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    I got hammered only once, and then very slightly, but it didn't tarnish me; in fact, it's what I'm famous for. I came out retirement at the age of 70, (wow, was that 70 years ago?) and recreated my famous drive for a film. It must've gone over well: we won the first Grand Prix. I reside now in the state that's famous for making me what I am, though my ties are in another state, the one that made me famous and shown me quarter. I feel like a museum piece nowadays, but I'm still ready for my close-up. I am?

    Question #107000. Asked by Datsmeharse. (Jul 10 09 10:54 PM)


    queproblema

    		This has to be the Golden Spike, but I've not time to gather all the references. Could possibly be the closely related Silver Spike, since it didn't tarnish.

    Jul 10 09, 11:50 PM
    star_gazer

    		This tells of the Golden Spike Historic Site:

    http://www.nps.gov/gosp/

    Jul 10 09, 11:52 PM
    queproblema

    		The Golden Spike was tapped lightly into place in 1839 when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways met at Promontory Summit, Utah. In 1939 the very spike "starred" in Cecil B. DeMille's "Union Pacific," which won the first "Grand Prix du Festival International du Film," now called the Palme d'Or.

    The spike is housed in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in California. The track, of course, is in Utah, which is issuing its commemorative quarter bearing the image of the spike, but as I understand it the original laurel ties burned in the San Francisco fire.

    Close-up? Two replica locomotives draw up face-to-face each Saturday during the summer at Golden Spike National Historic Site. (Surely you don't mean Gloria Swanson's line to DeMille?)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_(film)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_D%27Or


    Jul 11 09, 3:50 AM
    Datsmeharse

    		I did mean that, and don't call me Surely.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qoblBuS_eo&feature=related



    Jul 11 09, 8:42 AM

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