[AGL] Bill Killeen is now subscribed to AGL

Michael Eisenstadt eisenstadt0 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 07:11:29 EDT 2012


Best to start here:

http://billkilleen.blogspot.com/2011/03/prologue-gee.html

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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