The Big Fifty
by Jay S. Warburton
Category: Fiction

The language was unique, the love was simple, the excitement was real and the cars were special. The Big Fifty will take you to those special times. The Pikes Peak High School hockey team was made up of students who did not live in the ‘high class’ neighborhood on the hill. Brookshire was one of the wealthiest communities in Colorado and unless you were from one of the ‘families on the hill’ you couldn’t go out for the more glamorous sports. Hockey was the sport for the kids in the valley. When their team won the state championship held in the Brookshire Ice Palace and a fight broke out on the rink the result was the banishment of the Pikes Peak hockey team from participating in the sport for one year – even though it wasn’t their fault. That very night a small group of students formed the first teenage gang in the city. “If they don’t want us up on their mighty hill, then we don’t want them down here!” Rock shouted. With the strategy of an army unit this tiny group of teenagers set out to isolate the wealthy community of Brookshire from the rest of the city.