Show your Americana / Non-Sports Memorabilia

[Jcfowler6]

I don't have much. Please don't read into this to much.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Jcfowler6

I don't have much. Please don't read into this to much.

LOL

[71buc]

I seldom venture out from baseball but occasionally I will pick up a Type 1 photo of a historical figure that interests me. I couldnt resist this image tonight (hence the water mark). It does include Jesse Owens so it isn't necessarily a non-sports item but the combination of the Cotton Club, Bo Jangels and Owens were too much fun to pass on. The other image is from 1914 and depicts Pancho Villa on an Indian Motorcycle. He fascinates me. Obviously he isnt an American so this may not qualify for the post. My great grandfather rode with him (on horses) so there is a familial connection. Perhaps I should have waited for a Mexicana post?

[Scott Garner]

Not trying to hijack this thread, but I've always enjoyed this unpublished photo of Gene Autry (The Singing Cowboy), president Richard Nixon and some guy named Nolan Ryan yucking it up in Gene's "luxury suite" on opening day 1973. To put things in historical perspective, this was during the Watergate era and Nixon was close to impeachment.

As many of you may know, Nixon was a HUGE baseball fan and lived in south Orange County (San Clemente- the "Western White House"). He was close friends with Gene Autry and would sneak in an Angels game whenever he had the chance.

I've never shared this photo before with anyone other than Jimmy C., The King of Clout, on net54. Not early vintage, but pretty cool in its own right...