TwainMark

Glad I found this thread. I too was there for the tornado, in the dressing room. Don't recall if we were getting ready or had just finished, but I do recall a young lady who was standing by the front door got showered in glass when it blew out and they rushed her to the dressing room, stripped her down and put her in the shower to try to wash off what they could. Conflicting emotions for a hormone-ravaged teenager, to be sure. I too played hockey there from the day it opened till I went off to college in 1976. Worked there off and on also. I'm betting some of us here know each other. Met some of my heroes from childhood up north... Gordie, Bobby Hull and others. Had some interesting experiences when they practiced there, such as the time I was sweeping behind the bench and goalie Don McCleod skated over in a panic and says "hey kid, I need Bobby, go find him, quick". Bobby was Bobby Brown the trainer. I track him down and say Don's in trouble, so he runs over to the bench and McCleod tells Bobby to get him a cigarette RIGHT NOW! I thought that was hilarious; different times for sure. One thing I know is that it was torn down for the post office. I remember being around when they built that as it struck me as a really cool building for a PO. It was situated slightly east of IH and probably overlapped it's footprint a little bit. What I was searching for when I landed here was someplace I can purchase a copy of that photo from the Post/Chron archives or elsewhere. Reason being that I am in that photo and still have an old copy plucked from the paper. Found it recently when searching for something else, and it's getting pretty brown now almost 42 years later. If anybody had any leads on that, I would be most appreciative.