Met Popeye as a little kid when we got to be on the local TV station's Popeye Show! LOL!
Pre-Graduation: As a high schooler we had to go watch Gerald Ford give a speech in the town square in downtown Jax. Their skin always looks so different in person. I guess it's the makeup or something? -- Met Bobby Goldsboro and his Go-Go Dancers (with the white thigh high boots) when they were playing in town and my Dad ran the searchlights to advertise the event. LOL! I almost forgot about that one!
1970, at the grand opening of Disney World, we stood in line next to Rock Hudson. His face looked like plastic (again, too much makeup?). Another person nearby asked for his autograph and he nastily refused. I was awakened to the snobbery of celebs after that! What a creep!
1975-1980 living in Aspen, CO: Worked for the attorney, Mike McGrath, who represented Claudette (Claudine?) Williams (Andy Williams' wife) when she was arrested for shooting her ski-patrol lover in the stomach, Spider Savich (sp?), and they had to come into the office numerous times. Andy Williams was very tan, and very short, much shorter than he looked on TV.
Same era, while working a waitressing job at Cooper Street Pier, had to wait on Michael Douglas who was there with two young blond chicks (his daughters? They looked tooo young to be with him as anything else). He did not look near as good in person as he did on TV, he still had that "reddish" but tan face. -- Others seen around town, at the bars, in the bank, in the grocery store, etc.: Jack Nicholson (Jerome Bar, and he looked just as weird as he does in the movies), Sidney Poitier (sp?) (Aspen Chalet Restaurant), Steve Martin (Bank of Aspen), John Denver everywhere (of course), Lucille Ball (skiing at Snowmass, she lived there), Jill St. John grocery shopping. After awhile, you stopped noticing as the celebs were becoming more numerous as the word got out that Aspen was "the cool place," and too much celebdom was taking over, which all of the local-yocals r-e-a-l-l-y hated.
Never got to rub shoulders with him, thankfully, but the most famous person to pass thru town during those years was Ted Bundy who was arrested and jailed at the Pitkin County Jail. Then he escaped in hand and leg chains, by jumping through the 2nd story window of the courthouse when they put him in a room waiting for a hearing or whatever. Was that ever the "talk of the town!" (I was working at the local newspaper at that time). He was recaptured and jailed, this time in a more "secure" site at the Glenwood Springs Jail, but he escaped AGAIN through the A/C ducts. He was gone for good that time until he ended up in Florida (I thought he was following me! since I moved back here during that same time frame to immerse myself in the Kingdumb Hall), and he killed that little 10-year-old girl in Lake City, FL.
Life has been quiet ever since, KH years and afterward. No further celeb sightings!
Everyone's stories were Very interesting though! Amazing how frequently shoulder- rubbing occurs in everyday life.
Grits
Edited by - Grits on 26 August 2002 5:24:36