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An evening with Larry Pieniazek.
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Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:35:36 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek was in the Detroit metro area yesterday, and stopped by
for the evening. After reading all of his posts, as well as the flamage
going his way, I didn't know what to expect. Well, he was quite unlike
that tough exterior that he shows in the newsgroups. He was very
pleasant and friendly.
We spent the evening talking about any of the rest of you that he has
met in the past, looking at photo's of the GMLTC (wow!), and just LEGO
in general. And then we rummaged thru my Lego collection. He brought
his camera, and was just snapping away. Of course I was somewhat
embarrased, since I am about 200,000 pieces behind in sorting. Anyway I
took him on a tour of the Samsonite sets, the Architectural sets, the
European parts packs, and my "inventory". He took a few photos of some
of my (yet to be seen) buildings such as the Neo-Gothic Fire Station,
two of my movie palaces, and some of my medieval buildings (including
the finished facade of the New Cathedral). I gave him a bunch of old
stuff from my inventory (I won't bore you with all the details) and he
gave me a Maersk truck, God bless him. There were some stuff I had
that he hadn't seen since he was a kid in the 60's. I let him check out
some of the old catalogs and Idea Books as well. He took me out to
dinner, and we discussed the future of Lego (bulk sales, the direction
of the company, etc).
I'm sure that he's still absorbing everthing that he saw last night, and
that we'll be doing some trades (Shell embossed signage?) in the future.
All in all, a great evening with Lar.
Gary Istok
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) We're talking about *Larry Pieniazek*, right? <ducks slow right, runs> (...) I hope he didn't sucker you into playing Foosball. Crafty one, he is;-) (...) I remember the first time I met him as well. Quite different than "knowing" him from (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: An evening with Larry Pieniazek.
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| To All, I assume that after the meeting, you guys went to Sunday night church? :) (Ducks, runs, hits side of cube, falls over in pain) (Sorry, Larry, all in good fun!) Scott S. Gary Istok wrote: snipped Gary's comments about meeting with Larry > (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: An evening with Larry Pieniazek.
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| (...) You know, a lot of us don't have that kind of opportunity. I mean, sure, more power to Gary and all but I don't think i need my nose rubbed in it. "I got to play with Larry and none of you did, nyah nyah," I think you should have just kept it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: An evening with Larry Pieniazek.
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| (...) Can I add to that that this is really all very surface - saying how pleasant and friendly the guy is. What we'd really like you to share are the deep things that characterize what you've found out about what Larry is truly like down inside. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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