EppsNet: Notes from the Golden Orange » Evel Knievel http://eppsnet.com Online journal based in Orange County, CA. Hilarious anecdotes tempered by the icy chill of certain death. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:05:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Evel Knievel, 1938-2007 http://eppsnet.com/2007/12/evel-knievel-1938-2007 http://eppsnet.com/2007/12/evel-knievel-1938-2007#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:26:34 +0000 PE http://eppsnet.com/2007/12/evel-knievel-1938-2007 Evel Knievel

On New Year’s Eve Day, 1967, Evel Knievel, some crazy son of a bitch from Butte, Montana, jumped his motorcycle 151 feet over the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

— EvelKnievel.com

And that’s why, when I was a kid, every boy in my neighborhood grew up with a endless progression of scabs on knees and elbows from trying to jump Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes over every natural and man-made obstacle we could find.

Farewell to an iconic figure . . .

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