Originally uploaded by Bill Dakota
I was working at the Capitol Theater in Flint, as a doorman, when James Dean was killed in a car accident in California. There had been two other celebrity deaths around that time, Robert Francis and Carmen Miranda. (Well, they do go in threes.) I had a habit of posting obituaries of celebs who had died, to the front door window, so patrons could see them as they came into the theater. I had done this for Robert Francis, who had died in a plane...
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