Comments: Ginger, you didn't miss anything. I was just remarking on the deaths of two well-known gentlemen with remarkable voices. Shea was 104 and I feel certain that if Billy Graham's health hadn't declined, Shea would still be singing.
Comments: Charles, thanks for the invitation. I would love to come some other time. Our committee is getting our 50th reunion letter and invitation out this weekend. I have heard great stories about the Rising Star and know how gracious the two of you are.
Comments: Carol Gentry, how nice to hear from you! I hope you stir up some friends from JNB here. I think 6 or 8 grade schools fed into SOC, so we're a mixed-up bunch. I was a Lancaster Road Scholar from Lisbon. Can't believe our 50th reunion is almost here. We just graduated yesterday.
Comments: I did not graduate with you all, but I went to John Neely Bryan through the 7th grade and was in grade school with a lot of you. I've just heard about Jimmy Nicodemus--whom I remember distinctly from the first grade. What a loss. If anyone remembers me, I would love to hear from you by email. My best friend (from second grade at John Neely Bryan) is Carol Campisi, who did graduate with you. She's the one told me about Jimmy Nic. I hope you all enjoy your 50th class reunion this year. When I was in the 7th grade, our family expanded through the coming of both my youngest sister and my grandmother--so our house was way too small and we moved after school finished that year. I graduated from Sunset in 63. Take care--
Comments: Yes, back then one could order a QUEEN BEE (the insect) from the Sears Farm Catalogue............which, was news to me when I took the order...the other phone operators laughed at me all the time because I was so "catalogue green" and surprised so many times at what people could order.
Comments: Charles Johns, that's mighty nice of you to include us young whippersnappers in your generous invitation! Thanks for posting. I hope some people are able to take advantage of your kindness! Charlotte, oh, my goodness. I'd not heard the term step-ins since my aunt used to say it. I know what step-ins are, and I am hesitant to ask what a Queen Bee is. Are you talking about the insect??
Comments: I am from the class of 62 and would like to invite your class to a gathering at my place in Rising Star this weekend. For several years we have had a Spring Fling to get together and SHOOT! YES SHOOT firearms! I am a retired gunsmith and have a range where we shoot Clays, rifles and pistols. We also have volleyball, horse shoes, hiking over my 20 acres, dancing to "oldies", eating way too much and just hanging-out in the country. I am NOT rich so don't expect a million $ house and a butler! We do say a prayer before meals and several guests stay overnight. A blind-driving contest is held AFTER the wine tasting...but not on roads...in our front yard with golf cars! You are NOT required to shoot or drive or play games, just be here! If you plan to stay overnight please call 254-643-4867 (guns) to see if we still have room or if you need to get a motel. Several are within 25 minutes. We do have a big tent, a bunk house with shower/toilet and one RV hookup that is not taken...yet! Sorry I am so late to tell you guys but concellations happen when you get our age. Don't try to lie, we know when you graduated!! 254-643-4867 house or 972-965-2524 cell ASAP. E-mail will also work. We are 5 miles EAST of Rising Star on hwy 36 between Comanche and Rising Star. My place is 20 acres but we have 165 acres of family land to play on. I am also posting on the 61 class where my sister graduated. Hope some can make the trip.
Comments: Okay, why Pat Summerall and George Beverly Shea..? Am I missing something..? Well, maybe.. G.H.
Comments: Yes, I'm sorry to learn of those deaths too. Wakes me up so to speak. Lynell, you were a high roller compared to me....you left quickly. I didn't quit Sears until I was thru college and that was 1969!!! By then I was working in the catalogue dept....ugh...want to order some step-ins or a Queen Bee? When I first received those kind of calls, I thought it was a friend playing a joke on me..until the other ladies on the order lines would tell me what page to look on. ....oh yes, that was before computers and the customer had to have their catalogue and tell us what page OR we could look up an item in the index....truly. We had all the catalogue s in front of us at eye level to make it easy...ahem!!! WOW, haven't thought of that in years. Thank you for the update on Larry...I'm glad he was slow enough to be alive today.
Comments: I thought about Larry Macon, too, when I heard about the bombs at the Boston Marathon, as well as about one of my co-workers who marathons all over the Country, but missed this one. According to an article in today's Texas Lawyer, Larry considers himself "the luckiest man in the world." My niece was a video geek at Pat Summeral Productions, and she and my sister visited him at his palatial home in Southlake. He struggled with serious health problems for several years, but his death was wholly unexpected.
Comments: My, my. Pat Summerall and George Beverly Shea on the same day. And, thanks, Barry for the info on Larry. I thought about him when the news flash came on.
Comments: I checked Larry's Facebook page and he is OK. Already back home. He was at the 25-mile mark when the bombs went off.
Comments: I assume that Larry Macon was running the Boston Marathon. Has anyone heard if he was and, if so, is he OK?
Comments: Kathy Jinnings & MMM................John do you ever sleep??
Comments: They were trying to do that to the 'old Sears' in Memphis, Tn. Don't have enough investors. It was a refuge for 'street people' until they put a high fence around it. The home owners in Midtown Memphis, would be so much safe if they 'transformed' that old Sears and it would raise their property value..
Comments: Charlotte, I topped out with Sears at $1.47 and a half cents per hour. Can you guess why I left?
Comments: I work part time and summers about 4 years for Sears on Lamar...through high school and then worked for Sears in Denton through out my whole college career...I think I made $1.76 and hour by the time I quit. I hear the Lamar Store is now upscale condos and shops. The Montgomery Wards in Fort Worth is like that now.
Comments: Sharon, thanks for reminding me about how low those Hudson Hornets were. I remember Mrs. Fagan had to be very careful pulling into her driveway because the bottom would scrape. Her husband had an old car that he drove to work. They were the only people I'd every heard of who owned two cars. We didn't have even one. Dan, what a great job that candy counter must have been -- although my husband worked that counter at Sears Ross Avenue for a while and didn't like it. He thought he'd more money selling men's shoes on commission. He did that for a while when we were first married. One Saturday Pound a Pairs were on sale, and he made seventy-something dollars in one day.We were rich! I didn't make that much in a week. I think that's what hooked him on commission sales, because he has never done anything else. He worked at Sears through college. My first job was in the retail auditing department of Sears on Lamar. I was a statistical typist.
Comments: Ah, Lynell, you brought back memories. Growing up in East Dallas, our neighbor drove a Hudson Hornet, same dark green color. We went to the same church which was within walking distance (we didn't have a car at the time), but if the weather was bad, he would give us a lift. I remember the car was so low-slung that it scraped bottom going over dips.
Comments: My dad worked and retired from chance vaught after retiring from the Marine Corp. My wife worked at the jefferson Sears candy dept and I worked on the loading dock just after Soc. Small world my neighbor said the tornado was a bad storm as we watched it go down Hampton rd.
Comments: A neighbor, Mr. James Fagan, worked for Chance Vought. They had a son named Gary Gene and also a Hudson Hornet. I remember Gary Gene and me standing up in the back between the front and back seats in that giant car as his mother, Jane, drove us all to Sears on Jefferson where Gary Gene and I got to visit the big candy department in the basement. I was probably six years old. Now I wonder what it was I'd planned for dinner tonight. The Hudson was dark green and had velour seats like a movie theater.
Comments: Phil and Jud my dad worked at Chance Vought and that is how we got transferred from Connecticut to here. Best thing that happened to my family.
Comments: I have just started finding out about the 50th reunion to be held in Oct this year. I live in Garland now and am married to Ron, a wonderful man. I have 2 grown daughters and one grandaughter, Sophia, who is 15 years old. She lives in Little Rock, AR. I am looking forward to getting to know people. Laura
Comments: Phil, my Dad also worked nights at Chance Vought.
Comments: We lived in Wynnewood 2835 Bristol Drive, time of tornado, my dad worked night shift at Chance Vought. I remember going out on front porch, it got so quiet! Dad told me to get in the house! It went through part of Wynnewood, saw it go by! Scary. We got our water at well by Stevens Park golf course. Notice photo of dry White Rock Lake..very little trash, Lake Travis looked like a trash dump as it dried up.
Comments: Thanks for the reminders of "The Tornado". Long time ago but vivid as heck. I lived at 2822 Harlandale and only remember hearing about it, didn't see it or any of the other memories that my classmates have. Thanks again for sharing.
Comments: Annette's death saddened me like the passing of someone I knew personally. She was so adorable as a kid, and then all those movies with Frankie Avalon that portrayed innocent young love -- well, all that is part of the fabric of our generation.
Comments: I was just reading the posts about the tornado. That's the last year we lived in Dallas. We lived on the NW corner of Sunnyvale and Custer. I remember looking out the back window at Jeff Bryant's house on the corner of the next street. He lived on the SE corner of whatever that street was. The tornado went down the length of the north side of that street and left everything else as if nothing had happened.
Comments: I, too, am saddened by Annette's death. Other generations don't realize the impact the Mickey Mouse Club had on ours. I adored Annette. Heck, I wanted to be her, notwithstanding my comparative lack of beauty, personality, charm, talent, etc. Bless her heart; she fought hard against the beast that is MS...
Comments: So sad to learn of Annette Funicello's death. I couldn't wait to get home from school and watch The Mickey Mouse Club. I didn't visit Disneyland until I was 40, but I got my "ears" just like all the little kids. |
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