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I'm standing in the roadbed of 25th Ave. in Bellwood, looking north in the direction of the UP Geneva subdivision's (ex) grade crossing. The 25th overpass project started earlier this year (2015) and I understand it won't be done until June 2016. It really sucks getting around this area during both rush-hours, it'll be really nice when this is finished.
Delaware Lackawanna & Western Heritage unit working solo with mixed freight at the east end of Bensenville yard (stopping briefly at the Mannheim Metra shack for a "pose"). Dreadful light, and I was on the dark side too. Can't complain since I really don't get to see these heritage units all that often.
Here's the conundrum... I have a friend who is in charge of receiving electronic recycling "donations" for one of the towns near me. This is a big problem (if you ask my wife lol).
Everything in this video was free for my taking, with minor repairs either not needed (the Bose 101's) or already done (the Sony PS-T3 turntable, the Denon Receiver, the TECH21 guitar amp) or to be done (the sansui 5050). Note the nice Stanton 681 series 1 cart in the Sony, note the nice frankenstein-style resistor glob quickly soldered on the left side of the Denon. Note how the Sony and Sansui were both dropped off in their original cartons!
That's an original first press of Blue Note 4015, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "At the Jazz Corner of the World Vol. 1" (not free, btw, but close). Do I sever relations with this friend or keep paying him regular visits at his place of employ?? I feel like the dog (or cat) lover who is friends with the vet and keeps bringing home "rescues" haha.
If I didn't bring my camera to work and take it out at lunchtime I'd probably see more interesting stuff.
Delaware Lackawanna & Western Heritage unit working solo with mixed freight at the east end of Bensenville yard (stopping briefly at the Mannheim Metra shack for a "pose"). Dreadful light, and I was on the dark side too. Can't complain since I really don't get to see these heritage units all that often.
John Hanna was originally signed by the Montreal Canadiens organization. In the Intraleague Draft of 1957 he was taken by the New York Rangers. He played three season in the Big Apple before being traded back to Montreal in June 1961. By 1963 he was back in the NHL with Montreal but played only six games before returning to the AHL Quebec Aces, the Canadiens principal minor league affiliate. Six games was long enough for Hanna to be photographed in a Canadiens uniform and to appear in a Beehive promotional photo. The makers of Beehive Corn Syrup made photographs available to their loyal customers. Over a 33-year period the company produced photographs of more than a thousand NHLers of which John Hanna was just one -- a hockey great in the mind of at least one young Nova Scotian fan.
Coin No 85 in the 1960-61 Shirriff Hockey Coin set. Once upon a time I had the gift of persuasion. As a 13-year-old I had a paper route in Coxheath, Cape Breton. I somehow managed to motivate all the nice ladies on my route to buy Shirriff jelly desserts for their families -- and save for me the promotional hockey coins in each package. Eventually I had the entire 1960-61 set -- all 120 coins.
Card (front & back) given to me by John Hanna in the summer of 2004 when our paths crossed on Boularderie Island, Cape Breton. In the photograph he wears the jersey of the 1967-68 Philadelphia Flyers, his last of three NHL teams. On that summer day in 2004 we had an excellent conversation. I reminisced about the time during the 1959-60 season I sent him a fan letter. I was a 12-year-old kid, he was a New York Ranger. He replied, sent me a letter and an autographed photo that I still prize. 'Junior' did not look at all well that day in 2004; a bit more than a year later he was gone.
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"Cape Breton’s John “Junior” Hanna: First NHLer of Lebanese descent, Cedars Club, 30 March 2015:
In 1968 at age 33, John 'Junior' Hanna commenced a four-year stint with the Western Hockey League Seattle Totems. It would turn out to be the glory period of his long professional career. During those four seasons he was an all-star three times, twice the recipient of the Hal Laycoe Cup as the league's best defenceman, and in 1969, winner of the George Leader Cup, awarded to the league's Most Valuable Player.
Thanks to azzurrolou for sharing this terrific picture.
John Hanna of Sydney NS was a 23-year-old rookie with the 'Broadway Blueshirts'. The rookie played all 70 regular-season games.
Card No 31 in the Topps 1959-60 Hockey set. The pride of Sydney NS, 'Junior' Hanna played three years in New York and parts of another two in Montreal and Philadelphia. Playing four seasons with the Seattle Totems of the Western Hockey League he was twice that league's best defenceman and once its Most Valuable Player.
Here's something that wasn't better in the good old days: the production values of hockey cards. This is card No 53 of the Topps 1959-60 Hockey set. The back of the card reads:
Looks like a perfect three-point landing
Nick Mickoski, Red Wing veteran, flies through the air with the greatest of ease after being checked by Rangers' Johnny Hanna. Mickoski has colorful skating style. Hanna is one of the few big league players developed out of the maritime provinces.
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After three years in New York John Hanna spent seven seasons with the AHL Quebec Aces from 1961 thru 1968. In the 1964-65 season 'Junior' played all 70 regular season games and had 34 scoring points including 9 goals. One of his teammates on that Aces team was the future hall-of-famer Doug Harvey, who just happened to be the man to whom Hanna had lost his job with the NY Rangers in 1961.
A few of his teammates would be admitted to the Hockey Hall of Fame, but for a 12-year-old Cape Breton boy the undoubted star was Sydney's John 'Junior' Hanna.
Aged twelve when the family moved from Halifax to Cape Breton, I soon discovered that a Sydney native was playing in the NHL. At the time -- 1959 -- Junior Hanna was starting the second of his three seasons with the New York Rangers. I decided he would have to be my favourite NHLer and I wrote him a letter to tell him so. He replied, sending a photo of himself as requested. He ended his letter, "I hope this letter finds you and your family in the best of health." I treasured the photo and letter in the way of a 12-year-old and of course I have the relics still.
Junior Hanna never made it to the Hockey Hall of Fame. In addition to his three seasons in New York he had brief stints with the Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers. It was later, with the Western Hockey League Seattle Totems that Junior made his mark. He was an All-Star three times, won the Laycoe Trophy twice as the league's best defenceman and, in 1969, the Leader Trophy as the league's Most Valuable Player.
On 19 August 2004 Jan and I landed at the Cedar House Restaurant on Boularderie Island, Cape Breton, just as Junior Hanna was arriving with a brother and another relative. Though time and poor health had transformed him I recognized him immediately. I introduced myself and reminded him of the 1959 exchange of letters. He was friendly as could be and gave me a card with a photo of himself on one side, career highlights on the other. I invited him to come down to the cabin some time soon for a beer or three and conversation. He said he would and I had the feeling he meant it it. But it never happened. John Isaac 'Junior' Hanna died of cancer a year and a bit later in November 2005 at age 70.
From John Hanna's obituary in the Cape Breton Post 21 November 2005:
John was a very community-minded person. He was very active in the St. Joseph's Syrian and Lebanese Benevolent Society as past president and board member. He served on the board of directors for the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League, supported Kid Sport, attended numerous charity events and was always willing to lend a helping hand. Junior touched people from all walks of life. He always had time to talk to others and will be remembered for his kindness, hard work, talent and respect for others.
The 1972-73 season brought John 'Junior' Hanna his last go-round as a big league hockey player. At age 37, 'Junior' was, by a margin of five years, the oldest player skating for the Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association. In 66 games at Cleveland his scoring numbers were 6 goals and 20 assists. The Crusaders were 43-32-3 in the WHA's second season and reached the second round of the playoffs. Two years later after brief American Hockey League stops in Jacksonville and Syracuse, Junior returned to Cleveland as the Crusaders head coach in the '74-75 season.
This is another 'hockey card that never was'. For more of its kind:
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The 1960-61 season was John 'Junior' Hanna's third and last as a New York Ranger. After tallying a goal and eight assists in 46 games with the Broadway Blueshirts he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens for Albert Langlois.
This is a 'hockey card that never was'. For more in the same vein:
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This was captured during a walk through the Cook County Forest Preserve near our home... I like the sunlight.
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This station is standing in (I assume) it's original location in Elmhurst Illinois, where the CGW tracks used to be (just left of the station). This is now a park next to the Illinois Prairie Path (which used to be the CA&E line)
Here's something to keep my head buried in, a near-basket-case Yaesu FT-101E. She's in need of serious TLC and cosmetic restoration, her bandswitch barely works, her mode switch does not work, but she does receive and transmit now. The good news is that she was never used on 11 meters (by a CB operator) and she's still got her original green-band Toshiba 6JS6C output tubes. It's time to get fully submerged in another radio adventure. Then it's time to rearrange the station. Again. Plan on a few more pics here!
2013 style. This was the cutest little vintage (and clean) cottage we've ever stayed in.
Ludington, MI
This is a video I put together for the trip that I just went on with my church's youth group. It was myself, 6 high school guys and my awesome youth pastor, and we had quite the experience.
The first few days were spent helping a missionary near Bangkok who heads up a few campus ministries, and the rest of the time was spent in the north with the Karen people. They are an ethnic minority that are found in a region encompassing parts of Thailand and Burma.
Though a part of me wishes that we could have been more involved with some of the other major social justice issues in the country, I feel as if this particular trip was the one we were supposed to take - the male only group and everything. It is hard to explain, but hopefully you'll agree once you see the video.
Something I do want to say is that I've known all of these students since they were very young. During this trip, it has been my privilege to see them become men, demonstrating their ability to consistently put others before themselves. They gave everything they had in order to love the people we met; I am blessed to have known each one of them.
The movie's a bit long... if you want to jump around, we leave Bangkok for Changmai at ~8 min, and leave the Karen village to the Maela refugee camp at ~12 min.
Pictures will follow next week, you can find them at www.flickr.com/photos/danrhee/sets
Enjoy!
This is a frame from a video. You can watch it on Vimeo.
This smile was uncovered after I cut this log with the chain-saw. I was about to split it with the axe, and it was just looking at me, so I captured it with the iphone. Then I split it with the axe!
The Dual 1229, aka "the engineer's turntable" lol... such a Rube Goldberg device, yet oh so sweet and silky smooth when it's happy. I dismantled a good portion of mine for some much needed TLC, I couldn't wait to bring it to the nearest preamp so I brought a preamp and some 'phones to the workshop. Yeah, I still do pretty good work!
All images shot minutes apart. Lets you see how differently things can look with different sun angles.
John Hanna was a New York Ranger for three years, from 1958 to 1961. In his rookie year the Rangers missed the playoffs by a single point, the closest Hanna would ever get to a shot at the Stanley Cup. Late in his third season he lost his job when the Rangers traded for future hall-of-famer, the great Doug Harvey.