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- Don Wilbanks was born on 4 October 1926 in Holden, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for The Virginian (1962), Lawman (1958) and Thriller (1960). He died on 26 July 2013 in Oakdale, California, USA.
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Tom Frost was one of the pioneering climbers and photographers during the Golden Age of Yosemite climbing. Born in 1937 in Hollywood, Frost graduated from Stanford University in 1958, the same year he first visited Yosemite Valley; the huge unclimbed granite big walls would prove formative to Frost's personal evolution as he, along with the likes of Royal Robbins, Chuck Pratt and Yvon Chouinard, soon came to embody the golden age of Yosemite climbing.
The impeccable style of ascent of the El Capitain Salathé Wall signaled the end to the era of siege climbing and is rightly considered one of Frost's masterpieces and an all-time monument to free climbing. Setting the standard for future generations, Frost, Chuck Pratt and Royal Robbins forged El Capitan's second route over nine and a half days, with ropes fixed on only the lower third before launching into the huge unknown. Notably, the trio placed a mere 13 expansion bolts, in response to the 125 used during the 47-day first ascent. Frost's advocacy for clean ethics and style has been even more influential and far-reaching.
Frost's images from these ascents, shot with his Leica camera, are some of the most important and recognizable in American climbing history. Frost partnered his engineering skills with those of Yvon Chouinard to help invent fundamental new climbing gear such as RURPS and Hexentrics. During the 1960s and '70s Frost applied his engineering and design skills with Chouinard at Great Pacific Ironworks, the precursor to Patagonia. He invented the postage stamp sized piton called a RURP, and he designed the stoppers and hexes that came out in the groundbreaking 1972 Chouinard Cataloge. In 1980, he and his then-wife Dorene became founders of Chimera, which made cutting-edge lighting fixtures for the film and photography industry.
The two famed American climbers, alpinist Jeff Lowe and Yosemite National Park stalwart Tom Frost, died on the same day, August 24 2018. Lowe and Frost made climbs together as part of expeditions to the Himalayas.- Roller derby champion Charlie O'Connell was born on May 7, 1935 in New York City. Charlie discovered skating because his grandmother was a fan. O'Connell initially skated for the New York Chiefs and the Chicago Westerners before signing on with the San Francisco Bay Bombers in 1957. One of the most beloved and popular roller derby stars of the 1960's and 1970's, Charlie was named most valuable player in the league eight times and played on five world championship teams in the 1960's. Moreover, O'Connell was inducted into the Roller Derby Hall of Fame in 1967 after his first retirement from the sport. However, Charlie eventually came out of retirement and continued to skate up until 1978. In the wake of his second and final retirement O'Connell settled down in Oakdale, California and went on to manage apartment buildings as well as was a member of the Oakdale Golf & Country Club. O'Connell died of a heart attack at age 79 on February 9, 2015.
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Art Holland was born on 25 August 1896 in Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor. He died on 26 February 1985 in Oakdale, California, USA.- Elaine Golding was born on 5 May 1890 in New York, New York, USA. She died on 13 March 1951 in Oakdale, New York, USA.
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Joseph Labue is known for Scenes from a Mall (1991). He died on 13 April 2011 in Oakdale, New York, USA.- Ed Sharockman was born on 4 November 1939 in St. Clair, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 19 August 2017 in Oakdale, Minnesota, USA.