Bill Meltzer: Meltzer's Musings: Watson's 60th, Dupre Anniversary, Flyers Travel

Road trip!!

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Bill Meltzer: Meltzer's Musings: Watson's 60th, Dupre Anniversary, Flyers Travel
- bmeltzer

Dupre was a really good skater, I had forgotten that about him. He was really a lot like Eric Wellwood is now back in the mid 1990's.

Thanks for sharing your story of meeting him at the Carnival.

Fun Fact about Rexy's. After the first Stanley Cup win, Rexy's was absolutely mobbed by fans, and the players ended up taking the Stanley Cup to another bar, Compton's Log Cabin, just a few miles away from Rexy's on the Audubon-Haddon Township border.

Unfortunately, the site of Compton's is now a Rite Aid.

http://theretrospect.com/...ses-the-torch-p1934-1.htm

Dupre was a really good skater, I had forgotten that about him. He was really a lot like Eric Wellwood is now back in the mid 1990's.

Thanks for sharing your story of meeting him at the Carnival.

Fun Fact about Rexy's. After the first Stanley Cup win, Rexy's was absolutely mobbed by fans, and the players ended up taking the Stanley Cup to another bar, Compton's Log Cabin, just a few miles away from Rexy's on the Audubon-Haddon Township border.

Unfortunately, the site of Compton's is now a Rite Aid.

http://theretrospect.com/...ses-the-torch-p1934-1.htm
- Jsaquella

Never knew the Compton's story! Thanks.

Road trip!!

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- Giroux_Is_God

I bet your folks are proud of you

Back.

Never knew the Compton's story! Thanks.
- bmeltzer

They had pictures of that night in one of the offices. I was doing work there I I asked about it, and the manager told me about how Rexy's was swarmed-like a mass of humanity that blocked the Black Horse Pike-and that they ended up there.

Personally, I would have suggested Wheez's

visited Rexy's to death when i turned 21 Man I almost forgot about Yanick Dupre, that was a sad piece of history there. Really makes ya think how lucky you are if nothing just for your health.

I bet your folks are proud of you
- Jsaquella

You bet they are! I get your folks would be too!!

*Returns to reflecting and wallowing*

You bet they are! I get your folks would be too!!

*Returns to reflecting and wallowing*
- Giroux_Is_God

My mommy took me to Toys R Us the first time I was first

visited Rexy's to death when i turned 21 Man I almost forgot about Yanick Dupre, that was a sad piece of history there. Really makes ya think how lucky you are if nothing just for your health.
- JoeRussomanno

The last time I went to Rexy's was probably in 1999, for dinner. Great food, no idea why I didn't go more often, didn't live too far away.

Of course, I could crawl home from PJ Whelihan's, the Crystal Lake Tavern & the Collmont/TomFischer's

Very true about Dupre and being lucky to have your health.

My mommy took me to Toys R Us the first time I was first
- Jsaquella

Chuck E Cheese for me baby!

Chuck E Cheese for me baby!
- Giroux_Is_God

We had my daughter's 4th birthday party there,(she'll be 8 in November) and haven't been back since. Yet, I still get a weekly e-mail from them.

Too bad that there are probably very few here that have seen Jimmy Watson play.

We had my daughter's 4th birthday party there,(she'll be 8 in November) and haven't been back since. Yet, I still get a weekly e-mail from them.
- Jsaquella

Unsubscribe to that poop!

Unsubscribe to that poop!
- Giroux_Is_God

It automatically goes to spam and gets ignored.

Too bad that there are probably very few here that have seen Jimmy Watson play.
- 2731color

It is. Hell there's more than a few that never saw McCrimmon and Howe play

It automatically goes to spam and gets ignored.
- Jsaquella

....next best thing

Chuck E Cheese for me baby!
- Giroux_Is_God

Chuck E Diseases as my friend liked to call it. I still haven't taken my 4 year old there

Great Story Bill!

I always like Dupre too. Between Pelle, Dupre and the later Tertishny it seemed like every decade or so a player I really liked passed on.

I went to Rexy's a little bit, but by the time I was legal I think Kaminski's and the Coliseum were the more popular choices.

It is. Hell there's more than a few that never saw McCrimmon and Howe play
- Jsaquella

those people should buy the dvd box set

great blog bill thanks

those people should buy the dvd box set
- Don'tForgetTocchet

Absolutely.

Thanks, Bill ... I always enjoy reading your blobs in the morning.

man, 24 is just way way too young to go.

Thanks, Bill ... I always enjoy reading your blobs in the morning.

man, 24 is just way way too young to go.

- FlyerGuy

Pelle was only 26 when he died. And Dmitri Tertyshny was only 22 at the time of the terrible boat tragedy.

This franchise has had to endure it's fair share of tragedy.