'Circus Solly,' Part 2
Second of a series of posts .......... 22-year-old Solly Hofman was among 17 Cubs players who left Chicago by train on Feb. 25, 1905, bound for Santa Monica, Calif., where the team would train...
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Second of a series of posts .......... 22-year-old Solly Hofman was among 17 Cubs players who left Chicago by train on Feb. 25, 1905, bound for Santa Monica, Calif., where the team would train...
The time the Arctic Bar went 'in the drink' Fishermen went "dipnetting" for floating bottles in Thomas Basin By DAVE KIFFER Friday PM (SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Just about every time there is a high tide in Ketchikan Creek or a storm swells the runoff from Granite Basin, someone mentions the time the Arctic Bar literally "went into the drink." Not everyone gets the date correct, some people think it happened back in the 1930s, others are convinced it was the 1940s or 1950s. Even old photographs show up on-line indicating the wrong date(s). Here is a primer. The...