Monthly Archives: July 2011

      Be prepared to be scared. As you can see from the advertisement that Peggy Reynolds let us use, the Manos Theatre in town was running a “Blood Chilling Horror”-thon. For fifty cents you could sit through four hours of terror with three movies playing on screen including The Deadly Bees, The Vulture, and the acclaimed “Fear of the Year” Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors.
      To add to the terror, monsters were to escape from the screen three times during the movies. It will be so scary that even your goose-bumps will have goose-bumps.     Nurses will be in attendance.
      Oh and don’t forget, free, yes FREE! popcorn to the first 200 children.

      Fifty years later, we remember the 1951 Ellwood City Moose Lodge Little League Baseball Champions. Those pictured here in their Converse All-Stars include in the front row from left. Sam Pistachio, Jim Beatrice, Terry Macioge, Skip Friedhoff, Joey Sheeler, unknown, unknown, and Tom Butler. Second row from the left, Todd Heinz, unknown, Nick Frisk, Ron Mazzano, Ron Hughes, Jim Navolio, Bob Butler, and Jim Barry. The coaches pictured in the back row include Walter Feerst, Dick Freidhoff, and Grundy Volpe.
      If you know those that we have marked as “unknown”, please let us know so we can adjust accordingly. Also, if you remember this team or the players, we would love to here your memories. Please share in the comments section below or email us at info@ellwoodcitymemories.com

      I was flipping through a stack of old Ellwood City Ledgers that someone had let me borrow a couple of weeks ago and came to an article where they made a big deal about a certain Ellwood City baseball standout that was coming to the end of his career as a Wolverine and in his last days, hit a towering home run that not only cleared the fence but actually landed on the roof of the school. Of course this was in the days when the field was beside Lincoln High School, which a few of you might remember.    
      The way the article was written, it made the homerun seem to be a Babe Ruth-ian type of homerun that was typically reserved for movies like “The Natural”. Of course after reading this, I thought to myself that this would make a great History’s Mystery. The only problem I thought of at the time was that everyone would remember a spectacular homerun like this.
      I posted the question in the History’s Mystery section of Ellwood City Memories and it turns out, I had another problem. The home run was indeed a Herculean fete, but not that uncommon. I heard from a number of you including Bob Mallary who guessed Al Miller and Don Tindall who guessed Rich Potter. The article in the Ledger was about the drive off of the bat of Jesse Brown, but like I said, he was not alone. Jim Hockenberry, who grew up around the school remembers playing sandlot ball on the field a lot and also recalls that Mary Ann (Corigan) Caputo would easily hit baseballs onto the roof from home plate. Not only could she do it easily, but she did it regularly.
      If you know of anyone else that hit a drive onto the roof of the school from the old field, please share your memories below or email us at info@ellwoodcitymemories.com