Shrouded Phog

Just in time for Halloween - Phog Allen's outfit. Renovation on AllenFieldhouse is just weeks away from completion. Phog decided to dress up for tomorrow night. "Beware ye all who enter. . ."

My grandfather, King Mar, was an avid amateur photographer. During the day he was the cashier/manager of the Pan American Cafe in Wichita. He took lots of pictures and lots of pictures of the waitresses that worked at the Cafe. The cafe thrived because of its downtown location (150 N. Market) and businessmen appreciated the quick lunches for about 60 - 90 cents a plate. Don't know who these two ladies are, perhaps waitresses. They're dressed up pretty nicely. The photo was taken in King's apartment (above Pan American) in the 1950s. Looks like he used his floodlights (from the right). Behind the light in back are photos of King's parents.

The apartments above Pan American (I wonder how they decided on that name for a Chinese-American cafe?) looked a lot like the tenement photos you would see in 1900s back East. There was an open space in the middle that went up three(?) floors. Each floor had a balcony all the way around. Clothes lines were strung across all the time. The floors were dark, probably unpainted. I lived there the first year of my life. After we moved to 350 N. Topeka, I would often visit King in this apartment. It was just like any set out of a film noir movie. King and my Dad were pretty dapper when dressed in suits and looking very much the man of the 40s and 50s (Tyrone Power, Humphrey Bogart, etc.).

Any way, a nice photo of the period.

O'run videos

Mike Eglinski recommended Thierry Gueorgiou's latest "Follow Me" video. He shows a leg of the world cup sprint race in Italy. Don't think running on the KU campus will be that intricate.
Mike did his own video running at Knob Noster SP as well.

Then Patrick Nuss ran a white course in Seattle last weekend. Check his video.
(My apologies for the bad link that played every time.)

All of these would be great to show at a club meeting (if we ever do meetings again...)