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I worked with Jimmy at the Second Story back in the lat seventies and early eighties. He was a great guy, and a good friend. He is still greatly missed.

Jimmy was my older brother and while he was "the best" with lights, I was on the DJ side. I learned, in my youth from watching Philly's best: Frankie Goodman, Frankie (Who) Sestito, and Billy Kennedy. My childhood friend, Robbie Tronco, also became well know wordwide.

I'd like to place some comments here from one of the DJs that worked with Jimmy for a long time at The Second Story, "Jimmy Del was a complete lighting and club atmosphere genius. I was lucky to work shoulder to shoulder with him from the day the story opened till it closed.. He never missed a beat..ever...He was the master of the "flash cube" and remember.. he did that whole show with two controllers, manual switching and a foot pedel..there was never a pin beam or gel out of place...and how he controled the giant mirror ball was an art in itself..
He is sorely missed by all, he was the light person eveyone wanted to be and every dj wanted Jimmyto be there as their light person..."

When I worked with Jimmy we used to discuss where we would use the flashcube every Saturday night. We would come in the Second Story early and listen to the song that we had decided on and made sure we had the timing right. When the time came to use the song I would let Jimmy know and he went to work. In anticipation he would slowly bring down all the lights and at precisely the right beat when the club was almost totally dark he would set off the flashcube. Since he had the flashcube set up around the mirrored ball the effect made it seem like the entire dance floor had just flashed on and off. It was awesome!!! Everyone would explode into screams and it gave the entire club an incredible rush. He never once missed it. His timing was always right on the money.
I also worked with Jimmy at Discovery and when he took over as manager of Raffles he hired me to play for him one night a week.
He was a good friend and I've missed him for a long time.

I worked at Equus and remember Jimmie Well. My brother and I both worked at Equus as barbacks.

My brother passed away in March of 1989 the same year Jimmie passed away.

Jimmie was a great guy and a very caring person and I miss him very much.

Cajunmoon (sorry don't know your name) thanks for making my day and continuing Jimmy's memory. Sorry to hear about your brother... it's incredible how fast time passes, isn't it? All the best to you, DEL (Robert Del Femine)