Definitely a tennis family his sister played at Valley High and she was very good. I believe she was state champ.
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My buddy is the swim coach there. I’ve officiated a few football games there too. That area has changed a lot! I used to live by Winchester park. I was surprised how much its changed.
When Andre Agassi, dropped out of High School in 10th grade at Bishop Gorman, to pursue a professional tennis career.
I, thought it was a big mistake.
Well. he made the right decision.
I, thought it was a big mistake.
Well. he made the right decision.
There’s a little breakfast place down the street from me that I’ll hit sometimes on Sunday with the family. We’ve run into Bryce Harper and his family there on a few occasions during the off season.
That was the building where Evric, George and Bobby lived. If I remember correct, it was entirely empty and they were they only residents at the time. Lots of stories. It was kind of weird tbh.
I think that's where Agassi filmed one of his Nike commercials also.
There was a building named Wimbledon, my grandparents lived in it for a short while when they first got to Vegas. Right next to it, just north of that high rise apartment complex, was the indoor tennis facility where tennis was “serious”, the lessons, the good amateurs, some lower pros … it had about 20 indoor courts, three or four racquetball rooms, a weight room and a bar, can’t remember if it was just soft drinks and juices or if they had beer or wine. It really was a cool place.
It’s such a very shitty, crime ridden area. My family had a restaurant right around the corner from there and nobody liked delivering food and the restaurant was robbed at gunpoint (they later voluntarily returned it after news hit that the restaurant was robbed and who owned it).
This is a bit off topic, but any decent family recipes to share? I am Japanese/ Filipino so I grew up with Italian as being a delicacy. Our “spaghetti” and red sauce (ナポリタン / Naporitan) is very different and would offend everyone Italian since its ketchup and tonkatsu sauce based.
Nah, it wasn’t an Italian restaurant either.
I don’t think I have direct recipes for Italian. It was watch and take mental notes. Know the base and cook to taste.
I get to eat food factory sauce every once in a While.
His cousin makes excellent spaghetti sauce and they use the expensive stuff from Italy.
The sauce is called “Mutt Jar” straight from Italy.
I ate there once Food Factory my Grandparents moved into Royal Crest apartments near there when they moved to Vegas waiting for their house. It was burgers right? I ate at Tower of Pizza a lot.
PANCHo MARRIED AGASSI'S OLDER SISTER Rita WHO WAS UNDEFEATED IN TENNIS AT VALLEY HIGH IN THE 70'S.
I don’t get it either. That pisses me the hell off. They should serve American size portions.
you know what’s really good? The store across from the Jollibee. Chow King
Fried chicken is overrated except for Winco Fridays.
Thighs and drumsticks are cheaper and easier to cook without drying out.
I guess I was wrong but as I thought about it I thought Pancho was his Uncle. I remember she was good but didn’t know she was that much older I thought it was like two years.
Rita graduated in 77. SHE MARRIED PANCHO IN Her early 20's HE was in his mid forties. She was angry at her dad and wanted to piss him off. THE DAD HATED PANCHO AND ACTUALLY THOUGHT ABOUT PUTTING A HIT ON HIM. The marriage didn't last long and Rita is estranged from some of the family.
There was a much bigger difference in age than her in her 20's and Pancho in his mid forties. Pancho was already 32 when she was born. Married in 1984 when Rita was 24 and Pancho was 56.
That’s the thing with authentic Italian cooking. Start with the base then deviate as you want. Don’t measure a damn thing, just know to add a pinch of this, a sprinkle of that.
Ok he must have another sister who also played? I saw her a few times she wasn’t that much older. That is a crazy age difference but I can understand the frustration her Dad was a slave driving nut. He was nice if you saw him outside of tennis he was always great to me, but not so much with his kids.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that was the hi-rise building. At the time it was totally empty, I think it was being remodeled or something.
I remember Suzi at UNLV early 90s.
Oh right I remember that name that is who I was thinking of getting them confused.
Yeah. It was kind of a higher quality naugles (everything was fresh) with the menu, there was Mexican in there as well … and it extended, we smoked about 4 dozen slabs of ribs and half chickens per day as well. And there were sandwiches. It was a huge menu. But that’s where it was, delivering food sucked. The money was good because a lot of casino workers lived in those apartments, they knew how to tip. A good night in the later 80’s, you’d pull in around $150 in tips. But you were also a target.
I remember pulling an order for Mark Wade. A shit ton of food, he was hosting a recruit in June of 87 after he graduated, apartments in college grove. Of course I told him no charge, he invited me in and we talked a bit about the 87 season.
And no shit, I hadn’t seen him since then until 2000, I believe, I was going to watch Omari Pearson work in the north gym, nobody had really seen him yet… and walking out was Wade. He says, “Spilotro!”. He remembered me from the thing in 87.
My grandmother worked checkout at Flamingo from 60's until early 90s. She lived in those apartments off Koval/Harmon (behind old The Drink) and it was all casino workers back then. It used to be nice. Hard to grasp now. Had a client that bought a MFH 4 unit property a few years ago on the corner of Royal Crest/Twain. I tried to warn him lol.
It was all rough. The worst though? What was the name of that street …. Scared the hell out of me. Just looked it up, didn’t realize they cleared it out … that row of apartments on Sierra Vista. Reminds me of when Clark Griswold said “roll ‘em up!”
Wow even back then that neighborhood was bad huh? It was ok when my Grandparents were there at Royal Crest for a year so around 1976-77.
Yeah LVMPD needed to put in a substation on DI/Sierra Vista just for that group of apartments lol.
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