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Longtime Ridgewood resident turns 100
Friday, May 17, 2013
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Former longtime Ridgewood resident Glenorchy “Glen” Campbell, who recently turned 100, probably has more great stories than he has years.
Above, Glen and his brother John (Jack) were photographed at a studio on 125th Street in Harlem when they made their First Holy Communion and were confirmed. Below left, Campbell as a boy playing along the Hudson River. Below right, he shows off his first pair of long pants atop the apartment house where he lived at 28 Macombs Place in Harlem.
While working at Yankee Stadium as a young peanut bagger, the then-Bronx resident played football – not baseball – with Yankee great Babe Ruth, a “kind of childish” guy. Also, even though it wasn’t allowed, he would swim in the Hudson River with his friend Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel.
And that’s not all.
Once, on a train, he met Eleanor Roosevelt – “she carried her own luggage,” he noted. Another time, he happened to see a “loaded” Harry Truman being escorted by two men in New York City.
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