yes!!! i remember "joe the arch record guy"!!!

he looked a little like george w. bush, no?

yes, i remember that too!!!

i can remember his voice now. nice man.

if you look @ the bottom of the page, below the response box, in light grey text, there's a code.

is what i remembered...

a little more hunched over, he might even be more intellectual than bush...but yes!!

ha ha, where did you go to school?

i remember him first from my east l.a. community college days, then also at cal poly pomona.

Here is a link to the T

http://picasaweb.google.com/warner.seth/ArchRecordJoe/photo?authkey=lMgrfU_7F8s#s5169697292300433554

We've got a different guy here on the east coast, he's kind of creepy and he ALWAYS interrupts me in the middle of my lectures - not the way to get on my good side.

I tell my students to subscribe to metropolis instead.

I only remember Joe selling Isuzus

ha ha, that is cool.

you have to sort of feel sorry for an old dude going from architecture school to architecture school pushing a shitty magazine....

I want to buy 8 of those tshirts. I love it.

I remember him in undergrad and grad. Across the country!

garpike, where'd you go to school?

i'm thinking he's their west coast rep, but if you went to school somewhere else then maybe he's national.

I thought he was just peculiar to SCI-Arc. He was awesome, I always wished I had the dough to subscribe, not for the magazine, just to help him out.

We had Joe at SC too. I always thought he was a lot like Gil from the Simpsons.

ahahahaha! yeah, you know, rationalist i can see that too!!!

joe was liked. but, not well liked.

dread, there was a specific episode where Gil was selling computers (the one where Lisa cheats on a test), and he's like, "oh c'mon, if you just buy ten more then ol' Gil won't get his arms broken by the mob..." or something equally pathetic. That's always how I picture Joe.

I kind of like the idea of a commemorative... piece... for Joe (I never experienced him and this is the first I've heard.)

But I wish it felt more like a good natured commemoration of the idiosyncratic mutual experience of his sales routine, rather than making fun of the guy. This seems a bit mean... maybe you don't intend for it to do so, but that is how it comes across. But there HAS to be a way to do it because this could truly be classic!!!

ahaha! yeah, classic episode!

another one:

Smitten with the Canyonero bug, Homer visits his friendly dealer, where he literally drools over the new trucks. Gil approaches him.

Gil: Go ahead, drool all you want, you can't hurt that finish. Now rainwater, that will strip it right off, so ... aw, I shouldn't have said that ... aw, Gil.

Homer: Hey, a red one. [runs to a red Canyonero] Can I buy that? Please?

Gil: Well, if you, well ... really? Wow, Hot, hot dog! A sale! [goes to put a little Canyonero marker, indicating a sale, on a bulletin board]

Stan: I'll take it from here, Gil. [takes Gil's marker]

Gil: No, wait, no. Aw, you can't take my sale. My wife's going to leave me if I don't start bringing in the green. Come on, let me have this one, Stan, I'm begging you. Look at me, I'm begging you, Stan.

Stan: Mm-hm. [walks Homer to his office] Let's go write this up, shall we?

Gil: [pulls a rotary-dial cell phone from his jacket, and dials] Honey, you should have seen me with my last customer, I ... no, but I came so close. This guy was as ... Whose voice is that? Is that Fred? ... Aw, you said it was over ... No, don't put him on -- Hello, Fred, h-hi.

more on our friend gil here.

yeah, i'm a big simpsons dork.

He is a classic!! I'm not being sarcastic about this at all.. I have had great conversations with this guy, he spends his life talking and trying relate with young architects (granted he is trying to sell a product) But I honestly think he enjoys what he does, and deserves to be recognized.

yeah, it's all in good fun.

he's a really nice guy.

I was thinking about it some more, and it would be great if a school got an advance warning of Joe's arrival and did kind of an Improv Everywhere bit on him. Wearing t-shirts with his likeness, EVERY single student he talks to buys a subscription!

i like to interview this guy for archinect. can anybody put me in touch with him?

dude,..thats is so freaky...you mean you guys have seen him too?

He hit me up in undergrad, grad school, and a few years ago I taught a design studio part time, and in walks Joe. He's been at it for at least 20 years.

Alec Baldwin yelling "Coffee is for closers" always pops in my head whenever I see him.

When he walked around SCI-Arc, I always heard he was let in because Simonian was friends with him.

I remember my first year at UCLA we were having a review in the double height space, which is accessed by a steep circular stairway. Joe started coming down the stairs and fell down about the last 5... during the middle of someone's presentation. Everybody just stopped and turned around, and he's like "hey guys! Sorry about the interruption... [pause] have you purchased a subscription to Architectural Record yet?" Everyone was trying not to laugh.

I saw him at the AIA convention. I thought I was the only one who would remember such a character.

He was definitely at Cal Poly SLO during my years there (2003-2008).

Does anybody know if Joe is still alive?