Vintage Van Orman Hotel Fob & Key Fort Wayne, IN

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Vintage Van Orman Hotel Fob & Key Fort Wayne, IN

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Sold Date: 12/08/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Advertising

Vintage hotel fob & key from the Van Orman Hotel, Fort Wayne, Indiana. The fob is made of steel. The fob is a little worn as you would expect.

This key is from the collection of the ledgendary Minnesota Gophers Hockey Coach, John Mariucci, and was purchased at his estate sale in Roseville, MN in the late 1980s. This was one of over 300 keys purchased and apparently, John was not very good at returning his keys when he checked out of hotels!

John Mariucci ( May 8 , 1916 - March 23 , 1987 ) was an American hockey player, administrator and coach. Mariucci was born in Eveleth, Minnesota . He attended the University of Minnesota w he played both for the hockey and football teams. He was named an All-American in hockey in 1940.

Mariucci played for the Chicago Blackhawks for 5 seasons. He followed that up with playing in both the American Hockey League and the United States Hockey League .

After his professional playing career ended, Mariucci became the head coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers hockey team . He was noted for not attempting to sign Canadian players for his hockey teams, but instead relying on home-grown talent from Minnesota. This helped to grow youth and high school hockey programs in the state of Minnesota. He was coach at the university from the 1952-53 season until the 1965-66 season, except for the 1955-56 season in which he was the head coach of the US Olympic team that won a silver medal . He returned to the international scene twenty years later as the head coach of the United States team at the 1976 and 1977 Ice Hockey World Championships .

In 1967, he was named the assistant to general manager for the Minnesota North Stars . He held that position until his death in 1987.

The University of Minnesota honored him by first renaming the hockey arena in Williams Arena after him and later when a new hockey arena was opened in 1993, the school transferred his name to that one as well, Mariucci Arena . Mariucci is a member of both the United States Hockey Hall of Fame and NHL's Hockey Hall of Fame .