Ingrid Croce, San Diego Women's Hall of Fame, 2012
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- After a career as a musician and performer and the tragic death of her husband, songwriter Jim Croce, Ingrid found ways to flourish in San Diego, becoming a self-made entrepreneur, restaurateur, author, publisher and philanthropist. Starting in the early 1970's she led the movement to revamp San Diego's run-down historic Gaslamp district. In 1985, she opened Croce's Restaurant and Jazz Bar at the corner of 5th and F in honor of her late husband. Her passion for San Diego's Gaslamp, led her to launch one of the most successful events in San Diego History-San Diego Restaurant Week. Continuing her community efforts, Ingrid helped raise $250,000 for the prevention of life threatening diseases in pediatrics. Her efforts in raising such a large sum earned her the City of Hope's Spirit of Life Award, the highest philanthropic honor bestowed by them. Ingrid also reached out to the community through the production of A Celebration of Women Chefs, developing a Food Service, Hospitality and Tourism curriculum for the SD Unified School District and Mesa College, working with the Center for Community Solutions to help rape crisis and domestic violence victims, and raising money for AIDS organizations through Croce, Rock, Nelson Productions. In 2005 Ingrid established Avalanche Records and Books, creating and authoring Time In A Bottle, The San Diego Restaurant Cookbook and Thyme In A Bottle. She has served as co-producer and producer on several projects including: VH1's Behind the Music special on Jim Croce, Have You Heard Jim Croce Live DVD, TNN's The Jim Croce Life & Times, and three CDs: Jim Croce, Home Recordings, Americana; Facets; and Have You Heard Jim Croce Live.
Lets get Jim Croce into the Music Hall of Fame.
✔💯💖
The best musicians don't always get their ...its all about money , hype , hype money at the end of the day..
He should have been in the Hall of Fame, a Hell of a long time ago, like I keep saying they put people in that don't belong in there and the icons like Jim and Tommy Bolin are forgotten. I don't recognize them as a true rock and roll hall of fame. They are pathetic period.
needs to happen
I worked for her as a bouncer when I was young. I'll never forget the stories she told me about her and Jim in their travels. She's awesome!.. Such a wonderful person. The kind of person that brings out the best in you. I often think about her in those stories
She has done a tremendous job keeping Jim's memory and legacy alive, as well as her own excellence as a restauranteur.
Bravo!
and a gorgeous son
Still listening to Jim in Australia in 2021. Thank you for the beautiful songs.
Just let us know when you're going to put a shrimp on the barby so we can raise a glass of beer in your honor!
Same here, but its now June '22, that means Ive been listening to Jim Croce's stuff for 49 years and it sounds just as good now as it did then, plus I also ended up with a partner who lives with me in Australia who was born and raised in San Diego ! ..... WOW, where has that time gone ?
I have enjoyed Jims music since i was in Highschool in 73. His songs helped make me the person i am today. Am looking forward to visiting their restaurant in the future and where he is buried also . He really had a good influence on me. Thanks Jim and Ingrid.
such a classy girl! long live the croces!
Jim Croce was really very talented gone too soon so tragically , at the age of 30. Ingrid and Jim I believe were dreamers and that is why she found her notch despite her loss and turned it into something positive. Wonderful way to carry Jim 's legacy.
Big fan of Jim. Enjoyed your book about Jim. I admire your strength.
You can tell she's a Awesome lady total class
Ingrid great utube video,your a great lady,! Met Jim at a local pub in Delco,Pa ( The RiddlePadock ) I worked for Wicks ski shop, we Sold Jim his hiking boots at the Chester county store. Wanted to meet u and AJ.in San Diego at your Resturant, just stop and say Hell Lo, but u closed younResturant! my daughter lives SD. God bless you and AJ . Thanks so much, what a great singer&song righter,My wife and I live in CAPE MAY nJ . God bless and keep safe!,
*God bless you Ingrid* . I am Very proud of your accomplishments! And you know Jim is still looking down from Heaven giving you the thumbs up! 👍
I too was devastated at the loss of *Jim Croce* back in 1973.I was a teen-ager just getting into his awesome music! Here we are 48 years later
and his music is still fresh as the day he released it!!! Thanks for keeping his memory alive! ✝💒🤎🥰☮🕊
What a wonderful lady! Jim Croce was always one of my favorites!
You got that right 👍 period I was blessed growing up in the sixties and seventies and listened to the true icons of Rock and Roll like Jim and Tommy Bolin and Other Bands that should have been inducted.
So very sorry to hear that Jim Croce died that day. I was devasted and can only imagine what you went through. Thanks for a few short years of his music and inspiration.
My favorite guy is Jim Croce. Glad to see the Croce family has done so well. My best love and wishes to them all!👍😎🥰
Ingrid , GOD bless you & yours always . You're precious & beautiful . --- Ray Shuler & The Doors --- 74 yr. old 24 / 7 Locksmith ------- 3 / 5 / 2023 -----
Congrats..I met you a few times once at the restaurant at Gaslamp square where all the Jim Croce stuff was and once at the new restaurant up on the Hill, You sat and chatted with me while I ate a steak with some sort of re topping.I never forgot that. You looked the same as you di on the album covers and was nice and humble. Lovely and beautiful lady.Thank you again..I got an autographed book that I still have today..I learned to play guitar and only know Jim's stuff..sorry I never got to see him.
Admiration. Inspiration. Love. Just words that come to mind when listening to Ingrid. I just learned to play “Operator” on my guitar. My next goal is to come to San Diego with my husband and eat at Croce’s (Ingrid’s restaurante). 😌
Great share for everyone who searches and really wants to be found. I remember standing at a pay phone on the coast of Mississippi calling a girlfriend that was far away. I got the "no one to take your call." The Jim Croce song "Operator," came to mind. I realized that maybe I wasn't calling the right number. The number I can call anytime or anywhere I want to grow. Listening to this interview was a refreshing reminder to continue calling. .
A wonderful woman! 😊
What a peach!! Kindred spirits have strenght because they not only feed their heart but, they also feed their soul!! People need to feed their soul!! Continued blessings Ingrid to your son A.J & grandchildren as well ❤
what a beautiful women so full of life....such an inspiration
Thank you very much dear Ingrid for share your story., I start to play guitar and bass listening Jim Croce music. Best wishes for you and your family. I'm a big fan of Jim
So great so missed what a beautiful talented family...
She has it. I wish there were more like her.
I still have an 8 track of this lady and her husband. Big Fan!
Have just discovered the music that Ingrid and Jim made together, all of those years ago. Such beautiful harmonies, and Ingrid has a lovely voice 🌹
Love you Ingrid. You have a wonderful positive energy. It was always there and still was when I ran in to you on the Laurel Street Bridge a month ago.
Get out of your head (doubts) and rely on your heart. Well said.
this year in august song operator 50th happy birthay its a great success greetinfg from Mexico
💘. I'm a twin and my twin was the Tom boy too. We grew up with Croce music. Being a me back in time now to my childhood with my parents.
Jim’s music inspired me. I wrote way down by the River in his memory. I’m grateful for the songs he left us! My favorite it doesn’t have to be that way...
What a wonderful woman she is ~~ a great inspiration!!
thank you for sharing. Operator was such a big hit with phone company employees and their families. Happy memories thank you
I have an album by you and Jim that is one of my faves! Purchased it at A&P. Love you both!
Still tapping and singing in 2022...
I adore Jim Croce's music. I always feel better listening to him. He was such a storyteller with great music and that sense of humor!
Thank you Ingrid you are a inspiration to me needed to hear that.
On point!! 😀😎
Hello ingred... this is jack .worked for you and Eddie back in the 90s...miss you all and san diego
She like Jim is amazing !! The thing people have to remember is that Jim and Ingrid worked HARD on their goals .
Things didnt just fall into their lap they worked on there songs she worked at making her resturant a success !! Sometimes talent is spelled W-O-R-K !
What a beautiful soul 💖
Wow excelente gracias por compartir un fuerte abrazo desde Mexicali BC 🌹 felicidades 🌹
"Time in a bottle" hit me very young. I had to hear the whole Croce songbook. Ingrid is terrific, not to mention son A.J. Inspirational in their own ways ..
what a amazing person im a huge fan of Jim his music has played a huge roll on my music i was in her place a few years ago and was lucky enough to meet ingrid she just has this presents that takes a room when she enters it would love to go there again someday you go girl lol
Croce's should be re-opened permanently and Internationally recognized as a Musical Arts Starts and Advancing Facility / Restaurant
Wow,
That's inspiring...
🙏
Enjoyed your talk. B
Wow how can there be a thumbs down
Beautiful woman.
He who knows it feels it. Row , row your boat gently down the stream.
An amazing woman!!
Rest in Peace, Jim, and Ingrid...YOU GO GIRL!!HELLO,, INGRID! All my friends make fun of me when I say "Sometime, Somewhere, Someone' is gonna look back on Jim's influence with SONGS written to Jim Croche's wonderfully new (in the 70's) chord charts, and is going to do what I did on "You Used to be my Lover"---This is not an advertisement for ME, this I MY MEMORAL TO Jim. of HIM---The chords were the same, exact chords as Jim so carefully played behind is melody of " I'll Have to say I Love You in a Song"> Allot of who were self-taught, would take his chords and HONESTLY APPLY OUR OWN LYRICS., sometimes just as an exercise! If you took my track and sang his song along with that same track (hard to do because I'm singing the lyrics and playing guitar simultaneously, on the same track ) You could hear Jim's lyrics coming through too! I've never stolen a song in my life---but this song IS Jim's backup, totally, try it sometime! I probably had my strings all tuned down a step, as I used slinky steel and still used to have trouble holdin' em down. Even Jim's backup harmony was uniquely executed and made other harmonies of his time, a bit bland to me!Someday I'd like to play that song for INGRID. I had all of the albums recorded by Jim and Ingrid-and lost them in move in simi valley; Didn't mind losing anything in that apt., except or Jim and Ingrid's albumS. I hope someday Ingrid can hear it and...likes it! She knows one cannot copyright CHORDS., but if one could, JIM'S CHORD PROGRESSIONS ( most of them) should have been copyrighted---But I think Jim would not like that-and would want to SHARE with everyone trying to play guitar-And, HE DID! Rest in Peace , Jim Croche!! (By the way, does anyone know where John KNoodle from Detroit, is, these days ? He told me allot about managing Jim. Thanks folks-Please prove my friends opinion of MY HOPES AND DREAMS, null and void and totally wrong! coincidentally, I live in San Diego now---Only our business address as the Illinois Harmony Connection, is still Simi Valley. God how I'd love to speak with you sometime, someday, somewhere . (Gee, I feel a new song comin' on) This one would be about YOU, though.
Yes, and beautiful.
Damn she's beautiful.
I enjoyed the talk also.
I remember contacting you to see if you had the Crazy Eddie interview with Jim. It lasted for days. Jim was a hilarious person.
Jim would be so proud. I hope the royalties from his music have helped her.
Erika , you know that there is another interview that she said that as soon as Jim died the record company offered her 500.000 for all his work , she denied and fought them for 18 years to get the rights to his songs , similar to Jim Morrison but less tragic.
@@elviroyoung5028 wow!!!!! Did she win? Record company"s were so greedy back then
Yeah , I believe thats what happened , perhaps its still on the internet , she won.
I rrealy like Jim.
I wish jim was still here
GOODONYAH MY SISTER!!!
I met Ingrid Croce in the late 80 she was a strong woman I married her son to his wife. Ingrid's son played music my fell as he had extremely poor eyes sight
She looks like Lily Tomlin.
she does!
HELLO,, INGRID! All my friends make fun of me when I say "Sometime, Somewhere, Someone' is gonna look back on Jim's influence with SONGS written to Jim Croche's wonderfully new (in the 70's) chord charts, and is going to do what I did on "You Used to be my Lover"---This is not an advertisement for ME, this I MY MEMORAL TO Jim. of HIM---The chords were the same, exact chords as Jim so carefully played behind is melody of " I'll Have to say I Love You in a Song"> Allot of who were self-taught, would take his chords and HONESTLY APPLY OUR OWN LYRICS., sometimes just as an exercise! If you took my track and sang his song along with that same track (hard to do because I'm singing the lyrics and playing guitar simultaneously, on the same track ) You could hear Jim's lyrics coming through too! I've never stolen a song in my life---but this song IS Jim's backup, totally, try it sometime! I probably had my strings all tuned down a step, as I used slinky steel and still used to have trouble holdin' em down. Even Jim's backup harmony was uniquely executed and made other harmonies of his time, a bit bland to me!Someday I'd like to play that song for INGRID. I had all of the albums recorded by Jim and Ingrid-and lost them in move in simi valley; Didn't mind losing anything in that apt., except or Jim and Ingrid's albumS. I hope someday Ingrid can hear it and...likes it! She knows one cannot copyright CHORDS., but if one could, JIM'S CHORD PROGRESSIONS ( most of them) should have been copyrighted---But I think Jim would not like that-and would want to SHARE with everyone trying to play guitar-And, HE DID! Rest in Peace , Jim Croche!! (By the way, does anyone know where John KNoodle from Detroit, is, these days ? He told me allot about managing Jim. Thanks folks-Please prove my friends opinion of MY HOPES AND DREAMS, null and void and totally wrong! coincidentally, I live in San Diego now---Only our business address as the Illinois Harmony Connection, is still Simi Valley. God how I'd love to speak with you sometime, someday, somewhere . (Gee, I feel a new song comin' on) This one would be about YOU, though.
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Is this woman the reason behind a AJ Croce going blind at the age of 3?
AJ was the victim of her boyfriend. Another "boyfriend" saga.
She was a babe
i think she looks like jim
Dang, I thought that was Lily Tomlin
What about the boyfriend that beat AJ till he was blind ? AJ is Jim Croce's son. Guess that was your kick in the butt. ?
DEP.
She looks like twin sister of Lily Tomlin
I don't understand why she got with a man who beat their son as a 4-year-old until he lost his sight.
Makes ya wish she was your neighbor.
Yeah but, my gut has shit for brains
Did the guy who beat AJ go to prison for that? I'd like to know how all that happened 🙄