Tavern sign for Evangelo's in Santa Fe, New Mexico, featuring the famous Life Magazine cover photograph of Angelo Klonis, the founder of the tavern. The late Mr. Klonis was a soldier during World War Two when this photograph of him ws taking by Life photographer Eugene Smith. Konis, a Greek immigrant, opened this bar in his adopted home town in the late 1960s, at which time his identify as the soldier photographed by Smith ws not widely known.
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An item on Klonis and the photograph:
Tuesday, June 27, 1944. Angelo Klonis or Thomas E. Underwood?: https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/#:~:text=Tuesday%2C%20June%2027%2C%201944.%20Angelo%20Klonis%20or%20Thomas%20E.%20Underwood%3F
The long and the short of it is that the photo is almost certainly not that of Klonis, but Thomas E. Underwood.
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