  Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 2075 Registered: 03-2007 |
Tango is generally barefoot...but he does wear boots when we ride in the mountains...planning a trip to Bryce Canyon...he'll be in boots for a week. The only thing worse than ES's saddle shoes were those godawful white bucks that he was still wearing when he taught at S.Eastern. Ain't no home to go back to...there is no there there! | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1911 Registered: 04-2005 |
When he wore white bucks, did he sing 'April Love'? (Message edited by jcole on June 21, 2008) | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 684 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: Be sure to close the buckles on Tango's galoshes so no snow gets in, just like your mom made you do in the old days. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 2082 Registered: 03-2007 |
Jc: I think ES is a first cousin to Pat Boone. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1927 Registered: 04-2005 |
Better than his brother | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1749 Registered: 07-2006 |
Jc/GB: You two should do stand up at some bar in East Pointe .... It is very strange how GB knows about wearing Saddle shoes and white bucks ... and the 61 groupies were never caught up in that stuff .... I must say that i still do love my penny loafers, deck shoes and crocs ..... Croc's 4/1 to 10/1 on a daily basis..... which means I have croc dots which I am sure you two are clueless about ... Jc still searching the Thumb area for saddle shoes she can burn and GB riding through the Mt.'s of AZ spreading 'White Buck Chalk Dust" over the trails..... The class of 1961 both January and June were the most style conscious group of grads the Heilmann area (see I worked it in) ever produced.... and I cannot wait to hear from both of you..... Pat Boone...are you for real.... 61ers were rockin' to Frantic Ernie Durham and not some pseudo white guy like Pat B..... | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 689 Registered: 04-2008 |
Anyone remember the radio ads for Connie Kaletta and the Motor City Speedway? His son Scott was killed in a fiery crash yesterday. http://www.comcast.net/article s/sports-general/20080621/NHRA -Driver.Killed/ | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1932 Registered: 04-2005 |
ES, while I may not own a pair of Crocs, and probably won't, I assume Croc dots are the little bits of suntan all over your feet, or do you buy the little charms, called Jibbets, that go in the holes for decoration? | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1754 Registered: 07-2006 |
Jc: Thanks for recognizing real stylin' and the role that dots play in todays world. Being very eclectic about most music .. I do hope that you as a younger eastsider didn't focus to much on Pat Boone... Rock on Motown!••••• | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1938 Registered: 04-2005 |
No, just in the respect that his white bucks matched his shoes, I didn't really pay much attention. Besides, he was before my time. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1757 Registered: 07-2006 |
Jc: Not totally clear as to your time frame ???? I do know the TF for OD and GB which was earlier than myself .... so Pat B would fit those circus performers when they danced around the eastside.... | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1943 Registered: 04-2005 |
Graduated HS in 74 | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 696 Registered: 04-2008 |
ES: If it wasn't for the GB and OD generation challenging the musical boundaries of the early '50s, you would still be dressing like a '40s hep cat while sedated in your easy chair listening to Tommy Dorsey music. What? You say you are? | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 2086 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: I don't think so...ES was always more of a Lawrence Welk sort of guy. SHY said the only dance he could do was the fox trot that he learned in gym class at Columbus...1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4...s aid it bored her silly...especially since she was a girl who could really shake it! | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1945 Registered: 04-2005 |
ES, I have yet to figure out if you were born in '61, or graduated that year | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 700 Registered: 04-2008 |
JC: ES never graduated, and there's still some questionable circumstances concerning his birth. GB: That was before the Haight-Asbury years. I saw a Travel Channel episode on San Fran awhile back, and there was a guy who looked a lot like ES in his zoot suit with the big hat and key chain down to his knees. I admit I didn't get a real good look though. They cut away as soon as he started annoying the girls. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1758 Registered: 07-2006 |
Jc: Thanks for the compliment..... so with that said I think you can figure it out, although Gb and OD will be all over your compliment above so get ready or maybe I should get ready.....The two white guy freaks never learned to dance ... and once again it was the Stylin' class of 61 that had it together in so many ways..... I actually began teaching HS biology at SE 5 years before you ever thought about attending Regina.......by '74 I was locked into supporting the needs of special education children in the Cupertino / Palo Alto area of CA........ | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1965 Registered: 04-2005 |
ES, you actually began teaching at SE two years after my husband began teaching English and History at Plymouth HS. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1761 Registered: 07-2006 |
JC: What a great area Plymouth was and I hope it remains the same a s I remember it.... I did love teaching at SE ..... my parents had attended and both grad. in '32. At the 50 year anniversary of the school in 67 they held a special night for all alumni and friends of the school.... So I was in my biology classroom and my parents came and about 5 minutes later into the classroom comes this tiny little lady all dressed up .... and she walks right up to my parents as she was their biology teacher back in the day..... | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 708 Registered: 04-2008 |
ES: The whole Plymouth / Northville area is still very nice. A little pocket of paradise surrounded by west side desolation. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 2091 Registered: 03-2007 |
ES/Jc/OD: I hope you got a pic of you, your parents, and their biology teacher...interesting story. I wonder why SE59 didn't go to that anniversary...we were still living in Harper Wds. in '67. By the time you got to CA in '74 we had parted company and I was in B'ham, AL at UAB...but by '75 I was Dir. of Research for A2 Schools...near Plymouth. I can still see ES...1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4...while SHY was shaking it...the only time he tried to learned to dance he just ended up doing what Billy Crystal called the "whiteman's overbite". Lord, it was embarrassing to see. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1764 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB: U 4 REal? .... Even the SE "White Knight" had 150 black students enrolled in Biology - 2700 others that I had some contact with - 40% of the Staff was ethnic - and even the local 'prostitutes" who hung around Goethe - and Fairview ( a reason most male staff took outside campus duty) ANYWAYS ... I still have all the moves down and can make most of them ..... "I Be in with the In-Crowd" and can SAY it LOUD i'M Black and I'm Proud" | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 2099 Registered: 03-2007 |
ES: Still doin' the "whiteman's overbite", eh? Your story was back in the days when jivin' with the street hookers was no more than jivin'. I remember driving up John R to the Ford after dropping SE59 off at her dorm at Harper Hosp...top down on my '56 Sunliner...jivin' with the hookers at the cross streets..."Hey boy, you want to have some fun? How much is that fun gonna cost me? Depends on how much fun you want to have." The light would change and I'd drive on...never did believe in paying a professional when there were so many good amateurs. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1766 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB: Doin' Drive by on John R with the Johns was cool ... remember that I went to WSU in the late 60's BUT.....BUT went to the ghetto 5 days a week.... for almost 6 years..... | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 2103 Registered: 03-2007 |
ES: By the late 60's the atmosphere had changed considerably...not for that reason but, we left Detroit in '69...the first of many moves. I do admire what it meant to work at SE for those years...you made a difference. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1784 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB: Ya all .... GB and I we be friends...... Go Junglaleers!•••••"Purple Power"..... | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 2105 Registered: 03-2007 |
ES: Damyankee! The word is ya'll! Of course we are friends...and colleague educators...once upon a time my '56 Sunliner had a braided Denby and SE grad tassel hanging from the rear view mirror...had to have been the only one in the city. Excuse me....I gotta go puke! | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1791 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB: "Kissing the Porcelean Queen" Ralphing Hurl Up-chuck sounds like a frat rush party .... or a bad date .... or what OD did during this whole stay in CA........ | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 799 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: Wondering if the Denby and SE tassel colors clashed. May have been an omen of things to come. SE: Actually CA was pretty nice in the '50s. Didn't start going bad until a bad element began intruding in the '70s, mostly around the Bay area. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 2110 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: Never thought about it...but yeah, I guess they did clash...gold and 50/50 purple & white...it seemed like a good idea at the time...lots of things did! |
