Re: [Texascavers] If you know Bob Liebman
David, If you would like to give that helmet a good permanent home, please consider donating/loaning it to the TSS "Museum". We have a display of historical items that have been donated by numerous old-time cavers. It includes helmets, carbide lamps, ropes and vertical gear, and just about anything else you can think of. Each item is catalogued with the donor's name, and any relevant history if known. The helmet with your interesting story about it would be a lasting tribute to Bob and his long relationship with Texas cavers. I still have some of his old price lists that could go along with the display. Many of us have photos of Bob (and his cat), so a good photo could also be displayed. Thanks, Logan David wrote: (snip) Dear Bob, At TCR in 1986, you donated a very rare Headmaster caving helmet as a door prize, and it was the top door prize that year. That helmet is still my only caving helmet 30 years later, and it has worn a variety of headlamps over the years. Unfortunately, it has been in a box for 8 years, but I hope to dust it off someday. Hopefully, I will put some awesome LED light rig on it. And hopefully some caver will wear it on their underground journeys after I am gone. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
Re: [Texascavers] If you know Bob Liebman
If you mail him a letter, please feel free to include this one below: Dear Bob, At TCR in 1986, you donated a very rare Headmaster caving helmet as a door prize, and it was the top door prize that year. My name was drawn, to much hisses and sneers and laughter for winning that awesome helmet. I had already been around cavers for 3 big events and had already developed a reputation as a shy, quiet, timid, reserved caver with exquisite technical skills. ( okay, all of that is reverse humor ). That helmet is still my only caving helmet 30 years later, and it has worn a variety of headlamps over the years. Unfortunately, it has been in a box for 8 years, but I hope to dust it off someday. Hopefully, I will put some awesome LED light rig on it. And hopefully some caver will wear it on their underground journeys after I am gone. You and I waited out the flooded road together for 2 hours at Chalk Bluff, west of Uvalde, Texas, after TCR around 1999. I bought a rare t-shirt from you around 1987, and it has never ever been out of the package.It is the one with the caver staring at all the soda-straws. I am probably to fat to wear it now. I had a taco with you at the 1987 N.S.S. BOG in Bellaire, Texas, ( a suburb of Houston. ) I can only guess that I went to your mobile-store at 20 caving events. It was a highlight at many of those events. As in those days, you could not find any suitable gear in stores. It was fun to get your new product catalogue each year, and dream about buying new gear. David Locklear NSS # 27639 ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] If you know Bob Liebman
I'm going to send him a letter tomorrow. Bill Steele Bob Liebman Update If you are a relatively new caver and don't remember Bob & Bob there's no need to read further. As I'm sure you know, Bob Liebman is one of the Bobs in Bob & Bob. His cave gear sales operation was a fixture at many caving events from around 1973 until the early 2000s. Bob is currently being treated for cancer and is in a rehab center near Lewisburg, West Virginia. I was in the area this weekend stopped in to visit him. He is really really weak, but he's alert and (as always) very talkative. He seemed to be in fairly good spirits, but lamented that Bob & Bob is now just a memory. Several times during my visit he mentioned that he has received letters from cavers thanking him for the personal service and advice he gave them as they were getting started rather than just selling them stuff and then ignoring them. If Bob Liebman was instrumental in getting you properly equipped for caving please take a minute and write him a short note thanking him for the advise he gave you along with whatever you purchased. I think he will appreciate hearing from his over 40 years of customers. Bob doesn't do e-mail so please write to him at the following address: Bob Liebman PO Box 441 Lewisburg, WV 24901 Please pass this message on to any other cave-related e-mail lists. Bob Hoke ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
