Forget Polo and Fox Hunting. The Queen Loves Hockey
After seeing in my previous post the photo of the Queen as a Habs fan, Kevin at Ya! The Habs Rule.com sent me this. Maybe I have some kind of sixth sense. The queen? A puckhead? Who knew! By Scott...
View ArticleThe Continuing Saga Of Lizzie The Hockey Chick
Yes indeed, more evidence that the Queen is a hockey groupie. Forget polo and fox hunting, she wants big goals and hard hitting. In this photo, Elizabeth, still a princess at the time, tells Leafs’...
View ArticleAs The Scrapbook Turns – Part Three
Part three of the old scrapbook deals with newspaper clippings about the Rocket, plus Bernie Geoffrion and wife Marlene, and all the usual suspects – Toe Blake, Charlie Hodge, Pocket Rocket, Jean...
View ArticleDenis Brel Sends Another
Aother wizardly creation from my terrific stepson in St. Petersburg, Russia – Denis Brel. This guy has so much talent that if he lived in North America or Western Europe he’d be so successful I’d...
View ArticleDandy Opening Ceremonies
The opening ceremonies have wrapped up in London without rain and other more serious party-poopers we don’t need to talk about, and it was a dazzling extravaganza indeed. So much to see and absorb. I...
View ArticleContinuing Along That Path…….
It began again yesterday - Battered and Bruised - after a two year absence, and it continues today. My Habs scrapbook, put together by my dad and I when I was young. And again, the photos enlarge when...
View ArticlePictures From Ol’ Sore Eyes
It’s Tuesday night and I’ve got nothing to say. My eyes are sore from giving my usual 201% at work today. I don’t want to see a computer, even though I’m on one now. Please bear with me while I pause...
View ArticleJust Six Pictures
Love the caption from this 1905 journal; “Dribbling the puck, Arlington dodged man after man, bearing down on Fardale’s goal, before which, long, lank Chip Joliby crouched, quivering with anxiety and...
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