Posted on 08/26/2016 7:27:58 AM PDT by gigster
My most famous or influential people include Red Skelton, B. B. King, Tim Allen at a party, and Tom Gale, The designer and collaborator with Bob Lutz on the Dodge Viper and variants.
Met Edelbrock at a scholarship event at Sonoma Raceway. Great guy. He personally funds select individuals education. He has a program in schools in Ohio or PA where the high school kids build race engines. Some become so proficient they are picked up by race teams, I was quite impressed by what he does.
Thanx .... been under that brand of preachin’ ever since
In DC - Tony Snow in Drs. office elevator.
William Sessions, he and I were almost killed Jay walking.
Gerald Ford campaigning.
Carlton Sickles, ‘father’ of the DC Metro.
At airports have said ‘hi’ to a few politicians, actors and TV anchors - don’t remember their names.
Neil Armstrong
Dottie West - very, very nice person, who treated everyone as if they had something important to say. Again, I was a teen, so this made a big impact.
Tommy Overstreet - at the time, "That's Where My Woman Begins" was big on the chart. He and his band were high energy, good humored, fun to work with.
Red Steward, Red Foley, the Collins Sisters. Seemed rather jaded and aloof to me.
My parents had a country music band. Mom had recorded some singles and an album, and was trying to break into the "big time". So, Dad worked with various promoters to bring in some of the big names, and our band was the opening act. A local group would sell tickets in exchange for the profits from the show. Most fun group were the square dancers, who arranged an after-show party at a local supper club for Tommy Overstreet and his band. Good times.
Frank Carney (founder of Pizza Hut)
Dick Armey
Charley Pride
Terrill Owens
Roy Blunt
John Bolton (he was speaking at our synagogue and I had the absolute pleasure to exchange a few words with this brilliant guy) and Anthony Weiner (we were both in a hardware store buying stuff and he complimented me on obviously being very handy).
The Gipper.
Bob Marley...was a friend of our music teacher in 3rd grade.
Darryl Hall John Oates Michael Myers...sat at a table with them in a small jazz club where their friend GE Smith was headlining. I had no idea who they were at first, we were sitting at a table front row center with a dozen people,I bought the table PooPoo platters and egg rolls and Mai Tais, after a few rounds my wife whispered in my ear, "Aren't those guys famous?", that's when I stopped buying rounds! They were really nice people, we had a great time.
Ronald Reagan
I guess you've never met Hillary Clinton then. Cher would seem nice in comparison...: )
“Jim Robinson”
Duh...how could I forget that one? Met Jim at the annual Texas Cowboy Shoot a couple years back.
Met his sidekick humblegunner, too, but I don’t think he’s famous.
re: JFK, Nothing CRUDE about this but my mom had a momentary face-to-face encounter (in a restaurant in Boston) with JFK in the 1950s, when he was a US Senator. She got up from a restaurant booth and he happened to be walking down the aisle at just that moment, for for a few seconds they were face to face, he said “pardon me” and moved aside for her to pass, and that was all. She said he was polite and dignified (not what we have come to associate with the Kennedys, for sure).
Her brush with history....
Madelaine Halfbright and Jack Hanna. Sat next to both on airplanes. Hanna was very personable to all who recognized him. Nobody recognized and/or acknowledged Albright. I thought that was funny. LOL.
I was helping a friend at the Benton Evening Post in Benton, IL when I noticed a picture on an employee’s desk of her and John Malkovich hugging in front of the Eiffel tower. I thought it was funny, thinking she was a fan. It turned out to be Malkovich’s mother (Great lady). Sometime later, I met him briefly. Because of this chance meeting, I was able to briefly meet Gary Sinese, as both are founding members of Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, while Sinese was doing Streetcar (great performance).
Ha, just once, when I was a kid after a speech he gave at our school.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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