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The Old Days - Scrabble in the 70's and 80's

The early days of tourney Scrabble - mainly. Some of these are also in the Letterati gallery.
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Bernie Wishengrad playing Arnie Alpert in the 1978 New York City Scrabble Championship which Bernie won. <br> This photo was one of the stills from the old days used in the documentary film WORD WARS.
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Bernie Wishengrad playing Arnie Alpert in the 1978 New York City Scrabble Championship which Bernie won.
This photo was one of the stills from the old days used in the documentary film WORD WARS.

Bernie WishengradArnie Alpert

  • Al Weisman considers a play at the Game Room in 1979.
  • Finalists in the 1981 New York City championship.<br /> Carole Clarke, Jim Neuberger, Steve Pfeiffer and Linda Gruber. Linda won this one.
  • Hanging out during lunch break at the 1980 regionals. L. to R. Irv Samuels, Paul Avrin, Merrill Kaitz, Lyn Selzer, Andrea Siegel, Ed Hepner.
  • Scrabble is so much fun. Susi Tiekert before she was Mrs. Tiekert. In the 1982 Washington DC area tourney.<br /> Nora Fisher is waiting for her next opponent.
  • At the 1984 Grand Canyon Scrabble Tournament - l. to r. Joe Edley, Joel Wapnick, Sam Kantimathi
  • Front to back, Steve Tier, Steve Pfeifer, Paul Avrin, Josh Silber, Jeff Kastner New York City Scrabble Tournament at the Brooklyn War Memorial - 1979. At the other table, in soft-focus are Lyn Seltzer and Charlene White.
  • Chris Sigel - at the 1979 New York City Scrabble Championship,<br /> which she won. Her opponent here was Louis Schecter.
  • Bernie Wishengrad playing Arnie Alpert in the 1978 New York City Scrabble Championship which Bernie won. <br> This photo was one of the stills from the old days used in the documentary film WORD WARS.
  • Dee Jackson at the New York City Scrabble tourney<br /> back in the day
  • Mike Senkiewicz playing Steve Pfeiffer in the 1978 New York City<br /> Scrabble Championship finals - Mike finished 3rd in this one.
  • Ron Tiekert at the 1978 New York City finals. He<br /> came in second to Bernie Wishengrad (back to camera here).
  • Frank Kuehnrich playing David Prinze - May 21st, 1978 - The North American Invitational
  • Frank Kuehnrich (playing David Prinze) in 1978 -<br /> The North American Invitational, which Prinze won.
  • At the <i> Game Room</i> in 1979, Frank Voss, Paul Avrin and Seth Schoenwald t in the postmortem ritual.
  • Frank Kuehnrich (facing camera) and Steve Williams in the finals of the New York City Championship in 1978.
  • At the 1980 East Coast Regionals held at the Game Room in New York. Charlie Southwell, Rita Norr. Not sure who the guy is in the background.
  • Jack Eichenbaum considers his next play in the final game of the Washington, D.C. tournament in 1982. <br> We were still playing with sand timers in those days - which possibly contributed to Eichenbaum not winning the tournament.
  • Josh Silber at the 1978 North American Championship.
  • Mark DiBattista makes a move at New York club 56.
  • Waiting for the Doors to Open, top NYC Scrabble Players hang out by the Cadman Plaza War Memorial entrance top row L to R Jim Guillot, Frank Kuehnrich, Josh Silber. Seated - Arnie Alpert, Roz Grossman. They were participating in the 1978 New York City Championship.
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