2008: THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, MIKE

Mike Kuzma is a regular visitor to my website. The interesting message reprinted below was entered in my guestbook and I wanted to post it in case any visitor can come up with further information on the gentleman who was the victim of the St. Anthony High School wall collapse back in the 60's. I also found Mike's reference to his Uncle Vic of Hamilton's late, great Vic Rice Driving Range on South Broad Street. I would like to have a photo of that huge golf range where Don Slabicki and I spent a number of bucks driving balls out into the arc-lit field, trying to hit the guy driving that little go cart that picked up the balls. Thanks for being a reader of my column in the Times, Mike, and thanks for the memories you sent in the message below. Always a pleasure to hear from you. As to Harry Hartman.....another name I had forgotten about until you mentioned it.

MIKE WROTE:

Tom:

As always, I enjoyed going back in time with you to a better time in
life; the 50's! My mind keeps going back to the "DeCou" carnival on the
site of Uncle Vic Rice's driving range. The bands were out of sight. As
a kid with my dad, we used to make regular stops at Sheriff Harry
Hartman's Slaughter house, where his brother John Hartman ran things.
I noticed a mention of McCorristan in one of the other posts.
I'm trying to remember the name of the popular Insurance (man) who died when
the foundation walls collapsed while the high school was being built.
Keep up the great columns, they are my only life line to the good old
days in the Trenton area.

Mike