Whitman Posted July 26, 2022 Posted July 26, 2022 16 hours ago, mattr said: This image posted by @mattris one of the later (and less revealing) of a series of shots taken by LIFE magazine photographer George Silk in a Boston Red Sox locker room during the 1956 preseason. The player being helped into his clothes has been identified elsewhere on the internet as Joe Albanese (1933-2000), who was added to the Red Sox major league roster in January '56. Albanese separated his shoulder during spring training and never played a major league game for the Sox. In the image below, Albanese tries to explain what happened to a coach who looks as disinterested in excuses as he is in Joe's pubes ... A cigar-smoking trainer showed a little more compassion, and Joe showed - well - see for yourself ... + Charlie, BSR, + azdr0710 and 1 other 3 1
+ azdr0710 Posted July 28, 2022 Posted July 28, 2022 4 hours ago, mattr said: history and geography nut that I am, I had to look this address up on Google Maps and Street View and see if it's still around....I believe that now-widened driveway (remember when driveways were two separate strips of narrow concrete!) is the same one as in this current view and Memphis Ave is in the background of the old picture.....I hope Paul and Len lived/are living a long life as proud Buckeyes......safe link: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4399158,-81.7285578,3a,75y,171.57h,82.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soyhBqp1Qq2iwu-4DXIx5mQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 + Pensant, thomas, + Charlie and 1 other 2 2
+ Pensant Posted July 28, 2022 Posted July 28, 2022 BTW, I stole your pronoun preferences and get a lot of laughs. + Charlie, + azdr0710 and thomas 1 1 1
Whitman Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Danny-Darko said: USS California Wrestling Team 1921-22 when the battleship (commissioned in August 1921) was new. Some later history (of the ship, not the men): On December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, the California was hit during the Japanese attack and eventually sank. She was raised in April 1942 and returned to service in 1944. + azdr0710, Danny-Darko, wsc and 2 others 4 1
Whitman Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 DAVID ZURBORG PHOTOGRAPHED BY BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES Danny-Darko, + bashful and + azdr0710 2 1
Whitman Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 BENNETT SURF* AND JIM BURKE IN THE PAT ROCCO FILM LOOP "WANTED" (1969) * I'm just guessing, but surely the name "Bennett Surf" was inspired by Random House publisher and What's My Line panelist Bennett Cerf (1898-1971), who also inspired the Sesame Street puppet Bennett Snerf. thomas, + Pensant, + azdr0710 and 3 others 6
Whitman Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 BENNETT CERF IN 1932, THE YEAR BEFORE HE WON UNITED STATES v. ONE BOOK NAMED ULYSSES, A LANDMARK COURT CASE AGAINST GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP. CERF THEN BECAME THE FIRST IN THE U.S. TO PUBLISH ULYSSES IN UNABRIDGED FORM. THE PHOTOGRAPH IS BY CARL VAN VECHTEN. + Charlie and + bashful 2
Whitman Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 ANNOUNCING RAY ACOSTA'S APPEARANCE IN THE SEPTEMBER 1987 ISSUE OF ADVOCATE MEN + DERRIK, + bashful and + Balthazar 2 1
+ Charlie Posted July 31, 2022 Posted July 31, 2022 On 7/30/2022 at 12:26 PM, mattr said: James Dean and Sal Mineo? + Pensant, + bashful and thomas 3
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