I lived next to a guy who's wife wouldn't let him hang out on the corner with the other guys, so the other guys came to his house and played cards with him through his window.

The man in the picture, who we can see is sporting some royalty in his hand, drove an extra long van and shuttled neighbors to and from their jobs, kind of a one-man community transit system. He told me that during the 1960s he had starred in a bunch of Mexican movies. I was skeptical, until he took me to a Mexican rodeo on the south side. They introduced him on the PA system, he stood up and took a bow, and the whole arena went crazy with cheers and applause.