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Capt. Andrew Kuba and hockey competition 1945 Wash. D.C.

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Capt. Andrew Kuba and hockey competition 1945 Wash. D.C.

Posted: 19 Dec 2003 10:39AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 9 May 2004 9:12AM GMT
Surnames: KUBA, ULINE
"SCHOOL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLANNED AT ULINE'S. Here's an opportuhity for local youngsters to learn to play ice hockey--with equipment and instruction furished free of charge.

"A meeting for the purpose of organizing scholastic hockey competition here has been called by Capt. Andrew Kuba, Ulina Arena promotion director, for tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock in the big ice house. All boys interested in playing in the new amateur league are invited to attend."

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I have in my possession this original newspaper clipping, but the name of the newspaper and the exact date are unknown.
I think it was a Washington, D.C. newspaper in November of 1945. I am posting for others' interst (I am not related).

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According to D. C. Preservation League (www.dcpreservation.org/endangered/2002/uline.html):

"Most Endangered Places for 2003

ULINE ARENA (WASHINGTON COLISEUM)

BETWEEN 2ND & 3RD AND L AND M STREETS, NE

OWNER: Waste Management

HISTORY
This building is located on Third Street, NE, directly adjacent to the railroad tracks just north of Union Station and bounded by L and M Streets. It was built in 1941 and operated by Miguel L. “Uncle Mike” Uline for the Washington Lions of the Eastern Hockey League. The building would seat 9,000 people. This concrete vaulted building was the site of the Beatles first North American performance (before the Ed Sullivan Show) and also noted as the home of Go-Go music where local musicians such as Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk and Rare Essence performed. Political rallies and speeches were a tradition in the Arena including a rally stated by Fight for Freedom, Inc. in support of the US involvement in WWII a month before Pearl Harbor and a speech by Nation of Islam Founder Elijah Muhammad in 1959. Since its construction in 1941, the arena later known as the Washington Coliseum, has been a place for figure skating, jazz, wrestling, ballet, basketball, Washington’s Go-Go music style, midget auto racing, rock, hockey, karate, politics, tennis, boxing and Indian ragas.

WHAT IS THE THREAT?
Currently, the building is used as a trash transfer station. In 2002 a DC statute established a 500-foot buffer zone between a transfer station and the nearest residential property – more than twice the distance between the Uline site and the nearest residential property, according to public records. Also, city officials are focusing on the nearby area as a possible site for a Major League Baseball stadium."

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Mary on the otherside

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