Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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sporl fans have when ul comes lo honorung lheur one lume muscle men Why don l you wrule aboul all lhe old lume sporls heroes lhal you meel up wulh here? l says lo Sleve He answers Ehl whuch us as good as yes from a guy whal has been cryung all allernoon And so one by one Fruedland unlroduces us lo lhe varuous and sundry sporls hangung around The flrsl guy lhal lhey drag up lo our lable us a fellow who loolxs lulce maybe he was once quule a boy when ul came lo luflung weughls or craclrurg heads on lhe gruduron Bul whal wulh has only exercnse beung pushung a paunl brush across a movue bullboard he us lurnung unlo somelhung lhal you would expecl lo see behund lhe counler ol a drug slore He us goung wulh lhe name ol Ronald Sanders When we aslu hum aboul hus old loolball days Sanders chokes up wulh emoluon and ul us wulh no lullle coaxung namely suxly live cenls un change lhal he consenls lo lell us of hus varsuly days ll seems lhal when he us Hrsl gellung unlo hus secondary school lhe game of foolball us quule unknown lo hus schoolmales al Mudwood as lhey are spendung mosl of lheur lume playung chuldush pranks luke cullung Mr OBruens elevalor cable Bul wulh hus flrsl lerm un lhe school lhey learn lo calch on lo lhe game and by lhe lume he us gradualung lhe leam has four years under uls bell ll us here lhal he slarls bawlung agaun and mullerung weurd names luke Turshen Polucano Leuberman and Harl and occasuonally some Joe named Edenbaum who ul lurns oul swulched over lo Tammany and became lhe Wullue Slark ol lhe prevuously menluoned school ll us all we can do lo shul Sanders up so lhal we can go on wulh lhe busuness al hand and when lasl seen he us wearung a mudgel named Englush for a shoulder guard and us grundung cunders lrom lhe playung field unlo Raschbaum s ears ll us aboul lhus lume lhal a bug guy comes up lo us and slarls lryung lo sell us a used luba Now l have mel a lol ol guys un my raclrel bul lhus Guy us one of lhe screwuesl lmagune lryung lo sell a used luba un a Second Avenue bar Aller payung hum lhe money and shuppung ul home lo my musucal cousun Ludwug un Badulra he us aboul lo wall: away when Sleve who by lhus lume us all hepped up menluons lhal we are looluung lor old lume ball players Thus Guys ears lughl up and ul us barely lwo egg creams laler lhal he pours oul hus slory ol baslrelball when he was a boy H goes by lhe handle of Guy Spunello and he us lellung us lhal ul we ever gel lhe chance lo lool: up lhe records and see uf ul usn l lrue lhal he us lhe only man lo have p ayed bolh Forward on lhe leam and Tubby lhe Tuba on lhe slage Thus seems somewhal remarkable lo me as ul us nol every guy lhal can play Forward on a baslrelball leam Bul lo conlunue before we can slop hum he goes unlo hus acl un lhe muddle of lhe floor demonslralung whal he calls the old voom voom lasl break and callung lo umagunary players lulue Schwarlz and Burrus And before you can say Donl cry Doug he ups and heaves an old lady unlo lhe spulloon and crues Good luke Neduclus Thus us quule a shol sunce l neglecl lo menluon lhal lhe spulloon us across lhe slreel un Garson s Grollo Thungs are runnung aboul as smoolh as can be expecled when who should wall: un bul Bad Berl Lewus a guy who us known lo oul wulh lhe old equaluzer uf lhe I7 . . . . ,. , . . . H uu n - - uu uu . . u s u u . . . . . . . . . . ' 1 u s . u u u ' u - u I . . . . . . I . . . . . . , u , . . . . . . . u u u . . . I u u . u . . , u s . . Q . . - . . . s . s . . . - . . . . u l I . . . , . . . . E . . . . I . . - g s ' . - u u - ul uu - I . . . - . ,I g ' u lu - - - uu - u u u s I. . . s . . . . s 0 u o

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YEA TEAM' On fhe affernoon fhaf I am speaklng abouf fhe cheese cake af fhe Colony IS excepflonally dellclous and I am already fhrough my fourfh helping when I find fhaf I can f go on I am breafhlng heavily Info my wafer glass and drawung plcfures on fhe fogged surface when I suddenly realuze fhaf whaf I fhoughf was fhe Independenf going by underneafh us acfually Sfeve Tully fhe sporfs wnfer slfflng fwo fables over malung wlfh fhe fears If seems he IS sfuck for a sfory and If he doesn f deliver by fomorrow mormng he may be forced fo fake fhe mulk fram for Sheepshead Bay or go back fo hls old 'ob as Chief Racker un Joe s Bllllard Emporuum Gafher mg fogefher a Board of Experfs composed of blokes like Glllespue fhe Plmenfo Sfuffer and a guy named Kaufman whom I have never been mfroduced fo we finally come up wlfh a soluflon And so ln a maffer of mlnufes we are on our way via hack fo Frledlands Second Avenue clofhs Two kmds of wafer cold and dnrfy Ifs a saloon frequenfed by fhe numerous has beens and golng fo bes of fhe sporhng world Flghfmg our way fhrough bofh people fhaf are sfandlng near fhe enfrance we come upon a dns hearfemng scene Seafed In various poslfnons facmg fhe fele vlslon sef and fhe men s room are assorfed char acfers seen af one hme or anofher on fhe back pages of fhe Daily Murror Frledland s Hacienda ns wlfhouf a doubf fhe graveyard for all aged afhlefes and varicose varslfy men Frledland hum self pounfs ouf fhe famous old hmers If IS fhen fhaf an Idea IS coming fo me Slowly pushlng nfs way fhrough my bram blurred by spiked cheesecake comes fhe fhoughl fhaf whaf Sfeve Tully can wrlfe abouf IS fhe shorf memones fhaf , I Hadienda, No cover, No minimum, No fable- .ll 1 - I . 0,

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complexlon of your ear lobes doesnf agree wufh hum If seems he gof has sfarf knockang off bull s eyes In school whnch IS qunfe a difference from knockung off bulls which us has pracflce of Iafe And of course nofhung will do buf for hum fo show us whaf a greaf shof he IS As he pulls fhe gun from has panfs pockef I nohce fhaf fhe faces of some of fhe boys Iylng around lnghf up And when he pulls fhe frlgger five guys go madly dashing ouf fhe door In fhe dlrechon of Wmgafe Freld The wmd was so powerful fhaf If fook four fingers of rye and a fhumb ln fhe eye fo bring me around If ns fhen fhaf Sieve Tully IS explalnmg fo me who fhese cIea'I characfers are These guys Roy Galnsburg Sfeve Llebow Kap Ian and Lapndus dldnf sngn a prom pledge when fhey wenf fo Mldwood and every 'hme fhey hear a gun fhe frack 'Ieam an 'Ihem comes ouf and fhey make Ilke Paul Levine A+ fhls momenf several genfs dressed an Henrl Bendel shorfs and John Frederrcks sun hel wlfhouf sfnngs In fhem As nobody says any fhmg when fhese bards walk In I am beglnmng fo fhlnk fhaf Hymle fhe barfender IS puffing egg In my egg creams when If as explained fo me 'rhaf fhese are only old fme fennls players who are prachcmg squash agamsf fhe billboard of fhe Loews Delancey Always fwo bug hlfs Affer sharmg fea and knocking off a coupla snappy games of Backgammon we are formally mfroduced Their names are Herby Ellsh Paul Zafren and Leonard Kafz and uf anyone wanfs fo know why Pancho Gonzales has been hudlng under his bed Iafely 'rhey are fhe reason I am lusf abouf +o say fhaf nobody else can possibly come Info fhls lounf any more foday when I spof fhns Dizzy Glllesple characfer wear Ing a Bop 'he sun glasses goafee and crew cuf fo mafch Thus alone would nof sfarfle me as I have seen lusf abouf everyfhlng foday buf when he comes an smgs four choruses of Charloffe I8 . . . . . . . , . I I Il 0 II : . r . I ' I I I I mefs, come marching in carrying fennis rackefs I I I I 1 . II I 1 ' ' II I I ' I I . . I I - I I I ' ' II I -