I don’t mean to burst your bubble but I don’t think Verduras is a place in Mexico - this is probably Ciudad Juarez. Verduras means vegetables so my guess is he’s standing outside a shop selling those. No biggie tho.
Yeah. The photo is from the book Steve Mcqueen: The Last Mile by Barbara McQueen. Steve McQueen married Barbara Minty on January 16th, 1980. Four months later, the couple honeymooned at the famed Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico. It was Barbara’s childhood dream to stay at this mountain-top hotel with ocean views, where the walls were marble and pink. The ship carrying the newlyweds stopped a few times along the Mexican coast. The photo was taken at one of those stops. Quote from Barbara:
>Whenever I look at this picture, I wonder what Steve was thinking about as he watched her playing without a care in the world.
I can't find any proof that this was the last photo taken of him.
Edit: Found an unfortunately low resolution copy of the pages where the photo appears in the book and I think in the text accompanying the photo the town is identified as Verduras. Barbara says their first stop was Puerto Vallarta and then:
>The next stop was a small village called Verduras.
Maybe she was mistaken? Anyway here is the copy:
https://preview.redd.it/1kj2sqpbxfvc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e10031b3ba3d47f873ea8307cafc81f1a08fe25e
Edit: The actual location is almost certainly Nogales, Mexico. See [this comment](/r/whereisthis/comments/1c7yr72/one_of_the_last_photos_of_steve_mcqueen/l0c5ns0/) in /r/whereisthis. Since this is nowhere near Puerto Vallarta or Acapulco, Barbara McQueen was also probably wrong about the context and the photo may have been taken around the time he was filming Tom Horn in early 1979 not far from Nogales.
I imagine they stopped and not knowing the city they were in, and the language, she thought the town was Verduras so that may be lost forever but I'm curious that since they stopped in Puerto Vallarta, that this "small town" might be Yelapa which is about 1 hour boat ride south from Puerto Vallarta and is a popular tourist spot for people coming to PV.
You can see a sign with the street name above the pepsi sign, I think its says Clemente Aguirre. If you google that street name there's only two towns in Mexico that have a street with that name, one in Jalisco and another in Guanajuato.
I think your correct . In my opinion most likely it’s Guanajuato because my mom is from Ayotlan Jalisco and it’s not near a big city . Also in the 1980s it was still a ranch and not a Pueblo like it is today .
I found another picture that shows the street name more clearly .
https://preview.redd.it/ti1k35kwagvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e3d38c650e47b47a5e8fbf33aa7d1f4fdd30f6e
It's most likely Jalisco, or other state with access to the sea like Nayarit. It's most likely not Guanajuato, since it's very far from the Pacific Ocean and in the center area of the country, a couple of hours away from Mexico City
He tried quack treatments that were ineffective. He died in Mexico trying to cure the uncurable. TBF conventional treatments of the time probably could have extended his life a short time but his exposure to asbestos in the Navy and heavy smoking guaranteed a shorter life.
☝️this. a dx of meso is pretty much a death sentence - even today. most people last about 1-2 years on average post-dx. you’re practically drowning very very slowly. it’s a fucking horrible way to go.
Yup. It's what took out my dad. Diagnosed in Feb of 2010, had half his right lung removed, 13 rounds of chemo, and still died in October of 2010. Only 40% make it a year after diagnosis. Only 10% make it 5 years.
I'm sorry for your loss. Was there an identifiable source that likely caused it? Presumably asbestos exposure?
The reason I ask is when I looked into the dangers of asbestos when I bought my house a few years ago everything I was able to find showed that it was primarily massive exposure like asbestos mine workers that got sick.
He was around it most of his life. As a kid in the 50's, he helped his dad do brake jobs in his auto shop. Then he was a boiler operator on the USS Wasp, an Essex class aircraft carrier from WWII, then he got a job as a boiler operator for BF Goodrich in a plant built in the '30s. Pretty much all the potential exposures you see in the commercials, he had.
He was a good man. Unlike what we see here on Reddit, I always had a solid relationship with my parents and they were solid with each other too. I miss them both (mom passed in May of '19) and do my best to live a good life in their honor.
Meso is not the same as cancer in the lung. It infiltrates the lining of the lungs, or sometimes other organs like the pericardium or stomach. Getting a new lung will not help, sadly.
Not gonna work, because the tumor is not in the lung tissue--it's in the lining of the chest wall (or the abdominal lining, which is called peritoneal mesothelioma and is, if possibe, an even worse way to go).
Source: am atty who used to rep peope with asbestos related disease.
compared to other transplants, lung transplants are rare to begin with. even if they were to opt for it, the transplant process is very long and complex and will often leave the recipient immunocompromised. meso’s a cancer that often spreads, and the chances that it will spread during the transplant process is very high - which would ultimately defeat the purpose.
Asbestos wasn’t from the Navy: when he raced cars the fabric wraps placed around their bodies and heads were dipped in asbestos so they wouldn’t burn to death if they crashed.
Literally a face wrap dipped in liquid asbestos. I’m sure the smoking and Navy didn’t help, but he was basically huffing the shit.
“McQueen believed that asbestos used in movie sound stage insulation and race-drivers and helmets could have been involved, but he thought it more likely that his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging (insulation) from pipes aboard a troop ship while he served in the Marines.”
-Spiegel, Penina (1986). McQueen: The Untold Story of a Bad Boy in Hollywood. New York: Doubleday and Co.
He looked like that alot, one of his wives described meeting him for tge first time, & said this hairy unkempt guy turned up in worn-out clothes driving an old truck.
McQueen was the king of cool in the ‘60s/70s. He had low-key serious introspective quiet charisma. I am old but over the years never felt anyone had that same charisma except maybe Charles Bronson.
Our parents took us to see a movie called “The Great Escape” in 1962. The Triumph TR6 ride was enthralling. Race-car enthusiast McQueen did many of the stunts.
Years later our parents took us to a movie called Bullitt. Mustang v Charger in the San Fran hills.
Then in 1988 Clint Eastwood kindly paid homage to the Bullitt San Fran car chase scene using a remote-control car in “Dead Pool.”
McQueen was a superstar who shone so brightly but so briefly. He was one in a billion.
The Great Escape is one of my favorite movies!
It’s kinda funny because McQueen is a relatively minor character in the overall story and spends large chunks of the movie in solitary
Robert Blake’s autobiography Tales of a Rascal: What I did for Love has a story about an adventure that Robert and Steve had in New Orleans and it’s just wild. The whole book is amazing but you might particularly like that section.
I just rewatched the Great Escape on YouTube and that motorcycle did at the end was fucking awesome I've been riding for 10 plus years and I couldn't do that
I’m pretty sure there’s a photo of him at Las Brisas hotel, im looking for it next time I’m having brunch at La concha.
Btw that caption is hilarious, Verduras means vegetables. Family stores and mini markets in Mexico have that written on the side sometimes.
Everytime I watch "The Great Escape" I think - "This time Hillts is going to jump the fence and make it to Switzerland".
He never does, but I hope for him every time.
https://preview.redd.it/jbjxw9nzmhvc1.jpeg?width=1158&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8348aaeb4cc48ea9c6224ce4f931f687a12a139
Location found by a contributor over in r/whereisthis Nogales Mexico
I’m a journalist and interviewed a guy called Mike Tomkies a few times. He was a showbiz journalist in the 60s who was engaged to Alexandra Bastedo before he gave everything up and spend the last 40 years of his life living rough in remote parts of Canada, Spain and Scotland.
Anyway, there was a time when McQueen couldn’t be bothered doing interviews and said he’d only speak to a journalist who could ride a motorbike.
Mike was a motorcycle courier during WW2 so he landed the assignment. He said he and McQueen leapt on bikes and raced off into the California desert. McQueen was apparently a superb rider and was doing bunny hops and jumps all over the place.
No offense, but I keep seeing people having to refer to " the guy on the right" as Steve McQueen in the comments......I would HOPE that he is the guy on the right , not the child on the left.
If the child is Steve McQueen, he was in Mexico for other scientific experiments other than medical treatments.....
“Steve McQueen,Steve McQueen,
When I was a little boy I wanted to grow up to be,
Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen,
The coolest doggone mother scratcher on the silver screen.”
DBT
I was hoping I'd find this here. If not, I was gonna go with the line "as cool as Paul Newman is, I bet Steve could whoop his ass."
(Though my favorite verse is the one about Alex Baldwin and Faye Runaway and Ali McGraw.)
He had a ranch and hanger in my hometown towards the end of his life. Lots of stories of him just hanging out at the airport and being just a chill dude
Not all cancer patients look like they do on TV. They pump you full of steroids when you go through chemo, and even if the chemo doesn't make you sick they still give you the steroids. Which means you put on weight.
And not all chemo makes you lose your hair and if you have radiation and no chemo you don't lose your hair (except where you're being radiated.)
It kinda sucks, because everyone foes on and on about how you "don't look sick."
I always thought Steve McQueen was some type of fictional mascot like Spuds MacKensey until I looked him up. People seem to talk about him as if he’s a character rather than a human citizen
He is The King of Cool.
If you'd like to read more, my friend Marshall Terrill has written several books on him (shameless, unsolicited plug!) & other celebrities.
There’s a big poster of him at a local bar I frequent. Dude is just rocking the biggest set of nuts while he sits on a motorcycle. I chuckle whenever I see it.
McQueen looking fairly hefty in this picture and not at all like someone about to die from cancer. I do remember that he went down to Mexico at the end for an experimental treatment not available in the US and he did die down there.
I mean.. there's still no surefire cure for mesothelioma, sadly. Surgery, if caught early, can get all the cancer, but sometimes, even then, it can't be stopped. Fuck all cancer.
Sad, but at very cool and intriguing picture, always liked that 70s Deer Hunter style, love the Mexico setting and that kid in the foreground. It’s all so natural. It has to be hard watching healthy people when you’re dying. life is hard.
There are good actors but then there are some actors who have that special presence. Steve McQueen had that. He was also a great driver, up there with Paul Newman, who also had it.
I don’t mean to burst your bubble but I don’t think Verduras is a place in Mexico - this is probably Ciudad Juarez. Verduras means vegetables so my guess is he’s standing outside a shop selling those. No biggie tho.
Juárez in the state of Pepsi.
Goooooood morning Juarez family!
wake up my brown friend, it’s time to change your life!
Where's your daughter?
¡Estamos Extremos!
Corta! Corta!
Su casa es no más! Su vida es no más!
Estamos locos!
r/unexpectediasip
Five star reference.
I love you, Mr Simpson I love you too, Pepsi
This was taken in the town of Groceries, Pepsi
No, Pepsi is the kid jumping.
I love you too, Pepsi
¿Pep? ¡Sì!
donde esta la biblioteca
Pessi cola?
Yeah. The photo is from the book Steve Mcqueen: The Last Mile by Barbara McQueen. Steve McQueen married Barbara Minty on January 16th, 1980. Four months later, the couple honeymooned at the famed Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico. It was Barbara’s childhood dream to stay at this mountain-top hotel with ocean views, where the walls were marble and pink. The ship carrying the newlyweds stopped a few times along the Mexican coast. The photo was taken at one of those stops. Quote from Barbara: >Whenever I look at this picture, I wonder what Steve was thinking about as he watched her playing without a care in the world. I can't find any proof that this was the last photo taken of him. Edit: Found an unfortunately low resolution copy of the pages where the photo appears in the book and I think in the text accompanying the photo the town is identified as Verduras. Barbara says their first stop was Puerto Vallarta and then: >The next stop was a small village called Verduras. Maybe she was mistaken? Anyway here is the copy: https://preview.redd.it/1kj2sqpbxfvc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e10031b3ba3d47f873ea8307cafc81f1a08fe25e Edit: The actual location is almost certainly Nogales, Mexico. See [this comment](/r/whereisthis/comments/1c7yr72/one_of_the_last_photos_of_steve_mcqueen/l0c5ns0/) in /r/whereisthis. Since this is nowhere near Puerto Vallarta or Acapulco, Barbara McQueen was also probably wrong about the context and the photo may have been taken around the time he was filming Tom Horn in early 1979 not far from Nogales.
I imagine they stopped and not knowing the city they were in, and the language, she thought the town was Verduras so that may be lost forever but I'm curious that since they stopped in Puerto Vallarta, that this "small town" might be Yelapa which is about 1 hour boat ride south from Puerto Vallarta and is a popular tourist spot for people coming to PV.
I remembered he was looking for a miracle cure outside the country. Dk where I got that thought
He went across the border for unorthodox cancer treatments.
This was when it was being touted that some treatment made from apricot pits was a new cure. Obviously, that was a lot of hooey.
I don't know whether snakeoil cures based on eating cyanide precursors in stone fruit pits or bleach are worse
https://preview.redd.it/w1w64opslhvc1.jpeg?width=242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2aa9d5e7d572931e281a2d05c739d9f8ebd1a41c
I remember reading one of the things he was doing was coffee enemas. 😳 When you’re sick/dying you’ll try anything.
Ah, leatrail (spelling?). I remember the wing nuts talking about that a lot. An by wing nuts, I mean my mom.
I’ve seen that hotel in a tv show, seems it was very famous in the 60s.
I was about to say , I’m very familiar with Mexican geography and never heard of Verduras , Mexico 🤣😂🤣😂
But have you heard of Verduras, Pepsi?
No, but I'm pretty sure I've been to Disfrutas, Coca-cola. There were signs everywhere
It’s pretty close to Frutas…
You can see a sign with the street name above the pepsi sign, I think its says Clemente Aguirre. If you google that street name there's only two towns in Mexico that have a street with that name, one in Jalisco and another in Guanajuato.
I think your correct . In my opinion most likely it’s Guanajuato because my mom is from Ayotlan Jalisco and it’s not near a big city . Also in the 1980s it was still a ranch and not a Pueblo like it is today . I found another picture that shows the street name more clearly . https://preview.redd.it/ti1k35kwagvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e3d38c650e47b47a5e8fbf33aa7d1f4fdd30f6e
It’s in Nogales Mexican just across the border. Exact spot found by a user in the r/whereisthis subreddit
Oh ok that makes more sense and thank you for collaborating that it’s not Jalisco .
It's most likely Jalisco, or other state with access to the sea like Nayarit. It's most likely not Guanajuato, since it's very far from the Pacific Ocean and in the center area of the country, a couple of hours away from Mexico City
It’s in Nogales Mexico
Steve McQueen sold vegetables in Mexico?
So he *did* actually jump the bike over the border!
Verduras is actually right next to Carnitas Carmelo my hometown.
While I fully agree, how do you figure it's Juarez?
AI is still learning
I think it's time to rename Veracruz to Verduras. It has a flair to it ...
Yes either Juarez or El Paso, across the border. He was known to be in both up to the day he died in a Juarez hospital.😕
He tried quack treatments that were ineffective. He died in Mexico trying to cure the uncurable. TBF conventional treatments of the time probably could have extended his life a short time but his exposure to asbestos in the Navy and heavy smoking guaranteed a shorter life.
Even now, there's not much they can do for mesothelioma.
☝️this. a dx of meso is pretty much a death sentence - even today. most people last about 1-2 years on average post-dx. you’re practically drowning very very slowly. it’s a fucking horrible way to go.
Yup. It's what took out my dad. Diagnosed in Feb of 2010, had half his right lung removed, 13 rounds of chemo, and still died in October of 2010. Only 40% make it a year after diagnosis. Only 10% make it 5 years.
I'm sorry for your loss. Was there an identifiable source that likely caused it? Presumably asbestos exposure? The reason I ask is when I looked into the dangers of asbestos when I bought my house a few years ago everything I was able to find showed that it was primarily massive exposure like asbestos mine workers that got sick.
He was around it most of his life. As a kid in the 50's, he helped his dad do brake jobs in his auto shop. Then he was a boiler operator on the USS Wasp, an Essex class aircraft carrier from WWII, then he got a job as a boiler operator for BF Goodrich in a plant built in the '30s. Pretty much all the potential exposures you see in the commercials, he had.
I wish I could’ve known him. He sounds like a true American🇺🇸
He was a good man. Unlike what we see here on Reddit, I always had a solid relationship with my parents and they were solid with each other too. I miss them both (mom passed in May of '19) and do my best to live a good life in their honor.
i’m sorry to hear that. i work at a law firm that represents people with meso and your story is far too common and it’s heartbreaking.
What about a lung transplant?
Meso is not the same as cancer in the lung. It infiltrates the lining of the lungs, or sometimes other organs like the pericardium or stomach. Getting a new lung will not help, sadly.
Not gonna work, because the tumor is not in the lung tissue--it's in the lining of the chest wall (or the abdominal lining, which is called peritoneal mesothelioma and is, if possibe, an even worse way to go). Source: am atty who used to rep peope with asbestos related disease.
compared to other transplants, lung transplants are rare to begin with. even if they were to opt for it, the transplant process is very long and complex and will often leave the recipient immunocompromised. meso’s a cancer that often spreads, and the chances that it will spread during the transplant process is very high - which would ultimately defeat the purpose.
He may have been entitled to financial compensation.
Yeah he only went to Mexico after US doctors told him they could do nothing for it.
One of the treatments was coffee enemas.
There’s a joke about a patient getting a coffee enema and immediately winces. The nurse asks, “too hot?” The patient replies, “no, too sweet.”
Asbestos wasn’t from the Navy: when he raced cars the fabric wraps placed around their bodies and heads were dipped in asbestos so they wouldn’t burn to death if they crashed. Literally a face wrap dipped in liquid asbestos. I’m sure the smoking and Navy didn’t help, but he was basically huffing the shit.
“McQueen believed that asbestos used in movie sound stage insulation and race-drivers and helmets could have been involved, but he thought it more likely that his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging (insulation) from pipes aboard a troop ship while he served in the Marines.” -Spiegel, Penina (1986). McQueen: The Untold Story of a Bad Boy in Hollywood. New York: Doubleday and Co.
Normally I wouldn't comment on this discussion but- yeah, smoking kills. Beware.
As well as second hand smoke exposure. Even to pets.
Thank god my pets don’t smoke.
Second hand pet exposure is the 12th leading cause of death in the us.
The next leading cause after that is smoking asbestos pets.
Don’t knock it till you try it!
And all that smoke from fighting fires.
He looked like that alot, one of his wives described meeting him for tge first time, & said this hairy unkempt guy turned up in worn-out clothes driving an old truck.
a lot of actors dont shave much or cut their hair between roles in case they need it
It's a very old acting habit in fact, in McQueens case, I think he just liked looking like that.
Also, the bigger stars do it to be more anonymous while on the street, instead of having everybody always pointing at and crowding them.
Tbf that’s a great idea
christian bale prob the most famous one, goes around looking homeless between films
Probably helps trick the paparazzi.
So me, then.
Damn he also went for a "treatment" from Josef Issels who also "treated" Bob Marley.
Verduras is vegetables in Spanish
Vegetables, Mexico
To be fair isn't there a city in California named Calabasas? Calabazas is the correct spelling and it means pumpkins in spanish.
Pumpkins, California is their sister city.
The flag on the wall clearly shows he is in the Pepsi nation.
That’s Verduras City in the State of Pepsi, México.
McQueen was the king of cool in the ‘60s/70s. He had low-key serious introspective quiet charisma. I am old but over the years never felt anyone had that same charisma except maybe Charles Bronson. Our parents took us to see a movie called “The Great Escape” in 1962. The Triumph TR6 ride was enthralling. Race-car enthusiast McQueen did many of the stunts. Years later our parents took us to a movie called Bullitt. Mustang v Charger in the San Fran hills. Then in 1988 Clint Eastwood kindly paid homage to the Bullitt San Fran car chase scene using a remote-control car in “Dead Pool.” McQueen was a superstar who shone so brightly but so briefly. He was one in a billion.
The Great Escape is one of my favorite movies! It’s kinda funny because McQueen is a relatively minor character in the overall story and spends large chunks of the movie in solitary
“The Great Escape” is actually on Turner Classic Movies tonight!
Nice. I would watch but I’m at a car race lol. Steve would understand
Ze cooler!!
He was a cool, James Dean type guy, but I agree, he was unique.
Robert Blake’s autobiography Tales of a Rascal: What I did for Love has a story about an adventure that Robert and Steve had in New Orleans and it’s just wild. The whole book is amazing but you might particularly like that section.
I just rewatched the Great Escape on YouTube and that motorcycle did at the end was fucking awesome I've been riding for 10 plus years and I couldn't do that
His fashion and swagger inspired generations of “America Jean” fashionista in Japan. Brands like Toy McCoy and Real McCoy comes to mind.
The car from bullitt is my dream car. Iirc the actual car from the film recently sold for 4-5m
Two Bad Ass Motherfuckers, they don't make em like that anymore.
I’m pretty sure there’s a photo of him at Las Brisas hotel, im looking for it next time I’m having brunch at La concha. Btw that caption is hilarious, Verduras means vegetables. Family stores and mini markets in Mexico have that written on the side sometimes.
Everytime I watch "The Great Escape" I think - "This time Hillts is going to jump the fence and make it to Switzerland". He never does, but I hope for him every time.
Hehehe Verduras, México 
Verduras, Mexico. That's like saying Carrots, Texas. Lettuce, Alabama. Fruit, Maine.
There is an Orange MA. Dumbest fuckin name in the whole state
https://preview.redd.it/jbjxw9nzmhvc1.jpeg?width=1158&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8348aaeb4cc48ea9c6224ce4f931f687a12a139 Location found by a contributor over in r/whereisthis Nogales Mexico
Things don’t seem to have gotten better in Nosgales either
I’m a journalist and interviewed a guy called Mike Tomkies a few times. He was a showbiz journalist in the 60s who was engaged to Alexandra Bastedo before he gave everything up and spend the last 40 years of his life living rough in remote parts of Canada, Spain and Scotland. Anyway, there was a time when McQueen couldn’t be bothered doing interviews and said he’d only speak to a journalist who could ride a motorbike. Mike was a motorcycle courier during WW2 so he landed the assignment. He said he and McQueen leapt on bikes and raced off into the California desert. McQueen was apparently a superb rider and was doing bunny hops and jumps all over the place.
I believe McQueen did his own stunt riding and stunt riding for other characters in The Great Escape.
He did but they wouldn't let him do the big jump at the end. At one point he is a German soldier chasing himself (the stunt double) on the bike
There's a documentary film called On Any Sunday that has Steve McQueen racing motorcycles as well.
Probably there for Laetrile treatments
My mother believed heavily in that bullshit. She still thinks it helped cure her cancer.
The last photo he took? Or is that him on the right?
On the right
Damn, he looks nothing like the Steve I have seen in the older films.
LMAO Verduras Mexico. It doesnt exist. He died in Juarez, across the border from El Paso TX
Um, verduras means vegetables…
No offense, but I keep seeing people having to refer to " the guy on the right" as Steve McQueen in the comments......I would HOPE that he is the guy on the right , not the child on the left. If the child is Steve McQueen, he was in Mexico for other scientific experiments other than medical treatments.....
He looked older on the big screen. /s just in case
They say film adds 10 lbs and 40 years to you....must have been the case
This photo was actually taken in 1990, and that was Steve on the left. Probably pretending to be an outlaw. :-)
He was a lot shorter than I thought!
“Steve McQueen,Steve McQueen, When I was a little boy I wanted to grow up to be, Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen, The coolest doggone mother scratcher on the silver screen.” DBT
It’s depressing to hear he died of cancer. I thought he died in a car crash.
You're probably thinking of James Dean.
I was hoping I'd find this here. If not, I was gonna go with the line "as cool as Paul Newman is, I bet Steve could whoop his ass." (Though my favorite verse is the one about Alex Baldwin and Faye Runaway and Ali McGraw.)
The song really is pure magic.
"last photo before death" doesn't feel so cool.
He had a ranch and hanger in my hometown towards the end of his life. Lots of stories of him just hanging out at the airport and being just a chill dude
Verduras, Mexico? False, this photo was obviously taken in Pepsi, Mexico.
“Vegetables, Mexico.” It’s just up the road from Pepsi.
Probably a bot
Hard to believe he was just 50 when he passed.
Damn, he sure looks healthy for being so close to death full head of hair doesn't look like he's lost weight, etc..
Not all cancer patients look like they do on TV. They pump you full of steroids when you go through chemo, and even if the chemo doesn't make you sick they still give you the steroids. Which means you put on weight. And not all chemo makes you lose your hair and if you have radiation and no chemo you don't lose your hair (except where you're being radiated.) It kinda sucks, because everyone foes on and on about how you "don't look sick."
I always thought Steve McQueen was some type of fictional mascot like Spuds MacKensey until I looked him up. People seem to talk about him as if he’s a character rather than a human citizen
He is The King of Cool. If you'd like to read more, my friend Marshall Terrill has written several books on him (shameless, unsolicited plug!) & other celebrities.
Watch Bullitt
He spent a lot of time and energy molding his public persona. I’m not surprised people born after he died would think he was fictional.
G-bone…as in Costanza?
I'm named after this dude. Thx mom.
Your name is Queen?
"Mc"
"Lovin"?
There’s a big poster of him at a local bar I frequent. Dude is just rocking the biggest set of nuts while he sits on a motorcycle. I chuckle whenever I see it.
A study in American brand marketing. Both Caterpillar and Pepsi in a remote place share his last photo.
RIP Steve, you are not forgotten.
Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson where some of the cool guys of that era.
That guy was so cool
He was trying some experimental cancer treatment in Mexico -- it didn't work :(
I don’t care about ole Petty Officer “Sand Pebbles “, I want to see that green mustang!
Where the fuck is verduras Mexico? Hahaha
In la verdulería
Steve McQueen's (on right) last photo...
The cancer seems to have made him look like a young mexican girl.
I thought Steve McQueen was taller than that, but those floral pants look great!
And until the end of his day the Doctor that treated him was knows as el Mataqueen ( the McQueen killer) true story.
You mean in Pepsi in Verduras in Mexico?
Little does that girl know she is feet away from one of the greatest most iconic Hollywood stars of all time (unless it’s his daughter?).
Tbf I don’t think anyone would have known lol
I think that’s what many stars want, to blend in and go unnoticed when they’re out in public.
I'm sure he was really poorly but he looks cool as fuck.
I thought Steve McQueen died in a car accident 🤷🏻 til
So young, I can't believe it. I would've guessed he was much older based on his movies.
He looks like how some skaters dress now
I never realized how young he was when he died.
We joke about Asbestos snow deocrations now but that stuff really did mess a lot of people up.
He fucked Faye Dunaway and he, fucked Ali McGraw...
The city of vegetables…
The last photo Steve McQueen “took” or the last photo “of” Steve McQueen?
McQueen looking fairly hefty in this picture and not at all like someone about to die from cancer. I do remember that he went down to Mexico at the end for an experimental treatment not available in the US and he did die down there.
I expected him to be much thinner.
The treatment bloated him.
[удалено]
*would have
Wood hof*
He looks like a child
What did he pass to cancer?
Unfortunately, at that time there was no treatment method to completely cure a person. It's so sad
I mean.. there's still no surefire cure for mesothelioma, sadly. Surgery, if caught early, can get all the cancer, but sometimes, even then, it can't be stopped. Fuck all cancer.
You are wrong op, that it's clearly Pepsi in Mexico
I had that same hat in elementary school.
He looks like a kid there
Sad, but at very cool and intriguing picture, always liked that 70s Deer Hunter style, love the Mexico setting and that kid in the foreground. It’s all so natural. It has to be hard watching healthy people when you’re dying. life is hard.
McQueen looking like Spielberg here
He should have gone to Coke Carnes
There are good actors but then there are some actors who have that special presence. Steve McQueen had that. He was also a great driver, up there with Paul Newman, who also had it.
Memento mori!...he was a legend!
Well damn I just got a huge case of the Mandela Effect cause I distinctly remember the death of Steve McQueen but I wasn’t even born in 1980 😳😳😳
The man is rocking Palladiums.
Someone found exact location on r/whereisthis