SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MINOR HOCKEY

• 1966-67 NORWALK, Southeastern Minor Hockey Association official rosters of teams and club officers. Fred Barritt of Whittier was President and Juniors coach. Fred Hildebrand was Midget Coach and I was Mighty Mite 'Manager'. Mike Lampman of the Midget team later played for the Washington Capitals and St. Louis Blues.
• 1966-67 BURBANK Minor Hockey Association rosters with team photos for Mighty Mite, Peewee, Bantam, Midget and Junior. (Bucky Waterfield was on the Peewee team. Father was Bob Waterfield of football fame, mother was Jane Russell. Art Guiney was the manager of the Peewees and the Juniors.
• 1967-68 NORWALK, Southeastern Minor Hockey Association, Team Rosters, MIte, Squirt, Peewee and Bantam Blue.
• 1967-68 CULVER CITY, Coast Cities Hockey Association brochure. However it has only a list of club officers and the fact they had a team in every division from Mighty Mite to Junior. The other six pages list donors.
• March 1968 rosters for WESTERN REGIONALS, Bay Harbor Redwings (L.A.) versus Portland (OR) Sunshine Dairy.
• 1968-69 NORWALK, Southeastern Minor Hockey Association Registered Player Forms for Mite, Squirt, Rookies, Pee Wees, Bantams and Midgets.
• 1968, BURBANK Minor Hockey Association, small brochure with team photos and rosters for Mighty Mite, Squirt, Rookie (8 to 12), Bantam and Midget. At that time, Fred Fiedler had four sons playing in four different age brackets and Jorn Winther, producer of Sonny & Cher, Route 66, etc TV shows, had two. They were very generous with their time and money, notably with 'Operation East', an annual trek of L.A. players to the northeastern U.S.
• October 29, 1969 listing of all Registered and Qualified referees and linesman for the Greater Los Angeles Minor Hockey Association (GLAMHA) from Bert Prudhomme, VP, GLAMHA.
• 1969-70 LOS ANGELES HOCKEY CLUB, 44 page end of season report with excellent writing of a minor hockey club where specially selected 'competition teams 'played up' all year and went into post season championships in their proper age divisions. The booklet also covers 'OPERATION EAST' of that year. (In June 1970 I took over as Treasurer, collected and paid off $10,000 which had been in arrears for up to 10 months.)
• November 8, 1970, CULVER CITY team rosters for exhibition games between selected GLAMHA teams in Squirt, Bantam and Midget divisions to raise money for OPERATION EAST. Stu Nahan, Master of Ceremonies, Jiggs McDonald (Kings announcer) drawing for door prizes, the late Art Guiney, Introduction.
• 1970-71, HARBOR CITY 'Bay Harbor Red Wings' 20 page 'slick ' program, listing with photos, officers and players of the club's teams. 2 Pollywog, 1 Mighty Mites, 2 Squirt, 2 Peewee, 2 Bantam and 1 Junior. My oldest son, Joe, was on Peewee Gold team, Ben Cardas, coach. I helped after Herb Carlbom broke his leg. Ben played 'senior' around L.A. He had been Stan Mikita's first coach.
• 1971 WESTERN AHA US Peewee Championship, one page program with rosters of the Pacific Northwest Champion-Seattle Sno-Kings, Alaska Champion-Anchorage and the California Champion-Los Angeles. , coached by Ernie Rucks and Don Begin. From the later team, Aaron Rucks played later for Michigan State and Dwayne Strege is coached a Junior A team in L.A.
• A 1971 receipt for a 'Supreme curved stick'  from LEE'S SKATE SHOP, 8013 Jackson, Paramount, California where his cat, "Mouser" always slept on the rack of hockey sticks and Lee Findlay NEVER FAILED to say the sales tax was 'for the governor's lunch'.
• WHITTIER-LA HABRA Polar Kings, Minor Hockey Association, one page newsletter, 'The Fourth Period', July (no year stated), Mike Flanigan was President, Dick Sieminski, Head Coach
• COSTA MESA Ice Capades Chalet Harbor Blvd, Squirt-Midget 1972-73 Roster of players and coaches, which shows Joe Nix and Rollo Miller as Bantam coaches. and Fred Hildebrand as Juniors coach. All I can recall is Rollo, Fred and I starting a 'hockey school', Rollo being a skating specialist. I was working 40 miles away across Los Angeles and I don't think I did much 'bantam coaching'. I can recall Fred and I showing slides or charts on hockey skills to a few dedicated players. Alex Patterson was listed as a Peewee Coach. I played 'huff and puff' for years with Alex and have a photo of us in a game at the Ice Capades Chalet.
• March 24, 1973, four page letter from Joe Nix to 'Parents of Anaheim Hockey Players' about the flux in leagues, rinks and teams and hoping for an Anaheim nucleus team. I was about 20 years ahead of 'times', apparently.
• A January 8, 1980. L.A. Times article, listing with extensive detail of condition, appearance and activity times for the 12 ICE RINKS in Greater Los Angeles. Two of those have closed, Polar Palace 1800 W. Whittier Boulevard, La Habra and West Covina Ice Arena, 2235 E. Garvey, West Covina (where we played a lot of adult hockey).
  

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40th ANNIVERSARY, BAY HARBOR MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

APRIL 16, 2004

1970-71 teams per the club's program

Juniors	Bantams B	Bantams G	Peewee B no pic. Coach Bill Elliott, Assistant Rick Deputy, Mngr. John Martin	Peewee G
Squirt Blue	Squirt G	Mites	Pollywogs P	Pollywogs K

 
 

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