Visiting An Old Friend In Willimantic, CT
Not really a friend, but in Willimantic, Connecticut. Full story is here in a video format on YouTube. Save
Not really a friend, but in Willimantic, Connecticut. Full story is here in a video format on YouTube. Save
Team CCCP Weightlifting is having a good time at the Volga River. It’s 1968 and they are 7,232 miles away from Mexico City where is a few weeks they will compete at the 1968...
While preparing for the 1964 Summer Olympic in Tokyo, Team CCCP weightlifting gathered in August 1963 in Poldolsk training camp. Most athletes on the photo just finished competing at the 3rd Soviet Spartakiade and...
It ain’t a martial arts or boxing match. It’s a comedy improv match from an old TV broadcast I was on. In fact, it was one of the first broadcast programs that appeared on. I did...
During the rivalry games between the Soviet and Czechoslovakian hockey team, Helmut Balderis often faced Jiri Bubla. Both wore No. 19 on their jerseys and it was amazing to see the duel between the...
This is another enhanced photograph for the Lift Up project featuring Team CCCP at the 1937 World Workers Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium. Mid 1930s was the time when the pioneers of Olympic weightlifting in...
Paris, France in 1946. It was the first world championship for Team USSR ever. On the restored photo, the Soviet athletes are taking part in the closing ceremony of the tournament: Left to Right:...
Here is more of digital enhancement of group photos of national Team CCCP from the glorious days of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting. This time the original photo was taken during the preparation for the...
History in Color : This is another digitally enhanced photo of the parade of weightlifting champions of the 37th CCCP championship that was held in Tbilisi in May 1962. The standing ovation of the...
This is a digitally enhanced version of weightlifting Team CCCP in Kharkov in 1947. Top row (left to right): Roman Moroz, Vladimir Pushkarev (Moscow, 1921-1994), George Popov (Kiev, 1912-1984), Nikolay Laputin (Kiev, 1913-1986), Nikolay...