Word: harlowtown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ever seen the movie 'American Graffitti?' That's where I lived," says Steve Irion. The senior basketball co-captain grew up in Harlowtown, Montana, a hamlet of 1200 people, which earned him the nickname "Monty" when he came to Cambridge. Every Saturday, young Irion rose at 6 a.m. and went down to the asphalt courts built by the local Kiwanis Club to play roundball until sunset. When he wasn't playing basketball, Irion and his cronies "just used to hang out on Betty's corner." It was on the corner of the street and Betty owned the joint, he explains...
Before Irion entered the eighth grade, his family moved to Hoffman Estates, III., where Steve turned into a 6-ft., 7-in. center of a high school team that went 23-4 in his senior year, losing three of those games by only a point. Back in Harlowtown, Irion had been the biggest kid his age, but in Illinois he played guard on his eighth grade team. Incidentally, Irion's father moved back to Billings after Steve graduated from high school because "he couldn't take the big city." The population of Hoffman Estates zoomed to 45,000 inhabitants after...
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