Thanks, Doughty...and, by the way, in the anecdotes I recounted in my above post # 247, I didn't even dare (LOL) to mention the name of Tony Accardo, big-time mobster whom I met up-close-and-personal. This was when I was a high-schooler on a double-date and the three of us picked his daughter up by car on a Saturday night at the Accardo mansion in River Forest, Illinois, a Chicago western suburb.
I went up to the gangster's front door with my date and hers, we were ushered in by a housekeeper...and I rather brazenly asked for a tour of the house while waiting for his daughter to get ready.
Accardo himself took us around the first floor (gold-plated fixtures everywhere, expensive, ponderous, dark carved-wood Italianate furniture, funereal-colored ruffled pure silk lamp shades .....and with a one-lane bowling alley in the night-clubbish basement). The house was old-fashioned European, kinda creepy and gloomy-looking. Tony himself was gracious and friendly, but looks-wise he was as ugly as his reputation and mob ties.
Leni
Wow, very cool memory there. Thank you.
When Gerald Ford was president, he came to our town and spent some time in our city hall. When he left, I was standing by my bank as he drove by.
I flipped him the “V” sign. He was running for election against Carter and he flashed it back.
My brush with the big time...
LOL
I got wind Clinton was going to be at my neighbor Jr. College. It’s about 100 yards from me.
A contact at the college got me a ticket, and I went to see the guy in person. I hated his guts, but I wanted to see the idiot in person.
Even that event was surreal.
These don’t measure up to your experiences. Good for you.
Three way tie: Pres George W Bush, Jon Voight, and in my youth, actor Richard Boone