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Post Number: 1637
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 9:21 pm: |    |
OD: You know what I am thinking .... Is that 7&K might have been one of those pretty skirted dates that GB had.... we do know that he dated HT for most of 58 ..... I am convinced that it was HTavis who talked GB to head towards Kalamazoo and be a bronco .... I think I read it in Tango's recent horse book.... |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1937
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 10:54 pm: | |
ES/OS: "Turned out okay"...like you two? Ohmigawd...spare me...if there were ever two in need of serious mental assistance it's the two of you...the water delivered to Mapleridge must have gone through lead pipes!
(Message edited by GoBlue on June 09, 2008) |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 1638
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 12:01 am: | |
GB: What....? Od and Es are not "ok" ..... You got to be kidding ... We didn't have running water on Mapleridge until after OD moved to Hollywood to join Larry, Moe and Curly ... |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1944
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 12:28 am: | |
ES: Hmmmmm...I thought L, M, & C lived on Mapleridge until they...one by one...became Spartans. Personally, I think OD was a member of the Abbott and Costello team in CA...he bears a distinct resemblance to Bub Abbott. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 1645
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| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 1:06 am: | |
GB: You are right ... Bud "OD" Abbott - sorry!•••• LMC, Inc did host the 3 Stooges Festival for years on Mapleridge ... the best part was when we auctioned off the L,M,C football jerseys - L=67 M=68 and C= 70 ... My mom never figured it out as to why we ( R-E -T) would be cracking up when the stooges appeared on TV in their football uniforms ..... subliminal humor for sure!••• |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 429
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:46 am: | |
ES: Is it true that GB (aka Uncle Fester) had to woo SR for a whole summer before she would finally agree to introduce him to HT? |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1948
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 2:25 pm: | |
ES/OD: Have you two have traded places on the couch again? How do the two of you decide which one gets to be the shrink and which one the patient? In the meantime...eat your hearts out envisioning SR and me watching the sub races during the summer of '58..."Gimme a D...gimme an E...gimme, gimme, gimme!" |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 433
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 3:39 pm: | |
GB: In your case we both get to be the shrink. You’re disturbed enough to keep us both in business for a long, long time. It might be something to brag about if you had both been in the same car watching the races. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 1646
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 4:05 pm: | |
OD: I guess our records are in error ... seems that some part of 58 was the one date GB had with the Cheering TAR ... when did he date HT for those 7 or 8 months????? |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 439
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| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 6:20 pm: | |
ES: Dang!•• The thesaurus on my computer is messed up again. I typed he “had to pursue SR” (as in chase), and the thesaurus changed it to “had to woo SR”. So to set the record straight, he had to chase SR for a whole summer before she would finally agree to introduce him to HT. I wasn’t aware he was able to wrangle a pity date with her too. The 8 months was from when SR finally introduced them until GB had to leave for K-zoo. It was a sad parting with many tears shed by both. |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1953
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| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 8:13 pm: | |
ES/OD: How does one write "the bird"? Besso mi cullo...up your's! Or...as earlier posted...goat pee to both of ya! |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 1652
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 9:20 pm: | |
GB: I think that SJS did teach the BIRD WRITING as part of its extensive curriculum .... E Fruend I think was the originator of the programs.....I think she was quoted once " Get under the desk GB with that pencil and paper ... either right ES and OD are right or I only dated SR once 12,457 times" |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1955
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| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 10:14 pm: | |
ES/OD: I only dated SR 12,457 times...it was a hell of a summer...I was exhausted! |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 1659
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| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 10:38 pm: | |
GB: Good for you ... •••• when did VSE59 appear ????? |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1960
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| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:08 pm: | |
ES: We reconnected early in Jan. '59...she called and asked me to escort her to her prom...it's a long story...I shoulda gone ice fishing instead. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 1660
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| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:35 pm: | |
Gb: Or trolling in another direction ... |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 441
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 8:24 am: | |
GB weren’t you a little suspicious that she couldn’t get a prom date in her own school? I guess experience eventually taught you the reason why |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1964
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:01 am: | |
OD: Hindsight being perfect...you are correct...I shoulda thunk it through. I was just trying to be a nice guy and do a poor Lutheran girl a favor. |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 446
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 1:27 pm: | |
GB: Hindsight? Isn't that what got you into trouble in the first place... doing too much sighting of the hinds and not paying attention to the personalities? |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1968
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 1:44 pm: | |
OD: Sadly, you are sooooooo correct...was lookin' fer love in all the wrong places...or was it lust? No good deed goes unpunished...that'll teach me, in the next go 'round, to do a girl a favor just cuz she's cute. |
Eastside61
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 7:29 pm: | |
GB: We all feel for you •••••••(cough.....cough) Must have been those cigarettes that I got a Supreme Drugs ... but OD and I will be there to NURSE you back to health ....(cough.........)
ES 61 Proudly, Still Using Hindsight ••••• |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 563
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 10:55 pm: | |
ES61: What a coincidence.. Was just reminiscing about Supreme Drugs with my mom today. This is the Supreme Drugs on Fordham just east of Hayes right? Apparently they had a welcome wagon of goodies for the new residents in the area back in the early 50s. The "free" gifts were cheap and the service inattentive at Supremes so the Rexall Drugs (before it became Revco) on 7 and Hayes became the family Pharmacy. Almost an eerie coincidence that place was mentioned on the same day. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 1571
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:02 pm: | |
Here is Heilmann as it looked today. I couldn't bring myself to take pictures of the rest of it. It was too sad.
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Eastside61
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Post Number: 1674
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:10 pm: | |
JC: Heilman Park Middle ? Is Burbank which was a K-8 large school in the '50's still around? and also MacGregor ????
Rumor has it that GB has left Northern AZ on horseback (Tango) and is headed east to the thumb area in MI in search of Nehru's .... and maybe you , too..... lock your doors!••• |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:24 pm: | |
Oh man...that is a sad picture...they paved Paradise and put up a parking lot. The only thing I have ever seen like it was in Girdwood, AK...50 miles from Anchorage...Mt. Alyeska...it was a GREAT ski lodge in the late 80's...beer and serious skiing...sort of like Jackson Hole...before it became Jackson Hole Glitzy...anyway...a Japanese corporation bought it and put up an ultra, ultra for rich Japanese...turned the whole place into a northern Aspen...glitz, etc...ruined the entire place...not a mountain I would ski anymore. The Heilmann I knew was a skating rink with chain-link fencing above the boards. No place for wusses. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 1678
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:33 pm: | |
GB: You remain VERY VERY quiet about the Nehru's....... Speak up after you scroll up the thread.... also when you were in the Army weren't you stationed at Heilmann in the front along 7 mile????? |
Jcole
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Post Number: 1584
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:47 pm: | |
It was too sad. This building faces Maddelein across from the old St. Jude playground, which is just weeds and dirt. At the other end of Heilmann is some other school like building. In the middle is a rec building of sorts and a football field. No more ice rink, swings, slides or ant hill. On the Burbank(no longer called Burbank, btw) side, facing Heilmann is a sign that says 'Heilmann Recreation Center' but all I saw was the one building and a bunch of broken concrete and more weeds.
There were some little tiny kids in bathing suits and towels playing on the lawn at Burbank, with teachers. That was the only redeeming thing I saw there. |
Eastside61
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:51 pm: | |
JC: What is sad in so many ways is that those little kids will NEVER have the experiences that we all did ...... |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:52 pm: | |
Jc...that is incredibly sad...especially the SJ playground...that whole area was so clean, so vibrant...so Eastside...what a sad city. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 1586
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 11:53 pm: | |
You are so right, ES. The infrastructure as well as the innocence are all gone. |