MYSTERY PICTURE SOLVED (Sullivan column): Yeti vs. Walmart; Intex pool tips

It’s Mystery Picture Solved time.

It’s Mystery Picture Solved time.

Baby-boomers and older, too.

Took a look and told us who.

Should we be a slave to identifying one Mystery Picture before moving onto the next? Such are the questions to be pondered on another hot humid summer day.

The theme of last week’s December 1980 picture is Durfee High School winter season coaches. They aren’t all included here – where’s Bev Cambra? The hockey coaches were likely next door at Driscoll Rink. Not quite sure if Bob Richard was still coaching hockey or if this was Jack Carey’s first year as varsity boss on the ice.

Sorry, back to the IDs, left to right.

Back row: Don Powell (track and field), Jack Campbell (boys’ basketball junior varsity), Dave Broughton (indoor track and field assistant), Jim Feijo (wrestling).

Front row: Steve Winarski (boys’ freshman basketball), Skip Karam (boys’ basketball), Skip Winters (gymnastics).

In a Facebook comment about the pictured group, Campbell was happy to announce, "All still kicking and happy in retirement!"

Campbell was obviously making more money than Winarski at the time as he was sporting the leather Converse All Stars while Winarski was in the canvas Chuck Taylors. Another former Durfee track and field coach, George Moniz, noted that Feijo, when a student at Durfee, threw the shot put somewhere in a still-school-record 55-foot range. "... my track boys were always talking about how incredible it was," Moniz wrote in an email.

• Here is the result of a thermal cup test my wife staged, pitting the Yeti ($35) against Walmart’s Ozark Trail ($6). The same amount of ice left in the covered cup for about 25 hours resulted in equal melting. Still some ice left. Diman graduate (1979) and former Fall River resident Dave Costa contributed this comment under my Facebook video post of the cups at the end of the test: “Being an Engineer I used the exact volume of water and ice in both test containers along with a calibrated digital thermometer to measure performance. The results proved to be equivalent.

"Unfortunately not the price!”

Dave, of course, was part of Diman’s not-so-famous 1979 basketball fight/brawl at Falmouth High School. As was his late twin brother Al.

• A tip for fellow pool cheapskates. With Intex pools, you get a real thin ground cover cloth which does a sub-standard job of cushioning and protecting the liner. This year, with the purchase of a new pool, we were able to use both the old tattered cloth and the new one and the results are satisfactory. In other words, use two. You can probably order a cloth separately. It would be nice if, with the round pools, Intex provided a round (slightly wider than the pool) cloth. Instead you get rectangular.

• Another tip. The Intex pool instructions say to leave the unpacked/spread-out liner in the sun for two or three hours before assembling the railing pieces. I ignored this advice and after much struggling and frustration couldn't even come close to making the final connection. Back at it 24 hours later, the now properly expanded (from the sun) liner easily enough handled the railing assembly.

• Man, I am already getting itchy for Infinity War Part 2, even if that won’t be the title.

• Miles Finch.

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