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EastEnd Susan

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  1. I while back someone posted a site that had pics of the Simms Estate. The pics were in a neighborhood newsletter on the internet from Country Club subdivision. They had lots of history about the subdivision. Ive searched the forum and cant find hide nor hair of that old post. Can anyone help?
  2. I just wish they would have done the brick in a color similar to the original.
  3. Even school was fun back then. There were no gangs or guns or knives. When our parents dropped us off in the mornings they knew we were in a safe place. All fights were with fists... that is unless the faculty got wind of a fight to be and it was nipped in the bud. Wow, did I just quote Barney Fife?
  4. The lady that drove me to and from school thought my grandmother was picking me up so she left me at school. I was in the third grade. I went crying to my teacher, Mrs. Paulson and she drove me home. Then she sat on the porch with my great grandmother and visited for hours while I tried to show off on my swingset. Teachers would probably get in trouble if they tried to take a kid home nowadays. Glad I grew up when I did. How about you?
  5. I have been wracking my brain ever since this post started trying to remember the principals name. Skaines! Thanks you so much! Now I can rest. We did have principals with odd first names. Marion and Harmon. Harmon Watts was Austins principal until the year I graduated, 1975. The principal at Burnet elem in the 60's was a Mr. Topperwein.
  6. I remember Tracy but I remember her sister Tamma better. We were in school together all through Jackson and Austin. They were nice people. Wonder what ever happened to them? Oh.. I took drama at Jackson for one semester...dont remember the teachers name though. I was way to shy for the stage.. boy has that changed. lol.
  7. I remember my first day at Austin. I was never so lost in my life. I thought Jackson was big but boy was I wrong. I really would like to tour Austin now. I have driven a few times and now what was once the back of the school looks like another front. And I guess they took over the field behind the school? Is that where the band practices? I know the Scottish Brigade is long gone but do they have a drill team? I can still see the brigadeers practicing behind the school and I alway looked forward to them welcoming us on the first day of school. They were a classic! Any idea why they did end the brigade? My thought was always that the new girls coming to Austin might not have thought the brigade outfits were very sexy..ok, ok, thats true but what about the tradition? I thought they looked really classy out on that football field. I was always so proud to see them in a parade. What do they have now? Is it a drill team just like all the rest? I enjoyed us being different.
  8. I remember being in the auditorium for the Battle of the Bulge. Didnt it take them a couple of days to show it? I was happy anytime we got to watch a movie...even if it was about Sammy Sperm and Olivia Ovum. You had to love those classic health movies. They embarrassed me to no end. There were 2 gym teachers there that were the coolest. One was Ms. Frank and the other Mrs. Fortenberry. They kept asking us girls to pay our towel fee and we resisted so they finally wrote a song.. Towel fee, towel fee, towel fee, towel fee, towel fee ,towell fee ,please please please ..when you sweat you can bet boys can tell that you smell. after that we payed our towel fee.. but I cant remember even in highschool one girl taking a shower.
  9. I have a pic somewhere at home of me leaving Jackson on the last day of school..May 1972. My mom took it from the car. If I can find it I will post it. Its not the whole front of the school, just the doors on the far left. But I was styling with my purse with the fringe, my H.I.S. for Her bell bottom hip huggers,leather belt with the three holes, Hang Ten shirt with the little feet on it and Keds Deck Tennis shoes and hair parted in the middle. Too funny.. its all back in style now. I still have the belt and a guy here at work wants to buy it. lol. no way!
  10. Can't wait to see your pics. Mine were from the mid sixties and poor quality as they are from 8mm movie film. The helicopter and the carrousel were my favorite rides.
  11. I loved the Happy Buddah. It made me very....Happy. Does anyone remember The Bacchanal? I think it was across the street from Michaelangelos on lower Westheimer. They had really rich greek food and belly dancers. They would take everybodys shoes and hoist them up in a net to the ceiling and you had to dance before you could have your shoes back. And yes, they would even break dishes.
  12. Mom was friends with Ralph and Roy Richie and yes it was a lucky 7. I can still hear the sound of my feet going from the concrete floor where the groceries were to the wooden floor where the toys and ...what did grandma call them?... Notions I believe were. In the early sixties my mom was divorced and was dating a guy that worked in the produce section at Richies. And my brother got his first job there in 1965 as a sacker. And we also ate at the Kopper Kettle all the time and bought plants and feed for our rabbit at Hendrix Grain and Feed store right by the Kopper Kettle. The man that owned the place always gave me a free packet of seeds for my garden. We always had our prescriptions filled at Marine Drug store on the corner of canal and 66th. They had free delivery. and mom had her dry cleaning done at the Acme cleaners right behind Richies. Why do I hear Barbara Streisand singing Memories???
  13. Small world yes! I just love meeting people on this forum that know my old neighborhood back in the time I was there. I bet when I talk about Richies (sp) Grocery store on 66th and Canal you know exactly what I'm talking about. And how the grass and trees were so green and the air had a sweet smell and there was the lonesome sound of a train whistle on a weekday night. And the Luthran school on Sherman. And Reddig Ice cream parlor. So.. hi there FilioScotia..nice to meet you.
  14. My family lived at 6640 Avenue L. I went to Jackson jr. and Austin Sr. graduated in 1975. My mom went to Edison back in the 40's.
  15. The rear end. He always had me laughing. We've remained close friends for 35 years now and hes still my best friend and silliest man I know.
  16. My sophomore year at Austin I dated both halves of "Stevie"... not at the same time of course. Mom said I dated a horses head and a horses a**. When my mom went to Austin back in the 40's they had a real horse.... or so I was told.
  17. People who were very good at skating.. like the ones who could spin and do fancy things would usually skate in the middle of the rink floor while all of us "normal" skaters would just skate around and around in a circle. The middle of the floor was a "special" place.
  18. I asked about this rink back in Oct of 2005 but no one responded. I couldnt remember the name of it. Skateland.. ahhh yes thats the one where I spent all my Saturdays. My friend Linda was good enough to skate in the middle...until some kid blew by her and made her fall and break her arm. Thanks for the name. I'm happy again!!
  19. I work with a guy who volunteers at the orange show events all the time. He's always collecting stuff to make the trophys out of and I laugh so hard when he brings me photos of them.
  20. I remember back in the 60's and 70's the Dinner Bell had the best strawberry shortcake ever! That was our friday night treat, to go stand in line at the Dinner Bell and try to peak over the wall past the fake greenery to see what other people were eating. I always got the baked fish, mashed potatoes and strawberry shortcake. They had a glass case at the checkout and you could buy a little bell for your very own. We always ate on the side where the front door was and I always wanted to get a peek behind that huge accordian door but I never got the chance.
  21. I used to go to that Kips Big Boy back in the 70's and also to the Shakeys Pizza place right down from it after friday night football games. Big pitchers of beer and Seals and Croft singing Humming Bird on the juke box. Ahhh take me back.
  22. Yes its the Peden Iron and Steel building. I would know it anywhere. My Grandmother worked there from some time in the forties to the late sixties. My mother got her first job there when she was 16 back in 1946. I would go visit my grandmother often there in the sixties. This is me a my grandmas desk at Peden. This came out in a christmas edition of the peden newspaper called Baker Street Bugle. What a shame to lose another building full of memories.
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