Lomakin
Trofim Lomakin was perhaps one of the most memorable personalities among the Soviet Olympic weightlifters in the 1950s. Lomakin won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal...
Trofim Lomakin was perhaps one of the most memorable personalities among the Soviet Olympic weightlifters in the 1950s. Lomakin won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal...
Legendary Vasily Alexeev was impressive not only on the competition platform in the Olympic weightlifting. There are many accounts of eyewitnesses about his multi-disciplinary talent. He was great in playing volleyball and tennis, in shot...
Olympic champion and one of the legends of the York Barbell weightlifting team, Frank Isaac Spellman died at 94 on January 12, 2017. Frank Spellman competed for Team USA weightlifting in the late 1940s....
The moment captured here shows Soviet lightweight Victor Bushuev pressing 125kg at the weightlifting match between Team USA and Team USSR in 1958. These matches between the Soviet and American athletes in the mid...
This time the retro photo presentation brings us to the old weightlifting gym in Detroit, Michigan. It is August 1966 now and it is a home place for Norbert Schemansky, a living legend of Olympic...
Another group shot of Team CCCP weightlifting is showing the national team in the training camp in Crimea in 1981. This time, the photo session occasion was the visit of legendary dancer and artist...
“Perch-coo-cOO-coo…” The mourning dove in the backyard spotted me with the camera. I don’t know their language but it seems self-explanatory at the moment. “Perch-coo-cOO-coo… Do I know you?”
It’s a Friday night snapshot of the traffic on I-93N. Right before the snow storm on Saturday. We just missed our entrance to the Ted Williams Tunnel and now have to drag in the...
As a follow up to our story about the visit of Northern Cardinals couple, here i a sight of Mr. Cardinal enjoying his dinner in the snow. It was turning dark in the backyard...
Every time it snows in our area, we have a little chat on the porch planning the logistics of our actions. We don’t panic. We prepare for the challenge.