| Author | Message | ||
     Babired |
I miss the threads that ask total miles on a Buell or states rode, what type of work you do etc. I have some cool family history on events that made news in history. here are 4 of them My mom's, mom, my Grandma worked for Harry Houdini, she was a secretary for his shows. My Mom's father, my Grand father was across the street when the St. Valentines Day massacre happened. My Mom went to the same high school as Jimmy Johnson and Janis Joplin. what are some cool family history you have? | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
they are related to me... what else do they need?  | ||
| Court |
Kath: That is cool ! | ||
| Fast1075 |
My Mom once sang backup at a show with Flatt & Scruggs. OK, it's not a famous world event...but it's cool! (Message edited by fast1075 on January 31, 2011) | ||
| Cityxslicker |
My Great Grandfather was one of the rough riders that went into mexico after Poncho Villa. He was also one of the inital Army Aircorps ground crew And ran shine during prohibition And kept the still running until he passed at 103 A shot of the lightning every nite for as long as I could remember, out lived 3 family doctors  the aunts farm stead is adjacent and with in view of the farm from 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' | ||
| Glitch |
Lots of relatives of mine were in the CSA, and were in some major battles during the War of Northern Aggression. Woodrow Wilson is a great uncle (yes, yes I'm kin to one of the first elected progressives). My Great Grandfather owned a farm and a radio in Alabama. Don't sound like much, but it was big back then. | ||
| Drkside79 |
My Great Uncle was Al Capone's painter and he was very good to my family. Also my Great Grand Parents worked for Western Electric and were supposed to go on the company picnic. My Great Grandmother spilled on her dress and had to go up to change as no lady walked around with a stained dress back in 1915 This caused them to miss the trolley so they could not board the Eastland. Thus avoiding the Pic below. Mind you my grandma was born 4 years later. So had it not been for a stain i might not be here.  | ||
| Blk_uly |
My cousin is Ralph Machio, The Karate Kid. HE also stared in my cousin Vinnie. | ||
| Skinstains |
They just named a soon to be hit TV program after me. "SKINS" ! I'm thinking about suing for trademark infringement. I probably won't though because I have never applied for the 'trademark'. | ||
| Glitch |
Kinda creepy...  | ||
| Reepicheep |
Rumor has it I am related to Andrew Jackson on one side of the family, and Sean McQuen (sp? one of the founders of the Irish Republican Army) on the other. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
Only thing that I can tell you is my father. He's built some motorcycles, the most 'famous' one is the Coke Bike http://image60.webshots.com/160/4/39/62/2024439620 060566687gRUPHk_fs.jpg just one pic i found quickly online Its been featured on the cover of the USA Today, in several motorcycle mags, in the Robb Report for best Christmas gifts, and resides in the coca cola corporate HQ now, it spent the past 7 years or so in their museum beyond that he's built several other Easyriders cover bikes including my mothers | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
 that didnt work, so let me try it this way | ||
| Glitch |
The one with the Coke bottle side car? | ||
| Chief_sitting_buell |
My sister went to high school with Richard Gere (North Syracuse, NY). She didn't know him but knew who he was. She said he was just "odd". Same sister, 30 years later got into the genealogy thing and managed to trace my mother's side way back in English history. No headline makers in recent years but we are related through distant cousins to the Englishman who ordered the disembowelment of William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson in Braveheart). My father's mother's side traces back to an entitled family in Germany (castle and the whole bit) but they were kicked out of Germany for unknown "political" reasons. My grandfather on my father's side was reportedly Native American but my dad was conceived out of wedlock and his biological father left town permanently when he got wind my grandmother's family was out to kill him. Not exactly a sterling pedigree but that's the story My wife's uncle was in Intelligence Officer in WW II and remained in Europe for many years after the war. When he died a few years ago the family found an old diary and some other old some old papers in his safety deposit box that documented his activities as a rather successful "Nazi hunter". He had never revealed a thing about that to his family, not even to his wife. As for me - well I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express once | ||
| Glitch |
Not exactly a sterling pedigree but that's the story I don't know the whole story, but I had a relative that lived on one side of the mountain, and worked on the other. He also had a family on one side of the mountain, and another on the other side, none of this was known until we started looking into the family tree. | ||
| Blk_uly |
I forgot to mention earlier that my maternal grandfather worked for Westinghouse back in the day. He wired the elevators in the Empire State building. Turns out that the they used to burn the insulation off the wires with a soldering iron and the fumes from that caused throat cancer. At age 69 he had his trachea removed but lived on another five years despite that. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
glitch - no, coke had those made by someone else, not sure who. They had several made to take around to different events click on link and it should take you to a picture on google | ||
| Glitch |
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| Sayitaintso |
My grandfather was a stone mason that built the bank in his home town and put a 5 dollar gold piece under the cornerstone when he built it in the nineteen teens. I've often wondered how much interest that five bucks has accumulated? Second or third cousin to Heath Shuler of UT, Redskin, and Congressional fame. I've never met him but I know many of the family are very proud of him. Grandfather on the other side of the family traded some dental work for a full geneology many years ago and found out that there are relations to..... John Alden of the Mayflower Several personal bodyguards of William the Bruce (Braveheart quasi bad guy) Soldiers on both the Union and Confederate Armies | ||
| Strokizator |
After the Russian Revolution my paternal grandfather, one step ahead of the Bolsheviks, beat feet out of Ukraine for Hamburg where he boarded a ship for the USA. And the rest, as we say, is history. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
glitch - google images 'coke bike' its the HD roadking that is in a museum (you'll be able to tell it VS the others as its indoors and multiple pictures per page on google of it) http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=coke+bike&wra pid=tlif129651760743710&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa =N&tab=wi&biw=1003&bih=393 | ||
| Babired |
Was it the red trike? That's beautiful! got some cool family history going on. When I knew who Janis Joplin was my Mom showed me her HS yearbook, Mom was in 11th grade JJ was in 10th and was mentioned for being in the drama club. Then showed me her 10th grade class photo. Janis Joplin clean cut with a short hair cut, looking like any other high school kid. Jimmy Johnson was in 12th grade. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
no, not trike | ||
| Hootowl |
I am descended from the very first homo sapien. So there. | ||
| Sayitaintso |
Oh, the football Jimmy Johnson..... I was really confused, scratching my head, and wondering how old you were.... I was thinking you were talking about the NASCAR Jimmy Johnson. (Must be my mother's or grandfather's blondness showing through) | ||
| Greatnorthrider |
My Father heard the distress call from the Titanic the night she struck the iceberg. | ||
| Jumbo_petite |
I had an Uncle that was standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier as he watched the maiden and only flight of Howard Hughes Spruce Goose (Message edited by JUMBO PETITE on February 03, 2011) | ||
| Gofast |
My cousin is Ralph Machio, The Karate Kid. HE also stared in my cousin Vinnie. Blk_Uly Small world, I gave Ralph a ride home from Putt Putt in Tulsa. Filming the Outsiders. Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe and C Thomas Howell we're all in the car. Ralph talked non-stop. Non of them were famous yet. | ||
| Blk_uly |
Thats so funny! Even though he is my cousin, We've never met. I've met his mother a few times when I was a kid, but thats it. To me, he is a second cousin, once removed. |
