by Doug Nichols | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Nonomura, George |
We caught up with George Nonomura at the US Nationals this past summer. I’ll let George take it from here:...
by Greg Lynch Jr | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog Post, Burchard, Peter, Fencers, Fencers A - E |
One of the goals of the West Coast Fencing Archive is to put together an oral history of fencing on the West Coast. We are tracking down anyone who has an interesting fencing story to tell. To that end, WCFA set up our cameras at the Nationals that were held at the...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches P - T, De Jong, Duris, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers P - T, Shurtz, Skip, Tronchet, Louis |
I like statistics. Not the kind you learn about in school really. More the kind that come about when you ask yourself questions like, “When will I get THAT done?” and “How many Aldo Nadi stories did I write last year?” (Correct answer for the second question is...
by Doug Nichols | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers P - T, Shurtz, Skip |
Giorgio Santelli’s 1949 holiday card The first year of the West Coast Fencing Archive’s website is drawing to a close, so I thought I’d share some holiday cheer and a few thanks and thoughts. First, many thanks to my partner-in-history, Mark Headley, who also heads up...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Mitchell, Maxine, Shurtz, Skip |
Well, I’m on a roll with this footage, so I’m just going to keep on going. We’re back at the 1958 Pacific Coast Championships. This time out, we’ve got the Women’s Foil Finals, pitting Olympic teammates Janice Lee York-Romary against Maxine Mitchell. Jan Romary...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog Post, California, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, Tournaments |
As we here at The Archive continue to mine the amazing things found in the trove acquired from Heizaburo Okawa, I find myself drawn to the filmed elements we had transferred to digital. Like a lot of home movies shot in the days of yore, often the camera was loaded up...
