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Post Number: 1116
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Monday, August 04, 2008 - 7:21 pm: |    |
Boys: I forgot to tell you about the ‘special’ guys in the Keys. One group of old ‘50s Fordham expats who were too kinky even for Fordham. Everyone was there except GB, their former leader. Another group of Haight Ashbury rejects. The regulars down there won’t have anything to do with any of them because they are considered too strange. |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2291
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 11:32 pm: | |
Guys: I can't think of anyone from Fordham who headed to the Keys...most of them thought Ohio was "down South"...it was a very manly street...Mapleridge was a totally different question...to say nothing of Eastwood!
(Message edited by GoBlue on August 05, 2008) |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2005
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 12:55 am: | |
GB: Where in the house is the Award hanging - maybe in the EASTWOOD ROOM????? |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1123
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 1:28 pm: | |
The Fordham gang tried settling "down South" in Ohio first but was run out of the state to the cries of “Not with our sons you don’t.” |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2294
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 2:52 pm: | |
ES: Hung it in Tango's stall but he grabbed it and tossed in out into the manure pile...he's one smart horse.
OD: Soooo....tell us more about your trip to Key West. |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1128
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 10:24 pm: | |
GB: I thought I told you. As soon as I discovered Jimmy Buffett wasn't home I headed out of town. It was only by chance that I heard about the Fordam expats down there. They tend to keep a low profile so the the locals don't beat them up because of their unusual alternative lifestyle. |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2299
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 10:43 pm: | |
OD: Well...that makes sense...the guys from Fordham were a very, very manly group...hoooahhh! |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1133
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 10:50 pm: | |
GB: If the Fordham preference was towards manly (or even female) partners there wouldn't have been any problem with the locals. |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2302
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 11:17 pm: | |
OD: Well...like I said earlier...I really doubt that any of the Fordham crowd were able to find their way down to Key West...I really thing that the second tackiest city in the country...Orlando (second only to Las Vegas)...was the limit of their Southern excursions. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2010
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| | Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 11:52 am: | |
Snow Birds was the term used for those on Eastwood who went south ... I am so glad that I came west ..... |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2303
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| | Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 2:51 pm: | |
You got that right...we spent a month in FL on Ft. Myers Beach when ST retired...that was enough of that...glad we came west...bad enough that the Valley is jammed with snowbirds in the winter...at least they don't come up here...cities of RV's grow in the winter in the desert around Yuma...talk about tacky! |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2011
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| | Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 2:58 pm: | |
GB: Hope you are still spinning that 45 rpm .... and went to an RV tacky party .... Hi - C, Keystone, and white saltines (no salt) and Velvetta ... Rock On!••• |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2307
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 3:04 pm: | |
ES: Actually...put the 45 rpm on EBay...the bid is up to $284.00 with three days to go...my heartfelt thanks go out. |
Olddetroiter
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| | Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 6:39 pm: | |
GB: I never said the Fordhams FOUND their way to Key West. But with every state they got evicted from they ended up a little further south until it was either the Keys or Cuba. Castro wouldn't have them so they settled into a more 'open' society. |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Friday, August 08, 2008 - 12:28 pm: | |
OD: No es verdad...Cuba libre! Viva Cuba! |
Eastside61
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| | Posted on Friday, August 08, 2008 - 3:59 pm: | |
Boys: Didn't Fidel C go to Columbus before heading south in 1959? ..... I was positive that he lived over on Cedargrove and Brock ... |
Olddetroiter
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| | Posted on Friday, August 08, 2008 - 7:15 pm: | |
OK guys, I confess. I didn't go to Key West, and the Fordham guys never found their way there either. The typical Fordhamite had enough trouble finding 7 Mile, let alone Key West. GB went off looking for Eastwood once and hasn't found his way home yet. |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2314
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 5:07 pm: | |
Close but no cigar! I was visiting on Mapleridge...there were so many foxes on the street that the call went out for volunteers since the locals were clearly out of their league...I wasn't lost trying to make it back to God's world...just exhausted. |
Eastside61
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 2:22 pm: | |
I never met a fox that would EVER get into a valiant ..... especially driven by some lame "ned" who lived on Fordham ... Even Dennis E would not allow you park the Valiant in front of his house ....or even on Salter .... maybe on Parkgrove over by the Carey Sisters home. |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2315
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 4:43 pm: | |
You keep forgetting...clearly a sign of the aging process...that the sad Valiant was a product of the marriage to SE59...the car was sad...the marriage was sad...she was sad...not exactly the shinning days of my life. |
Olddetroiter
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 8:31 pm: | |
It’s true. GB was exhausted by the Mapleridge girls. They all became track stars whenever he visited the street. As soon as they heard Renee M. screaming “Get back to Fordham where you belong” the adrenaline kicked in and they all took off. GB chased them all night but never came close to catching one. He finally exhausted himself and collapsed at the curb where he remained until the street cleaners came the next morning. |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 8:25 pm: | |
Well...awright...I'm man enough to admit it...never did get anywhere with the Mapleridge foxes...I still think Renee is a figment of ES's wild imagination. |
Olddetroiter
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| | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 11:05 pm: | |
GB: I think ES got too involved with his patients’ fantasies and invented Renee so he could participate on equal terms. |
Eastside61
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| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 12:05 am: | |
Renee Update: Thanks to brother BE the Renee mystery has taken a new turn ... BE remembers her and her brother Harry ... He confirms that she was a total FOX and he remembers her living on Seymour and not Maplerdge .... You have to remember that I was under water for more than 7 minutes at the foot of lakewood as a result of being at a slumber party on Bishop and CPD in 1960.... so the memory therapy sometimes needs to be boosted .... |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 1:49 pm: | |
Well...I trust BE's memory...he is a fine upstanding representative of the E clan...one who conducted himself as a true gentleman throughout his Denby years...never did understand why he chose MSU. |
Olddetroiter
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| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 3:00 pm: | |
ES: Thanks for clearing up the Renee mystery, but that raises another question. If you passed by her house on Seymour on the way from your home to Columbus were you stalking her, or do you just get lost a lot? |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 4:06 pm: | |
OD: I'll bet he was cutting down the alley at night just to get a peak in her window. |
Eastside61
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| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 8:13 pm: | |
Stalking seems to be the correct answer .... remember it was OD who did the window thing in MI and CA and recently in Houston. |
Olddetroiter
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| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 10:56 pm: | |
GB: ES had a routine he followed every night. First it was down his alley to leer at the Ritz girls until they pulled the shades down, then on to Renee’s alley to peek in her windows, and finally finish the night with a big cone from the Taste Freeze at Spring Garden and Hayes. His parents never understood why it took him three hours to take out the garbage. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2029
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 1:04 am: | |
GB: all of that and then there was Monday night Tom Jefferson Library - Wed night Lombardi's or Pippo's - Friday Saturday night activities and then resting on Sunday and back again to get ready for Monday ... and then throw in Renee stalking ..... Life was really academic .... |