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04/29/09 08:15 PM	#762
Joe Ballard Gail Harris its really nice to see you as a guest How are you doing.

04/29/09 08:36 PM

#763

Winona Hebert (Spinks)

Alice:
I checked--my driver's license is Winona Hebert Spinks and my voter registration is Winona Jean Spinks. I'm going to look into getting the VR changed. Thanks for the advice.

04/29/09 09:08 PM

#764

Kevin Kemp

The beans were the best thing about Jane Long lunch except for the fact that the steam table came around and you did not have to leace the classroom. My late step mother was a lunch lady for a while at Jane Long before we knew her and the secret to the beans was sugar.

Had Mr. Torres for Spanish III in 10th grade. He would not let you speak English once you entered his classroom. That Year they moved the Spanish IV book down to Spanish III. I took Spanish IV for an elective in 12th and the same book was back. Spanish Iv was a breeze.

I had Chandler for Physics in 12th. I had Biology tight next door but can't remember the teachers name. On Chandler's birthday, the Home Ec class baked him a cake and the Biology teacher stole it and put it in his closet. Chandler walked in, got his cake, walked out, came back with a paper funnel and stuck it in the flower box in the back of the room. He added a couple of drops of acid and had a smoke bomb, The whole school had a fire drill.

04/29/09 09:25 PM

#765

Marian Sahr (Bullard)

OK Ladies, I am really starting to worry about the 9th grade graduation. Julie, I guess I didn't graduate either because I do not remember it. I called my mom and asked her about it and she said "Oh my goodness Marian, I had 6 kids and all I remember was trying to get you all graduated." I think I would remember if I got to wear pretty white gloves. Joe, my husband is a teacher/coach at BAY CITY HIGH SCHOOL and he said they cancelled all UIL sports until May 11th. I worry about my grandson at day care and my other grandkids at school. I have been sick for a week and they said stomach virus but I can't seem to feel my "old" self. Hope I don't have that crazy stuff. I don't know about your area but the mosquitos are about to take us away.

04/29/09 09:28 PM

#766

Marian Sahr (Bullard)

Oh yeah, does anyone remember the Asylum in Clute? It was awesome! Also, the Lake Jackson outside pool by Lake Jackson Primary?

04/29/09 09:32 PM

#767

Judy Teague (Crenshaw)

o.k. guys. I think they combined an honors night and a graduation night. It was at the high school. I remember it, vaguely.

Funny story about Mrs. W. Homemaking teacher. I had fun in her class, especially the cooking and EATING. Sewing was another thing. Oh, that wasn't the funny thing.

THe funny thing was that I hated domestic stuff and always said that my mother or sister would do it all for me since I was the youngest. But I ended up getting the homemaking award and my sister barely passed her class. A few years later I ran into Mrs. W at a store and she thought I would be Julia Childs replacement by then. I had to admit I had done nothing with it. Then she let me know that she thought my sister was probably doing nothing with her domestic knowledge. I said only making all her clothes; winter coats, swimsuits, winning baking contests, and doing cutglass art. Grades aren't everything.

Gerry Sue you will always have two names with me. You were so much fun in elementary school. Such an athlete. I always wanted to run faster than you! Remember our great kickball games.

Oh my goodness, I had forgotten Jasmine Hall. Those movies were the best. The first night I got to drive myself to the L.J. rec center (age 14) I got my car stuck UNDER the bumper of a car. I went inside to get my sister and it belonged to the boy she was talking to. OOPS! Somehow we got it out and my parents never found out.

04/29/09 09:35 PM

#768

Joe Ballard

Marian we live right up to Buffalo creek here in Cleburne and if you go outside the mosquitoes are bad. We are getting flooded but sounds like ya'll may be getting the same. From what I am reading about this flu you get fever pretty quick 3 days or so and flu like sympthoms. We are home remedy people here and it does not taste good but a mixture of charcoal and water will cure just about any stomach problem. WOW ______I just had a memory recall BJ Thomas or as they were called then BJ and the triumphs played at the rec hall right!! anyone remember

04/29/09 10:07 PM

#769

Janice Mangum (Colwell)

Kathy, remembering the lunch regimine at Jane Long in such detail is not such a big deal. That was the only thing that was exactly the same day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year for 7 (count'em) years. I went to the same elementary school for 7 years, counting kindergarten. I went to Jane Long before it was called Jane Long. Formerly it was West Freeport Primary School. I could walk there in my sleep! Kids changed, classrooms changed, teachers changed, books and study matter changed, but the lunch program was always the same! See? I forgot to mention that there were also pastel yellow trays!

04/29/09 10:48 PM

#770

Alice Day (Smith)

Winona,
Yep. That's the problem!!

04/30/09 12:44 AM

#771

Kitty Allison (Hilton)

OMGosh, Joe! I remember BJ Thomas quite well. That was a band we really looked forward to...a big deal! Thanks for the memory.

For anyone interested I've worked with a health product for over 12 years that is exceptional. One of the physicians I work with has a Swine Flu Report, including the beneficial effects of our product. If interested let me know and I'll e-mail it to you.

Many of you remember a LOT more than I do! Cyndie, I don't remember our LJJH graduation. HS graduation I do remember, and the white linen mini dress I had on under my gown!

Keep the great stories and reminders coming! XO

04/30/09 12:45 AM

#772

Jd Barnett:

Marian: That outdoor pool was the cornerstone of our childhood. I learned to swim in the wading pool out front and later took every lesson they offered up through lifesaving. I was so young and little that when they taught us how to rescue someone with a pole, the victim pulled me right into the pool. I remember them telling us when we used the cross chest carry, to grab the hair under their arms and hold on tight...I looked and didn't have any hair under my arms. Woops...

I remember watching "The Day the Earth Stood Still" at Jasmine Hall. I saw it again last year on cable...it was a terrific movie. No wonder we liked those movies so much.

04/30/09 01:19 AM

#773

Barbara Ludeman (Frazier)

Susie: (I'll have to work on making the switch from Gerry Sue.) ;) Yes! Mrs. Whittenaben - that's her. I don't remember anything about the cooking. I just remember making my first dress. My mom had an old, antique black Singer but it broke down so she had to rent a nice new model for me to finish my project.

I was born in Denton, TX. We moved to Lake Jackson when I was one year old and lived at 816 Magnolia - next door to Mr. Slade. When I was in 6th grade we moved out to 449 Southern Oaks Drive and rented that house. We bought the house at 460 just 4 houses down and across the street when the Crabtree family moved. My mom still lives there.

04/30/09 01:28 AM

#774

John Adcock

YES, I REMEMBER TUDOR..........HE USED TO SAY "PAIN, AGONY, HURT, DISTRESS IN THE LOWER TRACK," WHEN YOU WOULD ZING HIM WITH A BARB. AND AT LUNCHTIME, THE BEANS ON YOUR SLICE OF WHITE BREAD WAS THE BEST OF THE BEST.

JANICE, ITHOUGHT IT WAS CALLED WEST END ELEM WHEN WE WERE IN THE FIRST GRADE. SO FAR THERE'E YOU, CAROLYN CROY, KEVIN, AND ME IN MRS WEBB'S CLASS....REMEMBER ANY OTHER NAMES?

I STARTED LATER IN THE YEAR, AFTER SCHOOL HAD STARTED. I MOVED THERE FROM CUERO.......THE SCHOOL THAT BEAT BHS IN IN BI-DISTRICT IN THE MID 70'S, WHEN PAT LEWELLEN WAS QB.

I REMEMBER THE SURF DRIVE IN ACROSS FROM BODIDDLES AND THEIR BBQ. THE TRADE WINDS AND THE "GONE WITH THE WIND" ON THE SIGN AFTER CARLA, AND ALMOST EVERYONE IN TOWN COMING IN (I THINK AT THE HS) TO GET AN INJECTION (DPT, MAYBE?).

I REMEMBER THE DRAW BRIDGE AT SURFSIDE AND THE SHOWBOAT - SAW "GOLDFINGER" THERE.

I REMEMBER THE TARPON IN VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER BUILT AT THE SITE OF THE TARPON INN HOTEL. GOING ACROSS THE LEVEE IN FPT TO PURCHASE FRESH SNAPPER AND SHRIMP.

MY ONE HIS FIRST TV SHOPS A BLOCK DOWN FROM RUSSEL'S CAFE AND THE VELASCO THEATRE ON AVE. A - SAW "OLD YELLER" THERE, WHEN IT REOPENED - THEY GAVE AWAY AND OLD YELLER DOG AS A PRIZE.

I REMEMBER THE BROAD (TERD) STREET RAILROAD HILL. AND THAT 6TH AND 7TH CAME TO A DEAD END AT THE RR (right?) I REMEMBER RIDING MY BIKE FROM 7TH STREET, ACROSS FROM WINONA'S TO JR HIGH SCHOOL EVERYDAY, I THINK KEVIN AND I BOTH RODE OUR BIKES. THE GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL GAMES AFTER SCHOOL AND EVERY SATURDAY AT THE PARK ON 7TH.

I REMEMBER PEEKING INTO THE OTHER 1ST GRADE CLASS FROM THE CONNECTING BOYS RESTROOM IN MRS WEBBS 1ST GRADE CLASS.

I REMEMBER VELASCO ELEM AND JR HIGH BEING AT THE SAME LOCATION (ANY SEAGULLS HERE?)

04/30/09 01:34 AM

#775

John Adcock

THIS COMPUTER KEEPS MAKING TYPOS...COULDN'T BE ME........
WHAT I MEANT TO SAY WAS...MY DAD HAD ONE OF HIS FIRST TV REPAIR SHOPS ON AVE. A........

KATHY, THIS WAS WAY BEFORE Y'ALL CAME TO TOWN....IN BETWEEN SOME OF MY FAMILY'S NOMADIC RAMBLES AND BEFORE YOUR NOMADIC PAPA CAME TO FREEPORT.

04/30/09 01:40 AM

#776

Barbara Ludeman (Frazier)

Margaret: We had an LJJH graduation? I don’t remember that at all! Oh, well. I’ve been losing brain cells around my own home for some time now so I should not be surprised.

Susie: Sorry to hear about your mother. Did you live on Southern Oaks? (more of those missing brain cells)

Joe: 35 cents rings a bell with me for bought lunch and that was pretty decent food – no junk stuff.

I don’t remember getting pinto beans anywhere but at Beutel. They were a treat and only for those who not only bought their lunch but also cleaned their tray. Not sure how many kids would swallow thinking about pinto beans as being a treat these days.

Anyone remember the long lines and "students will be late to class" announcements over the loud speakers on the days that chicken fried steak was served at BHS?

04/30/09 02:09 AM

#777

Barbara Ludeman (Frazier)

Joe: You remember the movies at Jasmine Hall? I remember going to those with my brothers. I don’t know how many times they showed “The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor” but I just about had it memorized.

Julie: Please, if you do get hold of that bean recipe I would like a copy of it, too?

Marian: There were some summers I just about lived at that outside pool. I was part of a swim team that did workouts at 6:30 am everyday. By the time our workout was over they were getting ready to open the pool for swim lessons so I stayed to help teach the little kids. Stan Alcott assisted, too.

JD: You did what I did at that pool. It was such a great, cool way to spend the summer. I took the intermediate swimming class three years in a row just to spend the time in the pool. It was after I joined the competitive swim team that I took the lifesaving classes. I remember being so scared at the thought of trying to do the cross chest carry on Andy (I think that was the name of the teacher I had). He was really strong but I guess the swimming workouts gave me the muscle I needed to do it because I actually succeeded in holding him and hauling him to the bank. I did swallow a lot of water in the process, though.

04/30/09 07:00 AM

#778

Carrol Reneau (Jeffers)

GERRY SUE REICHENBACH PATTON (a.k.a. Susie) OH, THANK YOU, GERRY SUE, I have been trying since last year to call you Susie but . . . old dogs, new tricks, blah, blah. I used to have the same issue. There are people who have known me through my family as Susie Reneau and Carrol Jeffers was just a whole new adjustment that some just didn't make. I appreciate your permission to use Gerry Sue. I can focus those brain cells some where else now. WHEW!

04/30/09 07:53 AM

#779

Joe Ballard

I am like the rest of ya'll when it comes to that pool. My mom would buy us a booklet of pool tickets and Jim Barb I learned how to swim there from an early age till I was taking lifesaving from Andy Sampson. He almost drowned me playing the victim to be rescued. Marian those are good memories. Riding our bikes everywhere and what about Sportville next to Lake Drug now a pool hall. All my lawn mower and or allowance if we got it was spent there or at Grants in Freeport. John I remember your dads TV repair shop. I remember in LJ going to the 7-11 to buy tubes to repair our TV with...and Susie you will always be Gerry Sue to me..Kitty I always loved your name so unique and Gunsmoke was a favorite back then and well we had Kitty and Matt you know..wow breathless the memories are sooo cool

04/30/09 08:05 AM

#780

Dickie Tracy

Yeah, Gerry Sue just has that certain twang to it. I'm glad I got that out in the open. But please don't call me Donald. There are five Don's in my family. My Dad was Don, but everyone called him "Dick Tracy" back in the 40's when the comic was popular. When I came along, it was just a natural to call me Dickie. Some teachers were always trying to call me "Richard". Why, I don't know. Just keep it simple.

That outdoor pool was just two blocks from my house and I took lessons from Mr. Hackney.

On the 9th grade graduation thing....I think someone had it right when they remembered it as an awards ceremony for the gifted and talented. That's why so many of us can't remember it. I was always a straight "C" student.

We had our awards ceremony last night here at Tularosa High School and half the kids who were being awarded perfect attendance medals didn't show up. Ha! We had two kids that ended up getting at least 20 awards each- the Valadictorian and Salutatorian.

I think that must have been what you guys remembered as a graduation. I'm telling you, I didn't get any kind of a diploma or certificate of graduation from LJJH.

04/30/09 08:13 AM

#781

Susie (Gerry Sue) Reichenbach (Tyler)

Everyone: Ya'll can call me Gerry Sue anytime.

Judy-I think the reason I could run sorta fast was I had alot of experience running away from my mom when she wanted to spank me for something!!!!
I remember a little bit about the movies at Jasmine Hall. I asked Glenn last night about the Trade Winds-he has a great memory- he said it was on the left just as you entered Freeport on Hwy 288. He remembers alot of the old stuff so I rely on him for my memory. He even talked about the Showboat on 2nd St.
Bodiddles did have great BBQ. I remember going there with a neighbor girl, Dee Dee Cason and her Dad for him to get beer and us an ice cream.
Gin Crawford has a column in "The Facts" and always has recipes so I will write in and ask if anyone has the recipe for the "BEANS". It was always such a treat to get them, I will let you know what she says-

Barbara: Yes I lived on Southern Oaks Drive from 1958 until I married in 1968. We rode the same bus with Eddie Burns, Linda Myers, Becky Aucoin, Judy Henson and Janet Harvill, Gerald Durflinger and then went across and picked up Timmy Chapman, Tommy Neel and June Proctor. Remember it was a dead end and the bus always had a heck of a time turning around. I'm glad it always came back by as I usually missed it when it went down the street.

Alice: Remember the time we wrapped Lynn Self's house and put the commode in the front yard with the mannequin on it?? I remember we would wrap Ms. Palmer's house and then go back and clean it up while she came out and talked to us- who lived on Sycamore St. the end close to Plantation Drive that we would wrap their house?? I remember us wrapping someone's house over there and running when a car came and I flipped over a wire someone had strung holding a tree in place. Acrobats was not one of my best things to do!!!
Bits and pieces are coming back reading everyone's stuff!!

04/30/09 08:17 AM

#782

Marian Sahr (Bullard)

I hope everyone is safe and well today. John...my dad had a TV repair business (behind our house) on some street in Freeport. He would warn all us kids to stay away from that area cause the TV could exploded. That definitely kept us away. I would go with him to a TV supply store in Freeport (can't remember the street) to buy picture tubes. Then he opened a business on Main St. in Clute and outgrew that and opened another on Hwy. 288. I don't know how he did that and also worked at DOW. We moved to Jasmine in Lake Jackson and he had a big shop in back of our house. Did any of your parents buy that color screen to put on the outside of your TV to make color? I also remember walking to the baseball field and him buying me a slo-pook and watching the Gators (I think that was their name). Also, my sister Kay was trying to be an alligator and go into the pool head first at the LJ pool and her bathing suit got caught on the cement and her head was in the water and she she would come up for breathe and was screaming for help. I still laugh about that! Crazy days of youth.

04/30/09 08:19 AM

#783

Susie (Gerry Sue) Reichenbach (Tyler)

I almost forgot about Mr. Hackney-he was the BEST!!! I havent' seen Greg in a few years but last time he was doing good. I hope he will join us at the reunion. Mr. Hackney taught my kids to swim. From what I remember peeking through the fence watching he would throw them in and tell the to "SWIM"- scared the dickens out of me but I guess that's the way I learned.

I guess since I was probably at straight C or D student maybe that's why I didn't graduate from LJI also. Oh well I at least did graduate from high school even after getting married before we finished.

04/30/09 08:37 AM	#784
Julie Davidson (Sabrsula) Aha! I'm not going cr4ae3nbm65425ijazy. It must have been an awards ceremony, certainly would have remembered white gloves. Gerry Sue, thanks for letting us call you by your real name:)

04/30/09 08:50 AM

#785

Dickie Tracy

Ok, for the Clute/LJ folks: Help me remember when was the last year that 9th grade was held at LJJH or CJH? Was it in 70? I remember all the fuss over the new Brazoswood High School and as I recall, none of our class would even consider going there? Did anyone in the following year have a choice or were they forced to go to B'wood?

Also, I remember that my mother graduated from Brazosport (called Freeport High School) in 1937. I still have her class ring. She had told me that you only went through 11th grade back then. I think her class was one of the first to graduate in the NEW Freeport High School which was the junior high when we were kids. Before that she went to school at the old OLD high school over behind the levee closer to downtown. It's across the street from the ON THE RIVER restuarant kind of.

04/30/09 08:54 AM

#786

Dickie Tracy

And speaking of class rings.....how many still wear theirs? No.... wear them - not have them! I put mine in a our family's 100 year time capusle that we buried on our land over on the Brazos. To be opened in 2100 !! We've owned the land since 1834 and now, relatives would like to sell it for the money. A few of us cousins are the hold-outs. No sale!

Anyway, how many still have their rings?

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