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Great story and photo of Jeff trying to save historic fieldhouse

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[It's the 1950s. Fewer than a dozen Jeffersonville homes have televisions, and the ones that do can count the number of channels on one hand.

So what do residents do on a Friday and Saturday night?

They see a Jeff High basketball game at the Nachand Fieldhouse.


"That was the place to be," said Bob Potter, a former Jeffersonville High School basketball player during those years who later helped University of Louisville win its 1956 National Championship title.

The Charles Nachand Fieldhouse has been a community staple of downtown Jeffersonville for 80 years now. Over the years, its walls have collected the faces of basketball greats — players who later joined Division I teams and were christened as Hall of Famers, and even one who represented Jeffersonville in the NBA.

"It is a very, very historic place," Potter said.]

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