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Wish You Were (still) Here

Scrabble tourney and club players who have gone to that big deluxe board in the sky - or as Susi Tiekert might say, those who have bingoed out. Note, not everyone in every photo has left us - but they know who they are. Please bear in mind that there is a slant toward friends of the photographer, East Coasters and past champions - taken between 1974 through about 2008. Most of the photos are in other galleries
here as well, and from past publications - but a few are probably ones new to many. Good memories for we older players and perhaps of more than passing interest to the new young lions and lionesses of the game.
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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

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

  • Alfred Butts, Scrabble inventor , made an appearance at a tournament at Arby's in New York City in 1981.  Dave Schulman<br />
passed away in 2004 at the age of 91.  He was in the first North American Open and many New York Tourneys.  He worked on a number of dictionaries and often appeared chatting about word origins and English usage on Leonard Lopate's show on WNYC (NPR) .
  • Rita Norr tracking tiles during a game at New York's Club 56 - this was in 1988 a bit under a year after she won the<br />
1987 "Unofficial" Nationals
  • Steve Pfeiffer and the Head Prazy 1978
  • Chester Collins and friend  in their apartment in Queens, May 1979
  • Frank Kuehnrich playing David Prinze - May 21st, 1978 - The North American Invitational
  • Dee Jackson at the New York City Scrabble tourney<br />
back in the day
  • 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.
  • Al Weisman considers a play at the Game Room in 1979.
  • Very soft focus snap shot of Jean Carol and Gordon Shapiro at the 1989 Smoky Mountain tournament in Gatlinberg, TN. Only shot I could find that I took of her.
  • Stan Rubinsky and Mike Baron 1983 NAI Chicago.  Not sure who was consoling who on a loss before the break. Between rounds on day two.  Mike's shirt is subtitled. "Society for the Preservation of Equal Rights for Men".
  • Bob Watson (seated, left) has just defeated Joel Wapnick at the 1988 North American Championship in Reno, Nevada.  Tourney director Joe Edley looks over Bob's shoulder. Milt Wertheimer (center) was the annotator.
  • Lester Schonbrun (r) tells film maker Eric Chaikin how it is - while waiting for the award ceremony to being at the 2002 Nationals in San Diego. Eric was at the tourney filming the documentary <I>WORD WARS</I>.
  • Frank Lee chowing down at the reception in Chicago for the 1998 National Scrabble Championship.<br />
RIP, Frankly
  • Rose Kreiswirth and Frank Tangredi at Dorothy Siegel's 80th  birthday bash in New Orleans (during the 2004 NSC) . A scan from an low res film snapshot - all I could find in my files right now.  R.I.P., Rosie - we'll miss you so much.
  • Walter Weinberg at Club 56 - Autumn, 2004
  • Jimmy Young in the park playing Stefan Fatsis.  Guy with the camera is from People<br />
Magazine.
  • Barbara G and Milt W.<br />
posing for annsan's phototoon
  • Stu Goldman 1975
  • 1990 National Scrabble Champion Bob Felt photographed in Tompkins Square Park in late autumn of 2002, just a month or two before he passed away.
  • 1989 at the Smoky Mountain Tournament. Looking through my stacks of snapshots for a shot of Stu Goldman, who died just last week, I came across this one with Jean Carol, Gordon Shapiro and Dee Jackson.. all of whom pre-deceased Stu.  A cropped version showing only Jean and Gordon was needed for publication Letterati - this soft focus shot was the only one I could find in my files of Jean.
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