The Power of 33

Some Larry Bird Trivia

By Steve Bergen

Created with Glogster at www.glogster.com; click here to magnify poster

Hard to Believe!

source? Associated Press click or here
Updated: October 20, 2005, Felon gets longer sentence to match Bird jersey

Oklahoma City 2005: A man got a prison term longer than prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed to because of Larry Bird. The lawyers reached a plea agreement Tuesday for a 30-year term for a man accused of shooting with an intent to kill and robbery. But Eric James Torpy wanted his prison term to match Bird's jersey number 33. "He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird's jersey," Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said Wednesday. "We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be. "I've never seen anything like this in 26 years in the courthouse. But, I know the DA is happy about it."

Update 2011 Six Years Later: Fascinating that several years after Eric Torpy made this decision, he changed his mind! Click here or here

Click here for the note by Laurie Heinricher from Pittsburgh who came to my defense on the ISED listserv regarding my promoting of Summercore
Click here or here to read about the man who asked to get is prison term INCREASED to 33 years because he was a Larry Bird fan ;-)
Click here for the baby of Victor Catano who was born just months after the Celtics won their 17th championship
Click here for Alvan picture on his birthday (Alvan Adams was also uniform #33)
Click here for the anonymous picture from Tom Palermo and crew at Chapin when the Larry Bird doll was held as a hostage
Click here for the hostage note from Chapin that was sent to return the doll being held as a hostage
Click here for Larry Bird in basement of 261 Marrett Road in Lexington Massachusetts with 650 floppy disks which is a great visual to show that what 650 megabytes equal to 1 CD would look like if stacked!
Click here for the Brimmer & May uniform shirt sent to me (Steve)
Click here for Skye Dunn in the computer lab (the PE Guy)
Click here for the present from Neil from Horace Mann
Click here for the doll's wrong prediction that the Celtics would win game 6 against the Lakers by 17 points on the 17th of June 2008
Click here for "good luck wishes" from Larry to AB re her residency
Click here for a picture of one of the many birthday parties that we have for Eric or Mike or Les on 90th street at 6:33am when one of them celebrates a birthday!
Click here for the Sagrada Familia magic square in Barcelona, Spain ... click here for more info ... this info originally came a colleague Laura deToledo from Chapin ... more recently, two colleagues and friends from Storefront sent me this picture after their trip to Spain!
Update 11/1/10 ... click here for a picture of Larry and Larry admiring the table returned from Sid and Denise after 33 years

The Larry Bird Doll

Click here to see the Larry Bird celebrate when the Boston Celtics won their 17th championship in June 2008
Click here for a small graphic of the Larry Bird doll
Click here for the clean and pristine Larry Bird doll currently in the hands of Colleen Powers from the Boston Home
Click here for the doll hospital where we will take the Larry Bird on a grade 3 field trip to fix him
Click here for the LB doll at 3303 with special thanks for Susan Fine
Click here for the Thanksgiving picture of great niece Simone with the Larry Bird doll
Click here for a rare picture of the TWO Larry Bird dolls hanging out together ... this moment proved to be a very sad moment
GSB Carnival iMovie by Sue and John and Len (the only movie in 27 years of Summercore featuring the pristine Larry Bird doll)

Shaq joins the Celtics to win #18

The Larry Bird Doll and Storefront

Click here for Larry and Hulk in the Storefront computer lab
Click here for the pictures of Storefront students celebrating Larry's 51st birthday on 12/7/07
Click here for the pictures of Storefront students celebrating Larry's 52nd birthday on 12/7/08
Click here for one of my students at Storefront in 2009 wrestling with the Larry Bird doll which is probably why we need to take him to the hospital
Click here for the 3 cakes on 12/7/09 ... click here for binary cookies 1-9 ... click here for binary cookies 10-15 ... click here for binary cookies 16-21 ... click here for binary cookies 28-33
Click here for the clean and pristine Larry Bird doll in 2010 at Storefront
Click here for the old and taped Larry Bird doll in 2010 in my apartment on 85th
Click here for the picture Victor found at Rockland Country Day School which is also located in KE office
Click here for Club 33 at Disneyland!

Special Things that happened in 1933: source

The first drive-in theater was opened in Camden, New Jersey by Richard Hollingshead. It had nine rows of parking on ten acres, with room for at least 400 cars.
Prohibition (the 18th amendment) is repealed
The Postal Telegraph Co. of New York City delivers the first singing telegram.
The first automatic soda fountain dispenser is introduced by Coca-Cola.
Kit Kat candy bar invented.

A personal "33" update: in September 2009, I moved into an apartment on the 33rd floor of a NYC building. Click here for more pictures. Steve Bergen