HCHS "Retro Page"

Peggy Sue - "Sing it Buddy!!"



Stories, Photos and Links to Fun Sites

Oh, the Memories!!!!   

 

NEW!!!!  We found a great Retro Page for 50's music, memories - even Christmas music... You'll have to visit

http://heavens-gates.com/50s/

You will note that John has added HCHS 1960 to his school links on the Remembering the 50's Links Page!!!  Thanks John!

 




REUNION PHOTOS ARE BELOW...

(Click on the image above)

There is a cool "Retro" web site  (www.fiftiesweb.com) with groovy things we all remember - even fashions!  From Elvis  to Annette, you'll enjoy the trip down memory lane!!! Sigh...Elvis at his best - video "That's All Right Mama" And more... "Heartbreak Hotel, etc." And then there's the 68 comeback

Love the Everly Brothers?  Visit their Website, click on "ARCHIVE" AND THEN "Everly Brother Jukebox"





 

Remember bell bottoms and headbands????   Well, they're back!

 

And, for yet another visit down memory lane...click the TV (Thanks to Kay Sutton Zigler)





HC Story No. 1:

Once upon a time, a boy and his girlfriend went submarine watching on a cold wintry night along a dark country road near a narrow bridge.  The car's heater and the radio were on most all the time. Suddenly, from the dark road shown a bright spotlight from a passing car. The submarine watching was over.

The boy tried to start his car but the battery was now too low. While he frantically tried again and again to start his car, the passing car returned, with its spotlight straining to see what was going on at the submarine races, drove off of the bridge.  After teetering on the edge of the bridge for a moment, the snooping car slipped over the edge into water below.

The submarine watchers leaped from their car and rushed  to the water's edge to help the snoopers from their sinking 1949 Studebaker.  It didn't sink very deep in twelve inches of water.  Another passerby went to the nearest farm house and called the police. Before the boy and his girlfriend  realized it, that dark country road was lit up with red, yellow and white flashing lights. The county Sheriff was there, the State Police were there, the local wrecker was there, the boy's father was there and the most dreadful person of all was there: the girlfriend's father.

 

The moral is:  Don't submarine watch on the country road where your girlfriend lives.

 

            Sincerely, a person closely related to this story, Larry J. Hunt

 



 

Click on cake for 2002 Reunion Photos



 

 



And the following are photos from the July 28, 2001 Get Together:

 

Suzan Harrison Wade and Ilah Place McIntire	Sarah Roush Kyle, Larry Wade, Bob Kyle, Bill Malott
Suzan, Bobbie Arnold Wells, Kay Brose Rogers, and Hank Evans	Linda Oswalt Banter
Henri Wunderlin Bunsold, Patty Barnes Sones, and Tonya Osborne Morin	Violet Schonhardt

Ken Kraning shared this photo from the 1985 Class Reunion:



 

	Ken Kraning on the left...The guy in the middle is Jon Schwaner (class of '58) and the kid in the hat is Rollie Stroup (younger) - lived on N. High

 



The Parkers shared the following:

Subject: How old do you think Grandpa is?

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events.  He asked what grandpa thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.  His final question was: "How old are you, Gramps?"

The granddad replied, "Well, let me think a minute I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill." "There was no radar, credit cards,laser beams or  ball-point pens.  Man had not invented pantyhose, air conditioners, dishwashers, clothes dryers, well the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and man hadn't yet walked on the moon." "Your grandmother and I got married first-and then lived together.Every family had a father and a mother, and every boy over 14 had a rifle that his dad taught him how to use and respect. And they went hunting and fishing together.

Until I was 25, I called every man older than I, 'Sir' and after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title,'Sir.'"  "Sundays were set aside for going to church as a family, helping those in need, and visiting with family or neighbors." "We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy."

"Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense. We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions."

"Serving your country was a privilege; living here was a bigger privilege."
We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.  Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins."

"Draft dodgers were people who closed their front doors when he evening breeze started."  "Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not purchasing condominiums." "We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings. We listened to the Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios.  And I don't ever remember an kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey."

"If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan' on it, it was junk.  The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam." "Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and instant coffee were unheard of. We had 5 & 10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents." "Ice cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a
Pepsi were all a nickel. And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards."

"You could  buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600, but who could afford one? Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon." "In my day, 'grass' was mowed, 'coke' was a cold
drink, 'pot' was something your mother cooked in, and 'rock music' was your
grandmother's lullaby." "'Aids' were helpers in the Principal's office, 'chip' meant a
piece of wood, 'hardware' was found in a hardware store, and 'software' wasn't even a word."  "And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby."

"No wonder people call us 'old and confused' and say there is a generation gap and how old do you think I am - ????"  
 



Remember the Burma-Shave signs????  Click below for Burma-Shave revisited!





 

REMEMBER... 
(also from the Parkers)

When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum. And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out till 12 p.m.

When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . . to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch drag races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.
 
And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key.

Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like "That cloud looks like a..."
 
And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game.
 
Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger.
 
And...with all our progress...don't you just wish...just once...you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of the 80's and 90's...
 
Remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
 
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.

Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.

Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!  But we all survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
 


 
And was it really that long ago?
 
 

 



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