The Field Producer
Republican National Convention
Dallas, Texas - 1984
In spite of the cigarette, I was fighting a cold. It was blazing hot outside and air conditioned to freezing inside.
Hard to believe that was 30 years ago!
Here's the full crew, happy the week is finally over
Here's the full crew, happy the week is finally over
Still got that hat?
ReplyDeleteI don't. Have no idea what happened to it. It was a Stetson I bought on the first night in Dallas.
DeleteYou look pretty darn cool in that white hat.
ReplyDeleteHey, I know it is not you; it is Hunter S. Tompson.
ReplyDeleteLocal reporter Budge Ruffner talked the Prescott Courier into sending him to the 1964 Republican Convention in San Francisco. A man with close ties to Prescott was getting nominated for President, Barry Goldwater. They shared the hotel room.
Just thirty years ago, bet it seems like yesterday
ReplyDeleteIn order for it to HST there would have to be a 12" long holder for the cigarette.
ReplyDeleteMan, can you imagine if we'd had Stassen as a prez instead of Raygun?? I'd have voted for hiim over Mondale. He might just have won, considering Mondale.
So you spent a week rubbing shoulders with politicians? Did you have to go back to your hotel and decontaminate every evening? :)
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Actually I spent several decades with politicians. Most of them weren't so bad.
DeleteGreat shot of you at work. I remember those convention weeks! Good thing we were younger then.
ReplyDeleteThat guy behind you looks kind of like a young Kent Dana ??
ReplyDeleteThat IS Kent Dana.
DeleteThis is one of my all-time favorite photos - it says everything about the people and the time. Classic.
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