Note on Art

Note on Art

A note from LeRoy Neiman on the presence of automobiles in his childhood.

This note from LeRoy Neiman broadly outlines the presence of automobiles in his childhood. The record—made in preparation for his memoir, All Told—can be seen as linking, but not determining, his later interest in cars and auto racing.

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Notes, LN_Notes_1673_01, LN_Notes_1673_02, LN_Notes_1658, LN_Notes_1674, LN_Notes_1667, LN_Notes_1655, LN_Notes_2250, LN_Notes_1995, LN_Notes_923_01, LN_Notes_923_02, LN_Notes_919_01, LN_Notes_919_02, LN_Notes_1871_01, LN_Notes_1871_02, LN_Notes_1702, LN_Notes_1703, LN_Notes_2436_01, LN_Notes_2436_02, LN_Notes_1903_01, LN_Notes_1903_02

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New York (N.Y.) New York

St. Paul youth on the streets of Frogtown and Rice Streets.
Neighborhoods celebrities were ex-prize fighters – the owner (the fill in projectionist at the Foust theatre) of the Harley-Davidson or Indian motorcycle.
Motor cycle hill climbers and high jump skiers were looked up to
Dirt track auto racers and the State Fair grounds. Whisky preserved storytelling old Irish bar characters. Terry Lubi.
With Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and other outlaws in the limelight St. Paul’s finest (police) were not particularly revered
MACK TRUCK DRIVERS – Big Locomotive Engineers – admired
CCC camps at Isabella, Minnesota

Pencil and ballpoint pen on paper.