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Hey Raymond, Gail is correct, it was the Tasty Q per the Chinquapin. The building is still there but is now a computer repair business.

05/14/10 10:47 AM

#137

Freddie DeBlieux

I have another long, rambling email out there somewhere....it just up and left my screen.

Freddie......GO DEVILS

05/14/10 11:39 AM

#138

frddies message may hve come to me , but i don't know how in the heck to get them to you all. i'm doing good to get the computer turned on . like i told freddie i get real lucky punching buttons sometimes and get the computer to do what i want- other times my daughter has to come about once a week and undo all the damage i do during that time.freddie i thought the rendevous was by the college where mr. dipiola ? has his shoe store, but there again i may be in a senior moment and don't remember diddly.

05/14/10 01:09 PM	#139
Gail Straughan (Barbo) by the way ,mr dipiola's? shoe store was on second street by the railroad track as was his house and maggios produce warehouse.

05/15/10 08:02 AM

#140

I thought the elderly gentleman that ran the shoe shop was a maggio. There was a dipola gentlemen on jefferson st. between keyser st. bridge and college cleaners that fixed bicycles. He lived on the cane river side of jefferson st. Remember the pool hall on the other side of the rendevoux?

05/15/10 10:17 AM

#141

Kenneth mentioned that area on lower end of Jefferson St. between the "old" bridge (Keyser Ave) and the College Cleaners. That made me think of something that might be of interest to those who have not been to Natchitoches in a while. There has been a replica of Fort St. Denis built in that area. It's on the river on the town side of the College Cleaners. (as everything else, I think they now call it "University Cleaners", just doesn't have that ring that College Cleaners does.) Due to our ages I think I remember we get in for free.

And when one of the volunteers gives their demonstration, try asking them their name, you will not know them but you possibly will know their grandparents.

And, ............ shucks, I forgot what it was I wanted to say.

Well, there's always something else to say, something new out Grand Ecore way is the visitor's center overlooking the river. You can't miss it, just turn into the road at Grand Ecore and you'll see the entrance. There is also a short walking trail that takes you over to some of the old Civil War breastworks. Hmmm, that reminds me of, well, once upon a time at NSC (during our NSC time) there was a young man with movie star looks who had a Harley, Dan Whitehurst was his name. It just so happened Dan and his family were old family friends of the Hollys from our days in Pineville in the 1940's and earlier. Anyway, Polly got the chance to get a ride with Dan, and where does he take her to, Grande Ecore, she said it scared the daylights out of her when he turned in there but Dan was a gentleman and was just riding around. If any of y'all knew Dan he ended up as a commerical pilot for Northwestern Airlines in Washinton state. We ran into him at a funeral a year or so ago.

05/15/10 11:39 AM

#142

I'm playing around with adding an asset to the website, hope I don't mess something up. If successful, we'll have a live chat capability, similar to IM plus webcam and audio ability. If that sounds like I know what I'm doing, then I have seriously misled you.

05/15/10 12:05 PM

#143

If you want to try the live chat, just look to the left side of the website and click on, now get this, "Live Chat". It will show you if anyone else is online with whom you may have a live chat.

The bottom left frame is where you type in your comments, they appear in the top left frame and the lower right frame lets you know who is online. The top right frame is where you may pull up the instructions.

I have not done IM in a long time so will have to relearn this also. You must have the latest version of "Flash Player", I think that's what it's called but the page instructions will tell you how to download it for free if you want to give it a shot. It might be fun. Hey, Freddie, I feel your pain, I was the only one online and thought I'd just leave a message on there but evidently when you leave it drops what you had entered. As I understand the instructions, when a another person comes online it will display to them the last x number of posts so they can see what any ongoing conversation is about. Of course, it's ok to join in the conversation and talk about a myriad of other things.

05/15/10 12:15 PM

#144

well fudge

well fudge i hate being wrong again. i wonder if i really lived in natchitoches . mr maggio may have been the shoe repair man but im almost positive the dipola (we called him mr.dipiola) did have like a little general store on the end of that row of buildings there. i can picture his wife just as plain as day. she was small and had white hair and wore it in a bun on the back of her head. i walked by that place every day to and from school. i lived on second street, i think i mentioned that before that i lived across the street from the zesto.kenneth did you study natchitoches history because you seem to be up on all the old stuff?

05/15/10 02:22 PM

#145

No Gail, no history....when every one else was doing their home work I was out and about, plus I remember the trivial things but not the important things. Here is a question for any one...we all remember the towne house where hwy. 1 south and mill st. merged. Who owned it? Now a chevron station. Bill, you ought to be all over this one.

05/15/10 02:50 PM

#146

im going to try one more time- chief eddy owned the town house first i think , then milford box owned it later. is any part of that right? we must be the only two people playing this game- and i hate being wrong all the time. i do know the maggio produce part was right because my oldest daughter married into that family. i really like this game even though im not very good at it.

05/15/10 03:59 PM

#147

We used that little shoe repair shop next to the Rendevous Cafe also. Don't remember the man's name but Polly says he and his name reminded her of the little old man in Pinochio (sic) I think his name was Jepeto or something like that.

On to the next, Chief Eddy and Milford Box did own the Towne House Restaurant at different times. I gave Eddy a ticket on Mill St. right behind the restaurant one time, don't remember what it was for, but I took a pretty good cussing off of him at the time, he did not like getting that ticket.

05/15/10 04:00 PM

#148

Very good Gail,it was the chief. He mostly laid brick but that was who I was thinking of. Had a daughter couple of years behind us. (dee dee) About the shoe repair, he fixed a lot of penny loafers. If he just sewed it was fify cents. I do not remember about soles or heels.

05/15/10 05:11 PM

#149

i think the maggio that repaired shoes was named "mr charlie maggio" he was the brother to the old mr maggio that started the produce business behind the big house that sat next to the rendevous and the shoe shop. the produce maggios lived in the big house and i think "mr dipiola" lived in an apartment upstairs over the general store. i remember rays graduating class had their breakfast after the all night party at the town house. ray's cousin used to work there and made the best most beautiful pies with meringue at least three inches thick. she used to make me coconut pies for my birthday. no wonder my butts so big. well i can't blame of it on her.

05/15/10 05:41 PM

#150

According to the 1975 and the 1976 Natchitoches phone books advertisement, The Towne House Restaurant had been owned & managed by Milford Box for 14 years at that time. The 1978 book did not have an ad for the restaurant.

05/16/10 07:22 AM

#151

Chief Eddy owned a seafood restaurant on hwy. 6 on toledo bend. He passed away sometimes around late "96" or early "97".

05/16/10 11:22 AM	#152
Gail Straughan (Barbo) by the way chief did spell his last name Etie. we had nick names for everyone .

05/16/10 02:55 PM

#153

True....I just remember in the late fifty's he made good money bricklaying and with the restaurant and he spent some. I guess traffic tickets were not his choice.

05/18/10 02:03 PM

#154

Freddie DeBlieux

O.K., the Rendezvous of which I speak was in the early 1940's. Where Nichols ended up. Close to the P.& C Drug Store. Is the one by NSU still there. That was Billy Maggio's family. Before it was the Town House, it was the Triangle. Makes sense, since it was in a triangle. Chief Eddy/Ettie was the father of two daughters, one a little younger than us, one a lot younger. Someone remember older one's name. She was pretty, with gorgeous golden skin and curly blondish hair. Was it Dee Dee Eddy?Ettie??? I do believe so. They lived in same sub as Sue, Larry Fisher, Houston Cade, Sudbury Sub, I think. Down at the end from Sue. And Marjorie Region and Homer Scott, and Eugene. Someone needs to stop me. I have always been "out of hand", but as one gets older, one gets worse......My mind just gets turned on and there's no stopping. Kenneth, we have a lot in common. I just saw Youtube Video at the bottom of this page. No Facebook, no Youtube, no Nothing for me...Billy Dick Holly!!!!!what have you done, now????? You better not cause me any embarrassment. I'll make you take the blame. Polly Holly, how have you stood it all these years??? Do you need help putting him away??? Do you have a place to put him??? Will he go quietly?? NAH....we already know that.!!!

John Harry, I have had no luck looking for Barbara. The person by Sherwood Forest was not of the correct age. There are a lot of people with the name. I have access to voter rolls: that pretty much means to everyone in the state old enough to vote, and there was no one I would say for certain. Perhaps, she will just show up.

We are getting closer and closer to the big 50. Will we be able to withstand the excitement? The absolute, all consuming delight, streaming from all over the United States to meld into our familiar circle of camaraderie. Fifty years melted into the sweet mystery of life so we can step back, walk down the aisle, up on the stage, take our seats, take off our maroon robes, and run down the hall to join the most important people in our lives, in a myriad of activities we deem to be world changing. So easy to slip into 1960 without missing a beat. How fortunate we can return to 1960 without haunting memories dragging us from our world into the real world. We escaped.......

05/18/10 02:42 PM

#155

Elaine Philen (Strickland)

Hey Freddie, you're right it was called the Triangle Restaurant before the Towne House and we live in Pineville so what does that tell you. Way out in Texas when you told someone you were from Pineville, LA they would ask if you were from the "inside" or "outside" of the facility here.

Talking about name changes, etc., how did Fish Hatchery Road up by the bridge next to the, yep, fish hatchery become Woodyard Road?

Just got the word the reunion books are ready and the name tags will be ready Thursday. Had a heck of a time getting a pic of William Paul Cummings and Ed Hearron to "take". For some reason their pictures just didn't want to work on the name tags. :) But we perservered and got 'em working. I'm told the books look good, will just have to see.

We've had two classmates that have had to change their plans and won't be able to attend Perry Brasell and Alice Faye Dietrich Bagley.

Freddie, I can't remember what else you wrote that needed to be straightened out, will have to do that in nine days, I guess. :)

Appreciate you trying to locate Barbara Durr. After the reunion, I'll continue to try and find the others. We'll see if we can maintain the website, doorbell rang, gotta run....

05/18/10 03:34 PM

#156

Raymond and Gale,

I think the name you are looking for on Hi way 0ne is Tasty Q.
Elaine Philen Strickland

05/20/10 01:26 PM

#157

John Harry Robson, D. Min.

So, Bill, what's the latest on the two-day fest? My computer is strangely silent. jhr

05/20/10 04:01 PM

#158

Janette Fae Lofton (Brooks)

Geneva (my sister) told me it was the Tasty Q that was right passed our house. Ours is the ranch style stucco right before you get to the bypass on Texas St. I don't remember the Tasty Q but Geneva has always had me beat on remembering things.

Don't ANYONE dare say my pictures were a FLOP!! I know most of them look crazy! I was sick about them. i've tried for a month to post pictures and could not do it. So a computer guru came over and "figured it out". He thought it was right but alas, it was dismal!! Our problem was some of the pictures scanned as a word document, NOT JPEG!! But he figured out how to change them to a JPEG and thought it would work. THAT'S WHAT WE GET FOR THINKING, HA HA! He had to go to paint to change them and the tools in paint evem was faintly there.

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO SOLVE MY DILEMA??????????? CALL ME THE COMPUTER FLOPPER!

Man, time is getting short and I'm getting so excited! Our turn-out has been absolutely amazing, THANKS TO BILL, POLLY, GLENELLE, SARAH JO AND OTHERS! yOU ALL HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL.

Now, I have another place to bring up - does anyone remember Leopold Levy Store on Jefferson St.? It was so quaint and had all kinds of things. Also Kaffie's Store is really a tourist stop for a lot of our friends that go to the "big N" for a day or two. We really have a lot to be proud of and I think it is wonderful we all got our "heads" together to recall memories. Speaking of a shoe repair shop, does anyone remember Gunter's that was on Second St. right past the Cane Theater and Lieber's Store? They were good people.

See you all next Thursday!

05/20/10 07:17 PM

#159