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May 18, 2015
At Summerfest in 1972, on the Schlitz Country Stage, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee performed.
The duo are folk legends, having worked with Woddy Guthrie, Big Bill Broonzy and touring constantly for years.
Brownie McGhee on guitar, and Sonny Terry on harmonica, are both self taught musicians! That's amazing and awesome!
They have appeared on Broadway, and as themselves, with Steve Martin, in the film, The Jerk.
When I photographed them, I did not know about them, but really enjoyed their playing and should have photographed them more!
The photos are old, and not the greatest, but the one photo of the old Schlitz Country Stage, is fun to see what is looked like back then! I'm so old!
Enjoy and have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
May 11, 2015
Ok, I promise that this is the last blog on the 1990 CART race at the Milwaukee Mile!
I finally scanned all the film, and I just kept coming across some good memories of good times in Indy car racing! Here are a few of my favorites.
Michael and Mario Andretti sitting on the pit wall having a talk with an engineer.
A. J. Foyt and Mario on their motor scooters having a discussion about who knows what. Would love to know what it was about. Next to them, is legendary engineer, Jim McGee.
Scott Brayton in his Amway car is no longer with us and the photo of Jeff Andretti is the last photo I took of him racing.
Pancho Carter, Danny Sullivan, Rick Mears and Eddie Cheever are looking good in their cars.
So, enjoy the last look of 1990 at the Milwaukee Mile, when they used a board to list qualifying speeds!!!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
May 4, 2015
Last week was so much fun with scanning old film from the Milwaukee Mile, Miller 200, 1990 CART race, that we are going to do this for a while!
So this week, we are looking at a few images of Danny Sullivan, Rick Mears and Emerson Fittipaldi. This is the power house Team Penske of 1990.
This team, was full of Indy 500 winners and CART champions.
They are all personal favorites, especially Emerson Fittipaldi, whose helmet I adored! I still think it's one of the most beautiful helmet designs around!
The aero devices on Emmo's helmet are the earliest form of aero dynamic work.
Enjoy a look at some of the fastest cars EVER made and a beautiful helmet!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
