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Comments: Oh my! Sharon, Have you been to Denton lately? Whoa! The campus of UNT is unbelievable now. One can no longer drive much on campus. I think Bruce Hall N&S is still there, but turned into a Music dorm of sorts. The duplex Terry and I lived in on Sycamore is now campus. The apartment we lived in on Hickory was still there last April, but the apartments that the Vessels and Terry and I lived in our last years there are now sports stadiums.....It is just amazing....It is Future Shock for me. BTW both Terry and Ben Morris were both elected Distinguished Alumni. Terry 2008 and Ben 2011. I have been back to see the campus when I attended their award celebrations. Terry and Margaret and Ben are attending a football game this month in the new stadium. I will be out of town and will miss that.
Comments: Sharon, why would you want to go to Denton? I'm not there!
Comments: Happy Birthday to my roomie, Pat Vessels, and many more. Do you want to take a trip to Denton and see if there is anything left that we remember? Hope you have a wonderful birthday.
Comments: First Piggly Wiggly...Sept. 6, 1916 at 79 Jefferson St..Memphis, Tn. Google.. Piggly Wiggly...About Us..It has a picture of the first store and Clarence.... There are 2 left..here. The one on Madison 'changed names' this year..to Cash Saver.. The 2 left...one on Elvis Presley Blvd. and the other on S. Perkins.. The one on Jefferson..must have 'gone away' a long time ago... 
Comments: I lived in Detroit until 1957. We had an icebox and an iceman. We also had a milkman who came pre-dawn and put the milk in a little door on the side of the house that we could access from a little door inside. Sometimes in winter the milk would quickly freeze and there would be a column of frozen milk -- cream, actually, since it was on top -- protruding several inches straight up. We had a full attic and basement, including a coal cellar. A coal truck pulled up beside the house, put a chute in a basement window and filled the room almost to the ceiling with coal that my Dad would have to shovel into the furnace every few hours, around the clock. As soon as he could, Papa got the furnace converted to gas -- so no more shoveling coal -- but we were never able to get all the coal stains off the walls. We also had a fruit cellar, a tiny room under the stairs with cedar walls and lots of shelves full of wonderful stuff my Mom canned. We had a Fuller Brush man, too, who always brought little treats for us kids.
Comments: We never had milk or bread delivery, but I do remember the iceman. My family actually had a refrigerator, but some of our neighbors in east Dallas (before moving to OC in 1956) had ice boxes. The iceman usually came twice a week during the summer and all of us kids would stand at the back of his truck and he would use an ice pick and knock off a piece for everyone of us. Boy, that would have come in handy this summer. I remember those men were really muscular because they had to pick up what was probably a fifty pound block of ice with a huge pair of tongs and carry it on their backs to the customer's ice box. I also remember walking to the store with my mom and if we had too many sacks, we just pushed the cart home and then I would take it back. Of course, the store was only two blocks away.
Comments: Sigh......just when you thought it was safe to peek out from under the bed.......leftnellgarrettitis rears its ugly head.....sigh.
Comments: I remember how my grandmother and also my mother used to call the corner grocer store and order their groceries. I also remember my mother sending me over to Mr. Sledge's Grocery Store. It was a small, white house on Barbot Street in Oak Cliff. I would buy small items like milk and bread and then walk home. No one ever seemed to worry about my safety. I doubt if it even crossed their minds especially since we never bothered to lock our doors when we left home. I have often wished our local stores would have a delivery services like the Manor Man, the Metzgers Milk Man and the Fuller Brush Man... My brother and I loved the Manor Bread Man. We would run to the door and greet him with our mother. He had all the best cinnamon rolls, cookies at eye level for the kids to point to and say "We want this one, we want this one." Our mother then had to make the big decisions as to which ones to choose.
Comments: Well, crud. Double posted. Grrrr...
Comments: Camille and Diane, so nice to hear from both of you. Before we had a car, we walked to the grocery store (there were few watermelons at the Garrett house.) I remember that Piggly Wiggly on Kiest and thought the name was hilarious. Camille, I have a feeling Karl would have thought it was funny, too. He was a great guy, and y'all were a wonderful SOC couple.
Comments: Camille and Diane, so nice to hear from both of you. Before we had a car, we walked to the grocery store (there were few watermelons at the Garrett house.) I remember that Piggly Wiggly on Kiest and thought the name was hilarious. Camille, I have a feeling Karl would have thought it was funny, too. He was a great guy, and y'all were a wonderful SOC couple.
Comments: Mike & Lynell, Today's paper under "Today in History" it says "1916" the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis TN by Clarence Saunders. Just thought you would like that little bit of history
Comments: Phyllis, On behalf of Karl, I thank you for remembering him on his birthday. I, too, remembered him. We do miss him but we have plenty of good times to remember about him. He is only gone physically, but he will always be here in our hearts.
Comments: Mike, nice to hear from you. I have a paper of sewing needles shaped like a pig, probably a giveaway with purchase at Piggly Wiggly in the Fifties.
Comments:  Thanks to all for the walks down memory lane; I would have never remembered many of those places except for my first job at Piggly Wiggly. My wife (from New York) always laughs when I mention Piggly Wiggly, wondering if there ever really was a store named such. I assure her there was. Folks from Upstate New York led such a sheltered life.One place that was not mentioned was a little Mom and Pop Grocery store on Saner, near Fernwood. That lady was so nice. BTW, the cool weather looks good for you guys. Enjoy. 
Comments: Have not visited our site for a few weeks. My thoughts / prayers to the Green and Hearn families as well as others noted.
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Comments: Happy Late birthday to Ouida, wishing you a great year! However, Patricia Vessels birthday is the 8th, same day as Barbara Moffett's, but I am sure she loved the early birthday wish.
Comments: Happy Birthday Patricia Vessels this month! AND Happy Birthday Ouida Rose yesterday! Two great and beautiful gal friends!!
Comments: Phyllis, I'm sure Karl would be thrilled to be wished a happy birthday, and I'm happy to be reminded of him. So many of our classmates have gone on. If you haven't looked at the Memoriam page here at www.soc63.com, the list is shocking.
Comments: Oh, I am so sorry. I either didn't know -- or forgot -- about Karl's passing.
Comments: Sadly, Phyllis, we lost dear Karl a few years back. Sometimes Camille posts on this guestbook, and I know she'll be thrilled to see Karl's birthday remembered. He was a beloved and talented guy, that is for sure.
Comments: Happy Birthday, Karl Vinson. As the newest member of the Social Security Full Retirement Age Club -- I turned 66 yesterday, but can't afford to retire -- welcome to the Club!
Comments: We have been enjoying a great Elvis impersonator for several years that you should go see. He appears at Old Town Hamburgers every Wednesday night in Pantego which is surrounded by Arlington. Located near Bowen and Park Row, across from Aldi's. Carlton's website is www.thekingrocks.com . Carlton attended Oral Robert's University on a basketball scholarship. He is probably the tallest Elvis that you will every see. He has a fulltime job and performs his Elvis show weekly at Old Town and for parties. Channel 11 did a story on his Elvis birthday party this past January found on vlmeo.com/26681143 (if this does not work, then you can locate the link on Carlton's website) His show at Old Town Hamburgers is good, clean Christian fun. The cost for the show is a $2.00 admission. Lots of audience interaction. He tells cute corny jokes. He takes requests. We just saw his show again tonight. He had a raffle of an Elvis collectible. The food was great and it was an enjoyable 2 hours of fun. His website has examples of his shows. We saw another Elvis impersonator at a KLUV party a couple of years ago (Craig Parker?), who charges much more and we did not enjoy that show one tenth as much as Carlton's. We should get him to entertain for a SOC reunion.
Comments: My mother, Dorothy Hearn, was set to be released to return to the nursing home and rehabilitation center where she lives in Lewisville, yesterday. She had improved so much over this past week. She apparently, was so tired of the hospital life that she repeated several times.."I want to go home". Because of this Alzheimer 'disease/illness', she does not communicate much with words, anymore. She did express her desire to 'leave the hospital'.. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers for my mother.
Comments: Thank you, Cynthia. What sweet wishes. We have given up on the wealth part, but a nice rain would be lovely. Today is going to be about the temperature of our wedding day. David parked his car across the street to keep his cousins from messing with it. I remember walking across Hillcrest in my wedding dress and those extremely painful peau d'sois heels in the hot wind. I put my wedding shoes in the trashcan at the Hilton Inn on Mockingbird. 
Comments: Have not been able to keep up with the site this week so the last post was in response to the top of page 2 Lynell - forgot I had gone to page 2 to catch up....duh.
Comments: I agree about the welcome home of yesteryear and today but I suspect that David had no complaints about his welcome. Hey, a married man 4 days later and look 42 years later he is still smiling and looking healthy! Hope your anniversary tomorrow will be blessed with all the desires of your heart - rain and wealth....and cooler weather!
Comments: Happy Birthday, Elaine!
Comments: I heard from Darla, and Jack Morrison is on the mend! I'd look for him to make the second half of the football season. |
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