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HI Y'all, Just read these messages and had a few chuckles. Anyway, here's a few blasts from the past-remember Miss Burns? the sweet old lady,math teacher, with the wicked humped back. My mom had her in jr. high, also. Will never forget the day JFK was killed, we were in 7th period English class with Mrs.Ennis.The announcement came over the PA system and we all dispersed and went home.What a tragic time and then watching it all on tv for days on end.

We had a wild and crazy party down at our camp a few days after graduation. They announced "party at Rudolph's camp- at the Forest Hotel, so after closing EVERYONE came over-including Larry and Johnny. It was totally nuts. We had people coming out of the rafters-knee deep in beer and someone-I think it was Tony Maiura, put his fist thru the wall. The troopers came twice-searched everywhere for drugs. The neighbors called my parents thinking the camp would fall down. Luckily, nobody came down to check. Took us all night to clean up. By the time my dad came down to see the place we had put it back pretty well,(beer can under one leg of the sofa, and a picture over the hole in the wall). I was leaving for school the next day, so things blew over pretty well. They didn't find out the full story until many years later!!!

Keep the stories coming-I agree, we had lots of fun growing up in Oneida. Great memories!
Sandy Richman

06/04/09 09:27 PM

#58

I remember that party at your camp very well. The entire Forest Hotel came. It was insane. I can't believe your parents didn't know for years. Theresa wasn't so lucky. A party at her house got way out of control with way too many people and her parents came home early. Busted red handed. There was so many parties and so much drinking, sleep outs in make shift tents, Maria Bishop swallowed a live gold fish at the Durhamville Field Days and Cathy Lancaster was the first person to tell me what 69 meant.

06/05/09 06:21 PM	#59
Scott Walter Sue didn't 69 stand for the year we got out of school.lol

06/05/09 07:16 PM

#60

That's what I meant.

06/06/09 07:38 AM	#61
Kathy Staaf (Tucker) Hey Scott and Sue, I had a real crappy day yesterday , but you two cracked me up. Thanks

06/07/09 01:19 PM

#62

Sue-I remember that party at Theresa's house-that got way out of control. We had no time to react before her parents got home!! How about that party Jennifer Jackson had-at her grandmother's nursing home on Broad St. Of course, there weren't any patients living there at the time. That was pretty crazy with all those hospital beds in there. Wild party scene.Can't believe her grandmother let her get away with that one!!

06/07/09 04:29 PM

#63

I missed that party, probably grounded. Do you miss the music? House of the Rising Sun Animals, Ferry Cross the Mercy Gerry and the Pacemakers, Happy Together Turtles, Hush Deep Purple, I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller 4 Little Red Riding Hood Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Mellow Yellow Donovan.........

06/07/09 05:39 PM	#64
Donna Aber Ah Ha I knew I missed out on the senior parties, but I had some great times at your parents camp..Thank you to your parents Sandy...Partie down.Starting to look slim on my being able to come to Oneida. Crap happens. Still gonna try.

06/08/09 01:49 PM

#65

I listen to that music all day-XM Satellite radio-Sixtie's on 6-it's the best station.
Donna, I knew you'd remember "Camp Madeline", great times! We've still got the sign that hung over the front door-the camp looks pretty crappy these days.
PS-my grandaughter from our middle daughter Kim, is named Madeline!!
Does anyone remember that assembly we had when we were seniors-it was a ballet troupe and there was a guy flying around the stage with his tights on? Someone in the audience started doing bird calls-what a riot-needless to say it didn't go over too hot with Norman Burton-don't know how I thought of that one??

06/09/09 10:03 AM

#66

OK, who did the bird calls? Fess up. Probably the same person who wrote derogatory comments in those awful Slam books. Hang your head in shame.

06/10/09 02:29 PM

#67

Hello everyone! I just found the site from a notice in the Dispatch that my mother sent me about the upcoming reunion. You've done a real good job with the site, Rob and reading over the responses has brought back many memories....a bit fuzzy at times but what do you expect when the legal drinking age was 18, which meant that most everyone was getting into to it at 15-16 y/o.
I wish to comment on Sandy's memory of that assembly with the Ballet company. If I recollect correctly, didn't they bus us over to Canastota High for that fiasco? There was a lot more than "birdcalls" going on when those male dancers hit the stage. I think they stopped the production so someone in charge could berate us on being the rudest, etc. bunch of so and so's that they've ever had the misfortune of perfoming for. I believe the whole senior class was in the doghouse after that....again. lol!
Did they ever allow us our senior corner, or whatever it was called? I think we lost it for the whole year, or close to it.
As to growing up in Oneida; I still tell my kids and G-kids that I'd not trade my childhood with anyone. It was great being a kid at that time and Oneida was a going place. Now it's so sad to see that just about everything from those days is gone. (good to see that Pepi's Pizza is still kicking)

06/10/09 03:32 PM

#68

Tim, your memory could be correct on that one. I think we did lose some of our "privileges" after that one.The corner I remember most was "smokers corner" at the front of the entrance. Can't believe I hung out there!
Sue, the slam books of our day have turned into the facebook of today!
Going back a litte, about Bob Hart(coach), he lived in an apt. next door to us on Grove St. He was a pretty nice guy-my sister actually went on a "date" with him. Too bad his life got messed up.

06/10/09 03:37 PM	#69
Donna Aber Speaking of Pepi's Tim,So I went to Pepi's in May when I went home,got excited to have a hot sausage sand. the only thing I couldn't find was the sausage, good pizza though.Ohh I have a number to repesent the year of our graudation. Lizzard waiting for your comment.lol

06/10/09 05:27 PM

#70

Sandy;
I believe it was called Cancer Corner and like you, I spent quite a bit of time there myself. We thought we were soooooo coooool to stand there in all types of weather puffing away while watching the "cruisers" go back and forth. lol!
Donna:
I also try to get a Pepi's Pizza whenever I get back to Oneida as it is still hard to beat. (especially by these Little Ceasars, Domino's and Papa Johns type pretenders)The only pizza I've found that can beat Pepi's is a place down in San Diego; but it's also New York style pizza.

06/10/09 05:58 PM

#71

Pepi's and Gussies. What more could you want? Well, cancer corner, which was like a social event. We had a lot of laughs standing there. I don't remember the Ballet fiasco. Darn. I remember Nancy Dean as Helen Kellar and the one and only field trip I remember was in grade school. North Broad St school sent us to the sewage plant near my house. I had ridden by it on my bike several times but nothing prepared me for what was inside. Before us was a huge vat of bubbling brown, smelly raw sewage. I think we were all terrorized by that trip.

06/10/09 06:48 PM	#72
Tim Thomas Holy crap batgirl! I remember taking that sewage tour. I couldn't recall where or when it was but I too remember that floating vat of brown yuk and them telling us that we'd soon be drinking it once they'd run it through all the processes. I think that's why I started drinking beer so early. lol!

06/10/09 08:26 PM

#73

Donna Aber

Happy forum,thanks for finding it Tim. I remember a Catholic Church over by Phelps street they had a place where you could go in and light a candle and say a prayer, one night I went over and lit them all, I prayed hard... and praying I didn't get caught lol some dances over there to. the street in the summer would get tar bubbles, all over our shoes. for some reason Vicky and I got these little turtles from H.L. Greens, raced them in the street.. whatever???

06/11/09 03:53 PM

#74

Donna, I'll never forget Vickie's red rambler convertible. We did alot of cruising in that! Our cigs would burn down in a flash with that top down. Used to fill up for a buck-those days are gone!!
Going back, I used to ride my bike over to Scanlon's store off of Elizabeth St., my mom would give me a quarter and I'd get a loaf of bread and a pretzel rod.I was really pissed the day the bread went up to a quarter and I couldn't get the pretzel!! Another little store like that was Sammy's little store next to St. Pat's school-across from Prior school.

06/11/09 05:51 PM

#75

Donna,
You must be thinking of St Josephs church as it was the only Catholic one on the North Side.(it might have been the only church period on the North side come to think of it) It was probably the Shrine to the Virgin Mary that you lit all those candles in. It was outdoors and they had a little kneeling bench you could say your prayers on when you lit your candle....or candles in your case. lol! Believe it or not, I came to know that place quite well during my school years. Not only was I an Altar Boy for a number of years there, I also ended up being the Janitor/ Groundskeeper at the church for a couple of years in high school. I'd get out of school a couple of periods early to go right over and work there. In the summer it was nearly a full time job for me. I hated it, but it kept me in spending money.

06/11/09 06:17 PM

#76

Oh yeah, they did have some dances over there too at the Hall they built. It was a beautiful building in it's day. They held Bazaar's and all sorts of functions there. It had a full sized basketball court upstairs along with a full kitchen, a couple of classrooms, bathrooms and a long cloakroom. Downstairs was a huge furnace room (which was a favorite hiding place of mine when I worked there), a shower and a pool room with a heavy duty table. The idiots voted to tear it down many years ago so it's just a memory now....such a waste.
I also recall those hot summer days with the bubbling tar. Boy, did our mothers appreciate it when we came home with our sneakers all coated with the stuff.I loved it when it rained and we'd go out after or during it and get a running start in bare feet and go sliding along a nice patch of the stuff.
Sandy:
I remember Scanlon's store very well as they sold just about anything legal and not legal under the sun it seemed. That's where us blossoming Juvenile Delinquents could pick up fireworks, cigarettes, cigarette loads, etc. and no one would ask or blink twice about it. There were a few stores around town where you could do that....Mario's/Dave's Market, Baldanza's to name a couple. I can't recall Sammy's store you talk about though. Could be that I didn't get around that area much as I stuck pretty much to the North side except when walking from Jr. High to the Dispatch where I was a paperboy for a few years. Although when I was hanging with Joe Hornby we would tromp down to Alfreds shopping plaza to that grocery store, Victory I think , and grab a couple slices of pizza for our lunch before coming back to classes and I still can't remember any other store we passed.

06/11/09 08:29 PM	#77
Donna Aber Well I better send a case of candles to save my butt..

06/11/09 09:27 PM

#78

I remember the St.joes dances , it was a shorter walk than the others. How about this... running behind the mosquito sprayer, laughing, not a care. Unaware of the toxic fumes we were breathing in. Duh...and the huckster. Truck full of fresh fruits and veggies right out front! Life was simple. I think we got the best time to grow up in.

06/12/09 01:22 PM

#79