Posted on 10/09/2022 4:56:18 AM PDT by sodpoodle
In 1953, Queen Elizabeth drove around and waved to crowds of school kids lining the streets.
I attended that school with Maggie Thatcher’s Secretary of Education- Gil Watts.
1963. Worked for Jim Brown, mayor of Tybee Island, Ga
1965 Worked with John Rousakis in Savannah. GA - in insurance - he became mayor of Savannah, Ga.
2012 Johns Hopkins - my physician’s and Ben Carson’s reception areas were adjoined.
Tony Snow was being treated in the DC physician’s office where I worked.
Atty.Gen. William Sessions and I, nearly got hit by a car while jay-walking in DC.
Father of the Metro = Carlton Sickles. gave me his 38 year service pin when a colleague told him I used the Metro every day.
I made a phone call to The Washington Times and Wesley Pruden answered it - we chatted a while - nice man.
2003. Worked with Patrick Hope, now a Dem rep. for Virginia.
Flew on a plane with Cal Ripken.
Saw Gerald Ford up close.
Saw Billy Idol up close at a local TV station - he was sweet.
We all share the oxygen with people who are alive NOW - Enjoy those moments!!
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Worked on a program in the 1980s at the Old Executive Office Building. I met and spoke with bush senior several times. Attended briefings for President Reagan a couple times. I also spent several weeks up at Camp David and at another facility near there. That was the best job I ever had. clinton cancelled and declassified the program.
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Pop took me and my friends to see the Three Stooges live (some theater in Newark, IIRC, back in the 60s). We met them before the show - they were just walking down the street to get dinner in their long winter coats.
They did the “Niagara Falls” and “Maha - Aha” skits, along with plenty of other bits.
Highlight of our young lives.
Important people that I have met:
My mom and dad and my wife!
Famous people?
Probably the only famous person that I can recall is Roy Rogers. Met him at his museum in Victorville, CA and got a photo of him and me and his autograph. Sadly the museum (along with Roy) is gone now. Sold off piece-meal at auction.
My parents were good friends with the guy that invented and made the Bundt Pan. He used to let me drive his huge yacht whenever we went with him. He isn’t famous - but his pan is!
I used to live next to an old guy in New Jersey and would mow his lawn. He’d pay me with a bottle of beer and I’d listen to his stories.
He would talk about all the jobs he had. Working for the city road crew, driving a taxi during prohibition taking the local big-wigs to the speakeasys. Worked at the Edison Cement factory as a boy. He kept talking about Tommy - how he’d bring him coffee and sandwiches, bring him the results of the cement weight, etc.
After about three evenings of listening to him, it dawned on me.
“Wait - you mean ‘Tommy’ is Thomas Edison!!??”
“Well who the heck do you think I’ve been talking about!?”
Frank Sinatra tried to pick up my husband’s cousin in the ‘60’s, in Las Vegas. (cute blue eyed blonde back then).
My uncle used to tune Liberace’s piano whenever he performed in town.
I’ve had a very fortunate life in that I was able to meet and great number of famous(or infamous) people. Some of them through planning and effort, some just by chance.
Here are a few of the medal of honor recipients that I have met personally:
Audie Murphy.
Desmond Doss.
Greg “Pappy” Boyington.
Jimmy Doolittle.
I’m grateful to every one of them for their service and sacrifice made on behalf of this country,
Mrs. mad and I are going to take a trip to the local vet veterans hospital to meet more heroes and see if we can help in any way.
If you’re fortunate enough to have the time, energy and the money please make an effort to reach out to a veteran today. Take a few minutes and call the family member or friend who served and just chat with them.
Don’t you know a gentleman never kisses and tells? ( Which is exactly what my husband tells me whenever I ask him for “details”; not one word can I get out of him!
There were two hints in my post
About her mom and her
Pardon my vanities
See 170
Btw another hint last reply
In no particular order (except for the first):
Dined at the same table with Justice Antonin Scalia at a Bar Association event.
Shook hands with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at a Bar Association Event.
Tried a case before Justice Sonia Sotomayor when she was a judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Argued an appeal before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she was a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Played nine holes of golf with Bill Murray (just the two of us).
Dined/had drinks with Joel Grey several times.
Bused tables/drank beer with William Hurt.
Rode an elevator at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn with John Gotti, Peter Gotti, and Gene Gotti.
Spoke with Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano about coffee and Italian pastries while standing in line to buy coffee and Italian pastries in lower Manhattan.
Took a leak next to Don King at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn.
Took a leak next to Ron Jeremy at the airport in Key West Florida.
Had a photo taken with Phil Esposito.
Had a drink with Art Monk at Reagan National Airport (I also knew him in high school when we both ran track.)
Shook hands with Muhammad Ali in Albany, NY and again many years later in Tucson, AZ.
Had a conversation with Walter Cronkite about rugby while watching a rugby match at the United States Military Academy.
Had drinks with Howie Mandel at a hotel bar where we talked about Tawana Brawley.
Played in an orchestra with Keith Lockhart in the 1970s (we sat next to each other).
So the Thread is still truckin’?
I remembered an incident while recovering from surgery at Georgetown Hospital. A group of medical students/interns came by - and one of them just had to remark “He’s a Kenndy” pointing to William Kennedy Smith. Like I cared!!!!
He got into some woman/rape trouble - but as usual served no time!
I forgot to mention an old work buddy of mine from years ago, Mike O’Callaghan. He wasn’t famous when I worked with him but he ended up governor of Nevada and they later named they bridge around the Hoover Dam after him. When I’d say to him, “Wow - you’re a governor” he’d say, no big deal, not a lot of people live in Nevada.
Mike was one of the most decent people I’ve known. Yes, he was a liberal but in all my dealings with him he was a good guy. He loved our country and served in the Marines, the Army and Air Force. They named the VA Medical Center at Nellis after him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_O%27Callaghan
My Dad was a hard working great man....Served in WWII as a Marine...Got called back in the Korean War. Served as a Weapons Instructor. Died at my house,,,his age was 64. Too young for sure....
My wife....met her in a Health Food store....Now she is a great woman!!
Not as glamorous as you all...ha!!
Who me, or Sam?
Sam’s mom, maybe? There aren’t that many dukes left.
In 1985 I chauffered Diane Feinstein among events at National Conference Of Mayors in Anchorage.
In 1971 (IIRC) I was in the airplane hangar at Elmendorf AFB when Nixon and Emperor Hirihito met.
I met Jesse Owens when he visited Anchorage in the ‘70s. My boss presented him with a photograph.
Guess he just wasn't your friend's Huckleberry.
On a somewhat related note, I fly-fished with Patrick Hemingway (Ernest's son) on the Missouri River near Wolf Creek, MT.; and B.S.'d with Larry McMurtry in the Grand Forks N.D. airport, waiting for his plane to arrive for a literary conference.
Nearly an hour. He was a chatty fellow, the women loved him, and Lonesome Dove (as I remember it) was just about to debut, so I wasn't even carrying a copy, though I had one back in Montana, which I NEVER managed to get signed.
Recently, and totally by accident, I was invited to an impromptu dinner with Paul Maclean, grandson of the Norman Maclean of "River Runs Through It" Fame.
Seems I've spent a lot of time around books.
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