roc Dawg/Toenee V/Tony Van Elzen. Tony now lives in New Orleans & shot video of the last moments of one of Louis Armstrong‘s boyhood home as it was toppled by Ida. pic.twitter.com/bncbLYVLJ9
— Rick McNeal on WAPL (@RickMcNealWAPL) September 2, 2021
