Images from the celebration ceremony for the University of Louisville Men's Basketball team winning the NCAA National Championship in 1986. Mayor Jerry Abramson holds up a sign with the University of Louisville Cardinals logo and the sign reads "Louisville 1986 NCAA Champs"
Paul Kling (1929-2005) was a gifted Czech born Jewish violinist who managed to survive internment at two Nazi concentration camps in adolescence. After the war he became a concert master at the NKO Symphony in Tokyo. There he met and married his wife, Japanese harpist, Taka Kling. From Tokyo the Klings moved to Louisville, playing with the Louisville Orchestra before settling in Victoria, British Columbia. The Ackermanns and Klings maintained a close lifelong friendship. This photograph was likely taken by Paul Kling on a trip the two couples took together.
Jockey Ronald "Ron" Turcotte riding Riva Ridge to the win at the 1972 Kentucky Derby. Turcotte is best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U. S. Triple Crown the next year, 1973.
