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Created on: 07/10/10 05:27 PM Views: 3013 Replies: 2
Mr Naked
Posted Saturday, July 10, 2010 12:27 PM

I wont go there and identify the guy - and I know many of you know who he was.  He was adjacent to our class - a year or two older.   I'll make my point in a minute - but this is a tribute item that flows from Barnes' recollection about Olsen...  

I grew up on Austin Highway.  Mother and Dad divorced in '62 and mother was escourting her next husband a lot - so I was often in the care of my two older sisters.  Sis Ellen was 8 years ahead of me - and when mom left the house - the sisters and I were right behind.  She drove a jet black '60 Impala and the requisite cruise was straight over to Austin Hwy.  This was, of course, before even tape decks - and KONO and KTSA AMs were the music scene in cars.  We'd roll from the Bun to the Big Orange to the Frontier - and stations had to be re-dialed to be compatible with the other noise in the places.  (I have a question about The Big Orange listed in my Profile - and nary a reply, but that's still another story)...

Mr Naked was as great a hellraiser as there was - I mean - gee - Mr Naked - need there be more said.?  He'd stalk those drive-ins in cars with his people - then make an appearance.  Not really a Streaker - this guy was a thug, an artist - with father, mother or some other issues.  I always loved the notion of Mr Naked tho - and have often told myself to do a song about him.   I cant help it - there's always just that appeal of troublemakers.

Point is - to this day - he is a Standard in the raising of my own son and any other youngsters I have an errant opportunity to mentor - especially when they're in a pinch.  Seems twice a year it comes up.  Mr Naked - and the romantic and disturbing notions conjured by such a moniker - are bedrock life training citations.  I cant even tell a decent story of any fact about him - but the spirit has been enough.  I certainly dont know what became of the individual - and seems it doesnt really matter - wish him well, I'm sure.  When your kid or grandkid is in deep doo-doo over something, and ya need to sooth or enlighten, take a tip - flower up a story about Mr Naked.  The kid you're trying to help grow will forever know that whatever (s)he's done - there's always another standard out there for measure.    Chester...

 
RE: Mr Naked
Posted Saturday, July 10, 2010 12:56 PM

Chester...thanks for pinning a rose on the Eddie Olsen remembrance...man he was somethin'. 

Now I know you are a man who loves his brahmas...but I'm wondering if Mr Naked may have been an 09er....Alamo Heights weenie.  I seem to remember a wildman a year or two older from Heights....Bobby Hunt....who occassionaly appeared sans clothes and I saw him one night at a music joint on Austin Hiway that the cops raided....Bobby was doing the alligator right on top of a chick on the floor.  Degges and I scrambled out the back door when the cops raided the place.  I would have thought Hunt would be dead by now but I am told by Neka of Teen Canteen Reunion fame that he is still alive.

Anyway...great story....

Roger Barnes

 
RE: Mr Naked
Posted Saturday, July 10, 2010 01:32 PM

" I saw him one night at a music joint on Austin Hiway that the cops raided"...

That is one event that I have not forgotten.  We were at the hotel next to the drive-inn on Austin Hwy..Seven Oaks I think....someone had rented the ballroom for a huge party. We were all dancing  doing the slide when it was Bobby Hunt and some poor girl's turn to go down the center....he hopped on her and started doing the Alligator..... the next thing I remember was being in the restroom with this girl crying her eyes out on my shoulder....I did not know her, I think I remember her going to Alamo Heights....One of many wild high school parties I remember being a part of.........oh the memories ;-)

Bobby, aka Naked Man,  drove a powder blue mustang convertable, went to AH.  I remember one day while spending a sunny summer afternoon at Dittlinger's Mill in New Braunfels watching Bobby jump off the cliff into the water....of course he was butt naked.

I think he hung with the AH hoodlums !!!