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3 days ago · Forest Hills resident Liz O’Byrne Scharf moved into The New Hampshire Apartments in 1959 as an infant, along with her parents and sister. She reminisced, “When I was a little girl, I would go down the stairs with my mom and she would say, ‘Apartment 2A was Johnny Weissmuller’s apartment.’ I bet she was excited as I was.”
2 days ago · Heeney’s salt-of-the-earth parents, Rochelle and Adam, did the five-hour round trip from Maitland to Sydney so Little Johnny Weissmuller could do his weekly sessions with the Swans Academy. Aged ...
5 days ago · Olympians like Johnny Weissmuller (aka Tarzan) have trained there. Surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku graced its halls, along with another 97 Olympians, 47 of which were gold medalists. Even the founder of Paramount Pictures, Frank A. Garbutt, was a member of LAAC.
13 hours ago · Les 70 cabines de nageurs seront transformées en galerie d’art urbain contemporain. La piscine Molitor a été créée en 1929 pour compléter le centre sportif mis en place dans le XVIe arrondissement avec le Parc des Princes, le stade Jean-Bouin et le complexe de Roland-Garros. Johnny Weissmuller, quintuple médaille olympique, sera ...
3 days ago · Four years later in Paris, where she was a teammate with Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, Soule became the first and still the only woman to win medals in swimming (bronze) and diving (silver) in the same Olympics.
2 days ago · And that’s cuz Saturday was the kids’ show matinee at the Pontiac Theater, where for our two bits we got to see around 20 cartoons; a bunch of short films (with the likes of Johnny Weissmuller ...
3 days ago · Johnny Eck lost his livelihood when social and political pressures ran the sideshows out of favor. But Johnny, ever the one to find a niche in the world, found a new way of making a living, a way distinct and possibly unique to his hometown.
