My Dad.....The greatest guy I ever hung around with..............
The Most Famous Person You've Met
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Met Chubby Checker when his tour bus lost a wheel & tire that nearly hit my car.
Met Ken Griffy Jr. at a car show in Seattle.
Met Phil Ehart, Steve Walsh, Robbie Steinhardt, and Rich Williams (4 of the 5 original members of the band Kansas) at a show in Darrington, WA.
Met Ken Griffy Jr. at a car show in Seattle.
Met Phil Ehart, Steve Walsh, Robbie Steinhardt, and Rich Williams (4 of the 5 original members of the band Kansas) at a show in Darrington, WA.
coltle6920
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Don Rickles,Joan Rivers and Michael Jackson in the Phila. airport...
Chief Halftown,Sally Starr and Happy the Clown at an autograph session.These people were TV celebrities about 55-60yrs ago back East.
Mike Naughton...He owns the dealership where I bought my F-150.He also does TV commercials.
Chief Halftown,Sally Starr and Happy the Clown at an autograph session.These people were TV celebrities about 55-60yrs ago back East.
Mike Naughton...He owns the dealership where I bought my F-150.He also does TV commercials.
President Eisenhower - about 1953/54, my Cub/Boy Scout group went to the White House, he spoke briefly, shook some hands; I couldn't imagine then that I'd march in his funeral in 1969.
Randolph Scott - at the Los Angeles Country Club in 1969. My great uncle was a member, and while Unc went off to fetch us a drink, his partner told me, paraphrasing, "every Hollywood type from Valentino to Sinatra has wanted to be a member here, but we'd have nobody from the movie industry, because we don't want any a-holes, only good people. Randolph Scott was the exception; he'd play as a guest, had a home abutting one of the the courses, and we voted him in after he promised to retire from the movies."
About that time Scott came walking in to the dining room, Unc introduced me, and I was surprised how tall he was. He was very gracious and cordial to a young nobody engineer, and having seen many of his movies on Saturdays at the movies when I was little, I was thrilled.
Rod MacLeish - about 1994/95 on a flight to Germany. He was a journalist, a filmmaker, and an author who covered the world, from the Sinai War between Egypt and Israel, to war in the Belgian Congo, to Vietnam, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, served as Bureau Chief for the Christian Science Monitor in capitals all over the world. I'd heard him on the radio many times and just seen a TV documentary he did on Nazi stolen art and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
We were sitting alongside one another, his voice was familiar, and after chatting a bit and I told him that, he told me who he was. He told me he was working on a search for the lost Amber Room, and telling me about it, he described many of the people he met and interviewed for the project. The one that sticks in my mind was a Russian infantryman who was shooting from a basement in Berlin, and kept slipping around on a "paper or something under his feet". He rolled it up to get it out from under foot and took it home as a souvenir. MacLeish talked him into showing it to him - it was a stolen Renoir or Picasso or some such, a world famous painting stolen by the Nazis. MacLeish entered into some lengthy and delicate negotiations, got the painting back to its rightful owner without any international incidents. He was so interesting, I was ready to quit my job and go to work for him for dinner money if he'd have me.
Col. Herbert "Bud" Ross - my wife's cousin's partner, was a WW2 P-38/P-47 ace, SS, DFC, 16 AM, He flew Bob Hope in his P-38 on USO tours, and they remained lifelong friends. After retiring from the USAF, he flew commercial, air shows in a Pitt Special, taught flying, and in his spare time built airplanes in his garage and taxied them down his suburban street to the flying field. They came to visit my wife, and I had the honor of breaking bread with him at our kitchen table. Both he and my wife's cousin passed their Class Two Flight Physical when in their 80's. I should put a brass plaque on the chair he sat in.
I almost left out Desmond Doss, MOH and Gen. Ray Davis, MOH in 1995. That's another serendipitous story.
Randolph Scott - at the Los Angeles Country Club in 1969. My great uncle was a member, and while Unc went off to fetch us a drink, his partner told me, paraphrasing, "every Hollywood type from Valentino to Sinatra has wanted to be a member here, but we'd have nobody from the movie industry, because we don't want any a-holes, only good people. Randolph Scott was the exception; he'd play as a guest, had a home abutting one of the the courses, and we voted him in after he promised to retire from the movies."
About that time Scott came walking in to the dining room, Unc introduced me, and I was surprised how tall he was. He was very gracious and cordial to a young nobody engineer, and having seen many of his movies on Saturdays at the movies when I was little, I was thrilled.
Rod MacLeish - about 1994/95 on a flight to Germany. He was a journalist, a filmmaker, and an author who covered the world, from the Sinai War between Egypt and Israel, to war in the Belgian Congo, to Vietnam, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, served as Bureau Chief for the Christian Science Monitor in capitals all over the world. I'd heard him on the radio many times and just seen a TV documentary he did on Nazi stolen art and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
We were sitting alongside one another, his voice was familiar, and after chatting a bit and I told him that, he told me who he was. He told me he was working on a search for the lost Amber Room, and telling me about it, he described many of the people he met and interviewed for the project. The one that sticks in my mind was a Russian infantryman who was shooting from a basement in Berlin, and kept slipping around on a "paper or something under his feet". He rolled it up to get it out from under foot and took it home as a souvenir. MacLeish talked him into showing it to him - it was a stolen Renoir or Picasso or some such, a world famous painting stolen by the Nazis. MacLeish entered into some lengthy and delicate negotiations, got the painting back to its rightful owner without any international incidents. He was so interesting, I was ready to quit my job and go to work for him for dinner money if he'd have me.
Col. Herbert "Bud" Ross - my wife's cousin's partner, was a WW2 P-38/P-47 ace, SS, DFC, 16 AM, He flew Bob Hope in his P-38 on USO tours, and they remained lifelong friends. After retiring from the USAF, he flew commercial, air shows in a Pitt Special, taught flying, and in his spare time built airplanes in his garage and taxied them down his suburban street to the flying field. They came to visit my wife, and I had the honor of breaking bread with him at our kitchen table. Both he and my wife's cousin passed their Class Two Flight Physical when in their 80's. I should put a brass plaque on the chair he sat in.
I almost left out Desmond Doss, MOH and Gen. Ray Davis, MOH in 1995. That's another serendipitous story.
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Ronald Reagan, Bush 41 and 43, and almost every top ten country music star for the last 30 years . . .
Dan Pastorini used to own a drag race team and had a shop here in Houston. I used to work on his copier and still have his autograph somewhere on one of my business cards. I also met Evander Holyfield when he was at Houston City Hall for a shindig of some kind, again working on copiers.
Gripgrabber
US Veteran
Sugar Ray Leonard
Charles Bronson
Jill Ireland
Cher
These four at a high end shoe store I once worked for in Georgetown D.C..
Clint Eastwood
Shirley McClain
Joe Frazer
Gary Burghoff
These four directly or indirectly related to the Fountain Pen
business that I am currently employed in.
Just thought of two more I meet, both in the same place but different times, I was in New York two years in a row attending a trade show. When we go NY we try and go to Peter Lugers.
First time was Jerry Lewis,I was standing out front smoking a cigarette and he hit me up for one.
Second time was the same thing (out front smoking) and Bo Derick was getting in her limo and arguing with her male friend,she stepped back out ask for a cigarette and got back in. They drove about 25 ft, the car stopped and he got out. He then walked back to the where I was standing and told me "she's had a little to much, guess I am taking a cab" and asked for a cigarette. I had no idea that she was Bo Derick until someone asked me if I knew who that was.
Charles Bronson
Jill Ireland
Cher
These four at a high end shoe store I once worked for in Georgetown D.C..
Clint Eastwood
Shirley McClain
Joe Frazer
Gary Burghoff
These four directly or indirectly related to the Fountain Pen
business that I am currently employed in.
Just thought of two more I meet, both in the same place but different times, I was in New York two years in a row attending a trade show. When we go NY we try and go to Peter Lugers.
First time was Jerry Lewis,I was standing out front smoking a cigarette and he hit me up for one.
Second time was the same thing (out front smoking) and Bo Derick was getting in her limo and arguing with her male friend,she stepped back out ask for a cigarette and got back in. They drove about 25 ft, the car stopped and he got out. He then walked back to the where I was standing and told me "she's had a little to much, guess I am taking a cab" and asked for a cigarette. I had no idea that she was Bo Derick until someone asked me if I knew who that was.
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poorbroker
US Veteran
Dolly Parton, back in about 1985, on a plane from St. Louis International to LAX, a week or two before Christmas. She impressed me with how down to earth and genuinely nice she was.
I've never met anyone famous that I know of. I say that because I really don't watch movies or television, so I could have met some one famous without knowing who they were. I have met a couple of Texas state representatives, a couple of judges, and a state senator, but they're not really famous.
nocents
Member
not knowing I was sitting next to Eddie Money in a hole in the wall bar in downtown Cincinnati late one night I asked him "has anyone told you you look like Eddie Money?".....he laughed and said "yea all the time"....Pete Rose also at a bar...and James Wood in the head on an aircraft carrier in Charleston....he was filming scenes for a movie on the flight deck
I shook hands with Mr. Joe Rosenthal photographer of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. A kind nice man who I have great respect. When I was a Cable Car operator I had Superman Chris Reeves ride my CableCar. Seemed like a real person without pretensions. R.I.P. I have no proof but I believe I have met some Guardian Angels in my life.
In no particular order: Secretary of State George P. Schultz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Kenneth Starr (when he was Solicitor General), Joe Foss, Dennis Weaver, Tex Ritter, Peter Thiel, Janet Napolitano, David Rose (the songwriter), Jan Brewer
diggler1833
Member
Just ran into Ric Flair at the DFW airport in May...whooooooo!!!
AJ
US Veteran
Have met the head of NASA, Charles Bolden. Met him in Thailand, when he was flying Intruders. I worked on them. Also Robert Cabana, he also flew in Intruders.
I met Buddy Ebsen at Mystic Seaport in CT as he was exiting his limo and rode in a sleigh with Gene Rayburn and his wife in Vermont on my first honeymoon in 1974. Gene was the host of the match game IIRC and his wife collected owls.
My cousin and I was having coffee at a road house about 80 miles North
of Boise. We 2 were the only ones in the joint except the waitress.
A couple of men walked in. One of them took a seat. The other one
went over and scanned the juke box.
I scribbled a quick note on a piece of paper and passed it to my cousin:
"that is Tennessee Ernie Ford".
My cousin called: "Play something by Ernie Ford".
Ernie looked over and smiled. Then he walked over to our table
and visited a while. Very personable. A lot of his conversation
was praising the singing of Dottie West.
of Boise. We 2 were the only ones in the joint except the waitress.
A couple of men walked in. One of them took a seat. The other one
went over and scanned the juke box.
I scribbled a quick note on a piece of paper and passed it to my cousin:
"that is Tennessee Ernie Ford".
My cousin called: "Play something by Ernie Ford".
Ernie looked over and smiled. Then he walked over to our table
and visited a while. Very personable. A lot of his conversation
was praising the singing of Dottie West.
