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Username: Goat
Post Number: 9825
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:13 am: |    |
Come on be proud. Remember when you went to high school ten, twenty or forty years ago?
Tell us how you still wear your high school football jacket and remember when you skipped classes or had pep rally's together. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 42
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:21 am: | |
Right-On....Goat, Right-On!
I've seen nothing from alums of Northeastern, Southeastern High School, Eastern High School, Western High School....damn - I need a compass!
For that matter, where are all the (Henry Ford) Trojans? |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 2619
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:23 am: | |
Mods- Why don't you just make a superthread and call it "Be True to Your School"? |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 9827
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:31 am: | |
^^Agreed ^^
Who the fuck cares about whatever high school a person went to. Nostalgia is DEAD! |
Atl_runner
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Username: Atl_runner
Post Number: 1975
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:33 am: | |
Why the need for such a stupid post? Think before you post. If you don't like a particular thread or threads, stay away from them. |
Oliverdouglas
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Username: Oliverdouglas
Post Number: 124
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:35 am: | |
Atl_runner: think before you post. If you don't like a particular thread, stay away from it! |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 9829
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:37 am: | |
Actually Runner I am suprised that there were this many posts in the thread considering the fantastic high school graduation rate in Detroit.
Go Turtles! |
Spongebob
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Username: Spongebob
Post Number: 19
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:38 am: | |
I am a Henry Ford Trojan. Class of 71. However my letter jacket no longer fits. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1436
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:41 am: | |
High School? Went to four different high schools in da city, you have a problem with that?
Skipped class all the time to smoke pot, drop window pane 'cid and have consensual sex with cheer leaders, teachers, hussies and whores.
High school football jackets, you must be kidding? If some jock was wearing one of them or a varsity sweater and was in my eye sight they got their ass royally pounded - NO QUESTIONS ASKED! I did not care if there was ten of 'em hanging together, they all received a well deserved ass whoppin'.
Pep Rally? Only wimps attended pep rallies. My crew held pot rallies at Devils Hill's or we would take over the Stonewall Bar or the Schoolcraft Bar and have the wench behind the bar cook us up plate loads of Speedy Beef sandwiches while we washed 'em down with PBR or Blatz. She knew better than to ask for ID or call the cops... |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1758
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 7:46 am: | |
best six years of my life.................. |
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 414
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 9:08 am: | |
St. Mary of Redford 1969.
Stonewall Bar rumored to be part-owned by our mailman (nicknamed Tuna). |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2497
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 9:09 am: | |
I went to High School in the suburbs. We had twelve computers per student, and bidets instead of toilet paper. We had metal detectors at all the entrances to make sure everybody's gold was real. Our mascot was Buddy Bourgeois. He handed out stock options during our cricket matches. |
Yooper
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Username: Yooper
Post Number: 84
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 9:32 am: | |
South Lyon Lions represent! |
Track75
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Username: Track75
Post Number: 2591
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 10:06 am: | |
G.E.D. in da house!!!!! |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1708
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 10:08 am: | |
Finally! I have been waiting for months for someone to call out any high school thread that I can post on. |
Kathleen
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Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2479
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 10:18 am: | |
The difference a generation makes...
I earned a varsity letter and really wanted a letter sweater or jacket but my family couldn't afford it. My son lettered several times over and so earned a varsity jacket, but would not wear one, so we didn't fork over the $$$ to buy one.
I do however still have the varsity football jersey that I wore for the girls powderpuff game during our senior year. And I picked up a football jersey and basketball shirt among other mementos when the school closed a couple years ago. |
Mayor_sekou
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Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 1545
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 12:43 pm: | |
Murray-Wrong class of '03. |
393bird
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Username: 393bird
Post Number: 7
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 3:09 pm: | |
Redford Union Class of 61 |
The_rock
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Username: The_rock
Post Number: 1955
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 3:52 pm: | |
I still have my captain's varsity letter sweater from B'ham High School, Class of 1954, and am proud to say it still fits. All of our letter sweaters at BHS were ordered from the Detroit Knitting Mills which used to be on Gratiot on the east side of the street somewhat across from Historic Trinity Lutheran Church. I believe the building is still there although DKM is long gone.
Does anyone know if the letter sweaters from the Detroit Public Schools were also ordered from DKM? |
Margaret
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Username: Margaret
Post Number: 152
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 6:42 pm: | |
St. Ambrose High School Class of '69
We are the Cavaliers...I still have my high school cheerleader sweater...but it doesn't fit  dang |
Margaret
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Username: Margaret
Post Number: 153
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 6:44 pm: | |
rock, we got our sweaters from that Knitting Mills place, too. very high quality sweaters, don't you think? mine is maroon... |
The_rock
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Username: The_rock
Post Number: 1956
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 8:03 pm: | |
High quality is correct, Margaret. It's over 55 years old and looks new!. Mine is also maroon, with the big white letter B for Birmingham, three white stripes embroidered into the sleeve for each letter in my sport ( Cross Country), and a white, embroidered star on the right shoulder signifying Captain. I have no recollection what it cost back then!
I note the label on my sweater says "Stadium 100% wool, Shaker Sweater Company". I don't know if Shaker is around any more either.
Where did you go to high school? One of the DPS schools? |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1463
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 8:08 pm: | |
I think she said: St. Ambrose High School Class of '69 |
Rustic
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Username: Rustic
Post Number: 3169
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 8:16 pm: | |
track75, why you gotta be frontin' now? |
Cris
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Username: Cris
Post Number: 466
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 8:26 pm: | |
Hey! I went to high school too!!!!! |
Unclefrank
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Username: Unclefrank
Post Number: 99
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 8:29 pm: | |
I've tried to forget HS. |
Frumoasa
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Username: Frumoasa
Post Number: 62
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 8:38 pm: | |
My high school years were spent trying to get done with high school. I took all the classes I needed to graduate and fulfill the credit requirements, nothing fun like "office assistant" or "internet exploration." It was a very boring time for me, but I got to transfer credits from my AP classes to college and my ACT classes passed me out of my freshman rhetoric requirements and all of the general education math classes. I only did 1 semester of senior year and graduated early, but that last semester was a bust. When my parents were off on business, I would have my boyfriend (now husband) call the attendance line in a very ticked off tone and pretend he was my father to excuse me from school and take me shopping on his days off. I don't miss high school at all, I don't even know if anyone will know me at the reunion...I was an invisible, trouble free student that managed to stay under everybody's radar. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 52
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 10:26 pm: | |
Rock....Most of the Mackenzie, Mumford, and Cooley folk bought their letter jackets & sweaters from a place on Wyoming...possibly near Six Mile.
The store was called (something) Mills....but not Detroit Knitting Mills.
My decked-out letter jacket cost about $85, back in 1974....mondo-big bucks for me, back then (hell, even now for that matter). |
Tponetom
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Username: Tponetom
Post Number: 145
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 11:12 pm: | |
Just for the 'hey' of it, I graduated 61 years ago from St. Joe's High School but there is a 'kicker.' Christian Brother Robert Carnaghi, is, TODAY, the Principal of De La Salle High School.
Those Christian Brothers are tough. Brother Bob was on the 1947 St. Joe's team that won the Catholic League Championship. He was one year behind me. A real class act. |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 1333
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 11:35 pm: | |
Gosh, Boul_x, thanks, so much, for sharing that.
Johnlodge's 2497 was the funniest shit I have seen, in a long time, around here. |