Can anyone tell me who is pictured here with Fats? Getting ready to print and frame for one of my game room walls but want to know who else is in the pic. Thanks in advance.
Need some help with a pic
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Where did it come from?
Pulled it off the internet ... google search for images of Fatty.
I don't think so it does not look like him. Judging from Fats age and comparing it to other pictures of him that have copy-write dates. This was about 1963. Roone Arlidge would have only been maybe 32 or 33 at the time of this picture.
In the picture the background has folding chairs so this was maybe an exhibition he did somewhere. He did them all kinds of places, I saw him in a department store once. The guy in the picture could be anybody, maybe some store manager or something.
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Looks like Guido and Frankie to me. Well, two that one wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley anyway.
The guy on the right looks like Belushi.
Well it doesn't look like anyone has an answer on the first one I posted. How about this one?
The dates would still not make sense. Al Kaline would have to been in his early 30's when the picture was taken. I just looked at a picture of fats taken in 1977 and he was already looking like an old man.
I would say that picture is for sure in the early 60's. Al Kaline even as an old man had more hair then the guy in the picture does.
The signature is also curious. Who signs their name and puts quotes around it? Also the signing would have to have been at a later date to get the picture developed, there were no one hours photos in those days.
Why was it not personalized? I have a feeling someone later added the autograph and it is fake, then they sold it.
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That's odd..... From what I've gathered over the years is that fats was under educated and could not read or write.....
Who signed this!?
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That's odd..... From what I've gathered over the years is that fats was under educated and could not read or write.....
Who signed this!?
Rob.M
I've heard this too so I'd say Fats didn't sign it. It's been common practice for a long time for secretaries and other people who answered mail and telephones for celebrities to sign stuff for them. Doesn't look like the typical Fats silver inked stamp, but it might be.
Here is a picture of Fats signing an autograph
http://www.semissourian.com/photos/17/95/84/1795842-L.jpg
Notice the stamp
The second photo I believe is in the book Hustler Days....the author RA Dyer would know for sure..http://www.poolhistory.com/books/hustler_days.html
If you have any back issues of billiard digest RA Dyer has his email after some of the articles, you could ask him directly.
I would look it up for you but I'm out of town with all my back issues and books back home.
If you have any back issues of billiard digest RA Dyer has his email after some of the articles, you could ask him directly.
I would look it up for you but I'm out of town with all my back issues and books back home.