Thursday, September 5, 2013

Beatles raffle

No, I am not holding another raffle, but instead am writing about a raffle the Beatles entered.  I found this in a Southerby's auction catalog from 1996.  The photo was small, so it isn't the best quality, but I don't recall ever reading about this, so I though it was neat.

On December 3, 1963, backstage before a show in Portsmouth, the Beatles entered a contest.   With blue ballpoint pens, they wrote their guesses as to how far a car would run on a gallon of petrol.  From what I can tell, Ringo wrote in "30."  They are seen here with the vendor for the Glasgow Student's Charity filling out the tickets.    I would guess that none of the Beatles were winners.


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