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The Rise and Fall of the Salomons (Part III)
[This is the final installment of our look at the first ownership group of the St. Louis Blues. Part I and Part II ran earlier this week.] By Jeff Fahrenkrog By 1977, the Missouri Arena Corporation (MAC), the corporate entity set up by the Salomons in 1966 that owned the Arena and the hockey...
The Rise and Fall of the Salomons (Part II)
[This is the second installment of a three-part series. It orginally ran in the Game Time paper from Mar. 10 through Mar. 14. Part I ran on Wednesday.] By Jeff Fahrenkrog Storm clouds began to gather as early as May 18, 1970, for the Salomons when in an article in Sports Illustrated Sid III...
The Rise and Fall of the Salomons (Part I)
[This is the first part of a well-received series of articles that originally ran in the Game Time paper during the issues from Mar. 10 through Mar. 14.] By Jeff Fahrenkrog Sidney Salomon Jr. and his son, Sid Salomon III were the largest shareholders in a 10-person syndicate that brought hockey...
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