Carlton World

[bgar3]

Excellent as usual, like the Indian association.

[Leon]

Awesome stuff, Carlton. Thanks for sharing!
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[CarltonHendricks]

This was always one of my favorite posts...so I'm rehashing it here
Originally posted February 25th 2014



I picked up this Lucky Strike trolley car sign this last November from fellow board member WillowGrove, thank you Peter!....I actually had seen it about 6 months prior on eBay and when it got past $100.00 or so I bailed because of the condition...mostly forgot about it until one day I saw it in the Net54 BST section...Peter and I arm wrestled over a month I think it was...and we finally made the deal...It was a partial trade and cash deal but the total dollar amount was quite a bit more than the $100 I bowed out at on eBay...but it just kept speaking to me...Regardless of the condition where would I ever find another Lucky Strike trolley with an Ivy League football player from 1919...it really was my kind of piece...So what the hay I finally bit the bullet...

It wasn't like there was a lot of background on Callahan...I had to do some digging...Once I found the Times Square photo below I started thinking...who is this guy...20 years old...has his mug plastered on Times Square!...Employed as a national advertising vehicle...Yes he was the Yale football Captain but I couldn't find anything really extraordinary...then when I read about his blue blood Boston heritage and all...dating Rose Fitzgerald (later Rose Kennedy)...I think maybe he was just hooked up with the right crowd...Then I was curious what ever happened to him...Went on to a career lawyering first for the Justice Department fighting for prohibition...then later with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a prosecutor...So now I just have to get it restored!...

[ooo-ribay]

^^^^ Would Tim Callahan have been able to endorse Luckys while at Yale or would that sign have been made shortly after he graduated?

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

^^^^ Would Tim Callahan have been able to endorse Luckys while at Yale or would that sign have been made shortly after he graduated?

Good question...I assume while at yale...

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by CarltonHendricks

Good question...I assume while at yale...

I thought that kind of thing wasn’t allowed for amateur athletes….

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I thought that kind of thing wasn’t allowed for amateur athletes….

The NCAA did not exist back then. The only athletes who were held to a higher, and many times obscene/unreasonable, standard back then were those who compete in AAU competitions. Football was not an AAU sport. Athletics (track and field) and swimming were the sports that fell under that purview. James 'The Tyrant' Sullivan was responsible for creating those high standards and they remained in place even after he died in 1914. He was a bit of a hypocrite though. He refused to recognize U.S. and world records if the athletes did not wear Spalding track shoes. He was partially employed by them and thus in their pocket.