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Real Arizona Charlie's
| October 10th, 2011 at 9:57:17 AM permalink | |
| pacomartin Member since: Jan 14, 2010 Threads: 544 Posts: 6190 | Arizona Charlie is not an Aunt Jemima. There really was a cowboy with that name, who was a distant relative of the original builder of the casino. His father and brother were killed in Indian raids. After helping start Payson's rodeo in 1884, Charlie let his riding and roping skills take him into the Wild West Show business where he travelled to Australia, the Orient, Europe, and Alaska.  Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly -Edgar, betrayed son of Gloucester in King Lear |
| October 11th, 2011 at 4:04:42 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Nov 17, 2009 Threads: 113 Posts: 2032 | Intersting tidbit Paco. I always wonder how folks get their nicknames. I wonder if Charlie picked it for himself (probably not), or if it was "assigned" to him by the owner of the show. Here's a trivia challenge: Just off the top of your head, how many other famous real folks can you name that have "state" nicknames? Each state can only be represented once. I can only think of one. I can think of alot more with city nicknames. |
| October 11th, 2011 at 5:58:53 PM permalink | |
| EvenBob Member since: Jul 18, 2010 Threads: 231 Posts: 6383 |
Wow, thats a really handsome man, he looks like a movie star. I've seen hundreds of pics from the 1800's and the people are usually very plain. I'll bet Charlie had his share of attentive women batting their eyes at him. One casino owner to another: "It would be so much easier if we could just hit them over the head, steal their money, and throw their bodies in the creek." Al Swearengen, Deadwood |
| October 11th, 2011 at 7:28:10 PM permalink | |
| buzzpaff Member since: Mar 8, 2011 Threads: 82 Posts: 2835 | My daughter Mary Jo let me name her first baby girl. That girl is 11 years old now, sings like an angel. I hope to get her guitar lessons and a guitar after New Year's. Everyone knows her by her first and middle name. BELLE STARR Buzz Paff |
| October 11th, 2011 at 10:19:28 PM permalink | |
| waltomeal Member since: May 26, 2010 Threads: 5 Posts: 117 |
Minnesota Fats. Indiana Jones and Tex Ritter probably don't count, huh? |
| October 11th, 2011 at 10:52:33 PM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3105 | Texas Dollie Brunson? I'm guessing the Cincinatti Kid is out to... "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
| October 11th, 2011 at 11:07:52 PM permalink | |
| EvenBob Member since: Jul 18, 2010 Threads: 231 Posts: 6383 |
Ricky Nelson played a cowboy named Colorado in a John Wayne movie. Theres a guy named Dakota Fred on Gold Rush Alaska. One casino owner to another: "It would be so much easier if we could just hit them over the head, steal their money, and throw their bodies in the creek." Al Swearengen, Deadwood |
| October 11th, 2011 at 11:18:12 PM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3105 | There's Dakota Fanning, who is real. Martha Washington, who isn't, but Im sure there is someone with first name Washington who was either a famous ex-slave or civil rights campaigner. Never heard anyone with Oregon as a name. I ave a cousin with Maine as their middle name, but that's not from the state. "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
| October 12th, 2011 at 12:21:03 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Nov 17, 2009 Threads: 113 Posts: 2032 | Good list. Was there a real Indiana Jones? I thought about folks actually named "Washington", and don't think given names should count. Just nicknames. |
| October 12th, 2011 at 12:23:52 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Nov 17, 2009 Threads: 113 Posts: 2032 |
That was the one I was thinking of. "Cincinatti" is a city, so, no. |
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