[AGL] Bill Killeen is now subscribed to AGL

[Michael Eisenstadt]

This is at http://billkilleen.blogspot.com/

Wow! Somerville, MA - that is one tough town, i know that poisonally

Mike

On 6/23/2012 8:49 PM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:

> Mike,

> Check out Bill's blog, the Flying Pie.

>

> Fontaine

>

>

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> *From:* Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>

> *To:* survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> *Sent:* Sat, June 23, 2012 3:25:09 PM

> *Subject:* [AGL] Bill Killeen is now subscribed to AGL

>

> Hi Michael,

> As you can tell by my general lack of correspondence to Fontaine's 

> list, I am not the most prolific responder in the world.  I guess I 

> was just in the mood yesterday.

> Gilbert and I go back a million years.  He brought his Wonder Wart Hog 

> idea to Lawrence, Mass. when he came to my family's house for 

> Thanksgiving while he was working on a hotrod magazine in NYC and I 

> wrote the script for the first one.  In 1962, I stayed in his Eastside 

> apartment and helped him with the Ranger.  It was a great time.  Just 

> the other day, Gilbert wrote and asked if I remembered the Giant 

> Ice-Cream Eating Contest of '62, in which the Ranger team took on the 

> Daily Texan squad, four of us in all. Those four were Billy Strong, 

> Clark Santos, Tami Dean and myself. Shelton said I was the only 

> survivor of this classic event, a fact which didn't enthrall me, I can 

> tell you.

> We're obviously running out of people who shared those times. No 

> promises, but I could probably throw in a remeniscence every now and then.

> Appreciate your thinking of me.  Appreciate ANYBODY thinking of me.  

> Howdy to Susan Todd, one of your listees.

> Bill Killeen



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