Charles C. Brooks

Posted on: Jan 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM

I wanted to say I'm in for the 65th reunion but was unable to get on the web site until today
Charles Brooks
CharlesBrooks2003@gmail.com
(310) 880-4088

I grew up with Jimmy Adams going to Sam Houston and Zundy before high school. He lived about a block away from me on Grant street, and I hung out with him a lot. He got me interested in electronics when he showed me how to build a crystal radio out of seemingly nothing but a crystal, an ear phone and a few wires, which seemed impossible to me at the time. I later on gained heavy experience in a three-year electronics engineering trade school, a one-year electronics school in the Air Force, and working in electronics as an engineering desigh tectnician at Sprage and then at Gearhart Owen and Electrospace Systems in Dallas.

In grade school, Jimmy would use his tremendous hand strength to put a vice-like grip on your hand or arm to make you cry "uncle" ha ha, which wasn't funny at the time. Afterward, I used to walk on egg shells when around JImmy to avoid getting on his "bad side" and having him administer "the claw" on me again.

In high school, he reengineered his car with his own designs like adding a trap door below his feet on the driver's side floorboard. When Jimmy would get stopped by the police late at night, he would open the trap door and put his six-pack of beer down on the ground until the cops got through talking to him, and then return it to inside the car before driving away. Another one of his designs was to move the gear shif lever over to the left side of the steering wheel.so that low gear was up and towards the wheel, then second gear was down and toward the dashboard, and high gear was up and toward the dashboard, very awkward to use for anyone else but him.

Posted on: Jul 23, 2020 at 10:31 PM

Raymond, here's another one for your PC Renaming List.
Puppets are no longer called puppets, they will now be called
Mannequin Americans.