1. What was the name of the red-headed man who walked up Wheeling Creek each morning from Benwood to find golf balls at Oglebay and Wheeling Country Club.
Answer: Haney Scary scary man. He felt the woods around Oglebay and Wheeling Country Club were his and would chase you out of there.
2. What do Larry Dezio, Chris Smith and Rick Asmus have in common?
Answer: They black spray-painted “MOOSE” on the Linsly Aviator statue. A judge sentenced them to a weekend at, I believe named, Rooney's Point located out past Triadelphia...a halfway house before heading to Pruntytown. 'Moose' was Linsly's Latin teacher Miss Metzner's nickname.
3. Who was Alma Henderson?
Answer: An old cantankerous whore house madam in Benwood that we used to call and heckle
4. In the early 60's, what was the name of the hamburger place on the corner of National Road and Edgington Lane?
Answer: Purple Cow...hamburgers were 15 cents. Bruce and Tim Bandi, Joe Steger, I and others hung out in the back room. The pinball machine paid off.
5. What was 'Big Bill' Lias real last name?
Answer: George Liaskakos Here's everything you need to know about Big Bill:
http://www.flexassistant.com/images/Lias.pdf
6. In the book, “Captain's Courageous” (1897) what about Wheeling was mentioned?
Answer: Wheeling Stogies...some reference by a character that if he could survive smoking a Wheeling Stogie he could survive anything
7. What was Linsly School called in 1814?
Answer: Linsly Lancastrian Academy founded by Noah Linsly. Interesting bio link:
http://wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us/history/people/hallfame/1986lins.htm
8. Who was the first coach of the Wheeling Nailers?
Answer: Walrus-mustachioed Doug Sauter. He moved with the Carolina Thunderbirds to Wheeling in 1992. The name was changed to Nailers due to a dispute with a west coast hockey team also nicknamed 'thunderbirds'
9, What was the nickname for Pogues Run Road?
Answer: Nun's Run
10. What football honor was bestowed on Chuck Howley that no other NFL player has received?
Answer: Chuck Howley from Warwood was named Super Bowl MVP for Super
Bowl V, the first time that a defensive player
received the honor and the first time a player
from the losing team won the award.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Chuck Howley was drafted by the Chicago Bears. In 1959 he injured his knee. That was thought to be a career ending injury. In 1961 he returned to football and was traded to the Dallas Cowboys, and the rest, as they say, is history.
ReplyDeleteBetween 1959 and 1961 Chuck and his wife lived at 35 Poplar Avenue, which was at the time a convertied duplex owned by my parents (we planned to move there, but my grandmother became ill and that never happened). Chuck would drop off the rent check at our house occasionally when I was there. I remember him as very quiet, almost shy. His career made me a Dallas fan for a few years.
George Doughty
I used to babysit for them. They had a house across the street from us on Fairview Ave. My dad was a life-long Dallas Cowboy fan because of Mr. Howley. His wife was from the Paull family.
ReplyDeleteCandi Bogers