I just had to share this… I don’t believe it but the I won it!
Two great tastes together… the impecible Vincent Price [bow] and the Super Chief!
What a fine man Mr. Price was a gentle and loving man, art collector and donator, a well known chef (who published more than one book of his recipes) and a general good egg who said that his favorite quote of himself was an introduction given at a party by a wife to her husband “This is Vincent Price… you know dear… he’s the man that plays the organ while the drapes burn”
[:D]
I am one happy camper…
lifts a glass To Dr. Phibes!
This is what I won… I’d post a link to it but not sure how to do accept through my ebay account and not sure that is a good idea? (maybe someone would know better?)
“Santa Fe Railroad Railway Luncheon Menu (6-11-63), Luncheon aboard the Super Chief. Cover of menu depicts Ranchos de Taos by E.L.Blumenschein, from the Santa Fe collection of famous paintings of the southwest. Back cover has short history of Ranchos de Taos. Front of cover has autograph-“All my best, Vincent Price”. Menu in excellent condition except for small dent in center that’s hardly noticable. Included with this auction is an original slide my father took on the same trip of Vincent Price shaking hands with someone outside of the train.”
I think the first movie I ever saw him in was The Fly, scared the beejebus out of me, He was in the DFW area years ago for a lecture on art I was ready to go but circumstances prevented me from getting to see him, what a shame…
I love the pic of him on the station next to the Super Chief… Train of the stars… indeed!
Awesome! I got to see Vincent Price speak when I was in college, shortly before he died. Great stories he had to tell. My favorite was where he said he used to sit behind some girls near the back of the theater at one of his movies, and when it ended, but before the lights came up, say in his scariest voice “Did you like it” and watch them jump! [:D]
It sounds to me like you bid on a menu and a slide your father was selling???Am I understanding this right? I like when Vincient Price appeard on an Alice Cooper album.
I bid on a Super Chief Menu that Vincent Price autographed, along with the menu is a slide of a picture that the sellers father took of Mr. Price greeting some folks at the station after getting off the Super Chief. [:)]
A lot of people remember Roger Moore as The Saint on television. To me Roger Moore was The Saint until I heard Vincent Price playing the role on the old radio drama. I don’t know if the role fit him or if he was sch a good actor that he could make any role seem so natural.
I have a copy of that! Price was such a fine actor and a gentleman… he had so many and varied intrests I wonder if he was ever into Model Railoading [:D] A Vincent Price layout plan!![:0][:p] Now that I’d move heaven and earth to see laughs
Sweeeeeet… That’s a great collectible! If I’d known about it I’d have bid on it myself. He was one of my favorite actors too. My favorite Vincent Price flicks are “Theatre of Blood”, “Pit & the Pendulum” and “House on Haunted Hill”. Oh and those cheesy “Dr Goldfoot” movies were a hoot too, though definitely not scary!
Lyrics spoken by Vincent Price from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”:
Darkness falls across the land.
The midnight hour is close at hand.
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize you’re neighborhood.
And whosoever shall be found,
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of Hell
And rot inside a corpses shell.
Feel, the foul stench is in the air
The funk of 40,000 years!
And grisly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom.
And though you fight to stay alive,
Your body starts to shiver…
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of… the Thrillerrrr…
Well after a bit of research and digging I think I have an intresting, although unconfirmed, take on Mr. Price, the Super Chief and the Menu.
As many may, or may not, know Mr, Price and was, amongst many other things a respected amatuer chef; his first book of recipes, A Treasury of Great Recipes, was a compilation of “Famous specialities of the world’s foremost restaurants adapted for the Amrican kitchen”.
Now in A Treasury of Great Recipes, Vincent gives the recipe for French Toast Santa Fe… the speciality of the Santa Fe Super Chief kitchen!!! [:0]
AHA so now we are cooking with evil gas… [;)]
So digging further I found the date of the books first publishing and the date of the menu (65 and 63 respectively) and then dug till I found when Mr. Price got the recipe… yup you guessed it 1963…
So here I am eased back in my chair imagining what it was like roaring along on the Super Chief, smoking a cig, sipping my drink and casualy listening in on Vincent Price and the Super Chief’s Chef haggle and talk till Vincent got the recipe [:D][:)][:p]
Ah to have been there!
Peace.
Coyote
p.s. See I bet you thought this wouldnt have anything to do with trains didn’t you [:p] and btw if you want the recipe here it is enjoy!! http://www.completerecipes.com/118983.htm