The Most Famous Person You've Met

I've met several. Martin Robinson (Marty Robbins) made a yearly trip to my Dad's Chevy dealership to buy a car (s), Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson were longtime golfing buddies of my dad, Sandra Dee, a close school friend of my sister, Sandy Dunkin (we were both being fitted with artifical eyes in Dallas), Dave Dudley and Tom T Hall, from the dog show circuit, Gary Powers - gave him a tour of our General Dynamics Plant in Texas.
 
Lee Greenwood at a bar called vances in Racine
Barry Sadler at a bar called the Country palace in Columbus Ga.
James Garner at the Indy 500
 
I met Hulk Hogan through a mutual friend about 15 years ago. Very nice guy. Seemed real down to earth and not at all pretentious. Also met his wife and remember thinking she was more affected by his fame than he was - kind of like a military officer's wife that thinks the "rank" belongs to her as well.
 
Most Famous

Richard Nixon at Pendleton when the 1stMarDiv came back from Viet Nam
Ronald Regan when he addressed the Tn State Legislature
John Glenn
Alan B. Shepard
Jim Lovell (Apollo 13)
Scott Carpenter
General Stormin Norman Schwartzkopft (Big Man and I'm 6' 1" 240)
Numerous C&W & Opry stars from my time in Nashville
Dick Butkus
Merlin Olson
Too Tall Jones
Mike Ditka
Franco Harris
Rocky Blier
Terry Bradshaw
Bill Ruger

Just a few I can remember for now
 
many of the lombardi era greenbay packers...i called ray nitschke at his home,invited him to lunch...he said sure...great guy and a fan fav.brett favre...bart starr..paul hornung....johnny unitas...gale sayers...y.a.tittle...all very nice
elvis's original bandmates scotty moore and d.j.fontana.....carl perkins...ronnie mcdowell...all of them were nice
 
- Sat next to Eddie Albert on a flight from Chicago to LA in the late 70s. Extremely friendly, outgoing, acted like a "guy next door." We talked about a few things, nothing about "Green Acres."
- Paul Newman in a grocery store in Martinsburg, WV in the early 80s, when he used to race cars near there.
- Sat at the table next to Bill Bixby in a restaurant in OH in the late 60s.
- Mario Andretti at a trade show in the late 90s
- Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Ann Curry, Tom Brokaw, John Siegenthaler, Lester Holt, and a few other NBC News anchors while doing a consulting job for NBC in NYC in early 2001.
- Sat at a table next to Robert Conrad in a restaurant in Denver in the early 80s. Really great guy.
- Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick at the stage entrance after seeing "The Producers" on Broadway.
- GySgt Carlos Hathcock at Quantico in the 70s, and again at book signing table an OGCA gun show in 1990 at the IX Center in Cleveland.
- Enola Gay pilot Gen. Paul Tibbetts at a gun show in Harrisburg, PA several years ago.
- Stephen King at a gas station in Smethport, PA maybe 8-10 years ago when he was riding his H-D across US6 in northern PA. Friendly, but way creepier in real life than on TV -- "neck hair standing up, can't wait to leave" creepy. Ugh.
- Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neal Peart in (where else?) YYZ (Toronto - Pearson International Airport) while waiting for the same flight.

Noah
 
All folks who fly/flew

Neil Armstrong
Chuck Yeager
Bob Hoover

Oh, and Peter, Paul & Mary after a concert...my cute kids got us the invite back stage.

Bob
 
Noah Zark said:
- Sat next to Eddie Albert on a flight from Chicago to LA in the late 70s. Extremely friendly, outgoing, acted like a "guy next door." We talked about a few things, nothing about "Green Acres."
- Paul Newman in a grocery store in Martinsburg, WV in the early 80s, when he used to race cars near there.
- Sat at the table next to Bill Bixby in a restaurant in OH in the late 60s.
- Mario Andretti at a trade show in the late 90s
- Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Ann Curry, Tom Brokaw, John Siegenthaler, Lester Holt, and a few other NBC News anchors while doing a consulting job for NBC in NYC in early 2001.
- Sat at a table next to Robert Conrad in a restaurant in Denver in the early 80s. Really great guy.
- Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick at the stage entrance after seeing "The Producers" on Broadway.
- GySgt Carlos Hathcock at Quantico in the 70s, and again at book signing table an OGCA gun show in 1990 at the IX Center in Cleveland.
- Enola Gay pilot Gen. Paul Tibbetts at a gun show in Harrisburg, PA several years ago.
- Stephen King at a gas station in Smethport, PA maybe 8-10 years ago when he was riding his H-D across US6 in northern PA. Friendly, but way creepier in real life than on TV -- "neck hair standing up, can't wait to leave" creepy. Ugh.- Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neal Peart in (where else?) YYZ (Toronto - Pearson International Airport) while waiting for the same flight.

Noah
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Did you think Stephen King was looking at you trying to imagine various strange death scenarios you could experience?:eek::eek::eek:
 
Theodore Kaczynski, the future Unibomber, about five months before his first bombing, at a party in Chicago in late November or early December 1977. (I'm not kidding.) As far as I know, no one else at the party was anti-technology or a psychopath, but the only people I actually knew there was an ex-girlfriend and her brother, so who knows.


Jerry Miculek, at an indoor range in High Point, NC, in the early 1990s. He was doing some exhibition shooting, and we talked for about 15 minutes. Very amiable guy.

For any fans of the Chicago blues who might know the name, I spent about 20 minutes at a bar talking with guitarist Mighty Joe Young.
 
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I spent about 10 minutes talking one on one with Bob Dylan outside the hotel he was staying at in KC. He was just like you think he'd be.

Smoked a joint with one of the Drifters a long time ago...
 
I worked security for universal studios for awhile in the early 60s so met a lot of actors, knew a double handfull, a few friends. I pissed off a couple actors you would know. Then I worked as a security guard for lockheed aircraft 65 to 2000. In that capacity I probley knew most of the test pilots you could name. Gary Francis Powers was a favorite for the short time I knew him. A real low key humble guy, rare for most test pilots. He switched jobs and got killed flying a news chopper. I could probley list a 100 or more movie stars, but why? Jimmy stewart and brian keith were nice guys. Not too many politicians, thank God! Saw president Regan once. Once had a girl friend that was a bunney.
Got my first kiss from Kitty Wells when I was about 6 years old watching her at a county fair. At that time I thought yuck!
 
Clayton Moore, "The Lone Ranger", back about '58-'59

Lester Mattox, in a parade outside of Atlanta, about '73

Larry McDonald, U.S. Congressman from Georgia and president of the John Birch Society. Killed in the shooting down of KAL flight 007 back in '83. I knew him when he was my congressman when I lived in Georgia. I witnessed him ordered out of a McDonald's burger joint in Marietta, Ga. when he was running for office.

Lt.Col. Jimmy "Bo" Grites. Famous Green Beret, MOH winner and war hero.

Randy Weaver of "Ruby Ridge" fame and his daughter Elizabeth at an expo/book signing in Denver back in '99.

James Nichols, brother of Terry Nichols, co-conspirator of the OKC bombing at the same Denver expo. He believed his brother to be innocent.

Thunderbolt Patterson, wrestler and at that time out of Atlanta, about '74-'75.

Larry Pratt, president of GOA.

Sheriff Richard Mack of Graham County, Az. He is the man that took the feds to court over the Brady Bill.

Does this count?......My brother-in-law knew Buford Pusser of "Walking Tall" fame. He described him as a huge, rawboned, head busting redneck and as a man that no one in his right mind would get on the wrong side of.
 
Mickey Mantle in the early '70's when he was opening his first (failed) restaurant chain. He even gave me a miniture autographed bat. (Wish I still had it.:()
 
I ran into Sammy Davis Jr., literally, in downtown Detroit. He apologized for not looking where he was going. Nice man.

Also chatted it up with 2 of the Oakridge Boys at the Opryland Hotel one night.

Check out the November 1975 issue of Playboy Magazine for Vicki Vannini. She worked for me before she got the gig for Hef's mag, and went into modeling.
 
Hey, here is another. Ed Gein! When I was a 10 year old in 1951 my mother ran him off when she caught him peaking in her bedroom window!
A few years after that moms cousins husband who was sheriff of waushara county wisconsin arrested him for a couple of murders and a lot of grave robberys. He was the killer-goule-cannible that inspired the movie, "silence of the lambs." He sure was famous for awhile!
 
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