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Happy birthday to Beverly Crowe, Cindy Bice, and Rose Williams! We all celebrated
with a delightful lunch at the Oak Glen Steakhouse in February. The food was delicious,
and we were given a private room called "The Bull Pen." The birthday ladies opened
gifts and we all enjoyed a beautiful, delicious, strawberry-filled chocolate cake. We also
had time to discuss some business.
After lunch, I met Ismael Torres, the chef, to personally thank him. Recently, Ismael
was voted Best Chef of the Inland Empire by readers of the Inland Empire Magazine.
Also, the same magazine readers voted Oak Glen Steakhouse Best Restaurant, Best
Steakhouse, and Best Burgers. If you haven't been there, you might want to check it out!
Donna, our personal server, took great care of us too.
This establishment has paper straws and paper carryout containers. Kudos to them
for helping protect the environment by using these biodegradable items.
TENNIS TITANS
Tennis History according to Snopes.com:
An image of two daredevils purportedly
playing a game of tennis on the wings of
an airplane soaring high above Los Angeles
may appear at first glance like the work of
some sort of editing trickery.
This photograph, however, is real; it
documents a genuine act of aerial acrobatics
performed by Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger in
November, 1925:
Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger were both
"wing walkers" or "barnstormers" and
frequently performed high-flying stunts at
state fair type events. Although news reports
at the time reported that Roy and Unger
"played" a game of tennis, we are slightly
skeptical, given the laws of physics, that they
were actually hitting and returning serves.
Here is a blurb about the stunt published
in the Tampa Morning Tribune:
"On the wings of a speeding plane, 3,000
feet in the air above Los Angles Glady Roy,
aviatrix, and Ivan Unger attempted a tennis
match. There was no umpire, and the players
did not say whether they went after the balls
that were batted out of bounds. They were
3,000 feet in the air."
