The Most Famous Person You've Met

I attended a small lunch with Gerald Ford in 1983 (after he was POTUS) at the University of Wyoming when I was a student there. We each were allowed to ask him one question; I can't remember what I asked so it obviously wasn't memorable!
 
feralmerril said:
Gene autry and his wife when I was 8 or 9 years old. My mother ran a fruit stand in front of our house on the highway. They stopped and then wanted to walk around our little farm. Dad and ma walked around with them for quite awhile. I was a bashful kid and most of the time I peeked around a tree I think. I belive they had a chrome steer horn on front of their car, cow hide black & white upolstery in the car etc. This was back around 1949. Later I met many tv and movie actors on my security job at universal studios around 1965, but I was impressed the most by them at that age. I had several friends that were lesser known actors. I worked with at least 4 guards on my department that had secondary parts in movies and tv series through the years.
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One of Gene Autry's nephews worked for my Dad when he owned a Contractors business. My dad also employed-and at the same time but in different crews--a Hatfield and a McCoy.
 
the ringo kid said:
One of Gene Autry's nephews worked for my Dad when he owned a Contractors business. My dad also employed-and at the same time but in different crews--a Hatfield and a McCoy.
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They do get around. I worked at a stamping plant that had a McCoy press room supervisor and a Hatfield press operator. Both descendants of the original feud crews. They got along fine.
 
nostraDONus said:
They do get around. I worked at a stamping plant that had a McCoy press room supervisor and a Hatfield press operator. Both descendants of the original feud crews. They got along fine.
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The two we had were also direct descendants of the feuders and they too got along great. We had both of them with my Dads company sometime in the mid to late 70s as well, one of my Dads rent houses was rented to an Nephew of Gene Autry. I had not thought of him in years--really nice guys all of them. I liked talking with the Hatfield and McCoy--but cant remember anything they told me about except that they both tried making and selling Moonshine for awhile before getting legal employment.
 
Have gotten personalized autographs from the following,

Ernie Banks
Reggie Jackson
"Big Daddy" Don Garlits
"Miss Golden shifter" Linda Vaughn
If your into Oldsmobiles you know who Joe Mondello is.
 
Well, let's see...

Commandant of the Marine Corps Paul X Kelley in 1984 as a young Marine.
Most of the headlined performers in Las Vegas during the 90's (I worked in the entertainment industry out there and was able to visit backstage at most of the shows and attractions)
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Steven Spielberg while in Seattle
Roy Disney and Michael Eisner when I worked for Disney

Most were very nice, and it was nice to meet each of them.
 
In no particular order:
Dalai Lama,
Richard Gere
Joel Grey
Diane Lane,
Barry Goldwater (via ham radio)
Bill Clinton
Mel Tillis
Al Gore
Janet Reno
Maya Angelou
Jimmy Carter
Cuba's VP under Castro
Lebanon's President in 1995
Robert Osborne from TCM
Patricia Neal
Parnell Roberts (Bonanza)
David Brinkley
Larry King
Michael Nouri
Cole Hauser ( a real gun guy)
Bo Derek
The cast of In the Heat of the Night (TV version)
Carl Weathers
Stacey Keach
The Grateful Dead w/ Jerry Garcia
R.Lee Ermey
Adam Baldwin
Sen. Max Cleland


More to follow as I remember them..............
 
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policerevolvercollector said:
In no particular order:
Dalai Lama,
Richard Gere
Joel Grey
Diane Lane,
Barry Goldwater (via ham radio)
Bill Clinton
Mel Tillis
Al Gore
Janet Reno
Maya Angelou
Jimmy Carter
Cuba's VP under Castro
Lebanon's President in 1995
Robert Osborne from TCM
Patricia Neal
Parnell Roberts (Bonanza)
David Brinkley
Larry King
Michael Nouri

More to follow as I remember them..............
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You sure wrote allot of tickets! :D
 
I briefly met Tommy Lee Jones and Joe Pantiliano up here when they were filming The Fugitive. I was not impressed with Tommy Lee Jones, but Joe Pantiliano was very personable. Other than that, I would say all the veterans that I have met over the years and thanked for their service.

Scott
 
rolomac said:
Back about 1964 I got to meet my boyhood hero - Stirling Moss - who I still consider to be the best racing driver ever (but Dale Earnhart was a close second).
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Stiroing Moss was VERY good but the best driver ever was Tazio Nuvolari, an Italian, who died of TB just after WW II. He drove anything well; he stepped into those pre-war Auto Unions and drove them to victory while most drivers couldn't drive them at all.

I saw Stirling Moss drive at Watkins Glen: he led the pack after the first 200 yards, and won easily. His ability was uncanny. Unfortunately his career was later shortened by his crash in Belgium (Zandevoort?). He suffered severe head injuries and it was 20 minutes before they could cut away the car and get him out. His injuries were so extensive they thought he would be a vegetable, but he came back remakably. I remember reading at the time that he had a private session at one of the British tracks with a British car, probably BRM. He drove it and when he was through he walked away shaking his head, saying "It's not there any more". His freakish vision, balance and reaction speed went with his crash and never returned. He tried rallies for a while but gave them up too. Very sad.
 
Bobby Unser - wrote him a speeding ticket (warning, he was a nice guy)
Randy Bachman - My wife and I got to sit and BS with him before a concert he did in NM
 
Great many

Well, there were a great many famous people I knew, but that was mainly due to my profession. I suppose, if you considered them all, the one most well known would be Bob Hope. Here is a picture of me leading him out of a packed room where he did a short show for me before heading out to his REAL performance. I told him to hold onto my coat tails and that he did! KEITH
BobHopeleadinghimout.jpeg
 
Bkreutz said:
Omar Bradley, I was in charge of the color guard, and I was nervous. Nobody screwed up so I was happy.
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A former roommate of mine--Sarge Bill-had been a Medical Platoon Sergeant and had an old Corporal as his driver who had been Bradley's driver in WWII. He was a Corporal then-and stayed one.
 
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