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Wilhelm Dickoff in Stafford, TX
Wilhelm Dickoff, Ernst Koszienske (worked in the accounting dept in a hospital in Hmburg, Germany) and Kurt Reinicke (a taxi driver from Hamburg who spoke the best English?) came to my house in Stafford to spend the night before going on to Laredo the next day for the World Championships. That night we were sitting around the table looking through my boat racing scrap book and all of a sudden Wilhelm jumps up and says in German 'Thats me!" while looking at an advertisement for a television set. The picture of the television had a picture inserted on the screen and it was a picture of Wilhelm racing in a borrowed boat in Budapest, Hungary Evidently someone had taken his picture and sold it to an ad company who used it for the TV ad in a Houston, TX newspaper, which proves it is a very small world. Wilhelm got a tremendous laugh out of seeing his picture in Houston newspaper. He autographed the ad for me. I enjoyed my time visiting with the 3 Germans even tho there was a slight language barrier. Boat Racers are the same all over the world. Wayne Baldwin and I had always wondered who the boat racer was in this ad. Wilhelm solved the mystery for us. The pictures below are of the advertisement and the other one is Wilhelm's racing post card.