"DOWN BY THE STATION" four preps
Just a reminder,
Monday evening January 19, 2015 between 5:00 to 8:00 PM a pasta fundraiser will be held at the Stadium Grill 8330 Tyler Blvd. Mentor, Ohio for our Painesville Railroad Station.
Also TMC (Turner Classic Movies) at 2:00 PM Monday will have the Painesville hometown movie "One Potato two Potato, so set that DVR and maybe Tuesday we can discuss what we viewed in the movie. Example many make the mistake that in the opening with the children playing one potato two the scene was filmed at Huntington School. No the scene was shot in Grand River at their elementary school Merrick Hutchison ( also gone now)
Painesville Council Meeting will be held Tuesday January 20 due to Martin Luther King Day.
Have many of you have already been aware Harvey High Football Team has hired a new head coach who will replace Mike Tucci. Brian Craemer an assistant under coach Tucci has been handed the reins. God Luck to Coach Craemer and the rest of the Red Raider's this coming season.
Again Thanks to the Ohio State Buckeye Football Team, you made football fun again.
12 gauge, who would have thought?
The Nike tribute said it all.
They called you Lucky
They called you undeserving
They called your conference weak, and your team untested
They called the other teams a dynasty, The favorite, Unbeatable
They called your ranking disputable and surprising
They called you a fourth seed, if that
They called you underdogs
But now they call you something else
"CHAMPIONS"
posted by terminator1 @ 9:30 AM
22 Comments
22 Comments:
If I remember correctly, one of the scenes has the actors leaving the Lake Theater and turning right (south) to walk away. The next scene has them walking west on Main St between St Clair and the Park.
IOW, they would have walked around the entire block instead of going the logical method of north and then west.
10:04 short answer.... it's a movie
I always wondered what school playground that was in the movie, although I knew it wasn't Huntington. I guess they didn't have enough photogenic kids there. I should know, that was my school! lol Seriously though, it should have been shot there, or St. Clair, if anywhere. It's a film about interracial relations (duh, hello, producers!!). Those two schools had a significant portion of black students compared to any other.
9:56 I don't believe the movie even tried to portray diversity, remember this was 1964. It's interesting to realize how times have changed. Even his black family seemed isolated in the movie.
Now a teaser--- Who was the actor? that portrayed the police officer that questioned the couple in Veterans Park at night?
so why a new coach, pal?
Not really all about nothing, It seems Coach Lucci had a "conversation" with a fan after a game and some believe his words were uncalled for? Look times have really changed when stuff like this is cause for dismissal.
It's not like an incident in a bathroom downtown, a few years ago if you know what I mean.
The coach is Tucci not Lucci, and he resigned.
You shouldn't believe everything people tell you.
8:05 Thanks for the correction, My only thought is/was he should have kept his job. I believe from what players have told me he was a good coach. Again things have changed.
He was a good coach and the players did like him. He made some serious mistakes after the game was cancelled by the referees. Term is right, times have changed, no longer will certain things be tolerated. Good luck in the future, Coach.
Great job HHS Varsity Basket ball! They beat crosstown rivals in double overtime!
Who gives a phuque what you believe?
4:04 The most thankless job ? Coaching high school, If you win you just had good athletes, loss you don't know how to coach. You don't do it for money because if you did it probably comes down to a dollar an hour. Everyone's the expert, players, fathers , alumni, fans in the stand although you have been with this team from two a days till the last game on the season.
Just as there is a difference between say a venial sin and a mortal sin. This sin should have not been cause for dismissal. Guessing here but there's a good chance the coach just thought it ain't worth the fight? Yes we do live in a different world today and in many cases I don't believe it's better.
4:06 It's always good to beat that team on the other side of the river. Class size's alone make it harder every year.
5:38 I don't know? It must be whoever is forcing you to view this site.
The wife and I watched the movie just to see the town shots. We skimmed through a lot of the dialog. As movies go, that was one piss poor movie.
Bernie Hamilton was awful.
All the kids were great.
Richard Mulligan was not "Invisible."
The Parmly was magnificent as was Angela's Pizza.
Where was that farm?
As I remember, around that time, there was a high profile mixed couple on the Harvey campus.
5:13 Never claimed it was a good movie. Every time I view it seems darker and more depressing.
As far as the cast they were believable? I know the factory was Fasson, I have been told the farm was in Leroy?
Sorry was at Harvey in 1964.
I don't know what movie everyone was watching. Granted "One Potato..." is dated, but it was an excellent movie. It got rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival (as well as when it opened in the US) the year of its release. As a matter of fact I believe Barbara Barrie won Best Actress. It was a small budget film but well done.
9:51 It was a movie ahead of it's time.
I guess my reason for the movie being depressing was at the end of the movie who was happy? Not the judge, not the family not the step-father, especially not the mother and daughter. I don't even believe the natural father was "happy". Who won? Or did everyone lose? Maybe that was the point of the movie?
Prejudice won. Not everyone will agree with me, but race relations are much better now. Not perfect, mind you, but life wasn't always so great in the "good ole days".
I'll take those good old days anytime. People knew their places in life and didn't go around trying to force their twisted reformist ideas on everyone. Whatever happened to stick to your own kind?
Cannes is a proving ground. Movies that play their CAN stink as well as be good. I was at Harvey in 64 also.
I never learned a racial slur or racist comment in my parents home. Blacks were referred to a colored folks, as they call themselves at times. I remember being slapped hard across the mouth by my mother for repeating a really bad one someone had said. It's the only time I remember her flipping out.
A bar of soap inserted in the mouth was a favorite punishment for bad language.
Dealing with violent racism dispensed by blacks in the service was very unpleasant. Seeing a black man chastised by other blacks for being civil with whites was a real eye opener.
It's taken decades to get things around where they should be for me.
Rodney King said; "Can't we all just get along?"
2:42 Pray tell, what exactly is your place in life? along with knowing your place? Explain your kind?
2:53 Being a youngster in the 60's I never understood the "No colored lunch counters" the separate bathroom and drinking fountains in the south. I guess as children you didn't see a problem with sharing a classroom? I guess I didn't know my place?
I think, at least I hope, that 2:42 is just being facetious! I grew up in P'ville in the 60's (I'm white) and I know there was some racial prejudice there but since we all went to school with people of color it was not overt. As a matter of fact, I just assumed this was everyone's experience across the country and when I went to college was shocked at how isolated some blacks felt from whites and vice versa. Sadly things haven't changed so much in communities with defacto segregation.
Has the resigning coach accepted another coaching position?
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