
{"id":17417,"date":"2011-04-15T13:49:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=17417"},"modified":"2011-04-15T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:49:53","slug":"lennie-and-pete-on-wcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/04\/15\/lennie-and-pete-on-wcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennie and Pete on WCOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/04\/15\/lennie-and-pete-on-wcom\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/LenniePeteWCOM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/LenniePeteWCOM.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/LenniePeteWCOM-113x71.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/LenniePeteWCOM-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwo of my childhood heroes, UNC basketball legends Lennie Rosenbluth and Pete Brennan, were in town last week, but I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to break away from work to get this photograph. Happily, Allison Russell, Citizen intern and Carrboro Commons co-editor, got the shot. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what she wrote about the photo: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lennie Rosenbluth, left, laughs as Pete Brennan tells a story to WCOM host Bill Hendrickson about his car that became a good-luck charm for the 1957 national championship men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s basketball team.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d When I asked Allison for the back-story on the photo, she added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really know where to find the WCOM station, but as I was walking through the Cat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cradle parking lot I saw two tall, older men get out of a car. I recognized them as Lennie Rosenbluth and Pete Brennan, and I turned around to follow them through the door. I was greeted by Rocco and then introduced to Pete and Lennie, who were very polite. Once we settled into the little orange studio, Pete and Lennie started talking to Bill, the host, and Rocco about their days at UNC. I learned that basketball players used to play in Woollen Gym, that they used to get only one pair of shoes for the entire season and that Coach McGuire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office used to be located in the ticket box office. Also, that on the night of their championship win in March 1957, they were given only a few dollars for after-dinner spending money as they walked through Kansas City still in their uniforms. I got to wear two pieces of UNC history when they let me try on their championship rings \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they were so heavy that I had to make a fist to keep them from falling off my fingers!\u00c2\u00a0Throughout the show, they kept stressing the point that they were so good simply because they had the fundamentals down: passing and shooting.\u00c2\u00a0I enjoyed listening to their New York City accents during the one-hour show; their pronunciations of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnorth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 reminded me happily of my grandfather. When the show ended, I asked them for their autographs and Pete Brennan signed his \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWith warmest regards.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 I then proceeded to tell anyone who would listen that I just met and hung out with two of UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legendary basketball players for an hour.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Notice that Allison cleverly put herself in the photo; there she is in the studio window reflection.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my childhood heroes, UNC basketball legends Lennie Rosenbluth and Pete Brennan, were in town last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17419,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417\/revisions\/17419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}