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02/18/09 11:15 AM #186     John Luebchow I thought beer was supposed to burn those old brain cells!

02/18/09 11:46 AM #187     David Wilson John, you know it's beer that gets you pregnant, tequila makes your cloths fall off, champagne makes you crazy, chardonnay makes you confess, Jack Daniels makes you mean, vodka makes you "intelligent" (yeah right)......it's PJ that kills brain cells and we all stopped drinking that years ago. Rico, YOU are the song writer..... And I know someone who had a big crush on Joni....and I ain't saying who......didn't we all find reasons to stop in her Dad's store for a Coke even if we weren't thirsty?

02/18/09 01:31 PM #188     Pam Griffin (Guyer) OMG Boys...That's what you call gettin back to your roots or blast from the past, way, way past!

02/18/09 04:26 PM #189     Rick Hardy By the way Pam...the guys I knew all had a crush on you, too.

02/18/09 10:45 PM #190     Donald Addington David, I never drank beer until I was 21.

02/18/09 10:58 PM #191     David Wilson Yeah right.

02/19/09 09:06 AM #192     Donna Canter (Goforth) Happy Birthday to Bill, Melanie, Martha and Michael!

02/19/09 12:56 PM #193     Rick Hodges Donald arent you the one that was too drunk to get your learners permit?? Maybe I have you confused with someone else!!

02/19/09 04:27 PM #194     Donna Canter (Goforth) Maybe not !!

02/19/09 06:32 PM #195     Martha Briles (Hemrick) Danny Young's mother passed away yesterday. Her obituary is in today's WS Journal. Services will be held tomorrow at Palmyra United Methodist at 11:00 AM.

02/20/09 01:10 AM #196     David Wilson My deepest condolences to Danny and his family.

02/20/09 01:30 PM #197     Rick Hodges David the picture that Pam posted on her profile is awsome. You guys looked great. You look like Major Nelson on I Dream Of Geni Handsome little devil

02/20/09 07:26 PM #198     Steve Kiser Hey, Dave and Rick are bringing back way too many memories. I lived three houses from Joni's dad's store so I know all about that! Used to get Milk Duds and Sugar Daddies all the time. I'm amazed I still have teeth. I was curious about the comment about Mineral Springs girls. I must have missed something somewhere - but in those days a lot of things went past me.

03/02/09 03:44 PM #199     Rick Hardy Alright...the board has been quiet for awhile so I'll add some more memories. The cheap wooden rubber band driven airplanes (if you didn't pay attention when winding them up that plastic propeller would do a number on you finger)...playing with army men and bombing them with dirt clods...proving to Mrs. Yarborough (2nd Grade teacher at Old Town who seemed like 100 years old but was probably 40) that I could not eat macarroni and cheese without getting sick...Atomic Balm...playing Dots...paper football...school trips to Old Salem...having to recite Robert Burns poetry in Mr. Goodwin's class (or maybe Mrs. Thomas?)while sitting in the same row as someone (I think Tim Saunders) who did his part with a Scottish accent...busting myself in the lip trying to learn "round the world" on my Duncan yo-yo...learning the hard way why infielders should wear a cup...going to the Dixie Classic Fair, eating vast quantities of cotton candy, popcorn, and candy apples, then riding the Octopus and throwing up all over myself and my girlfriend (who shall remain nameless to spare her the embarrassment of that memory...but it WAS very colorful)...my class being called in from the playground and hearing over the intercom that JFK had been shot...staring at the TV in bug-eyed amazement the first time I saw Jiffy Pop...homemade ice cream before they put electric motors on the makers. Someone else please jump in.

03/03/09 11:07 AM #200     Steve Kiser OK Rick I will give it a shot. Remember Fizzies? Beanie and Cecil? Astro-Boy? When soft drinks first came out in aluminum cans? When McDonalds just sold the little burger, French fries, a soft drink, and a milk shake? Staley's? Northside Bowling alley? "Where the Action Is?" The Flying Dutchman and Daddi-o on the patio? The instrumental song they would play just before they went to the news? The Ventures? Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs? Mom and Dad not letting you watch Hullaballoo because of the suggestive dances of the go-go dancers? The Man from UNCLE? Billy Packer and Bones McKinney calling ACC basketball games on the C.D. Chessley network and that Jefferson Pilot commercial with the jingle "Sail with the Pilot..."? Bob Gordon? "Do the Freddy"? (That I am trying to forget.) Shopping in downtown Winston-Salem? How'm I doing so far?

03/03/09 09:03 PM #201     Fred Patterson ...Dairy Queen in Oldtown,Food Fair bagging groceries, mini-bikes, kissing Joni Windsor (yeah!), hoping to kiss Linda Robertson, Strawberry field concerts at the coliseum, giving Ms Moultry a hard time, (Patterson, sit down Patterson!)WTOB, WAIR, being rescued by Claude Smalls (yep, he actually rescued me from some guys trying to shake me down), Me and Bill Patterson are brothers, ....lol

03/04/09 11:58 PM #202     Rick Hardy Ok...The Monkees every Monday night (Mike Nesmith was the coolest)...the bug truck...the ice cream truck...southern gospel quartets...learning to play that dang F chord without buzzing the strings...yes, the hot dogs at the Dairy Queen in Old Town were surpassed only by those at the Dine In Car...always looking to see if Pilot Mountain was visible just before you started down the hill into Old Town on Reynolda Road (still do that)...Mr. McGirt at Northwest pulling me aside to tell me I shouldn't be walking down the hall with my arm around a girl but I knew better...the 0-0 tie we had with arch rival Mineral Springs when I couldn't play because I'd gotten a concussion the week before...trying to get through Spanish class with my hick accent...going down Ziglar Rd. as a passenger in one of Mike Joyce's friend's Camaro at 115 mph...being a passenger in Mark Williams' '64 GTO and going up his driveway at 115 mph (seemed like it, anyway)...waking up very early and listening for the sound of tire chains - the surest indicator of no school because of snow...watching the Channel 12 weather man "climb up" the ladder to the fake weather tower...fish sticks on Friday's at school...how everyone would crack up when Mr. Malcom would say things like "Bus 274 is now in the building"...forgetting the stupid locker combination...looking for the good golf ball I knocked into the woods and never finding anything but a crummy Club Special...World Book encyclopedias...trying to chew tobacco at baseball practice and getting sick from it...hearing guys with taps on their shoes coming down the hall...Mrs. Speas teaching from the wrong math book. And Fred...what's this BS about you kissing Joni Windsor? I demand proof.

03/05/09 10:35 AM #203     Steve Kiser Be kind, Rick. Remember we are all getting older and our memory plays tricks on us. I've imagined kissing a lot of girls I never did.

03/06/09 10:12 AM #204     John Luebchow What did you guys do, keep diaries? How can you remember this stuff?

03/06/09 03:43 PM #205     Rick Hardy John, Clean living and a clear conscious contribute to a good memory. You must remember something from your childhood...like how lawns that were cut early in the spring just had a different aroma than the midsummer cut...how robins were Spring's vanguard...how dairy products used to be home delivered (including glass milk bottles)...when a 3 wood was made out of persimmon instead of metal alloy...how sometimes at night you could catch some really interesting AM stations on the skip (for me it was WOWO in Ft. Wayne)...when UNC was a football power (sorry - NOBODY remembers that). See, it's easy!

03/07/09 04:40 PM #206     Steve Kiser Now, Rick, if you really want to go back on memories of radio. I remember listening with my grandparents to the Gtand Ole Opry (I was raised on the Gospel according to Ernest Tubb) on WCKY, Cincinnati 1 Ohio, where as a gift you could receive a Bible with His words in red. Then when I started elementary school, I had to listen to my parents station, WSJS, with Wally Williams, who always introduced Andy Williams as cousin Andy. I remember how happy I was to get a transistor radio where I could listen to my music. I remember listening to WAIR and WTOB, to the Flying Dutchman and Daddi-O on the patio. I remember listening to George Lee who occasionally shows up on PBS when they do the doo-wop specials. I remember at night listening to an FM station in High Point, and then when the programming became progressive rock, listening to KZL. I still remember everyone talking about the Beach Boys "Good Vibrations" and the Bee Gees' "Jive Talkin", because they were so different from what we heard before. And, by the way, if your classic rock station has a how by Tom Kent, that is our old classmate Kent Newton, and he plays the music of our time. Ahh, those were the days...

03/08/09 09:57 PM #207     Fred Patterson Ok Rick,,,we were at a party at her house, in the basement. All of a sudden, the song "Love is Blue" started playing and I mustered the courage to ask her to dance. Thats all it took!!!!Every time I hear that song I think of her!!!! Ok, here goes....runing the 80 yard low hurdles at Northwest, sledding down hole #17 at Pinebrook CC in the winter, watching Mark Williams "wurly wurtlizter" thing a mabob when the band played to get that "wawa" sound, cruising in my black and white VW Karmann Ghia down Stratford Rd then down Reynolda to Staleys and back. Working the car hop grill at Oldtown Restaraunt on Reynolda Rd., Yelling at Boyce from the stands during ball games,evading security at Hanes Mall,..(00ps can I still get in trouble for that?)

03/09/09 12:02 AM #208     David Wilson Ah, you guys. Remember those brand new Gumby and Pokey figures BEFORE you started bending them (lasted about 2 minutes)......the GI Joe action figure that just never had any other action figure to play with because he was just too big...HA! dirt clods at army men....Brian Brooks used to torch his with gasoline and a match.....how about watching Davey and Goliath, the Arthur Smith Show, the Super 6 cartoon show....remember the 1st time you saw Samantha Stevens? Jeannie the Genie? Ginger and Mary Ann?....yes, those ladies were on TV for us, you guys....remember when Andy and Helen tried to blend in at one of Opey's parties by dancing to rock & roll music (if you could call it that)..it has always made me cringe even when i see that rerun today...and the blondes from Munt Pilot..(Hiya Doll!)....going to the Kiddie Show at the Carolina Theater Saturday mornings....going to Sears downtown afterwards....the smell of tobacco driving past Whitaker Park....watching the dancing colored water show at Whitaker Park....fresh bread reeking from the Merita Bread company if you drove by at the right time.....tobacco stems on the lawns of RJR employees (you knew who had money in your neighborhood) .....trading cards or playing cards clipped to your bike with a clothes pin to make that incredible sound against the spokes.....Vrooom Motors that replaced those playing cards.....cap guns.....hammering a whole roll of caps at one time on your driveway making your ears ring for an hour....crystal radios you could wire to your telephone wall plate and pick up stations from Swazieland.....string-controlled gas-powered airplanes (round and round and round).....tying three balls of string together and getting your kite so far up there you could hardly see it .....clackers .....wheelo's ...slinkys .....Duncan tops with interchangable nylon tips.....monster models..... OK, the reason i came here tonight.....congrats to the heels....enjoy it while it lasts......GO DEACS!!!!!

03/09/09 10:59 AM #209     Steve Kiser Hey, David, I remember tobacco stems only too well. My parents were RJR folks and we had some on our lawn at Halloween. I will tell you something: eating candy while your parents aren't there to supervise and the small of tobacco stems do not mix. Need I say more?

03/09/09 02:25 PM #210     Valerie Dotson (Westmoreland) Dingo boots and polyester pants - I had never seen either until I came to North!

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