John Robeson commented:
"Here is the YMCA where Steve Kuberski and Don Nelson played together. It was a fascinating 3-D maze of a building but was razed when the Moline Dispatch expanded their facility."
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GJ - I remember the Y: the swim classes, the ice cream machine, the Francis the Talking Mule movies, which we loved. We saw our friends there and used those hockey machines and other equipment in the lobby.
Isn't this where we used to have all those dances?
ReplyDeleteKathy Wilcox Kapetanakis
Yep. We had dances there. I remember that my Mom wanted Dean to swim because he was born with an enlarged heart so he and Chip Tippel swam alot. Back then, the boys swam naked! Then they had 'family night' and the boys all griped about having to wear trunks.
ReplyDeleteMarsha Anderson Harvey
I restated a statement about the hockey tables on Facebook. Summer time found Y members at Camp Hauberg on the Mississippi and swimming in it for many years. From the opening day to the Indian dances performed at the closing ceremony the night before leaving. Now days the dancing would be banned for the political correctness of it all but I remember a certain "reverance" watching the "white Indian dancer portrayals" and thinkning about the Indians that inhabited the river banks before the white man.
ReplyDeleteMichael Collins class of 68 MHS