DocAndersen
I grew up in Bloomington IN. It is the home of Indiana University.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XSth7Fur6I
the first timelapse is of Assembly Hall. It is before a game and as it fills up with people!
The next video walks you through the many sites of the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MmPL7sO_ak
Many years ago my father and I used to go to Assembly hall to watch Basketball games. We were both Indiana University fans!
I would keep score and at halftime, I would report to my dad how many points each of the players had.
(the year was 1975). I don’t know why i reported the stats the way I did for the game. I said the scores for each of the players and then informed my father that he had stood up yelling 14 times int he first half. For every game he and I went to, he always asked how many times he stood up!
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Ever do anything like that with a parent?
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are you still having fun with the just for fun series?
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Bloomington is the smallest town yet, too small?
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Q: EVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT WITH A PARENT?
Yes (3 votes) – 33%
No (6 votes) – 67%
Q: ARE YOU STILL HAVING FUN WITH THE JUST FOR FUN SERIES?
Yes (9 votes) – 100%
Q: BLOOMINGTON IS THE SMALLEST TOWN YET, TOO SMALL?
Yes (2 votes) – 25%
No (6 votes) – 75%
Looks like a very nice town and I think I would like it. Yes, we used to play sports and Dad arranged us to play field hockey, he played any sport he could, cricket, field hockey and squash. We were restricted to field hockey and athletics..
was the restriction the school or your dad?
Dad and finances I think, Dad had very set ideas..
my sisters never played sports, but it wasn’t my dad limiting them, they never liked sports.
We didn’t get a choice we had to..
i did the same, my best sports though were golf and bowling two of my dad’s worst!
I always enjoyed the small town environment.
without a doubt, Bloomington is a small town
Even small towns can be very interesting. I only went to football games when my son was still playing.
the twins played soccer when they were little, I loved going to those games.
It looks like all the younger kids are playing football 😊
it is funny but in the US, not really. the best athletes in the US play US Football, Basketball and Baseball, soccer is the 4th or 5th sport chosen.
I have no such memories with my father. As a young girl, I played on the city handball team.
handball sounds like a lot of fun!!! Parenting (as you know) is not an easy job ever.
That’s cool. That was during Bobby Knight’s hey day. Was it difficult to snag tickets back then?
my dad was a professor – we had season tickets from 1969 I saw George McGinnis play twice)!
That’s way too cool. Were you still living in Bloomington when they went undefeated?
I lived in Bloomington until 1991. I watched (listened to the Maui Classic) every game of that 1976 season. I have the Herald Telephone (local Bloomington paper) front page from the day after the championship game!
Precious memories with your father!
thanks – it was one of those shared moments we laughed about for many years!
There is no such thing as a town that is too small!
🙂 when a town hosts a university with 35000 students, and it nearly doubles the town’s size, it is a small town.
I grew up in a small town, to quote John Mellencamp!
In Dillon Montana, there is only one weekend that the town really seems like a town. It goes from a very small population of 4,261to around 30,000 people. It’s quite a transformation and it’s been going on for at least 50 years. Kind of interesting to experience.
my grandparents lived in a small town in Wisconsin. around 580 people. I remember asking my grandfather why the sign wasn’t digital to show the changes faster (581, 562 and so on). he told me that sometimes children should be seen and not heard!
My Mom told me that “I” should be seen and not heard, my siblings knew when to be quiet.
i was with my grandfather more than the other grandchildren were. He was more familiar with me, and gave me more advice/guidance.
later in life, i called him every week and talked about what was going on!
You had a sports journalist inside you ready to report
i think i was better at restaurant reviews. I think it was more to torment my dad!