Miscellaneous Autographs

[ESJohn]

Due to overwhelming demand (from Grumps and Pig Squealer), I officially open this new thread for the category of autographs accumulated and worthy of presentation. Those of you out there that have ones in you possession will want to share memories of how those were obtained.
I'll start out with a local favorite of anyone that was in range of Cleveland television in the 60's and 70's, namely Hoolihan and Big Chuck on channel 8. As teenagers, we anxiously awaited their program which was shown on late Friday night. They featured classic sci-fi and horror movies, along with some pretty corny and ethnic based skits. Here is one of them:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyEX5RVPNOY&list=RDQyEX5RVPNOY&start_radio=1

I got their autographs at a grand opening of a shopping plaza or perhaps a store in that plaza. As I remember, they were outside of the entrance to one of the stores. The concept of shopping plazas was a relatively new one and generally attracted attention in those days.

It's the oldest autograph that I have, as an older one of Charles Schultz of Peanuts fame that I had owned as a kid has been lost to history.

I do have a few others to share of people with national fame. I'm looking forward to what others would like to post.

 

[Grumps]

Here's Rocky Marciano and Bill Laimbeer from the other thread:

I met Rocky when I was a kid and that one was personalized for me. The Laimbeer magazine cover I got on Ebay. Folks always considered my game somewhat close to his. He played on one of the greatest TEAMS ever to play the game of basketball. All mostly role players who did their jobs, won two titles and beat Bird, Magic and Michael on the way there.

 

[ESJohn]

Here's another one. R. Lee Ermey was a featured celebrity at one of our dealer markets. He was promoting interest in VFW's program called Unmet Needs at spent quite a bit of time at the Vermont American booth. Sgt. Ermey was very popular that weekend but took plenty of time with anyone who wished to speak with him, including myself. I even requested and received a second autographed photo for my nephew who was in the Army at the time. He also spoke to the entire gathering, introducing his talk by marching through the middle of the ballroom and barking out "commands" to us. Sadly, he passed away in 2018. That was only a few years after this was signed.