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05/04/09 08:42 PM	#31
Donna Aber Gym class and those great uniforms we wore. one style did not fit all.lol telephone on the wall with a cord so long you could walk around never did go back the way it was suppose to. fraying our jeans took a long time but talk about kewllllll.

05/05/09 10:41 AM

#32

Camille Spicer (Bach)

I think the teacher that stands out in my mind the most was Mr. Carruthers!!!!! I always rememeber him saying QUIET PWEEEEEZ!

Also Mrs. Frier; I think she used to drink alcohol during class! I think she taught either typing or shorthand?

I remember downtown Oneida; Hodges Men's Store, Garafalo Shoe Store; Greens, Grants, Woolworths,Miller Dry Goods, Joys Clothing Store, National Auto, Lermans Furnature, Fross Furnature, Schours (spelled wrong) Dells Drugstore. I remember the Soda Fountain in Woolworths. Pffafs Meat Market and of course GUSSIES!!!!!!
It was great growing up in Oneida!

05/05/09 12:44 PM

#33

Donna Aber

Hey didnt we have parades on main street, i remember hanging out of sister apt window over one of the stores and calling out to people.more fun facts..getting mooned,returning bottles for money,milk in bottles with paper tops,spin the bottle,parties in basements,record players with the 45's stacked,ice cream socials,mustard seed necklaces at hl greens, counter at woolworth,(may have been other way around) baby turtles,inner tubes for floation many patches.,picnics at the beach,sand in the sandwich in the chips in the drink annd in your suits,washington ave school recess.exchanging valentines day cards.the courtyard between the jrhigh, off campus lunches. i have more..lol

05/05/09 07:37 PM	#34
Kathy Staaf (Tucker) Hey Girls who remembers......Mohair sweaters, madras plaid, and making our tye-dyed shirts, or ironing our hair to make it straight, or setting our hair with empty cardboard orange juice containers and clothes pins to straighten it. How about dippity-do? Remember putting our jeans on damp so they would dry skin-tight. Ouch!

05/05/09 07:52 PM

#35

Donna Aber

Spoolies.dial phones,no dial party lines (We use to listen in till we got caught.neighborhood gossip) you have to ask them to hang up so you could make a call.,princess phone. I loved my Mohair. and then we have the hair dryers, that you sit under or the one where you put that hot rubber cap on your head, came in a round case,portable.lol leather coats with fringe.thanks ya'll this has been fun. take me back! if you bought the cheap jeans your socks and undies were blue, sam with the madras, hanging out clothes on the line in winter,standing on a foool furnace to get warm,mean while your shoes are now stuck to the furnace..bundle up to play in the snow,sleds,flying sacuer's deadly..I loved growing up in Oneida

05/05/09 08:05 PM

#36

Donna Aber

baby doll pj's. dishes in the detergent boxes.green stamps.mustard seed necklaces.mallo cups with the pionts inside.secret decoater rings.cigs roled in the t-shirts sleeves.big bell bottom pants.cpo jackets. crop tops. dr. killdare shirts with that high collar.naru shirts.peace necklaces.home made embroirded jeans.ked sneakers no socks.bicycle or walk everwhere. hanging on the back of cars to hitch a ride in the winter.

05/06/09 09:04 AM	#37
Camille Spicer (Bach) Remember always voluteering to go to the store once I had my permit! My mother was lucky she never had to go shopping again for awhile. Rode around for hours with the windows rolled down and radio blasting! Remember hangin out at Scanlons store; ice-cream 5 cents. Pretzel rods 3 cents. There was also a store Behrs over by Stone street and Lenox Ave.

05/08/09 03:08 PM	#38
Kathy Staaf (Tucker) Hey where is everybody? I really enjoyed the nostalgia. Rob, are you planning to have music at the reunion? Too bad we couldn't get the Imperials to play.They got together a few years ago for one of their members and it was great. Just like being at one of the Armory dances.

05/09/09 07:31 AM

#39

Scott Walter

Hi all, remember for gym running done to Maxwell field. They just finished taking down the jr. high the other day. The big fires for pep rallies. The armory dances doing the bug to the song you make me want to shout. Remember we had two nights for trick or treat. It was a good and safe time to grow up, even though I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up. It will be fun to see everyone.

05/09/09 09:11 AM

#40

Donna Aber

Ah yes the pep rallies, bon fire, too much fun. didn't we gather around whoever was doing the bug so the chaparones couldn't see, now that worked out well.duh !lol and what did you think the words to loui loui were???. come on baby light my fire was banned!getting up on the bridge at the beach waiting to get across, sometimes long lines. jumpimg off silver car bridge. or watchng. leaches in the channel, the under tow, walk forever out in the water on the sand barges with your handy dandy innertube. dont go in the water after you eat.

05/09/09 10:19 AM

#41

Dennis King

We have Rex Cole on his sax,Tom Tucker on his drums,Scott Walter and his pink caddy,Joe Hornby and Rich Lewis doing the bug. The Senior Thing. Blood Sweat and Tears. Jimmy Hendrix at Colgate. The most important thing HAPPY MOTHERS DAY.Warren King and his front porch.

05/09/09 10:20 AM

#42

Dennis King

Not Jimmy Hendrix but Sly and the Family Stone at Colgate.

05/09/09 10:41 AM

#43

Sue Sochan (Welty)

I recall seeing Canned Heat at Colgate college and Mountain and Black Sabbath at the war memorial and the James Gang too. When I tell people I went trick or treating 2 nights they always say, "Where did you grow up?" I remember spending the night at Theresa and we came home by curfew and waited for her parents to go to sleep. Then we snuck out her bedroom window and went back to Gussies with our fake proof. Got back about 3am and giggling our assess off we crawled back in her window, turned on the light and there was her mother sitting on the bed with her arms crossed..pissed! Theresa got grounded, they never turned me in but I felt like I should have..not! Her window got nailed shut after that. I grew up on Lake St next to the Carney's. There was always singing and parties going on. I still e-mail Steve. Seriously, maybe we could get them to play at the reunion if anyone's interested?

05/09/09 11:37 AM	#44
Scott Walter Yes Lizard it was Sly at Colgate, was a good night,and who could forget Ironbutterfly at the war memorial in Syr. another good night lizard

05/11/09 11:19 AM

#45

Sue Sochan (Welty)

I uploaded a couple of pictures from the Bud Ballou show. Check out my profile.

05/11/09 02:41 PM

#46

Donna Aber

Hey Sue never even knew that show existed. love the clothes. high fashion.
hey guys did you ever put cards in your bicycle wheels? how about some of the kid stuff? digging your way to china? making snow forts? digging tunnels in the snow banks.sleading on the hills and watching out for the fences?The blizzard in 66. we lived in lennox furnace in a two story house, got up to catch the buss and couldn't see out the window, got saved by good people on snowmobiles, they dug us out, no school, a kids dream.A parents nightmare..dandilion chains.gum paper chains.the ball that you shook and it gave you answers.basements,jar canned food that mom use to put up. turkey dinner left out for the day. Easter egg huunts, kick the can,red rover red rover,tag, hop scotch,jump rope,dodge ball.those things that had wheels and you sat or layed on them from one side of the gym to the other.the square dances in gym.

05/11/09 06:58 PM	#47
Kathy Staaf (Tucker) The pictures of the Bud Ballou Show are too funny. I actually remember some of the outfits. Check out the poem about the old Junior High. Go to Oneida Daily Dispatch and click on Opinions at the top of the page. Another piece of history gone.

05/11/09 09:04 PM	#48
Donna Aber Kathy that was worth reading, school sure didn't change in our years.

05/11/09 09:04 PM

#49

Sue Sochan (Welty)

So nostalgic. It must look so strange with nothing there. And this too shall pass.

05/12/09 03:18 PM	#50
Scott Walter Sue, great pictures, and we were soooooooo cool. lol, it is nice that someone still had pictures from that day of fun. I think that I went with Kathy Redman, always was a pretty red head.

05/13/09 08:47 AM

#51

Sue Sochan (Welty)

I think I went with Joe Hornsby. Neither of us had dates so we went with each other by default. LOL After all I HAD to go, Nikki and I dressed alike! We were cool.

05/14/09 08:45 AM	#52
Camille Spicer (Bach) Brady, Guess you know by now that Girls always remain DADDIES LITTLE GIRLS no matter how old they get!!!

05/29/09 06:43 PM	#53
Donna Aber Hmmmmmmmmmm I guess we covered everything we loved growing up in Oneida and nothing more to say....

05/30/09 11:18 AM

#54

Dennis King

we are not done yet. We are just thinking of what to say.I can remember the dance after we lost to VVS 52-0. The dance was at the Knights of Colombus on Madison Street. Dave Kinney and I were BSing on the front porch when a car pulled up. There were two girls that got out of the car. initials were MO and MD. They were so hammered that when MO got out she vomited and passed out. The next thing was she was thrown back in the car and it took off.

Damn that Southern Comfort

Dennis (lizard)

05/30/09 08:25 PM	#55
Donna Aber Lol memories.......

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