A post from July the 13th 2007...and more about FRIDAY THE 13th!

Friday, July 13, 2007
A "Hecky's" Pond Mystery for FRIDAY THE 13th in East Toledo
Does anyone else out there have GOOD luck on Friday the 13th, or when a black cat crosses your path? I usually do! Today is FULL for me, with an all day bus ride across town and a store "walk", so I hope it goes well...

I'm hoping to make it over to Hecklinger's "Hecky's" Pond, here in East Toledo, off of Consaul St./Ravine Parkway on the way to "Hunky"town, to witness the draining of the water, after 30 odd years of it being off limits to fishing due to pollution, and ice skating due to thin ice. They started emptying it yesterday, and so far they have found 2 cars, & 2 safes (one unopened).

Of course, never being one to ignore a good mystery, most, including myself, are hoping that the empty pond leads to a dead body or tow; a mystery solved or a new search for a killer to be begun.(sp)

God Bless all of you, and if you have any good Friday the 13th true stories, please send them in as a comment, would you?

By the way, the Pond will be cleaned, restocked with fish and refilled once they are finished cleaning it. I'll let you know if anything interesting turns up.

TTR

PS. Here's some history behind Friday the 13th:

There have been a number of events known as "Black Fridays" in history. Usually, these events are devastating. Some historians propose that the origin of the "Black Friday" was the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of Knights Templars on October 13, 1307 (Friday), to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.Today, the concept of Friday the 13th has been extended through the 'black Friday' concept to incorporate anything really bad that happens on a Friday. In history there have been a number of events that happened on a Friday and are known as Black Friday:Black Friday (1869), a financial crisis in the United States Black Friday (1889), the day of the Johnstown Flood. Black Friday (1910), WSPU took militant action when the Conciliation Bill failed. Black Friday (1919), a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest Black Friday (1921), day on which British dockers' and railwaymen's union leaders announced their decision not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners Black Friday (1929), a stock market crash in the United States Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating fires in Australia Black Friday (1945), largest air battle over Norway, over Sunnfjord Hollywood Black Friday (1945), the day the six-month-old Confederation of Studio Unions (CSU) strike boiled over into a bloody riot at the Warner Bros. studios leading to the eventual breakup of the CSU. Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran Black Friday (1982), known in Britain after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War Black Friday (1987), the day an hour-long F4 category tornado ran through the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Black Friday (2004), a crackdown on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé Other uses of the term include:Black Friday, a name used for any Friday which falls on the 13th of a month Black Friday, the Friday preceding Easter, also known as Good Friday or God Friday. Black Friday (shopping), the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the first shopping day of the Christmas season and one of the busiest shopping days of the year "Black Friday" is the name given to the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom. It is a day when widespread anti-social behaviour due to public alcohol consumption is expected to occur, and police are given additional powers to combat it Black Friday (1940 film), a science-fiction/horror film starring Boris Karloff, Stanley Ridges and Bela Lugosi Black Friday (2005 film), a Hindi film on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, directed by Anurag Kashyap "Black Friday", a title of a song by Grinspoon "Black Friday", a title of a song by Steely Dan "Black Friday", a title of a song by Megadeth "Black Friday Rule", a title of a song by Flogging Molly "Black Friday", the nickname for game 3 of the 1977 NLCS baseball championships. Philadelphia Phillies fans gave the nickname because the Phillies blew an early lead against the Los Angeles Dodgers and a controversial call was made during the game "Black Friday", a title of a poem written by Dennis Rader, the BTK killer

Source(s):Excerpts from Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/friday_the_...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_frida...

Search Hecklinger's Pond at http://www.toledoblade.com
or read a FLICKR entry w/photo map by Patrick T Power at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/17607628@N00/8816521


NOTE:
HECKLINGER'S POND was named after the family who owned it.
They owned a floral company here in Toledo for many years.
[info provided in part from Patrick T. Power. Thank you.]
Swimming was forbidden at the pond, due to a number of drownings there while I was a child, during the period between 1960 and 1970, if I recall correctly.
I remember wanting to go there to ice skate as a small child (my father took me to nearby Oregon's Pearson Park to ice skate instead.
They rented out the skates back then, and had a lovely shack
with a fireplace next to the one area of the pond to warm up.
I can picture myself falling and being cold, as if it were yesterday!