Landing In Boston At Night
We just came back from visiting her in the hospital. And went right to our place where we like to watch the planes. Here it goes – one is about to land in Boston...
Monthly Archive: December 2017
Isaac Berger: World Record in Stockholm
Stockholm, September 17, 1958 – Legendary U.S. featherweight Isaac Berger sets a new 147.5kg clean-and-jerk world record at the 1958 World championships in Stockholm, Sweden. The original black-and-white photo is a famous shot by...
Team USA 1946
The “History in Color” series presents a glimpse on one of the most memorable Team USA Weightlifting that won the 1946 World Championship in Paris, France. Left to right: John Davis (82.5+kg, gold medal),...
The Other Side of My World
Things have been hectic and pressuring lately. With Sue in the hospital, my world turned into a cold and lonesome place. On the positive side, with a frequent rides to Cambridge in the last...
Forever Happy Here
It’s the beginning of December in town. Most of the birds left the town and flew down south. Only real die hards stay with us now. Like this sparrow fella on the wall at...
David Rigert in Munich (1972)
The History in Color photo depicts, perhaps, one of the saddest moments in the sports career of legendary David Rigert. He was eliminated from the competition in the middle heavyweight class at the 1972...
The Last World Championship For Yanko Rusev
On the cover “History in Color” photo, legendary Bulgarian lightweight and middleweight Yanko Rusev competes in the snatch lifting at the 1983 World Championship in Moscow. Yanko Rusev (born 1958) was a 5x World...
Tommy Kono at the Moscow Prize International
On the History in Color cover photo, legendary Tommy Kono of Team USA competes at the Prize of Moscow. Norbert Schemansky once said that American weightlifters were more popular in Russia than at home....
Yury Vlasov (Stockholm, 1963)
History in Color: Stockholm, September 13, 1963 – Yury Vlasov of Moscow, Russia competes in the 90+kg weight class at the 1963 World Championship in Stockholm. Vlasov won his 4th world title with the...
Days of Worries
We’re sitting on the porch. Those are days of worries. With Sue still recovering from the surgery, we really had no time just to sit and talk. Bernie misses Sue. He misses our conversations....
