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The Pat & Elaine Blackmore Photo Collection

The Pat & Elaine Blackmore Photo CollectionTodd Tobias2014-02-20T14:59:26-08:00

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Pat & Elaine Blackmore

Pat and Elaine Blackmore were original members of the Chargers Backers fan club from when the team first moved to San Diego in 1961. As active members, Pat and Elaine got to know many of the Chargers players and front office personnel, and travelled with the team to many away games.

Fortunately, the Blackmores seemed to always be armed with their camera, and snapped hundreds of photos over the years, all of which were gifted so that they could be shared with fans on Tales from the American Football League.

In the following gallery you will find photos not only of Pat, Elaine and their Chargers friends, but also from their travels with the team, and life in the 1960s. This collection also helps to illustrate the American Football League’s humble beginnings, and how professional football players were once regular members of the community, and not just heroes placed upon pedestals, and kept far away from their adoring fans. You will see photos of several parties, including one with the 1964 AFL All-Stars, held at the Blackmore home.

I hope that you enjoy this stroll through the 1960s. If you do, say a quiet note of thanks for Pat and Elaine, and the good fortune we all share because of their willingness, intentional or not, to document another side of early AFL history and their generosity in sharing it with us all.

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: Thanksgiving 1962 – Geneva, Glaude Gibson, Earlene

: Thanksgiving 1962

: November 1962 – Ross Hudson

: November 1962 – Tom Kelly, Lynn, Claude Gibson

: December 1962 – Pat Blackmore

: December 1962 – Pat Blackmore, Kayleen, Mike in Dallas, Texas

: December 1962 – Outside the Cotton Bowl

: December 1962 – Pregame at the Cotton Bowl

: December 1962 – In the stands at the Chargers vs. Texans game

: December 1962 – Dallas, Texas

: December 1962, Dallas Texas

: December 1962 – Dallas, Texas

: February 1963 – Pat Blackmore

: February 1963 – Elaine Blackmore, Jacque MacKinnon, Joyce, June & Jack Bowman

: February 1963 – Elaine Blackmore, Jacque Mackinnon, Joyce

: February 1963 – Claude Gibson, friend

: February 1963 – Elaine & Pat Blackmore

: February 1963, Jack Bowman, Elaine Blackmore, friend

: February 1963 – June &Jack Bowman

: February 1963 – June & Jack Bowman, Elaine & Pat Blackmore

: April 1963 – June & Jack Bowman, Elaine Blackmore, Shirley & “Bones” Taylor

: June 1963 – “Bones” Taylor, Pat Blackmore, June Bowman

: June 1963 – Going to watch President Kennedy’s motorcade

: June 1963 – President Kennedy comes to town to give commencement speech at San Diego State

: June 1963 – President Kennedy comes to town to give commencement speech at San Diego State

: August 1963 – Jacque MacKinnon and young friends

: July 1963 – Jacque MacKinnon and friend

: August 1963 – Jacque MacKinnon, Jack Bowman, Pat Blackmore, friend

: Summer 1963 – Pat Blackmore, Jack Bowman

: Summer 1963 – The Rough Acres training camp

: Summer 1963 – View of the main building at Rough Acres training camp

: Summer 1963 – Chargers Backers Picnic at Rough Acres training camp

: Summer 1963 – Pat Blackmore, Jack Bowman

: October 1963 – The plane for the Chargers vs. Broncos game

: October 1963 – Arriving in Denver for Chargers vs. Broncos game

: October 1963 – The Stands at Chargers vs. Broncos game

: October 1963 – Chargers vs. Broncos

: October 1963 – June Bowman, Rufus Guthrie, Pat Blackmore

: October 1963 – Pat Blackmore, Sandra & Rufus Guthrie, June and Jack Bowman

: October 1963 – Rufus Guthrie

: October 1963 Rufus Guthrie, Pat Blackmore

: October 1963 – Danny Topaz, Elaine Blackmore

: October 1963 – Sophie & Paul Lowe, Rufus & Sandra Guthrie, Earl Faison

: October 1963 – Paul Lowe, Rufus Guthrie, Earl Faison

: October 1963 – Paul & Sophie Lowe, Sandra Guthrie

: October 1963 – Barbara Faison

: October 1963 – Paul Lowe, Rufus Guthrie, Earl Faison

: October 1963 – Rufus & Sandra Guthrie

: October 1963 – Rufus Guthrie, Sr. Bocaccio, Jack Bowman, Pat Blackmore and friend

: October 1963 – Rufus & Sandra Guthrie, Pat Blackmore, and friends

: October 1963 – Pat Blackmore and guests

: October 1963 – Tobin Rote, Don Mumm and guests

: October 1963 – Paul Lowe and guests

: October 1963 – Fran, Keith Kinderman, Tom

: October 1963 – Tobin Rote, Elaine Blackwell, Bob Mitinger

: October 1963 – Bob & Dolores Petrich, Pat & Pinky Shea

: October 1963 – Delores Petrich, Pat & Pinky Shea

: October 1963 – Tobin Rote, Paul Lowe

: October 1963 – Barbara & Earl Faison, George Sempel and guest

: October 1963 – Edith & Ernie Wright, Sophia & Paul Lowe and guest

: December 1963 – Pat Blackmore

: December 1963 – Sammie Stein, Pat & Elaine Blackmore and guest

: December 1963 – Pat Blackmore in the cockpit

: December 1963 – Sammie Stein

: December 1963 – Elaine Blackmore

: January 1964 – Bob Petrich, Keith Lincoln, Earl Faison

: January 1964 – Tobin Rote and guests

: January 1964 – Tillie, Barbara Faison, Sam Gruneisen and guests

: January 1964 – Johnny Robinson, George Pernicano, Emil Karas, Bud McFadin and guests

: January 1964 – Barbara Gruneisen, Ethelle, Jack Bowman, Sam Gruneisen and George Pernicano

: January 1964 – Bud McFadin and guests

: January 1964 – Pat Blackmore and guests

: January 1964 – George Pernicano, John & Betty Mabee

: January 1964 – Jim Fraser and guests

: January 1964 – Keith Lincoln, Tobin Rote and guests

: January 1964 – Goose Gonsoulin, Ron Mix and guests

: January 1964 – June Bowman, Dave Kocourek

: January 1964 – Bob Lane

: January 1964 – Mary Lee Kocourek, Tobin Rote, Claude Gibson, Elaine Blackmore

: March 1964 – Dave & Mary Lee Kocourek

: March 1964 – Suzanne & Keith Kinderman, Elaine Blackmore & guests

: July 1964 – Jacque MacKinnon and Mary Lee Kocourek

: July 1964 – Jacque MacKinnon & Mary lee Kocourek (seated), Dave Kocourek and guests

: July 1964 – Dave Kocourek, Pat Blackmore and guests

: Summer 1964 – Pat & Elaine’s new Mustang

: September 1964 – Suzanne (Mrs. Keith) Kinderman

: October 1964 – Statue of Liberty

: October 1964 – Ellis Island

: October 1964 – Shea Stadium

: October 1964 – Elaine & Pat Blackmore, Louise & Phil Barile and guest at Mama Leone’s in New York

: December 1964 – Chargers vs. Chiefs

: December 1964 – Mrs. Tobin Rote

: December 1964 – Walt Sweeney, Lance Alworth, Ernie Ladd, Bob Horton, Keith Lincoln, Jerry Robinson at Tobin Rote Day

: December 1964 – Tobin Rote Day

: December 1964 – Tobin Rote Day

: December 1964 – Tobin Rote Day

: December 1964 – Tobin Rote Day

: February 1965 – Esteban Medina racing at Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico

: February 1965 – Esteban Medina – Victim of “Pinchie-Winchie”

: February 1965 – Medina Family, Bowman Family, and others

: March 1965 – Esteban Media racing at Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico

: June 1965 – Pat & Elaine Blackmore, Rufus & Sandra Guthrie

: June 1965 – Rufus & Sandra Guthrie

: June 1965 – Rufus & Sandra Guthrie’s Atlanta Home

: June 1965 – Atlanta Fulton County Stadium

: June 1965 – Carving Stone Mountain

: June 1965 – Elaine Blackmore, Rufus & Sandra Guthrie atop Stone Mountain

: June 1965 – Georgia Tech Stadium

: June 1965 – Capital Building in Atlanta, Georgia

: June 1965 – Beverly & Paul Maguire

: June 1965 – Elaine Blackmore

: October 1965 – Dave & Mary Lee Kocourek

: October 1965 – Tina Zeman, Mary Lee Kocourek, Jane Bowman

: October 1965 – Ed Mitchell, Esteban Medina

: October 1965 – Ed Mitchell, Esteban Medina

: October 1965 – John & Betty Mabee

: October 1965 – Louise Barile, John Mabee, Elaine Blackmore, Sammie Stein

: October 1965 – Barbara Gross, Pat Blackmore, Bob & Delores Petrich

: October 1965 – Kay Slubowski, George Gross, Stan Slubowski

: October 1965 – Esteban Medina, Paul Lowe

: October 1965 – Dick & Harvena Westmoreland

: October 1965 – Howard Kindig

: October 1965 – Bob Zeman, Dick & Lynn Harris, Frank Rogers

: October 1965 – Elaine Blackmore, Howard Kindig

: October 1965 – Freddie Horton, Rena Horton, Jim Warren, Ed Mitchell, Peggy Mitchell

: October 1965 – Belle Pernicano, Barbara Wynn

: October 1965 – Francis Beede, Dick Westmoreland

: October 1965 – Speedy Duncan, George Ratterman, Jose Quezada

: October 1965 – Bill Fallis, George Pernicano, Angie, Charles Cox

: October 1965 – Barbara Gruneisen, Pinky Shea

: October 1965 – Sammie Taylor, Ernie Ladd, Esteban Medina

: October 1965 – Bill Fallis, Phil Rodgers, Don Norton, John Hadl, Shelia, Dave Kocourek

: October 1965 – Gene Foster, Willie Dyer, Earl Faison, Ernie Park, Charles Cox

: October 1965 – Charneil Hadl, Phil Rodgers, Mary Lee Kocourek, Elaine Blackmore, Dick & Lz Degen, Ernie Park

: October 1965 – Letter from George Ratterman

: November 1965

: November 1965 – Elaine Blackmore & Emil Karas

: November 1965 – Reg & Judy Carolan, Pat Blackmore, Bud Whitehead

: November 1965 – Belle Pernicano (left) at Kansas City

: November 1965 – Lance Alworth, Jim Van Deusen, John Gough

: November 1965 – Esther Gillman & Belle Pernicano

: November 1965 – Back – Herb Travenio & Earl Faison, Front – Jack Bowman & Walt Hackett

: Jan & Carl Crownhart, Elaine Blackmore, Phil & Louise Barile at Casa di Baffi

: November 1965 – Jan Crownhart & George Pernicano

: Thanksgiving Day, 1965 – With Dave Kocourek Family, Phil & Louis Barile, Jacque MacKinnion and Howard Kindig.

: November 1965 – Dave Kocourek

: November 1965 – Dave & Todd Kocourek, friends

: November 1965 – Howard Kindig, friend

: November 1965 – Jacque MacKinnon, Howard Kindig, friend

: May 1966 – San Diego Stadium under construction

: May 1966 – Pat took a ride on the Goodyear Blimp

: August 1966 – Jim Otto, Tom Flores, Pat Blackmore, Rodger Bird

: August 1966 – Wayne Hawkins, Jim Otto, friends

: August 1966 – Pat Blackmore, Tom Flores, Rodger Bird

: August 1966 – Chargers Backers Golf Tournament

: August 1966 – Dan “One Beer” Henning, others

: August 1966 – Jack Bowman, Walt Lowe

: October 1966 – Jimmie Howard, Pat Blackmore, PSA stewardess

: October 1966 – Pat Blackmore, Phil & Louise Barile

: October 1966

: October 1966 – At Jack London Square

: October 1966 – Oakland-Alameda County Stadium

: October 1966 – Bob Ortman, Don Norton

: October 1966 – Mrs. Rick Smith, Luanne Norton, Dick & Mrs. Van Raaphorst

: October 1966 – Carol & Vic Sebastian, Jim & Sally Haight

: October 1966 – Pinky Shea, friend

: Allen & Mrs. Hitch, Clarence, Mike Alessio, Lance Alworth

: October 1966 – John Farris, Don Norton, friends

: October 1966

: October 1966 – Howard Kindig, Celina, friend

: October 1966 – Lois Karas, Jerry Magee

: October 1966 – Speedy & Mrs. Duncan, Dick & Harvena Westmoreland, friend

: October 1966 – Dick Westmoreland

: October 1966 – Speedy Duncan, guests

: October 1966 – Dion Rich, Kurley Krause, Mickey

: Mrs. Bob Chandler, Phyllis Sterling, guests

: October 1966 – Sam Gruneisen, Elaine Blackmore, guests

: November 1967 – Janice Brandt, Pat & Elaine Blackmore

: November 1967 – Pat Blackmore

: October 1968 – Statue of Liberty

: October 1968 – Martin Baccaglio, Bernard Erickson

: November 1969 – Houston Astrodome

: November 1969 – Houston Astrodome

: October 1968 – Coney Island

: October 1968 – Coney Island

: October 1968 – Coney Island

: October 1968 – Coney Island

: October 1968 – Central Park

: October 1968 – New York skyline

: October 1968 – Statue of Liberty

: November 1969 – Houston Astrodome

: November 1969 – Houston Astrodome

: November 1969 – Sid Gillman, George Pernicano

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