1960 Winter Olympics Pairs Figure Skating and rare Vinson Owen Family footage
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2009
- The most poignant part is seeing little Maribel, her sister Laurence, Maribel Vinson Owen and Maribel's Mother all skating together after Laurence's figures practice here in squaw Valley. When you see them all so happy and then think of that poor woman grieving the loss of her daughter and both granddaughters merely a year later it really does break your heart.
The pairs featured are mentioned by the narrator except the first pair is actually the Ludingtons. 
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Loved how grandma took a couple of spins around the rink! Awesome!!
oh, that was lovely footage of the Vinson Owen family. in color, too!
Great footage of the Owen family. The grandmother, seen at the very end, was Gertrude Vinson, a skater herself, who passed away at the age of 89 in 1969.
I am so glad there is coverage of these talented skaters.
Thank you! Barbara Wagner is still coaching and I'm a current student at The Cooler in Atlanta. Most coaches coddle their adult students, but not Barbara!
I was Barbara Wagner's first student in 1964. :) Signed, Marion Ennis Curtis
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Thank you so much for posting this! The rare footage of the Vinson-Owen family was poignant.
As a kid I used to look at my Mom's high school yearbook and always went straight to the page dedicated to Laurence Owen. She was really beautiful...very sweet smile. She would've graduated later that year. It was a terrible tragedy for her and everyone on that flight, as well as the families they left behind.
I know about the tragedy but very little about skating. However, it seems to me that Laurie Owen was Dorothy Hamill long before Dorothy herself...
I went to the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley in 1960 when I was 12. No security worries, no cops patrolling around. One ticket got you into all the events and you could bring your own skies and ski on the Olympic slopes.
that is really awesome - seemed like a great olympics
A great Winter Olympics at a great venue. Superb TV coverage by CBS with Dick Button and Bud Palmer. Squaw Valley was the perfect location -- a fairly high base elevation and very good ski runs. The only downside to the games was the absence of the bobsled events caused by the decision of the US Olympic Committee not to construct a course.
This was before the 1972 Olympics where Israeli athletes and their coach were murdered also before stabbing of tennis player Monica Seles and assault on Figure Skater Nancy Kerrigan.
You were so lucky!💗
The good ole days for sute
Amazing to think this was 50 years ago!
It’s a crime that Blyhte arena was allowed to fall apart and be torn down. USA hockey beat the USSR 20 years before Lake Placid there but no one knows about.
I learned to skate in that wonderful old arena. They tore it down in the 80's because they needed the parking space. That is a sad fact.
Wow thanks for this!
They really should bring the compulsory figure skating back. I use to enjoy watching them make their figures.
I thought they were boring which is the original intent of figure skating but it really helped them a lot in their performances..
I kind of like skating them as it's rather Zen. Watching other people do them, though, is kind of like watching paint dry since you can't see the tracings unless your'e right on top of them.
The sponsers and advertisers realized that people were not going to spend their Sunday afternoons watching stone faced Soviets doing tracings on the ice. They want to see jumps and spins. Thats why they were eliminated in 1990.
How nice of you to post this video. Thank you.
Just beautiful
Did anyone else see that crash into the wall at :50-:51? That had to be embarrassing. Otherwise, I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting!
Midori Ito of Japan famously did that also.
must have been a nightmare monitoring the weather at Squaw since the rink was outside, but it is such a pretty sight for skating with no roof on the rink
Very cool. Thanks.
thanks a lot for sharing!
Thank you for this great upload!
It's interesting that the pairs appear to be deliberately skating as slowly as possible at times.
That is the reason Rodina and her partners revolutionized pairs skating. They injected speed and dynamism into the sport.
I learned to skate in Blythe Arena.
Wow, that old granny was skating! lol
They are all in a niche together... grandma Vinson, momma Maribel, maribel Jr. And Laurence. It's right near Boston. So sad about that 1961 plane crash with the whole u.s. figure skating team on it. RIP
very nice video are you going to do more on Laurence owen & Co
@louisanairn I think new skaters DO understand this film,better than the public.50 years ago is a long time.
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very nice video are you goine to o more on Laurence owen & Co
I was Barbara Wagner's first student. :) Signed, Marion Ennis Curtis
4:23-27 Paul and Wagner's death spiral left "snow" on Barbara's coiffure.
Wow ! How things have changed...7 year olds are at their level of skating now....by 10 or 11, they are doing triples in Russia or they are considered not having a competitive future. They are at their peak before adolescence. I wonder if Quads will be the norm in a couple of years .
@EightballRus did you ever work for him
I will not even comment on what I think of Blob Paul! had to work for him for 4 years
But you DID comment! :)
At :51 she skates into the boards and they still get the silver medal??
Heh, that's not even the music that Ron and Nancy Ludington skated to!
Wow
@Rouben19 an incredibly inappropriate place to make that comment. It says more about you then Bob.
Back when the ladies actually had outfits that fit and cover their rear ends unlike today's skaters.
Who??I imagine the poor old lady didn't live much longer after her family perished in that plane crash.
She died 8 years later!
@Wayne Hentley The morning of the crash, the family doctor-if memory serves, he was Dr. Hollis Albright, Tenley’s father-came to Mrs. Vinson’s home to administer a “flu shot” that was actually a sedative. While it took effect, he chatted about jet travel before gently breaking the news to her.
Mrs. Vinson said that she was glad that her daughter and granddaughters weren’t coming home “all smashed up,” and if one had to die, fortunately they all did, as she said they “couldn’t live without each other.”
The gallant Vinson Owen ladies: may their memory continue to endure as a blessing!
Even if she only lived a few more days those days would have been horrible for her. I guess that would have been okay for you?
@@AisforAlibi1 Well duh!!! I was a tiny kid then and didn't watch skating on TV until 1968 so your comment is totally worthless.I bet you're much older too.I barely remember the news of the crash on TV.
what a weak back leg...
I was Barbara Wagner's first student in 1964. :) Signed, Marion Ennis Curtis