Sep 30, 2018

No, Neil Armstrong you may NOT have a Diner's Club card.

 

This rejection letter is going on the auction block on November 1st, part of a big batch of Neil Armstrong items.

From a NY Times story:
The first batch of about 800 items will be sold on Nov. 1 and 2 in Dallas. As a preview, some will be on exhibit Oct. 1-5 at Heritage Auctions in Manhattan. 
     The letter rejecting him for a credit card is one of the items to be sold, perhaps the quirkiest.
     I found only one Dalt (Dalton) E. Pelzel online. He died in 2002---a veteran of Korea and Vietnam---who is buried appropriately, in Texas, home to NASA.

     He may be the Diners Club employee who rejected Neil Armstrong's application for a Diner's Club card in 1974....though he probably never realized it. 
     His rejection was written just a few days before the 5th anniversary of Armstrong's first steps on the Moon.








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2 comments:

  1. Jay CroftMonday, October 01, 2018 4:32:00 AM

    Well, if Neil Armstrong was going to the moon, it would have been rather difficult for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver his monthly statements.

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  2. AnonymousTuesday, July 23, 2019 9:40:00 PM

    I just read the Times piece and googled it, too. :) There's a Dalton Pelzel on facebook. Graduated from a high school in Oklahoma. HAS to be a relative.

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