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08/14/24 07:09 AM

#2064

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Loved KOL, fun times!

08/14/24 11:28 AM

#2065

Patrick Calkins

KJR Seatle channel 95!

08/14/24 01:15 PM

#2066

Ken Becker

The SeaFair hydro races just finished up, and this poster helped me recall that KOL sponsored a hydro for a couple of years, Miss KOL-roy, U1300.

08/14/24 04:42 PM

#2067

Bill Engelhardt

Summer 1959 and 1960

08/19/24 06:12 PM

#2068

Bill Engelhardt

Aug. 17, 1977

08/21/24 01:37 AM

#2069

Bill Engelhardt

Before McDonald's and Lou's there was Gil's at 35th and Avalon in West Seattle.

08/21/24 11:35 PM

#2070

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

Memories of the 'good old days'.

Thanks Bill.

08/22/24 07:11 AM

#2071

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Bill, thanks....keep these posts coming!

08/23/24 11:27 AM

#2072

Steve Morris

Gil's! Ha. Before we lived in Burien, we lived in Eastgate which was brand new. The new house was $13k.

Hardly anything was developed yet. What is now I-90 was US 10 - the Sunset Highway. The entrance from Eastgate to Hwy. 10 was a stop sign! The only things in the Factoria area were Herb Addlesee's drug store and the Sunset Drive-In.

Our nearest place to get a hamburger was Gil's on Rainier Avenue so we'd drive there once in awhile. The Gil's sign is still there but doesn't say Gil's anymore. RIP Gil's, Herfy's, Lou's, etc.

08/28/24 09:25 PM

#2073

Diane Paulson

on the subject of discussing politics: I sometimes forget that my entire family has always been Republican, except me and possibly my brother who got into marxism and ended up with Lyndon Larouche... at age 14 I was downstairs by myself all day watching the convention that nominated JFK... for some reason I was entranced by the Dems and always voted that way... No one in the family EVER discussed POLITICS or RELIGION : it was considered rude... my Aunt who I assumed was more left because she did yoga and meditated, turned out to be Republican also: unfriended me when I posted a cartoon about the Koch brothers...

Maybe that is why I now do discuss these things... they seem like the hidden truth behind the trite politeness...

And at age three I was the flower girl at my Aunt's first marriage... maybe she blamed me for the divorce? she was the only family member to get divorced... it wasn't done either

08/30/24 01:54 AM

#2074

Bill Engelhardt

And speaking of the 1960s.....(with a tip of the hat to Larry Ohrt)

08/30/24 08:05 AM

#2075

Bob Nicholson

That's a nice looking Mini Cooper.

08/30/24 12:59 PM

#2076

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

Even though I was never quite as 'cool'....I am sending this to my grandkids!

08/31/24 10:29 AM

#2077

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Well, we all know who was the Greatest Generation, but we certainly know who was the "coolest" generation!

08/31/24 12:28 PM

#2078

Diane Paulson

I remember the day JFK was killed, I was in Study Hall with the choir director: Glenn Haggen as the teacher. He announced it. I didn't quite know how to respond. It was solemn. I think the song used at the Highline graduation: High Hopes... was also the theme at the Democratic convention that nominated JFK.

There is a poem by Charles Bukowski that references that time. Lately I've been getting into his stuff altho never did before. The poem is called Hug the Dark.

09/02/24 01:55 AM

#2079

Bill Engelhardt

09/02/24 12:45 PM

#2080

Patrick Calkins

I wonder who still eats Wonder Bread?

09/02/24 01:15 PM

#2081

Karen Buck (White)

I wonder the same thing Pat.....but it certainly is good to see that you still have a good snese of humor.

09/02/24 07:09 PM

#2082

Diane Paulson

Lydia Palmer, French teacher. I took French every year. I sat in the back and had a terrible French accent. Tony Armstrong sat in the front and had a great accent. Senior year, Miss Palmer was the faculty advisor for Torch. She invited me to join, since apparently I had the grades. I never joined any groups at Highline and I see now that she felt bad for me being so isolated. But I left school early every day to take the bus to Seattle for my ballet class, so I turned down her invitation. I had been getting A's and B's in French but after that I started getting C's....
Looking her up I find she retired after our senior year in 1964.

09/05/24 02:16 AM

#2083

Bill Engelhardt

Summer 1958