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Post by coachdoc on Jun 23, 2024 14:00:23 GMT -5
I echo Cornflake but substitute NJ’s humidity. Ugh.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 23, 2024 14:49:47 GMT -5
Evidently Edward Abbey lived in Tucson at some point. I remembered that he'd had some connection with nearby Oracle. I spent a while in a cabin near there with some artist friends at the Rancho Linda Vista artist commune. That was cool. Javelinas and cholla cactii (ouch!) galore. Did you find time to visit DeGrazia's Gallery in the Sun? |
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Post by james on Jun 23, 2024 15:22:45 GMT -5
Evidently Edward Abbey lived in Tucson at some point. I remembered that he'd had some connection with nearby Oracle. I spent a while in a cabin near there with some artist friends at the Rancho Linda Vista artist commune. That was cool. Javelinas and cholla cactii (ouch!) galore. Did you find time to visit DeGrazia's Gallery in the Sun? No. After Googling, that looks to have been a missed opportunity. A happy visit was had though. My Tucson jaunts were, apart from going to see Leo Kottke play, mostly picked by a nice woman I met in a coffee shop by my Hotel. (The Congress, cool place, nice little bar). |
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Post by Cornflake on Jun 23, 2024 16:20:32 GMT -5
"The Congress, cool place, nice little bar"
Isn't that where Dillinger was shot? Either way, I had a drink there once.
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Post by james on Jun 23, 2024 16:59:28 GMT -5
Dillinger was hiding out there under an alias but discovered and captured after his luggage revealed his identity to firemen who were retrieving it after a fire there. He was shot later on in Chicago.
The decor of the whole hotel is very original 1930s. Spartan. No TV or fridge in the room. Cranky and clunky plumbing and cast iron radiators. Characterful and quite cheap.
One evening, I was sat at the bar chatting to the bartender, a nice friendly old guy and watching basketball, when I noticed Robert DeNiro was on a bar stool to my side. We nodded at each other. I'm not sure that the occasion will make it into Bob's autobiography.
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Post by John B on Jun 23, 2024 17:16:12 GMT -5
Dillinger was hiding out there under an alias but discovered and captured after his luggage revealed his identity to firemen who were retrieving it after a fire there. He was shot later on in Chicago. The decor of the whole hotel is very original 1930s. Spartan. No TV or fridge in the room. Cranky and clunky plumbing and cast iron radiators. Characterful and quite cheap. One evening, I was sat at the bar chatting to the bartender, a nice friendly old guy and watching basketball, when I noticed Robert DeNiro was on a bar stool to my side. We nodded at each other. I'm not sure that the occasion will make it into Bob's autobiography. I do recall the hotel, or at least the facsimile of it from the Johnny Depp Dillinger movie. And I love hearing about celebrity interactions like yours with Bobby (that's what his friends call him). My favorite kind. |
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Post by Cornflake on Jun 23, 2024 17:47:30 GMT -5
"One evening, I was sat at the bar chatting to the bartender, a nice friendly old guy and watching basketball, when I noticed Robert DeNiro was on a bar stool to my side. We nodded at each other. I'm not sure that the occasion will make it into Bob's autobiography."
My father worked for a while at a television station in Houston. One day he was walking down the hall and passed a guy. Dad knew the guy was familiar but couldn't place him. Dad smiled and offered a friendly greeting. The other guy did the same. Much later my father realized that it had been Dan Rather. The recognition was only one way. People like Rather must get used to being recognized by people who can't quite place them.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 23, 2024 18:00:52 GMT -5
We've been to the Congress. My sister lives in Tucson. And we've been to the theatre where Dillinger was shot (out front, not inside). Our son used to live in that neighborhood in Chicago.
Was that you in the bar with DeNiro? Bobby told me about it last time I saw him, but I didn't make the connection.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 23, 2024 20:38:21 GMT -5
I am describing the place I love. Arizona is my natural native home. Nobody in his right mind would want to live here.” It sounds to me like he's inviting people to live there. |
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