You forgot womanizing. He womanized too.

Him and Paul Newman had a farkin' copyright on cool.

I'm drinking cheap beer right now...

/hero

XveryYpettyZ: You forgot womanizing. He womanized too.

Also while drinking cheap beer in an aircraft hanger with his wife? What a guy.

I'm fairly certain steve mcqueen wrestled bears.

/and stole german motorcycles, thats manly

Mmmmm, Old Milwaukee. Almost as good as Hamms, better than Pabst.

I wanna be like Steve McQueen when I don't grow up.

/seriously

Chopper brake dust did a great man in. And cheap beer. And a supermodel.

Sounds like very nearly the perfect existence.

XveryYpettyZYou forgot womanizing. He womanized too.

I know, I know-why should a man fark up a good time by introducing a woman into the mix? Like women would go for someone who was quite possibly the coolest guy on earth, anyway.

I mean, it's not like he was rich and famous but still not afraid to say "Fark it" and change everything at a moment's notice to pursue something he wanted.

FunkOut: XveryYpettyZ: You forgot womanizing. He womanized too.

Also while drinking cheap beer in an aircraft hanger with his wife? What a guy.

he sent her on beer runs and then had a quickie.

Badass haps, those.

Good find, subby!

You mean he's dead? Who is he again? All I know is that some chick sang an annoying song that mentioned him.

She can tell you what a great guy he was.

Perfect way for a person like McQueen to go out; like an average joe.

Oh, if I could die like that.

Voldemort:
You mean he's dead? Who is he again? All I know is that some chick sang an annoying song that mentioned him.

It's okay. Wouldn't expect a guy with an online name like "Voldemort" to know.

I call shenanigans.

There is no good Chinese food in Santa Paula.

love boat? really? that's not cool.

He not only lived in the hangar there, he also flew the planes as well.

He looked rough with a full beard but fark, it's Steve McQueen, cool dude. Enough said.

Nice guy. I loaned him a couple of bucks from time to time, and introduced him to an old doctor friend of mine.

Why go out for beer?

I loves me some cheap american beer.



/Canadian

coachwdb: Him and Paul Newman had a farkin' copyright on cool.

I don't know what to tell you other than I agree with you 100%. Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper were on the wild end of the spectrum.

Not many people know this, but he also offered to help Bruce Lee buy his house on Mulholland Drive for him when Bruce was starting out in Hollywood. That's major cool for a friend to do.


/wishes he had friends that cool

"Allie McGraw got mad with you, for giving head to Steve McQueen"

/Mick asked Steve if he was OK with the lyrics, and Steve of course approved them on the spot.
//That's the Stones "Star Star", for those not in the know.

That airplane hangar was in my old hometown. At the time, he wasn't womanizing, he was all into this "non-denominational" Bible-based church.

Lee's Chinese Food is considered excellent by the Santa Paula natives (and Steve liked it), but no one who has ever had Chinese food in San Francisco or even L.A. would agree with that. My parents won't eat any other kind. It's all deep-fried. But he was sick, so he didn't care.

He also rented a ranch house not too far from the airport, next to my friend Lisa's house - so he didn't just live at the airport.

There's a great documentary about Steve's motorcycle passion and nearly all of his movies are worth watching, compared to the shiatt movies they make nowadays.

Steve and Santa Paula in one article. Sweet.

OK, I'm confused. His neighbors talk about how great he was, but he lived in a hanger? Where is this community of hanger dwellers that I may join them?

I guess it's cool, but somehow it just seems sad. Stuck in a large and drafty airplane hangar surrounded by a old plane and junk only to eat take-out and drink crappy beer while watching crappy TV shows?

He could have gotten an apartment. I don't get why he had to live in a hangar. It sounds like he was trying to remind himself of a role he was playing.

"During the day, he learned to pilot a World War II-era biplane."

The Fairey Swordfish or the Fairey Albacore?

One of the reasons I'm proud to ride a Triumph.

There wasa giant auction recently of a bunch of old bikes. The man had great taste.

Guntram Shatterhand: I guess it's cool, but somehow it just seems sad. Stuck in a large and drafty airplane hangar surrounded by a old plane and junk only to eat take-out and drink crappy beer while watching crappy TV shows?

He could have gotten an apartment. I don't get why he had to live in a hangar. It sounds like he was trying to remind himself of a role he was playing.

maybe not to you, but to a guy of the gearheaded persuasion it sounds positively idyllic. And he managed to find a female who was cool with it too. Major, major props.

/that way, when you get the urge to refinish some trim in the middle of the night you don't have to drive to the garage/hangar/whatever
//not that I've ever had those urges...
///heh, I just realized that I said "refinish some trim"

Guntram Shatterhand: I guess it's cool, but somehow it just seems sad. Stuck in a large and drafty airplane hangar surrounded by a old plane and junk only to eat take-out and drink crappy beer while watching crappy TV shows?

He could have gotten an apartment. I don't get why he had to live in a hangar. It sounds like he was trying to remind himself of a role he was playing.


Living as you choose is cool. More so if what you choose is unusual and fun.

just_dis_guy: Guntram Shatterhand: I guess it's cool, but somehow it just seems sad. Stuck in a large and drafty airplane hangar surrounded by a old plane and junk only to eat take-out and drink crappy beer while watching crappy TV shows?

He could have gotten an apartment. I don't get why he had to live in a hangar. It sounds like he was trying to remind himself of a role he was playing.

maybe not to you, but to a guy of the gearheaded persuasion it sounds positively idyllic. And he managed to find a female who was cool with it too. Major, major props.

/that way, when you get the urge to refinish some trim in the middle of the night you don't have to drive to the garage/hangar/whatever
//not that I've ever had those urges...
///heh, I just realized that I said "refinish some trim"

I'll give him some credit for finding a woman who can live like that, but the rest I'll take your word for.

There's a kewl book out called McQueen's Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon.
Thumbed through it at Barnes & Noble. It's on my list along with the new book on Mickey Thompson.
/gearhead

1980? Those weren't reruns.

It'd be "cooler" if he spent that time throwing a baseball aginst the wall.

He also lived next to...and didn't get along with Who drummer Keith Moon.

I wished they did because those are two guys I'd like to sit and drink with.

A rich guy drinking crappy beer is nowhere near as heroic as a hobo who drinks good beer.

Guntram Shatterhand: I guess it's cool, but somehow it just seems sad. Stuck in a large and drafty airplane hangar surrounded by a old plane and junk only to eat take-out and drink crappy beer while watching crappy TV shows?

He could have gotten an apartment. I don't get why he had to live in a hangar. It sounds like he was trying to remind himself of a role he was playing.

As previously stated, he had a nice ranch style home as well - not too far from the hangar. About one mile away. Surrounded by oaks and orange trees. As nice a place as one could possibly get in Santa Paula at the time.

coachwdb: Him and Paul Newman had a farkin' copyright on cool.

Came here to say exactly this. No modern movie types could hold a candle to either of these guys.

I don't get it. He had so many healthy influences in his life.

Steve McQueen thread... Is this gonna turn into an amyl nitrate thread?

Guntram Shatterhand: I guess it's cool, but somehow it just seems sad. Stuck in a large and drafty airplane hangar surrounded by a old plane and junk only to eat take-out and drink crappy beer while watching crappy TV shows?

He could have gotten an apartment. I don't get why he had to live in a hangar. It sounds like he was trying to remind himself of a role he was playing.

My dad was a flight instructor and pilot for 40 years, and his best friend still lives in a hanger although he no lonter flies. The two old men get together and watch the planes take off and land, drink beer and shoot the shiat. Not sad at all, you will never meet two more well adjusted people in your life. Who have done more and lived more than any ten put together.

And the hanger is nicer than most peoples "apartments".

Several years ago I stopped in a small 'antique'(read 'junk') store located at a wide spot on a county road in southeastern Wisconsin.

I was talking to the owner when I noticed at frames check on the wall behind her.

It was from Steve McQueen. She told me he had been filming what turned out to be one of his movies (about a bounty hunter as I remember)in Chicago and on his day off he was driving around.

She said he bought an old blender to grind up stuff for an odd-ball cancer treatment he was making while on the set.

She kept it as a momento.

Dictionary--'cool' {kewl}---see McQueen, Steve

More hollywierd idiots could take a cue from McQueen. Instead of thinking he was better than anyone else, he just wanted to be a regular guy. If more hollywierd types would do that, perhaps their image would be better, and the idiots that run around snapping pictures of them 24/7 would leave them alone.

When McQueen was in Montana filming NEVADA SMITH, the cast and crew were staying at the Chico Hot Springs Lodge near Livingston. A lot of the locals used to hang out at their bar. One night, Steve McQueen was at the bar by himself drinking a beer when an old grizzled rancher sat down beside him. The fellow introduced himself and shook hands. His next question was,..."what do you do Steve"?

Lord Snoopy's G.P.E.H.: It'd be "cooler" if he spent that time throwing a baseball aginst the wall.

That is pure Awesomeness.

Talk about cool, I am sitting on the toilet reading these comments on my PDA phone!

I wonder if he hung out with Clive Cussler?