and Ralph Bower
Ralph Bower took one of the most popular photos in Vancouver Sun history a topless Pavel
cheap coach purses Bure getting a physical in 1994. But it got him
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photographer had taken a shot somewhere in Canada of (Wayne) Gretzky in the shower,
official coach outlet online relates Bower. put it on the wire (to be sent) from one guy to the other, not to be published. But it was intercepted by the NHL and they raised hell about it.
said: it, no still photographers in our dressing room, especially when anybody has a shirt off. That was the rule. forward to the first day of training camp
official coach factory outlet online in Kamloops, when players were getting their physicals.
happen to walk by the restaurant next door to the dressing room and Pavel Bure was getting a private checkup, said Bower.
I
coach factory outlet online took the picture,
coach factory website outside of the dressing room. When I got to camp (the next day), the man in charge came up and said: in trouble, Ralph Bower, you broke the rules. You better talk to Quinn, he mad as hell at you. I got on the phone (with Quinn). We always been friendly. He said this all about? I said didn take his picture in the dressing room, I took
Coach.com it in the restaurant at the Coliseum. you know the rules. thought it was a great picture of him. We stopped the presses at The Sun to do more
Coach factory outlet website editions. Oh. Well, we forget it this time. Rhodes. Photo filed Sept. 5, 1994. Ralph Bower/Vancouver Sun
The Bure shot is among nearly 200 prints Bower will be displaying at North Vancouver City Hall from June 15 to July 3.
Most are of people, which was his specialty. Bennett sneaking a peak down the ample cleavage of B movie star Mamie Van Doren, and hockey legend Don Cherry in 1969, when he was a defenceman for the old Western Hockey League Canucks.
was wearing
Coach Factory Outlet Store his (ascot), chuckles Bower. was a fancy Dan even in those days. was a photographer for The Sun from 1955
coach factory store online until his retirement in 1996. He used to make prints of shots he liked to take home, and over the years built up a sizeable archive, which he has turned into several photo shows.
One of his favourite shots in the new show is sprinter
click here Harry Jerome tying the world record at Empire Stadium.
dedicated the show to Harry Jerome, who was the fastest man in the world and a friend of mine who I grew up with (in North Vancouver), said Bower, who turns 84 on June 13.
was a good guy, quiet. Sports guys were always on him because they thought he was a quiet quitter at
coach outlet sale times, and it was totally wrong. He made one of the
Coach Outlet Store Online greatest sports comebacks in history (after a hamstring injury). sports was one of Bower fortes. May 1, 1972. Ralph Bower/Vancouver Sun
Aside from the Bure
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Back in the Oscar Blanck of Oscar Steak House would give Bower a free steak for photographing
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