This thread, or ones like it, have been here before but here it goes from first to most recent:
Other than concerts or shows, I got to meet a few, and in some cases talk to them.
Childhood, met Kojak co-star Kevin Dobson at photo op booth at county fair.
Teens, saw Clint Eastwood in restaurant where I was the only other person there, but he ate there a few times a week.
High school, I talked to Al Jardine, Beach Boy, a few times about music and we lived in same town. He also mentioned TM which he was into.
College, I was in return line at Sears and John Travolta was in line and lived a couple of cities away.
I went to a small rock and roll show for the World's Cutest Killers and went backstage and talked with Kathy Valentine and Kelly Johnson. Kathy talked to me some about the Go-Go's and the music business in general. It was Kathy who invited us backstage and it was the only time I hung out with a band backstage and pretty much it's there I realized that it was a job and hard work.
After college, I saw OJ Simpson at my hotel job and earlier he hung out with employees but I missed that.
I helped Doris Day at a hardware store I worked at as well as David Packard and Alan Shepard the astronaut. I saw Peter Gabriel with then girlfriend Rosanna Arquette as well as Joan Fontaine.
I ate at restaurant near golf course and saw Huey Lewis there.
I was in a band where Barry Cowsill of the band The Cowsills would hang out with us and jammed with us at a gig we did in a coffee shop and I knew him later on in life after music when I was a gardener for apartment complex he lived in. He told me most of what I know about the music business.
I saw Clint a couple of more times.
I would see John Madden often hang out at the bench of the small town market and hang out with locals since he had a summer house nearby.
I saw Yoko Ono at an art show of John Lennon's art.
And most recently I saw a speech by John Nash, the famous schizophrenic mathematician.
