 
Ed_golick
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Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 708
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 9:07 am: |    |
Anybody here know anything about local artist Tasco? He specialized in chalk portraits of Detroit sports figures, which he sold prints of. In the late 60s-early 70s I used to see him at Universal City and the Macomb Mall at his easel, sketching people for a few dollars.
Willie Horton |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1529
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 12:41 pm: | |
He lived in my neighborhood when I was growing up. He used to show up everywhere, cranking out caricatures of everyday people and local celebs. |
Ed_golick
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Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 709
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 1:09 pm: | |
56packman,
Where did you grow up? Do you remember Tasco's first name? |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1532
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 2:47 pm: | |
We lived in NE Livonia, moved from NW Detroit when I was 10. I want to say his name was Art. This would have been in the early 70's |
Rjk
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Username: Rjk
Post Number: 780
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 3:22 pm: | |
I've got about a dozen of his prints (Lions and Bears) somewhere in my basement. It's been years since I've looked at them but Karras, Barney, Munson, Sayers and Butkus are the ones I can remember. |
Waz
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Username: Waz
Post Number: 113
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 4:53 pm: | |
I had a calendar of his work sponsored by Little Caesars from about '74 that had a different sports celeb for each month. I think the Willie Horton pic shown above was in it. I believe it ended up in the trash, though. I haven't seen it in years. |
Offical_birdbath
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Username: Offical_birdbath
Post Number: 3
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 1:01 am: | |
Tasco's first name was Irv. He lived on Weyher in Livonia,in the subdivision near 8 Mile and Middlebelt |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1534
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:09 am: | |
Hearthstone Sub--S. of 8 mile between Middlebelt and Grand River. Thanks for the correction/nudge on his name Official_Birdbath, little things like that tend to get fuzzy after 35 years. I lived on Brentwood, went to school with his son Randy.
Welcome to the forum |
Ed_golick
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Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 710
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 10:52 am: | |
Thank you, 56packkman and Official_birdbath.
Birdbath, do you still have your Birdbath card? |
Offical_birdbath
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Username: Offical_birdbath
Post Number: 4
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 4:14 pm: | |
Sure do Ed!, Bage Too. I lost the magic slate. |