The inadequate racket in the picture is my first tennis racket, a gift from Grandma Sylvia Melissa sometime in the 50's. The photo is taken at the tennis courts a half block from home that also served as a skating rink in the winter. The spring thaw was hastened by the tennis team shoveling the slushy ice off the concrete to be able to get in some early season practice.
The coach of the team, the young fellow at the far end of the photo, was Paul Bouchard, only six years older than his seniors. Can anyone name the other fellows in the photo, all geezers now? A can of new tennis balls to whomever gets them all.
1960 Greenway High School tennis team.
It was another hot day in the city by the river. I searched for Minnesota Rocks on foot. A walk around Como Park failed to reveal number 7 in the series, supposedly very near the "rain garden" at Midway Parkway and Hamline. Pshaw.
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I do not know the first two -- but I can get it started, with Jimi. Tom Dunstan (professor), John Wirtanen (sadly, long gone from this earth), David Olds (more recently departed) and Dan Falardo. And Paul Bouchard, coach, still hale and hearty as far as I can tell. Who are those first two guys? It might be googleable. Good Post. ~ SS
Tommy Kingston and Tommy Holland. Holland is a State High School League official of some kind, possibly a board member, representing a school district in the northwestern part of the state. Also, Kingston and Holland are obviously some sort of JV, they were in my grade, and they are wearing tee shirts while the rest of the team sports the Greenway polo.
Is there an Olds? Bob? Also of note is the wire net. Dunston is the only one sporting the preferred Wilson Kramer racket. Of the rackets I can identify Kingston, Holland and Wirtanen are also holding Wilson rackets.
I know the houses look right, I am pretty sure that is Art Anderson's house with the hedge there in the background but the fence doesn't seem right. I do not remember a time when the side fences were completely removed.
Isn't scanning fun?
Sobczak?
Between gzmoohoo and Santini, all the faces are identified. Kingston, Holland, TT, Dunstan, Wirtanen, Dave Olds, Dapper Dan (Footsie) Falardeau, and Bouchard. There are two others in the far background of the photo. A woman, I think, in the upper left near the tree, and someone on a bicycle at Bechtel's(?) house at the right.
I agree. The scanner is a great toy and allows details of photos to be easily exposed. Lotsa fun.
Good identifying, SS and GZ.
I think Subczak is the name of the people who owned the house after we did -- I think Jimmy, though Jerry is a possibility. When we were last in Coleraine, it seemed like someone different was living there -- someone with kids, maybe? Jimmy Subczak was in my grade, Jerry a few years older? (I have no use for tennis balls, GzMooHoo can claim the prize.) Who lived in the corner house?
The corner house was Mullins, the superintendent of schools(?). Jerry Subczak was on some of Dad's baseball teams.
Didn't Tom Holland play hockey, and wasn't that the reason he came out to play tennis (Paul was junior varsity hockey coach then)?
You'd have to ask Paul that one. Who was the mayor if Mullins was superintendant of schools? SS
I don't know who the mayor was. Kent Nyberg? Bill Peterson? Pete Thornton was mayor for a while in the 90's and I think that Jack Predovich had a term or two, too. Maybe Mr moohoo has a better memory of that. -TT
The chief of police lived kitty corner from us to the left, next to Gus Ullrich? who lived directly across. The corner house I remember as Mullins but if he was superintendent what was DeMarais? principal? Mayor? Well, in Fertile it was Duane Knutson (pronounced doo-wan), but Coleraine? Don't know. Nyberg rain the Hub. The community center in what we knew as City Hall is the Nyberg Community Center though, so maybe. I fairly regularly run into Kent Nyberg, city attorney for several range communities, and practitioner in a partnership across from the courthouse in Grand Rapids. Kent was also the judge at the chuck-a-puck contest I witnessed at a girls' high school hockey game at the Grand Rapids Arena.
Kingston and Holland were hockey players, Kingston eventually achieving some distinction as a goalie, right after Lothrop I think. Lothrop played at the U.
My guess at Sobczak is based on Sobczak being one of the names used in the illustrative example pages authored by Paul Bouchard at the beginning of the Wirtanen Tennis Scoring Book, still widely enough in use to have been the book used by Tom Vining, Wireless's tennis coach when she was captain of the varsity at RAHS.
Predovich and Thornton were indeed both mayor during the 90s.
Yup. I briefly took piano lessons from Mrs. Anderson, across the street from us, next to Ullrich's. Mr. Anderson was the town policeman. I think DeMarais was principle of the high school. Ginny DeMarais was his daughter? (I think it is funny that we all know that Subczak, pronounced Subchock, is spelled with a 'czak' but can't agree on the vowel.)
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