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Memories~ the 60's ~ |
Roxie, Class of '72 (April, 2001)
My favorite restaurant I remember was Isaly's Icecream Store (home of the Klondike Bar)on Hamilton Road, I remember it in the shopping center Hamilton/Main, but I could be mistaken. We used to stop there after school or after shopping, it was a great place to meet with friends and discuss boys. Also there was a women's botique in the shopping center where I would go with friends and daydream about buying some of the kool clothes, pea jackets, coats that were midi length, some of the english style clothes that Twiggy was wearing at the time. What memories. I later bought some of those kool clothes after I started working.
Jeff Lodge, Class of '70 (April, 2001)
Mike Bates, Steve Bays, and I used to play basketball at David Bailey's--he would have been class of '70, I believe, and also was the only person I knew who had rabbits--and one especially fond memory is of a Christmas break, maybe 1965 or 1966, when the temperature was in the 70s every day and we played there all day every day. And if Bob's family took the Citizen-Journal, I probably delivered it to them at some point. My C-J route was Robinwood and the side streets.
Mike Cook, Class of '72 (April, 2001)
My mom and dad created and published the Whitehall Reporter. It took a great deal of my time helping them with it when I was growing up. It started out coming out every two weeks and was typed, asembled, and delivered from our living room. Unfortunately a few years after I moved out of Whitehall and on to college they sold the paper and it lasted only a year or two after that. My dad still lives in Whitehall and my mom has passed away. My brother Bill (Class of 74) lives in Pataskala. While Vicki (Griffin, Class of 72) and I live in Phoenix.
Mike Freeman, Class of '68 (September 2003)
As a wild class of "68" person:
You'd remember "The Upper Deck" on James Road. ("The Dantes", " The Rebounds", "Sir Timouthy and The Royals"; yes, even "The Birds" played on the second floor of The Holiday Swim Club clubhouse on the corner of Allegheny Drive.)
A flash back in time is "The Rebounds" lead guitar, Tommy Williams, smashing his guitar to "The Shapes Of Things". (Will, the organ player, grew up on Robinwood.)
And you'd have to remember going to the BBF at Main and James LATE to impress everyone that you were still out and about around 11 or so on Friday Nights. More often then not, these appearances were preceeded by trips to "The Pour House" or "The Chances R".
Of course, you'd have to brag of going every Sunday Afternoon to Valleydale for the battle of the bands that every now and then snuck in a Detroit band led by a guy named Bob Seeger; remember, when he was there, it usually cost an extra 50 cents.
You tried to avoid the W.P.D. after 11p.m. or else you'd find yourself surrounded by 5 or 6 of their cars. (remember that message on T.V.? "It's 11 p.m. where are you children?")
When you turned 3.2 age "The Sugar Shack" and "The Castle" were your hangouts as well as The North and South Berg, and "Positively Fourth Street" was another of your places unless you were at a "haunted house" party or skateboarding somewhere in the "Peanut Hill" area or eating Veal Parmegian at The Blue Danube on North High.
Of couse, Massey's and Angie's had the best pizza and T.A.T. the best Subs and White Castles was the only spot open late!
Remember all those times not to be mentioned when you went to "The Doggy Graveyard" or along Big walnut Creek?
Let's not get any deeper! The kids would be shocked!
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