Shorpy: "Do you know who I am??!!!"

[Ray1936]

http://www.shorpy.com/node/9490#comments

This one's a hoot. Seems that the daughter of the famed James Couzens may have started the famed "Do you know who the **** I am" line that was carried on by other Detroiters. Be sure to scroll down to read the comments.

[eno]

Is that painting a self-portrait?

[iheartthed]

With a few modifications, this could easily pass for a Free Press article written this year...

DAUGHTER OF SENATOR
RUNS AUTO INTO TWO MEN
Margo Couzens and Her Friends Take Pair to Hospital

Dressed in her riding togs and driving her new roadster with three persons whom she was giving a lift from the Riding and Hunt Club to the Wardman Park Saddle Club horse show, Miss Margo Couzens, 18-year-old daughter of Senator James Couzens, of Michigan, knocked down and critically injured George Brown, Detroiter, 53 years old, 1912 Thirteenth street northwest, a mason, on Massachusetts avenue northwest, at the Rock Creek Park entrance.

Brown, physicians at Emergency Hospital believe, has a fractured skull as a result. His companion, Henry Watkins, Detroiter, 114 L street southwest, escaped unharmed when the automobile bore down on them. The accident, according to police of the Eighth Precinct, occurred at 12:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

Both men were walking across the intersection as the roadster approached them, Miss Couzens said last night. Miss Couzens sounded her horn to warn them, and the two Detroit men stepped apart, startled by the signal, she said. Then Watkins turned and shouted to his companion to join him, and Brown ran toward him across the path of the automobile.

Miss Couzens said she applied her brakes instantly after sounding the warning and seeing the confused actions of the two men. The automobile, she said, came to a quick stop, the wheels being locked by the brakes. Brown was knocked down and dragged a short distance by the automobile. According to miss Couzens, he was carried only several feet.

With the aid of her companions, Miss Couzens placed the injured man in the automobile and took him to Emergency Hospital. ... At the hospital Miss Couzens was visibly excited and nervous over the accident, according to police. ...

[kenp]

Good stuff. The comparison to the dog poker game painting was great.

[Patrick]

Ironically, I read that Couzens had a son who died in a car wreck out near or on Lone Pine in the 20s.