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Volume 055-1 - January 2001 (6 pages)
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Page: of 6
NCHS Bulletin January 2001
Early team mates at Memorial Park: Albert Keeny
(left) and author Robert Hawkins. (Photo by
Bedford Lampkin.)
Odd Fellows section of the Elm Ridge Cemetery. Shortly
after his death, Mrs. Griffith moved back to Canada. The
Rovers, Aggies, Hornets, and Rangers ceased playing in
1929, as there was no one to take the place of the Griffiths
in our soccer and baseball activities.
Some of my early memories of Memorial Park days, besides tennis, are:
*the good times at the swimming pool, but for the sad
time when my good friend, Gene Prisk, drowned there.
e watching Pete Dalex and Lew Elkus hit home runs for
the Grass Valley baseball team.
* watching soccer games the Grass Valley team played
against Sacramento teams. A “cousin Jack” by the name
of “Doggie” would follow the action on the sidelines and
whenever an opposing player fell, “Doggie” would yell,
“suck the blood from his quivering body!” Also
“Doggie” would yell, “Up the Valley!” whenever the
Grass Valley team scored.
ea Grass Valley band would give a concert from the =~
community house porch on Sundays.
* you could get a good drink from either of two springs in
the park.
*a man by the name of Jimmie, who liked to watch the
ladies in bathing suits and tennis shorts. Jimmie would
become excited and allow his false teeth to hang out over
his lip. It was reported that Jimmie was seen in San
Francisco at the Fleischacker pool getting an eyeful, with
his uppers hanging out.
Tom Griffith,
the first
caretaker at
Memorial Park.
(Photo from the
1930 Stray
Leaves, yearbook of Grass
Valley High
School.)
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John Christensen
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Mel Ciphers
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