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06/04/09 08:13 AM #1212    

 

Thomas Parker

Dickie, or maybe it was Charles Garrett, whose cat died... Which of you lived on Chinaberry?

06/04/09 08:23 AM #1213    

 

Dickie Tracy

Tommy: We had cats but I don't remember the incident. May have been Garrett's. I'll ask Cindy - she'll remember.

I had to research the movie I spoke of. It was made in 1965 with Joan Crawford. "I Saw What You Did". It was about two teenage girls who make prank calls and then get caught.

Guys, do you remember coming out of the movie theatre watching Bullet or Goldfinger and then driving down like you were Steve McQueen? I sure do....but it wasn't quite the same in a big 63 Oldmobile! I guess the reason my parents were poor was because they were always buying tires for that Oldsmobile. Geez. burning tires off was my favorite pasttime!

06/04/09 08:40 AM #1214    

Mike Strickland

Marian,

That was Rod Serling on the Twilight Zone. Outer Limits was on opposite Weird. It was always hard to decide which to watch.

06/04/09 10:11 AM #1215    

 

Dee Ann Trout (Glenn)

Yes, I remember Weird and Outer Limits. I would love to watch my little brother, Lee, run from the room and scream as soon as he heard the music. It didn't help that he had a mean older sister that would scare him constantly. He is still a "chicken" to this day.

06/04/09 10:21 AM #1216    

Mike Strickland

Ol' Art did pretty well:

Seminole Community College's first-ever million-dollar gift is now in the ledger.

The benefactor, Art Grindle, is a former car dealer who gained notoriety with television ads in which he pointed a finger at the camera and announced: "I want to sell you a car." Grindle capped the 22nd annual SCC College Foundation's Dream Auction, an event he founded, by donating $1 million to the college.

The donation, which is expected to reach nearly $2 million with state match funding, will establish the Art and Phyllis Grindle Honors Institute, which will be based at SCC's Sanford/Lake Mary campus.

SCC President E. Ann McGee says Grindle's donation will provide a program endowment that will fund the Institute in perpetuity.

"We are thrilled Art has extended this extraordinary gift to the college," McGee says.

The 2006 Dream Auction, held Feb. 11, generated $200,000 for the SCC Foundation. To date, the auction has made possible 2,780 scholarships valued at $8.3 million.

Aside from building a successful car dealership, Grindle also excelled as a stock broker, insurance agent, mortgage broker and professor. Grindle also served in Tallahassee as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives for five terms between 1982 and 1992.


06/04/09 11:13 AM #1217    

 

Thomas Parker

Dickie, there's still "J"s in front of 128 Mulberry... I sure hope the new GM brings back that old line of Olds!

06/04/09 11:41 AM #1218    

 

Dickie Tracy

I know you guys remember Kitirik and Cadet Don. I had a grandmother that had nothing else to do when both my folks were working than take me to see their shows on my birthdays. I don't think we ever went to Howdy Doody.

I remember going to a dentist in Houston one day when I was 15 with my mother and an aunt and cousin in our 63 Olds. I was driving and the speed limiit was 70. We were on Hwy 35 going towards Alvin and the road was all 2-lane just like today. We were doing 65 with a car in front of us. I couldn't stand it! I punched that Olds into passing gear with my mother yelling to slow down! The Olds with that big 394 ci V8 shifted out of 2nd into 3rd at 80 and we cruising! It's just one of those little events that I'll never forget.

06/04/09 01:29 PM #1219    

 

Carrol Reneau (Jeffers)

Y'all remember we got our driver's license at 14 - WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? You bet I had one but secretly I KNEW I had NO BUSINESS driving and I had been driving since I was about 9 years old. I can't imagine how that ever came about at that time . . . OR EVER!
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I can't believe you brought this up about the license Carrol!!! I was just telling my grandchildren TONIGHT about how we got our license at 14. And the next year Texas raised the age back to 16, wasn't it back then? Yep, I got my license at 14 too. Alice D. Smith

06/04/09 01:57 PM #1220    

 

Marian Sahr (Bullard)

Thanks Mike for helping out with Rod's name. I remember my first car. It was a '63 BelAir with rust holes all around it. I took stick on flowers (flower child) and covered up the holes. lol I can't believe I did that! But, actually, I loved that ugly car. But, a few months later I had a wreck pulling off of Azalea onto 332 and they hauled it off to the junk yard.

06/04/09 02:09 PM #1221    

 

Margaret Dubois (Ammons)

I took drivers ed when I was 13-being a July baby, I was younger than the rest when summer school started. I had to wait for 2 weeks after drivers ed finished to take my written test and get my learners permit. I was so little, that you couldn't see me when driving behind me and I had to use a pillow to push me forward enough to reach the pedals! I now drive Dodge 3500 dually-thank goodness for electric pedals and seats!

06/04/09 02:12 PM #1222    

Joe Ballard

My first vehicle was a 63 Volkswagon bus. Drove it to Port Isabel on its maiden vovage to Spring Break and a surfing contest. We saw what was then I believe the very earliest of ZZ Top on the beach for 75 cents...I think they went by Tres Amiegos then...Blew it up at surfside beach not long after.:?( I think I had Mr.Huffman for Drivers Ed

06/04/09 05:06 PM #1223    

Joy Garrett (Chessher)

LOL...me driving at 14 very scarey...my Dad named my car "bumper car"!!! I really don't know how I lived through it all...Like I have told you Daddy thanked Randy for taking me off of his hands...sigh of relief!!! LOL!!!!

Does anyone remember Looney Tunes, and the looney stickers we took off of Carnation milk cartons? LOL...my Mother took Dennis, Janie, and me to the show in Houston!!!

Did anyone ever go frog gigging at Riverside Country Club...my gosh the frogs were huge! Daddy would eat anything...but didn't hunt it in less he was going to eat it!!!

I remember always going to the beach and crabbing at the jetties!!! I love it today..give me some stew meat and a net, and I am one happy girl!!!! After college I moved to Nassau Bay, and went crabbing every afternoon after a crazy day of teaching school in Texas City!!!!


JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :0)

06/04/09 05:07 PM #1224    

Joy Garrett (Chessher)

PS poor Mr Huffman almost had a heart attack when he had me in drivers ed!!!! He was a good teacher...I don't have a bumper car anymore!!!!

06/04/09 07:44 PM #1225    

Joe Ballard

Joy you just brought back a memory. Do you or anyone remember our milk being brought to our house? Did anyone save the stoppers because they were worth prizes and finally after saving them for what seemed a decade.. they had a redemption for them at the old Lake Theater. Our family drank so much milk we had a wagon full of redeemi\able stoppers of all different values!! We ended up winning my youngest brother I believe a bicycle or trike....Milkman's name was ?... lived next door or 2 down from Stan Alcott

06/04/09 08:18 PM #1226    

 

Michael Poehl

Weird was part of my regular week-end ritual, and I don't know why but it really frightened me. Maybe DeeAnn was retelling the scary parts at school.

And Art Grindle was memorable - glad to see he did so well in life.

How about Houston Rasslin'. Bull Curry, Pepper Gomez - what REAL men. Bet they could take out Hulk Hogan in his prime.

Thanks for sparking our memories Strickland.

06/04/09 09:58 PM #1227    

Joy Garrett (Chessher)

Joe...yes I remember glass bottles of milk being delivered to my house! As a matter of fact I dropped the milk bottles on my toes!!! That is probably why my toes hurt today!!! Daddy bought the El Lago Country Club and raised his own milk cows! He would milk them everyday!!! Also...did any of you see the Prize bull that Daddy entered at the County Fair in Angleton? He was even written up in the Full of Bull Magazine. This bull was amazing and wond Grand Champion...on the side of it's body was the face of Abe Lincoln...like on the penny!!! He loved cows like I do deer. He named them all, and knew all of their birthdays!!! He might forget ours...but did know the cows birthdays!!! LOL!!!!

Great memories... I grew up with great people! How blessed we all are to connect again!!!!

I am so excited to see everyone!!!! Yipppppppppppppppeee
Hey did anyone ever come to the soda fountain at my Dad's drugstore to drink one of my fancy vanilla Dr Pepper floats?!!! I would spray a gallon of whip cream on the top!!! I can make any kind of milk shake or malt...banana splits...hot fudge sundaes!!! Yummmmmmyyyy...I am getting hungry!!!


06/04/09 10:26 PM #1228    

Mike Strickland

Poehl-

Irish Danny McShane, The Mask, Paul Boesche (the announcer), Terry Funk, Tiger Conway, Dory Dixon, Georgeous George. I'm positive they were all real fights and not a faker amoung them.

06/04/09 10:49 PM #1229    

Joy Garrett (Chessher)

Sad news...Kung Fu passed away at 72.

06/05/09 12:00 AM #1230    

Joe Ballard

which wrestler did the original sleeper and oh little grasshopper... he will be missed

06/05/09 06:55 AM #1231    

 

John Adcock

Dickie....It was "I saw what you did and I know who you are." The scary, crazy woman was "mommie dearest" herself, Joan Crawford. That movie got a lot of us in trouble.



Micael....Pepper Gomez (the stomach claw), Wahoo McDaniels, and Bull Curry, were my favorites. I actually went up and talked to Bull Curry in Angleton at a wrestling match, when I was about 10..he scared the crap out of me when he was talking to me.

06/05/09 07:49 AM #1232    

 

Dickie Tracy

I can remember going out to the water traps on the golf course over by the high school (Was that Freeport Municpal?) and swimming in the water holes looking for golf balls. Only at night! Sadly, I think it was Mike Sharp and I and it was after we were playing golf in college. Too poor to afford our own golf balls.

We played the golf course up at SFA in Nacogdoches and it was nothing but up and down hills. Quite a fun course but only if you had a golf cart - which we didn't.

06/05/09 07:54 AM #1233    

 

Dickie Tracy

And about old "grasshopper:....why would an old man hang himself in his closet with no clothes on? I'm trying to think of a logical explanation....but I guess he wasn't thinking of that at the time. A sad departure for sure. He provided us with a lot of entertainment for many years. If I were going to go out by my own hand, I could think of better ways than that. It just seems such an unfitting end to a successful career.

06/05/09 08:50 AM #1234    

 

Dickie Tracy

Updating: The very latest news says Carradine death may have been "foul play".

06/05/09 08:57 AM #1235    

 

Marian Sahr (Bullard)

Dickie, I just heard the "grasshopper" death was an accident. Go figure. Since we had 6 kids in our family, I know the milk man had to make alot of trips. My best memory (one of many) was kindergarten and getting ice cream and chocolate milk. I looked so forward to it. Does anyone from LJ remember riding the bus to high school with us having to sit 4 people to one seat? Guess who was always the last one on the bus....ME! I would always fall out onto the floor when he turned the corners. Finally I started riding with friends and then was able to get my own car. My bus drivers name was Coach Girourd. I think that's how you spell his name. It seems like we had we Mr. Huffman too. Can't remember. I will be heading out to our wonderful Brazosport Stadium to see my last niece graduate tonight. I can't believe 40 years ago we were all there!!!

06/05/09 09:14 AM #1236    

 

Cyndie Strother (Cunningham)

Joe, I can remember the milkman. My mom always slept late, but my brother and I were always up early. So when he would get on the porch to pick up bottles and delivery, we would meet him and tell him to add 2 more bottles of chocolate. My mom would get so mad.. but it never made her get up earlier!

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