Where were you Labor Day Weekend 1974?I was at Moody Coliseum on the campus of SMU in Dallas, watching what then was called "closed circuit television" of Evel Knievel's "motorcycle" jump over Idaho's Snake River Canyon.
The jump was a daredevil failure but a commercial success, as millions of P.T. Barnum's "suckers" paid up all over the nation to watch Evel shoot off the launching pad, his parachute on his rocket unfurled early, and he drifted into the canyon. . . it was a hell of a lot safer than when he tried to jump the fountains at Caesars Palace in 1967 (below).
The X-2 rocket? I had no idea where that thing ended up, until this week, when it showed up at auction. The guy, I guess the curator of a motorcycle museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, wanted $2,100 but didn't get it.
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