"I was outfitted in an orange Nehru jacket and given Skybox access, because all the ritzy folks were complaining that there were no popcorn vendors working the Sky Boxes.
A kid can get away with things that an adult would be denied. Rory Calhoun, the cowboy actor, gave me a twenty dollar tip and bought my entire basket of popcorn one night. That was like a $100 tip in today's money. Just one of many stories I enjoy telling as I enter my dotage."
It is fun to read the posts by you and Rte66, I love hearing fun stories about my home town and the symbol of the future, the 1965 Astrodome.
Ha ha. Rory Calhoun seemed to get around Texans a lot. I think that's what the name of his TV series was, wasn't it, "The Texan"?
I met him in California; he used to party with us Texans at chili cookoffs out there - and maybe some here in TX, though I don't recall. Hugh O'Brien was always around back then, too. Both larger than life, to me. Carroll Shelby, too.