Roger Bannister, the first person to run a sub-4-minute mile, dies at 88
Being the first to break the 4-minute mile was a celebrated milestone, back then (1954). Bannister’s record lasted less than two months. Bannister retired from competitive running and became a neurologist.
Was he the subject of the movie “Chariots of Fire” ? It was so long ago that I don’t really remember the movie just that it was about British runners.
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No, it was about Harold Abrahams.
The Tower Records in San Diego was my second home while I was in the Navy back in the late 70’s. I hauled home over 200 albums when I got out in 1979. The sales staff would have no problem opening a record so I could listen to it before I decided to buy it. It was across the street from the Sport Arena and was a popular place to gather after concerts. Got to hang with Elvin Bishop for a couple hours after he opened a show for the Allman Brothers. Good times…
I remember going to the Capitol Records Tower midnight swap meet back in the 70’s. Records, tapes, bootlegs, promo posters, stand-ups and other assorted items. I and my girlfriend would grab a dog from the local foodstand and go up and down the aisles until dawn.
Benjamin Melniker, Hollywood producer who bought the film rights to Batman and was largely responsible for the darker turn the movies would take.
Tower Records in San Francisco, at Columbus Ave’s north end, was a landmark for many years: If You’re Too Young to Remember the Magic of Tower Records, Here’s What You Missed | Collectors Weekly.
Harold Abrahams and Roger Bannister were a generation apart. Abrahams was 30 years older than Bannister.
Although interestingly, Harold Abrahams was the chief timekeeper when Bannister broke 4 minutes. I didn’t know this until another poster in the Bannister thread mentioned it.
First record store I ever went to, sometime around 1970. I think its actual address was on Jones Street, but I always remember it being on Columbus & Bay.
There is at least one still open; it’s in Dublin, located somewhere near the Berkeley Library.
“But Dublin and Berkeley aren’t near each other”
They are when it’s Dublin, Ireland, and the Berkeley Library is at Trinity College (and both the library and the California city are named for the same person, one of the Earls of Berkeley).
Very cool!
I was 18 when I moved to San Francisco in 1979. That Tower Records store was music heaven. It opened in 1968, a perfect time.
It was there for 27 more years until it was torn down in 2006. 12 years later now, and still that corner of Columbus and Bay just doesn’t look right to me.
British comedian Ken Dodd has died aged 90. I wasn’t too familiar with him except by osmosis. Apparently his signature style was feather dusters and a funny expressive face, though I am sure there was more to him than that. He was still working right up to very recently.
“Did he?”
“No, Doddy”
Famed fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy, the man behind “the little black dress”, dead at age 91.
No takers for Dodd or de Givenchy
Hugo award winning author Kate Wilhelm, dead at age 89.
Rapper Craig Mack dies at 46.
Who has Stephen Hawking?