Posted on 10/16/2004 8:01:13 PM PDT by nuconvert
Obituaries in the News
The Associated Press
Jack Brisbane
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Jack Brisbane, a longshoreman who worked on the Charleston docks for 72 years, died Wednesday. He was 103.
Brisbane was one of the oldest working longshoremen in the country before he retired seven years ago. When he began working on Charleston's wharves in 1925, he made 35 cents an hour.
During a 1992 interview with The (Charleston) Post and Courier, Brisbane talked about seeing men crushed by falling crates and seeking shelter under a dock when a tornado ripped through the city in 1938.
Even as Brisbane neared retirement in 1997, he stayed active in the ILA, taking part in protests against nonunion dockworkers.
******************************************************** Joseph T. Zoline
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Joseph T. Zoline, an attorney and businessman who founded the Telluride ski resort in Colorado and turned the mining town into one of the Rockies' premier vacation spots, died Sept. 23. He was 92.
Zoline at home from a long illness, his daughter Pamela Lifton-Zoline said.
Zoline was a recreational skier who lived part-time on a ranch in Aspen when a friend mentioned Telluride during a flight from Aspen in 1969.
Lifton-Zoline said her father's friend said that only one thing stood in the way - a sheep ranch at the base of the main mountain that was supposed to be broken up into 35-acre parcels and sold at an auction for vacation homes.
Zoline wasted no time. He bought the ranch - sight unseen - a few days before the auction.
Overall, he bought more than 4,000 acres before the ski area was designed in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, said son-in-law John Lifton.
Zoline planned and managed practically every part of the ski operation, including the runs, lifts and the Telluride Lodge, which had about 70 condominiums. The first lifts opened in 1972.
In 1979, Zoline sold most of his shares in his two ski companies.
May they both RIP
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