Minnesota Fats Ex Wife Evelyn Walderone Lost Interview with Bill Meechum Part 1 of 2

Doll? Okay, so my parents were from this area, so Heat. Now I read somewhere that he had moved to Dowel or that he moved to this area because of the tournament. Do you know ten years before the tournament? Do you know when you moved? The tournament started by chance. Costa, do you remember because I remember one that ended? I was there when they raided Treasure Challenge and I think it was 71. I was there when he took out these manila folders and told the players to put their money in it. folder on the table they put it in this folder they lowered it as a name or whatever in the amount and that's what happened to your money they took it away yes and they had on it everything you had you kept it yes, that's right I remember talking to Jimmy Rampion and it happened to him that he just took all his money out of his pocket and put it somewhere else and he had some money to walk around and he didn't get anything, but I just, but you don't.

I don't remember when it started, it's not right, so when did that dollar house that was your mother's first meet you? When did he first live there with you? Remember what year were the first years we were married. I went with him every time in the car. I backed out of the driveway, I was in it and we went to New York, we went to Florida, yeah all the places intersect and you followed the time of year like you know in the south and the winter in the summer up north, is it just nice? of spreads there's action oh yeah oh yeah I know Clary when they get a bad day they were going to play someone and show them how they had planned it and they hoped one good day they would fly there and land and take off, so Newark, that was yeah, That's what is rumored.

I remember he was quite active. Back then, when you lived in the house and you marked approximately what year it was, it was okay, it was redone. I took a whole summer and they started in April, that's when they built the pool room in that amount of the pool at the house, yes. What type of table was it? Do you remember what worked for her? I remember you used to have your own stores. Yes, okay, a table in the house. Yeah. What kind of three or four tracks for FET throughout his life were a Rambo? Rambo was a Rambo and he wouldn't, yeah, I had a friend of mine who remembers in 1964 I bought a new Rambo, one of the really fancy ones that he paid $80 for because it was like the most expensive QB headstock at the time, a sign beautiful, although yes and what he did is like his own work in his signs that he liked when he knew that the tips make me his own advice oh yes, he went down, he was a perfectionist, he would find two q-tips players, they all carry q- tips, they exchange correctly, oh yeah so wow, even finding two or three swabs didn't appeal to me, maybe in a store it sounds like me.

I think of a box and find water on our right, I can carry them in my pocket and from time to time it spits on each one. on his tongue and just wet it or his finger and wet that swab and that was hearing it just with perspiration you may never hear it and he carries nuts in front of you and where do you learn that from oh yeah oh yeah think about a lot of different things when you get there at that high level, it's interesting, how about and he always had something like a signal and two chefs, a button, two chefs, okay, and you know what kind of Casey used to use it?

Yes, because what changed maybe champions every two or three years for some reason he remembers yes, which year is okay, in which year he played what were the years in which he played the best group of him? Do you remember what each one was or what it was? He got married in '41 before the war, yes, but he did it. He didn't go to war, did you know he had been drafted? Oh, that's a funny story, it's its own story, but I'm telling you, it's a razor. Now the man who demanded to smoke cigarettes. I don't even remember any mocha.

I never smoked, drank, uh, Fat Symantec had been married for years and we had my mother with us in New York City, what year was that? Well, at one point, Fats and Islands was married for too many years for me to marry him, 41, so I would say who had been. We were married two or three years and we took my mother to visit New York City, we didn't have to visit her mother, so for a while, I don't know what we were doing at the Wellington Hotel, which is an old hotel that probably It's been torn down for years anyway, for some reason we were there and we won't in an elevator and there was a man in this elevator and he said the defense says hello, he says "I know you" and the fat guy says "where from" and The man says "from Jefferson Barracks in St.

Louis and that's where Gordo went for the induction and that's why when he told that thing about tickling to France and the man was tickled to death he didn't go over the whole story but they talked for a few minutes and close and He already told me the story of this induction. It focuses on how cold it was and as soon as they all arrived they said idiot Flores, let these other fools take off their clothes he says I'm cold I'm fine I'll get ready to be exact hmm something else happened to him. I was behind a tall man, a really big man and he had had all kinds of fractures in his back and then they told everyone in front of the fence that I was the king table for the exam, so this big man He was lying on this table and he was On examination, they don't move, they told him to the fence, in fact, he says to change his feet and they said there was garbage on the table, he said down there, so I guess they changed it anyway to make a long story short he caused so much confusion and everything we blacklisted him for a lot longer because everything they tried to do with him he was contrary he just wished he didn't need that uh no that's good well he He was smarter than the average bear, as they say, yes, he sure was, who were his close ones? friends fantasies of close friends heard me very close friends I was probably the only one who lived ok ok yes but I mean bubble friends like here in the city or no yes I know what kind of friends those are yes ok okay do you know where he is? learned how to play and at what age did he start playing like a very young lady, just young, it could be when he was a little kid who used to go with these damn good dad he was a three and four year old drinker, so probably yeah, okay. right, and that was in New York City, so yeah, and no man was always in banana bars and the

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went with him and the qualities and the students at the bar and the Boilermakers drinks came out of the cabinets at Rosie's and They chased him with a beer and the fence went to the lunch counter in those days everyone at the free lunch table and free food is probably yours all yours lit up isn't it when you heard right?