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High Notes 06-25-2015
In my 1957 Polk City Directory of Portsmouth, I noticed that Harold Hanes, the former Scioto County Recorder, was spelled “Haines”, but I knew that he was of the same family as those who have owned “Hanes Chevrolet” in South Webster for many years. So, I paged forward to the spelling sans the “I”, and found “Hanes Harold (Eliz) county recorder, resident, South Webster. I doubt that many people have double entries in many directories, unless they are in business and paid for the honor. The owners of Hanes Chevrolet Company were listed in 1957, as Samuel E., Carl E. and Lester O. Hanes, and their telephone number in 1957 was “Scioto 1813”.
Through my association with The Park Shoppe, on 17th Street, and adjacent Mound Park, I was acquainted with Johnny Hanes, who graduated PHS in about 1952 or ’53, and had been an equipment manager for the Trojan basketball team. John’s Mom and Dad were, Rollie W., who was a supervisor at Schaefer’s Super Markets, and Elizabeth H., a saleswoman at The House of Fashions, which was owned by Jeanette Angelo, and sold women’s fashions, located at 707 6th Street, according to that same directory.
By 1957, Johnny, who had been short and stocky as a student basketball manager, had grown to over 6 feet tall. Johnny’s sister, a beautiful girl named Mary Ann Hanes, later married Charles (Chuck) Noll, who was the long-time, and very successful, coach for the NFL Champion, Pittsburgh Steelers. I remember a story circulating among the Park Shoppe crowd, that Noll had been in Portsmouth, visiting his in-laws, and he joined John and some other of the Park Shoppe group for drinks one late afternoon at the old Classic Lounge, in the downtown bowling lane at Ninth and Chillicothe Streets. AT one point in the afternoon, Noll, demonstrating his base sliding techniques, ran the length of the bar and slid into a cocktail table on the sawdust covered floor.
Remember the story is apocryphal, and came to me as “hearsay”.
Chuck Noll, a big man, had also been a member of The Cleveland Browns pro football team’s offensive line, during the late forties and fifties.
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