Arthur Gelien, (film-actor Tab Hunter's birth name, b: 07/11/1931), in 1946 after he turned fifteen years old, joined the United States Coast Guard Service in San Pedro, California. The U.S. Navy Coast Guard, discovering his actual age a year later, in the late summer of 1947, discharged sixteen year old Art Gelien. Returning to the Catholic school system, Gelien resumed his education, becoming fascinated with a new sport ... ice skating! Art's mother, and her siblings had moved from Long Beach, from downtown Los Angeles, to Hollywood, California. Art Gelien took ice skating lessons at The Polar Palace Ice Rink, located on Van Ness and Melrose Avenue in Hollywood; there he met other potential professional skaters. During Art Gelien's teen-age era, Arthur Gelien, as he was known, became a proficient and talented ice skater, competing in both singles and pairs with Joyce Lockwood, winning a remarkable First Place California Junior Pair Figure Skating Championship competition in 1949, and California Senior Pair Figure Skating First Place Champions in 1950.

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