Worthington football - at this weeks football games the Worthington spectators will probably look a little different than they did back in 1941.

Mike Harden's Columbus Dispatch column on Sunday was about a new book written by a gentleman from Bexley.  I wrote about that column on ColumbusBestBlog.com   Sorry, Downtown Columbus is Closed

“Once upon a time.. “   long, long before I ever moved to Columbus there was a downtown with ladies with hats and gloves and men in fedoras and suits according to Mike Harden’s column about a book written by David Cohen." 

They were even wearing fedoras in the suburbs.. to football games!  Or was Worthington a Columbus suburb in 1941?  Was Worthington just a little old fashioned town north of Columbus in 1941?

Are those fedoras?  I am not 100% on 1941 haberdashery...  lots of the men are wearing hats, overcoats, suits to a football game.

Worthington (Ohio) High School Football in 1941

Visit Flickr for more of Don O'Brien's historic photos of Worthington.  This photo is described by the photographer, a young shutter bug:

"I took this with a Super Ikomat A late in the football season during 1941. Searching faces in the large size I don't recognize anyone. I find it interesting to see what spectators wore at games in that era."

Worthington football fans named Martha or Gwen c. 1941 

If you go look at the photo on Flickr you will see a comment that he left that classmates had picked out two girls in the crowd and they are identified.  Know anyone named Martha or Gwen who'd have been a spectator in 1941?  You can see a much larger version on Flickr, see faces clearly.

On another football photo from 1941 O'Brien says: "I was 17 and a senior, two months before Pearl Harbor." Putting the football season of 1941 in perspective.

Todays Worthington football - 2009 Season

Thomas Worthington Cardinals

Worthington Kilbourne Wolves

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