famous customers that I have had the privilege to sell to ,or do business with.
In about 1984, 5 people came into my shop dressed in a North American Indian / cowgirl clothing, studded leather etc. They all spoke in a American Southern drawl and had all made their way through the shop to a large French Bedroom suite that I had bought in Manchester from Harry Zammit. I was asked the price and I replied. Then I noticed that they turned away as though the price was too high. I commented that only a film star could afford this set. In the reflection in the mirror I saw that two of the woman had a big grin on their faces. I then realised that may be these people where famous. I then said "may be you are film stars." Then on of the ladies said "being English you probably know my husband better than me." Then I heard a mans voice call out "CARTER".
The voice I recognized instantly.... Johnny Cash.
The lady was June Carter Cash.
This is the way I remember them.
They became good customers and good friends ...delivered many items to their home.
It is sad that they are no longer with us. R.I.P.
The other woman where the Mandral sisters
why not sing with June and Johnny
We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout,
We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out.
I'm goin' to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around,
Yeah, I'm goin' to Jackson,
Look out Jackson town.
Well, go on down to Jackson; go ahead and wreck your health.
Go play your hand you big-talkin' man, make a big fool of yourself,
You're goin' to Jackson; go comb your hair!
Honey, I'm gonna snowball Jackson.
See if I care.
When I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow. (Hah!)
All them women gonna make me, teach 'em what they don't know how,
I'm goin' to Jackson, you turn-a loose-a my coat.
'Cos I'm goin' to Jackson.
"Goodbye," that's all she wrote.
But they'll laugh at you in Jackson, and I'll be dancin' on a Pony Keg.
They'll lead you 'round town like a scalded hound,
With your tail tucked between your legs,
You're goin' to Jackson, you big-talkin' man.
And I'll be waitin' in Jackson, behind my Jaypan Fan,
Well now, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper Sprout,
We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out.
I'm goin' to Jackson, and that's a fact.
Yeah, we're goin' to Jackson, ain't never comin' back.
Well, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout'
And we've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went...
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Hey Vanman (should I refer to you as Vanman, Antiqueman or John?)
You are talking about the Cash's visiting your store in Atlanta, aren't you? I can't see them visiting Southport!
I know the song "We Got Married in a Fever..." well. My favorites are "I'll Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire".
June Carter was as famous here as her hsuband--she was one of a famous singing family--The Carter Family. She helped Johnny through some very bad times.
Marina came into my shop and ordered and purchased a new reproduction refectory table. Marina wanted it to look old but wanted new.
So we made a great oak table. She loved it and Kenny and my self helped carry it in to their Queen Anne style home in Birkdale Southport. Kenny got his pen out to sign the delivery note. I said Kenny put the pen back every one has your autograph. I handed the pen to Marina and she signed. I said to my self. "now I am the only person with Marina Dalglish autograph."
This was at the time he had left management at Liverpool FC to manage Blackburn FC.
After a while I got a complaint from Marina, that the table had warped. This now was the time Kenny was the manager of Newcastle FC, they where still living in Southport. While they had been away on holiday they had had the floor tiled and the tile people had up ended the table next to a radiator and left the radiator full on to dry the grouting. This had warped the table.
We made another top, but this time I got a local french polisher to polish the table top. I delivered it and every one was happy.
After a while I got another call from Marina that the table had gone GREEN. This was the time Kenny was the manager of Celtic FC, again they where still living in the same house in Southport...... I said you are having me on. (thinking Celtic play in Green... this is a wind up, a joke).
I visited the house to view the so called green table. Yes, it had gone green. What had happened the maid had been cleaning and wiping the table with chemicals. This is something you do not do with a french polish finish. French polishers to get the right colour brown used a pigment of green and the chemical cleaning had left the green showing.
I re-did the table top with a polyurethane finish
Every one was happy except me
By the way the warped top of the table has made a great door in my house.
I should get Kenny to autograph it or better still his Wife Marina.
An other true story from the antiques man.
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The Carter Brothers - Jimmy Carter and Billy Carter
The Carter Brothers
Billy Carter.
and Jimmy Carter
Jimmy the Democrat Governor of Georgia became President of the USA and Billy his younger brother became an embarrassment to his brother and America.
but even so, both became my customers.
Billy, the younger brother who dabbled in antiques with other family members, so when I rented Jimmy Carter Headquarters as my first shop at Colony Square Peachtree Road in 1976 in Atlanta, Billy was one of my first customers.
Jimmy Carter - Walter Mondale sign I personally took down and replaced it with JOHN NOLAN ANTIQUES.
"I hope this place will be as good for you as it has been for me" was the word spoken by Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter lasted only 4 years as President. I lasted .... well I am still selling in the USA today.
Jimmy Carter's chrome and orange plastic seated arm chair with his signature on the under part was left for me as a memento from Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Billy Carter was neither the first nor the last brother to embarrass a president, but he was surely the most colorful. From the time Jimmy Carter started running for president to the end of his term in office, his younger brother was never far from the spotlight. In 1976 he provided humor and a charming contrast to his straight-laced candidate sibling. But by 1980, Billy's act had worn thin, and a major controversy over his dealings with the Libyan government and his urinating in the street.
I visited Plains, Georgia many times, a very rural town, a bit of "back of beyond", but they loved the English and Irish Country pine down there.
"Ye all come back "
I did many times.
On one of my visits Billy paid part of his bill with boxes of cans of his own beer "Billy's Beer"
In late 1975 I met an antique dealer Jenny Low in Chester who had moved to New Brighton England. She was the first stripper I had ever met and she was so good at it.
I am referring to stripping pine by hand in a bath with caustic soda and then neutralising it with vinegar.
Everything I bought on that first trip from her shop in New Brighton went strait to the White House.... I am joking but it did go strait to Plains.
Jenny had a great eye for seeing an item in the paint and imagining it finished.
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I have just come across a novel written by Fannie Flagg.
Was she the same Fannie Flagg who was a successful actress on the Broadway stage and the big screen as well as a TV star.
It would seem it is.
In about January 1977 Fannie Flagg appeared in whay I think was a Tennessee Williams play at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, USA.
My shop was located just over the road from the Alliance on Peachtree, so when they needed unusual props for a production I was their first stop. Michael who was the production manager would regularly use my antiques in his shows.
One day a very good looking red haired sophisticated woman dressed very casual but acted as she owned the place walked into my shop. I wished her a good morning and said to her "if you need any assistance she only had to ask." She took no notice of me and from her body language I took it she wanted no communication with me at all or may be she was deaf.
After about 15 to 20 minutes I decided I would use a soft approach, to see what she collected or what she was looking for.
I approached her and said "did you see my advertisement in the local newspaper" she said NO and turned her back on me.
After about another 5 minutes I then said "how did you come across and find the shop". She then said that that Michael from the theatre had told her about the shop. My reply was "O' do you work for Michael." She looked at me then looked at the floor and then to the ceiling and said and this shocked me.
" I AM THE STAR."
After a moment, I said as she was walking away, "I was the star once, I had to stand on a big box with my hands stretched out wide for about three quarters of an hour. I was the Star of Bethlehem a nativity scene at my school when I was six years of age."
At this point she smiled and came down from her aloofness and laughed.
She asked me where I was from ... LIVERPOOL ENGLAND and I asked her where she was from..... Alabama USA.
We got on very well from that point. It was obvious that she was gay by her mannerisms. I asked her was she married and she said no, but I have a girl friend. I asked her was her girl friend a star as well, she laughed.
She gave me her card and said why not come to the show and afterwards come back stage and I will introduce you to my friend. May be Michael will make up a four some and we can go out for some supper.
Way Hay........... " Come up and see me some time,"
What a turn around from one minute not wanting to know me and then 25 minutes later fixing me up with Michael who also was gay or may be she fixing me up with her gay girl friend
A bit too much for me.
All I wanted to do was Antiques.
She choose quite a few antique items for the show which was collected and returned. I used to charge 10% of the asking price for a loan of a minimum of 1 month. 20% for a minimum of 2 months. They had to cover the insurance.
When the items were returned the set designer said that Fannie Flagg was very disappointed I had not gone to the show and gone back stage.
briana............. You summed up my whole post in one word
A diva is a celebrated female singer. The term is used to describe a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and, by extension, in theatre, cinema and popular music. The meaning of diva is closely related to that of "prima donna".
The word entered the English language in the late 19th century. It is derived from the Italian noun diva, a female deity. The basic sense of the term is "goddess",the feminine of the Latin word divus (Italian divo). The word is thus distantly related to the Hindu term deva and the Zoroastrian concept of the daevas.
Vince Dooley the famous football coach of the Georgia Bulldogs.( that is the American type football- the hand ball way )
1964-1988
In the 1980, 1981 and 1982 seasons the Bulldogs lost none of their games with regular attendances of over 80,000 spectators Vince Dooley became the most famous Coach in the USA
Hall of fame and Coach of the year.
It was about 1979-1980 that Vince and Barbara, his wife first came into my shop.
She was a famous interior designer and became a very good customer.
On one occasion after their return from their first ever two week trip spent in England. Barbara told me that she loved England but her husband after the first week started sulking and disliking and finding fault in the place. I asked the reason. She said because he was not allowed to stop at the motorway service areas or to use the toilet or stop for a bite to eat.
I said who said that he was not allowed to stop.
She said " there was signs up at the enterence that stated NO FOOTBALL COACHES ALLOWED"
Vince had asked why " NO FOOTBALL COACHES ALLOWED " He had been told.
Football coaches are all rowdy and low life people.
Obviously he had taken the meanig of "COACH" wrongly.......... IT'S A BUS VINCE. not a person.
Walker began his professional football career with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League (USFL)
WHAT A MISTAKE
Wayne Rooney story reminds me of Herschel Walker
Herschal joined the wrong League as Wayne joined the wrong team.
Herschel Junior Walker (born March 3, 1962) is a former American college and professional football player and a mixed martial artist. He played college football for the University of Georgia, was a three-time All-American, and won the 1982 Heisman Trophy.
Walker played running back for the University of Georgia, where he was a 3-time All-American and winner of the 1982 Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award. He is the only player in NCAA history to finish in the top 3 in Heisman voting every season he played football. He is also the only player in the NCAA to be in the top 10 in rushing yards and have only played 3 years. During his freshman season in 1980, Walker set the NCAA freshman rushing record and finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting.
He played a major role in helping Georgia go undefeated that year and win the National Championship with a victory over Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl. He would go on to win the Heisman in his junior year. In 1999, Walker was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame and is considered one of the greatest players in college football history.
I remember the day when quite a well built man came into my shop. His mannerisms where of some one who you would not mess with, eventhough he was not tall he obviously looked a hard man.
In conversation I asked him where he was from and what brought him to my shop. He said he was down here to fight. I said " I HOPE NOT ME " he laughed. I asked him what type of fighting he did and he told me he was a wrestler. My next question was. Are you any good. He said he was the World Champion. I looked at him in the eyes and my Liverpool humor had now taken over. Putting my hand on his bisept I said "You do not look all that tough to me"
His face changed and he said I was the first person ever to say that to him and as I was English he would let me off.
I asked him his name he said he was one of the Anderson Family Ole Anderson.His real name was (Al Rogowski)
over the next 15 minutes he took a lot of interest in a 1930's baseball pin ball machine that I had for sale which he purchased. He became a good customer and a sort of friend and from then on I got very interested in wrestling. He brought some of his mates in one day to see me.
Around 1991, Anderson became a referee, Anderson then went on to take control of WCW.
Alan Robert Rogowski (born September 22, 1942), better known by his ring name of Ole Anderson, is now retired professional wrestler and a promoter. He held numerous NWA World Tag Team Championships with Gene Anderson, His ring name is a play on the poisonous plant, oleander.
The Anderson family is a group of professional wrestlers, a fictitious extended family largely consisting of brothers and cousins. It started in the Minnesota area in the late 1960s with a tag team called The Minnesota Wrecking Crew, consisting of "brothers" Lars Anderson and Gene Anderson (the only actual 'Anderson' of the original group).
Later versions of the Crew included "brother" Ole Anderson and "cousin" Arn Anderson in various combinations with the original two. In total, the four original Andersons won over 11 different tag team championships together across the country. Several modern tag teams have taken names similar to the Minnesota Wrecking Crew as an homage to the group.
In the 1980s, Ole and Arn allied themselves with Ric Flair, a Minnesota native who they claimed was another cousin of the family, and formed the famous wrestling stable The Four Horsemen. The stable was a major influence on professional wrestling in North America, creating the blueprint for future groups such as the New World Order, Triple Threat, and Evolution.
Ole, Gene and Arn ran tryout camps for prospective wrestlers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, "stretching" several future stars, including Al Snow.
Other wrestlers claiming the Anderson heritage popped up on the independent circuit in the 1990s. These include Pat Anderson, Rocky Anderson, Karl Anderson and C.W. Anderson, who has gone on to moderate fame. Gene Anderson had a son, Brad, who began wrestling in 1988. Ole Anderson had a son who wrestles under the name Bryant Anderson.
I also believe he has written a book called Inside Out: how corporate America destroyed professional wrestling.
In the 1970's I had the pleasure of selling to someone who was to become a mogul in the fashion industry.
at that time he bought from me, sporting goods, old cricket bats, polo sticks, sporting prints, rocking horses and of cause leather cases.
I was in my shop in Atlanta when a man asked me can you get any more of theses, he was pointing to a leather suite case and the year was 1978. I replied how many..............1000 he replied.
I flew over to England to Mike Melody shop in Chester, (he is the fun guy who says it as it really is on the David Dickinson Show) where one of his employees got the job of finding as many leather cases as she could. Pay no more than £10 was the order, in those day £1-£3 was the normal price to pay.
Well that was the first meeting with a relationship that still carries on today the mans name was not Ralph Loren but Ralph Lipshits.
"Did you always want to be a cowboy?" Oprah asks as she snoops around a Ralph Laurenified hand-painted teepee stuff to the brim with all manner of Americana.
"I wanted to be everything, all at once. I wanted to be a baseball player, I wanted to be a basketball player, I wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a dancer. And I think my whole life has been… actually, I wanted to be Batman!"
When Lauren's dreams of superhero stardom didn't come to fruition, it was on to plan B. "I used to hang up returns in a department store when I was 16 years old," he explains, "I went to my boss and said 'Look, I'd like to design theses ties because I think they could be new', and he said 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren'. And I thought that was a compliment.'
'Then Bill came along and said 'Ralph, would you like to come with me?' and I said I would, I'd like to start my own division. I called it Polo and they gave me a draw in the Empire State building - not an office, but a draw. So I worked on the bottom of the draw and everyone in the office thought 'who's this little kid working out of a draw?'
So I took the samples - I made these wide ties - and delivered them myself in a bomber jacket and jeans and that's how it went."
So there you have it kids, if you dream of being an iconic multi-billionaire fashion mogul and having Oprah over for tea, you don't need to be a superhero, all you need is a good chest of drawers.
I have heard this story before.
The good chest of drawers refers to the hundreds I sold him in the early days to display his shirts. He always said take the shirts out of the packaging and then you will sell them. I was the one who created and supplied the pine look.
He would have loved to be an antique dealer, he forgot to say that on the Oprah Show.
He would give me Shirts and ties and polo shirts as presents for antiques. Even my children would not miss out. My two daughters would go down to his warehouse in the Design Centre and they would pick out dresses for them selves all with labels NOT FOR RESALE.
do you think you would have been so succesfull in the antiques trade earning hugh contracts to supply antiques and such if you hadn't taken that step to america.?
none of my business ofcourse but that move into the american market must have set you up for life
do you think you would have been so successful in the antiques trade earning Hugh contracts to supply antiques and such if you hadn't taken that step to America.?
none of my business of-course but that move into the American market must have set you up for life
the American part I look at as the completion of my apprenticeship in the antique trade.
Customers like Macy's department store, Ruby Tueasday restuarant chain and having my own auction house did set me up, but not for life.
I could give you some advice. set up in China and you will make millions
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This was the time Kenny was the manager of Celtic FC, again they where still living in the same house in Southport...... I said you are having me on. (thinking Celtic play in Green... this is a wind up, a joke).
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who said that he was not allowed to stop.
WHAT A MISTAKE
