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Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2011















Found at the Mendenhall Museum http://www.mendenhallmuseum.com/ and for a look around see Tere's post http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/2011/05/mendenhalls-gas-up-bbq.html

Monday, April 25, 2011

Coogan, you may not have known, married Betty Grable, flew gliders for the Air Force in WW2 in Burma, and was Uncle Fester.

As a child star, Coogan earned an estimated $3 to $4 million, but the money was taken by his mother, Lilian, and stepfather, Arthur Bernstein, for extravagances such as fur coats, diamonds, and cars. Coogan sued them in 1938 (aged 23), but after legal expenses, he only received $126,000 of the approximately $250,000 remaining. When Coogan fell on hard times, Charlie Chaplin gave him some financial support.

The legal battle brought attention to child actors and resulted in the state of California enacting the California Child Actor's Bill, sometimes known as the Coogan Bill or the Coogan Act. This requires that the child's employer set aside 15% of the child's earnings in a trust, and codifies such issues as schooling, work hours and time-off. Coogan's mother and stepfather claimed the child was having fun and thought he was playing. However, virtually every child star from Baby Peggy on has stated that they were keenly aware that what they were doing was work.

Coogan took up the cause of the Armenians, Greeks, and others made destitute during the horrors of the First World War, working along with Near East Relief. He toured across the United States and Europe in 1924 on a "Children's Crusade" as part of a fundraising drive, which ended up providing more than $1,000,000 in clothing, food, and other contributions (worth more than $13 million adjusted for 2010 dollars). Coogan was honored by officials in the US, Greece, and Rome, where he met with the Pope. info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Coogan

Photo from http://caughtatthecurb.blogspot.com/2011/04/movie-stars-and-their-cars.html#more

Friday, April 8, 2011




Above, Miss America Teen Ager and the 1969 Dodge Charger

Monday, March 28, 2011

Here's the odd part, 11 bedrooms but only a 5 car garage. Who is going to park in the drive way? About 100 cars.


Anyway, 27 acres, 10 million dollars.
Read more at http://carproperty.com/nicolas-gage-s-trophy-car-property-ad3715791.htm

The 4,200-square-foot airplane hangar where McQueen kept his car and motorcycle collection and his yellow Stearman biplane is on a Sant Paula ranch of 15 acres with a 3000 sq ft 3 bedroom home.

The asking price is less than half what it recently listed at (1.9mil) and now will sell at .8 million
read all about it at: http://carproperty.com/steve-mcqueen-s-house-and-car-collection-ad8929699.htm
The other is a Palm Springs 4 bedroom, 4500sq ft, 4 car garage for 3.5 million
http://carproperty.com/steve-mcqueen-s-palm-springs-house-and-car-collection-ad1963895.htm

Sunday, March 27, 2011







Sunday, March 20, 2011

That kid is probably riding a motorcycle right now

Wonder why they are loading that car from the 2nd floor to that delivery truck


Model T tool kit


Who? takes a bug on a deer hunting trip?

I'd like to know what's in the crate

The Nash with sleeper cab. I've seen one at a car cruise, it's not bad!


DeNiro, Taxi Driver, such an ironic sign over his arm


That is Ray Brock, but where is the steering wheel? If this were a right hand drive the speedometer would also be on the right.
Michigan junkyard, 1968

This is some cool stuff! See more at http://21studs.tumblr.com

Thursday, March 17, 2011

gorgeous car, Prince Aly Khan (Shia Muslim of the Ismailis) is said to have been the world's richest who gifted this to Rita, he was her 3rd husband and a Pakistan national, Orson Welles was her 2nd. She was married to Khan for 2 years before his affairs with other women forced her to file for divorce. Her daughter is Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. Cool name. Khan immediately became engaged to Gene Tierney. Due to all the wrecked marriages, and I speculate the dishonor to his family, he was passed over for the Imam position that his family held for the past 1300 years, the only eldest son ever passed over, and his son, a Harvard student inherited from the grandfather.

 

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