Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:03 PM 2/2/01 -0600, you wrote: >Tim, > >>Dick Hemingway, do you recall who this is? He also had a mockup >>of a pocket billiards table with lawn grass for the table and large >>balls. > That is Stanley Marsh, III and his Cadillac Ranch is west of Amarillo. Use any search engine and put in his name and you will find several web pages about him. I was involved in a law suit representing him in the early 80's where, due to an old deed dividing the minerals into "oil" and "gas" and each going to different families, without a definition of what constituted each (Marsh's owned the "oil" rights, we were trying to prove that liquified gas coming out of well was "oil." I testified as an expert on oil and gas law in front of the old FPC (Federal Power Commission). Interesting case. We didn't come out so well as I recall. Interesting case and interesting family. When Washington DC I took pictures with my first M3. Dick Hemingway Plano, TX