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06/04/08 05:39 PM #181     Greg Caldwell All I can say is WOW!! This site is great. I have been gone a long time but I just spent two hours having memory flashes of listening to "free bird" while driving my olive green '67 Mustang convertible and remembering things like... Orange Market Toby's Lodge - crossing the bridge was always much easier going than coming ?? Cabin parties at Hanging Rock Modular(Gain Time)10th/11th vs. Traditional for 12th ? 220 Drive In, Lee-Hi Drive In (pack your trunk) Cow Hill Hunting Hills pool/keg parties (Sugar Loaf, Castle Rock, Olympic and Spring Run too) and then actually driving home usually after dropping off Fu Fu Lacy and Raw Dog Jones at their houses..no crashes, how lucky were we? International Gourmet - 30 years ago supposedly the only place in NOKE to get that fancy made from Rocky Mountain water beer called Coors Highs Ice Cream (Brian Parker) Pappys Pizza (Terry Adkins) Pizza Hut Heralds Squeeze Inn - they never carded Crazy Golf R. County cops taking the cheap beer from the back seat while the good beer was hiding in the trunk or breaking up someones "parents aren't home" party Twin Falls The Cliffs 419 Hop In (Sam gave me a six of BUD on my 18th birthday and the asked me how old I was and then proceeded to quote a few explectives after he realized he had been selling me beer for the past 3 years) Whoops..got carried away Please add more

06/05/08 06:46 AM #182     Brian Parker Today, June 5th, is the EXACT DAY 30 years ago we Graduated from CSHS! Good, Good Times, Friends!!!

06/05/08 08:59 AM #183     Greg Caldwell Happy 30th to all 1978 CSHS Knights!! Let's do at least another 40.

06/05/08 09:52 AM #184     Debbie Brooks (Hite) Brian you are just a wealth of knowledge. How do you know all that stuff. Happy 30th to all of us.

06/05/08 11:06 AM #185     Greg Burbo Greg Caldwell reminded me of another late night joint, the Texas Tavern. "Seats 1000, 10 at a time." or something like that.

06/05/08 02:08 PM #186     Greg Caldwell The TT..I recall some of the signage On the only front window in wide white letters OPEN ALL NITE On the Door No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service Inside on the back wall We Seat 1000 People 10 At A Time Cheezy Western and Bowl wiff anyone? this site is cool

06/05/08 04:39 PM #187     Jeff Reynolds "Roanoke's Millionaires Club" http://www.texastavern-inc.com/ "we dont cash checks or play with bumblebees"

06/05/08 04:59 PM #188     Dorothy Harmon (Mabe) Funny, Caldwell mentioned the cheezy westerns. On the front of the Roanoke Extra section in yesterdays paper there was an article from a guy who has eaten 3000 burgers across the country and wrote a book on the best ones. Here is the link: http://www.roanoke.com/columnists/nair/wb/164383 TT made the grade with their cheezy western! There is even a recipe on how they make them, I didn't remember they had cheese, egg, and onion on the burger, guess it was hard to focus at 2am, just remember them being really GOOD! Happy 30th everyone!

06/05/08 07:01 PM #189     Greg Burbo Holy Cow! The Texas Tavern is still there and has a web site! What a history! I just thought it was a great place to get a burger when I got off work at 2AM (my third job, on the cleaning crew at the bank with the famous Rick Trout and Dave Clingenpeel). Some things do stay they same! I wonder if I can get some of that chili by mail order.

06/05/08 10:03 PM #190     Joelyn Maddox (Harrington) The TT takes me back. After living in Lynchburg for almost 20 years and going to the Texas Inn (use to be owned with the Texas Tavern by brothers?) They split and one kept the name, the other kept the recipes (how to cook greese) I always contended that the TT was much better. Of course none of it was any good until late at night after many adult beverages. We should all make a trip down there after the reunion celebration....in cabs of course. How did we survive driving our high school years??

06/05/08 10:07 PM #191     Joelyn Maddox (Harrington) Oh, and Happy 30 Graduation everybody. I think this time 30 years ago I was on the way to Myrtle Beach.....now there are some stories!!!!!

06/06/08 04:19 AM #192     Linda Grubb Matt Bullington is the owner of TT now.. He is a huge supporter of CS and especially After-prom. My daughter and her date ended up there after prom last year.. He was working and commented that all the pretty young ladies from CS prom would eat FREE... I heard he fed about 20 couples.. But he loved it... Congrat to all!! WOW.. 30 years.... where did all that time go?? I think that Billy Bova has it stored with him.. I think that the idea of heading there after the reunion is great.. let me know and I will warn him!!!

06/06/08 02:11 PM #193     Greg Caldwell Curious...anyone know when and why the CS "letterman" logo style was changed??

06/06/08 10:51 PM #194     Betsy Crow I bet Linda does, she is the class historian! :)

06/06/08 11:54 PM #195     Todd Stockstill I actually worked at the Texas Tavern for 3 or 4 summers, day shift, following a brief stint at the Rustler Steakhouse on 419 making baked potatoes, the Western Sizzlin' wouldn't hire me. The Texas Tavern was a great, eye opening experience coming from the suburbs. What a terrific cast of characters worked and ate there. Matt Bullington, the present owner, was just a little kid back then. It hasn't changed much the past 30 years, except that they now have a cash register and the sodas no longer come in bottles. Back then we had to do all the ciphering in our heads. Unlike Pam, I loved working at the Tanglewood Mall Cinema. I must have worked there 5 or 6 years, even Holidays during college. The manager was a drunken lech, but he never bothered me much. He was a Canadian who was once the head coach of our minor league hockey team, the Roanoke Rebels. He would typically leave shortly after all the movies had started entrusting one or two of us to lock the place up after the last movie ended. After he departed one of us would head to the Kroger next door to purchase beer and a small party in the ticket booth would follow. Nonemployees such as Kase, Stafford, and the now missing "Goose" Bishop often joined us. The pay was called sub minimum wage, $1.95 per hour, perfectly legal, but I still felt like the pay was too much given the minimal amount of work I had to do and the fun I had.

06/07/08 01:26 AM #196     Linda Grubb The new Font.. is called.. Abbadon. It was adopted by the high school about 8 years ago.. In talks, they found there were several different fonts being used by CS teams.. Little Leagues up to CSHS.. So.. with the talk of HIdden Valley coming.. they wanted to unite all the CS teams.. so picking one font was the first step. My daughter managed to get lucky enough to letter and pin in track and she has the old letter.. My son got a letter jacket for football and his is the new font.. so we got the best of both going on... OK.... Miss Betsy!!!!!! Next question... LOL!!

06/07/08 01:35 AM #197     Pam Smith (Copeland) Todd I loved the job. I just didn't love Kilburn. The worst experience was him not the job. The job was awesome! It was so much fun and I loved getting to know you there. I would love to have the chance to go up against him with the strength I've gained since then. It was the oddest thing to read his obituary in the paper here. He actually lived for a while just about 75 miles from where I live now. Small world.

06/07/08 07:12 AM #198     Brian Parker Ahhhhh... first jobs. On my first day of my first job I remember completing one of my first assigned tasks when the Manager next asked me to go out in the parking lot and finish mopping where someone else didn't have time to finish. I was so naive I recall seriously trying to figure out just how I was going to get it done. The answer, of course, is you can't mop a parking lot... it was just a joke. But as a young and dumb 15 I stood there and tried to figure out exactly how I was going to do as I was told. Turns out most everyone had that little trick played on 'em...

06/07/08 03:57 PM #199     Pam Smith (Copeland) That reminds me of my first days as a farmer's wife. I was determined that I could be a farm girl and nothing you threw at me was too much. My husband knew how much I wanted to fit into small town farm life. We were having our first big family barbecue as a married couple. He killed a snake. It was just a little garden snake and he sent one of my step sons in the house to give it to me. He had them tell me that I needed to clean it for the barbecue. I of course didn't want to be the wimpy city girl so I gave it my best shot. Every time my knife touched that snake it moved. It was dead, and I know nothing about snake anatomy but every time I tried to cut it, it moved. I was a wreck and then my husband comes in and sees me and cracks up. He and the boys, after 25 years, still offer to go find me a snake every time we barbecue.

06/08/08 09:23 AM #200     Greg Burbo Joshua, 11, is very disappointed that Vermont has only rumours of poisonous Timber Rattlers in the mountains. The fact that I almost stepped on a copperhead on a nature walk when I was 15 is very cool to him. On another occasion, my brother and I were setting up for a party at our house senior year. When I went out to the patio, I found a copperhead sunning himself by the stone wall. The only way I wanted to deal with him was from a distance. Long, skinny targets are hard to hit but I finally got him, without getting hit by a richocet. Like Pam said, snakes keep moving after they are dead, in this case, he kept striking. Funny, I don't remember much about the party, but I remember that snake very well.

06/08/08 02:34 PM #201     Dorothy Harmon (Mabe) Greg, have Joshua come spend a few days with me here in Eagle Rock if he wants some snake experience! We are getting ready to cut hay and on average we kill or see about 6 rattlers. Just last saturday I was getting ready to walk thru the back yard to close the door on the chicken coupe (yes I have chickens) when I noticed the cat staring at something in the grass off the back deck. Sure enough, a copperhead! Husband killed it and put it on the wood pile. By morning it had moved several feet, dead with no head. Guess the cat saved my life that night, I would have stepped right on it in the grass. I used to be the ultimate farm girl here, but I've lost some of my enthusiasm with the abundance of bears, mtn. lions, coyotes and snakes that we have right in our own back yard. I don't spend alot of time outside in the summer unless I am on the riding mower or 4 wheeler. Guess I'm getting to be a wimp in my old age! Update 6/9/08am. Burbo, if you check out my profile you will see a picture of a 6'blacksnake that I took last night hanging off our chicken coupe. Had to kill it this am...don't think they are so harmless..... I had 1 dead chicken too.

06/08/08 10:23 PM #202     Laurie Bugner (Kerr) Geez. You don't log in for a few days and miss all kinds of stuff! Greg, glad to see you on here and hope you're planning on being at the reunion. First job for me was Mcdonalds on Franklin Rd.Mostly worked with PH people but then got Mike Barbery a job there. Jeanne got a job at Long John Silvers next door. Had forgotten about TT. Late night heaven!

06/09/08 08:20 AM #203     Dorothy Harmon (Mabe) My first job, 15 years old part time at Kenney's on Brambleton. I usually worked the front counter and cooked the chicken, burger flippin was Wayne Sowders forte. Elizabeth Bane '79 also worked there. We had a blast. Cheryl Kenney and her dad used to stop by and I remember how beautiful and glamorous I thought she was even tho she never worked there. I actually worked there until my soph yr at college and moved on to other restaurants for several years. I guess starting work that young taught me responsiblity and financial independence. From CS, I think Mrs. Carr (art) and Mrs. Wilkerson (psych) were my strongest influences as they were both very strong and talented women and encouraged me to express myself (not always a good thing, I could have used a little restraint)

06/09/08 11:04 AM #204     Greg Caldwell At 15, other than mowing about 10 yards per week, and umpiring Little League baseball all day Saturday in the summer, my first real job was attending the golf window in the evenings at Crazy Golf on Brambleton. I was their first employee so I got to pick my job so I didn't have to be involved with any kind of food preparation, which is a good thing (just ask my wife.) I just stood around in the air conditioning at the side window and collected cash and was even able to practice my putting skills when things were slow. I think I gave away more games than I sold. Not a bad job for $2.60 /hr. and all I could eat.

06/09/08 06:16 PM #205     Stephen Thompson My fist job was at Harrison's Christmas Tree farm when I was "going steady" with Martha Harrison in 6th grade (1st kiss). I worked there for years spring-planting , summer-pruning and winter cutting. Next was Long John Silvers on Brambleton Ave - I had to make about 160 pounds of cold slaw every night - I hate cold slaw to this day. Then Kroger and Cave Spring Exxon.

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