  Greatdays Member Username: Greatdays Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2009 |
Kellyroad, North side of Fordham, towards Rex... were you closer to Rex or Redmond ? | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1830 Registered: 04-2008 |
GD, back in my day, you could kiss your baseball goodbye if you hit it into Mr. Gettow's[sp?] yard from the blacktop. Even if he wasn't outside to prevent you from retrieving it, you could never find it anyway in amongst the crops. His house was in the middle of your block, and his yard was like a small farm. I think it was a double lot. Remember him? | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1336 Registered: 04-2007 |
GD: Closer to Redmond. spent a lot of time on the black top with basketball or baseball. There may have been a few rubber balls or baseballs that landed in our near your back yard...but I swear no broken windows. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 673 Registered: 03-2008 |
Darn! Still the oldest one here. GD, did any of your sibs graduate in '58? | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1337 Registered: 04-2007 |
GD: Do you recall the Gotlers (sp?)on the south side of Fordham toward Rex...Dad was a fireman. There was a Tom and an older brother. They were active in football at SJ and I believe the older brother would have been around your age. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2682 Registered: 04-2008 |
Welcome to the forum GD. 2 families I would like ask if you knew were the Carlin's or LaFata's. I believe they both lived on Forham in between Redmond and Rex. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1338 Registered: 04-2007 |
GD: Concerning the Nike missile site...There is a post on the Heilmann thread in the Eastside Mega thread that said that before the Nike Missile site and the beginnings of Heilman that the area was an open land and was called Ford Garden. | ||
Greatdays Member Username: Greatdays Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2009 |
7andKelly - The Cotteau's (Mary & Rennie) were very nice people. They allowed me to go in their garden to get the "lost" balls for the other kids. I'd go there for lunch once a week as a kid... Eastburn - No, but one was in the class of 59... Kellyroad - Yes, the Gottliers (sp) had three kids; oldest was Tom, then Jill and Paul. Dad (Bob) was a fireman... Zitro - Yes, the Carlin's lived on the north side and the LaFata's lived on the south side. Carlin's were closer to Rex and LaFata's closer to Redmond. Kellyroad - When I was younger the neighbors always called it "The Ford Field"... | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2683 Registered: 04-2008 |
I wonder if anyone ever won a game at that Ford Field? | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1831 Registered: 04-2008 |
Glad to know they were nice. He must have just got a bad rap like the neighbor with the snow shovel from Home Alone. I'm sure you remember the Krafa's, Skentnors, Edwards's and Mr. Shutie then too. I remember playing rummy once with Fr. Ording at the Rapport Club across the alley too. | ||
Diane12163 Member Username: Diane12163 Post Number: 510 Registered: 07-2008 |
Eastburn---You may know my eldest sister Judy VH. She would have graduated in 58 or so and then went onto Dominican. Nancy VH, my second eldest would have graduated a year or so later from SJS and also went on to Dominican. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 674 Registered: 03-2008 |
Diane, I recall some VHs but none in my class - at least according to the class picture I just checked. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2684 Registered: 04-2008 |
EB- I didn't think VHS was a recognized technology yet back then, wasn't Beta first? | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5730 Registered: 04-2005 |
Actually, I think the closest they had was reel-to-reel | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2685 Registered: 04-2008 |
EB was on puke patrol so we'll have to call on our video cart specialist 7. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5731 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yeah, it's hard to keep up with technology when you're swinging a mop | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 379 Registered: 07-2008 |
what kind of movie camera used those rolled up films in the plastic pop top holders? About the size of a roll of 50 cent pieces. I remember those at SJS. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1832 Registered: 04-2008 |
I resemble that remark. BTW, the highest tech we ever got in the classroom at SJS during my tenure was a film strip projector. The fancier flicks had simulcast audio we played on suitcase players. Oh, and some of the cool nuns had those antenna-like telescopic pen pointers. | ||
Diane12163 Member Username: Diane12163 Post Number: 511 Registered: 07-2008 |
I remember the monotone voice of the narrator in those reels. When I got to eight grade, when it was close to graduation, about the last 3 or so months, they started showing movies on Fridays in room 100, that one that was right between the two sides of the school that separated the lower from the upper grades. I got to see Bless The Beasts And The Children and What Ever Happened To Baby Jane. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 675 Registered: 03-2008 |
We showed hand shadow pictures with the firelight on the cave walls. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1339 Registered: 04-2007 |
GD: Did you hang out on the black top? There were always kids wanting to play 500 baseball, strike out or just play one on one basketball or 21....all ages from 8 to 9 year olds to older teens. There were also many go-karts or minibikes that got a workout over there. Tom Gotlier(sp?) was a couple of years older than me (Jill was my sister's friend) but he and several of the kids from Fordham, Eastwood, Saratoga and even Faircrest would engage in the game of Army. We all had our toy riffles and/or pistols, bikes. We'd break up into teams, separate, and try to find each other via sneak attacks. The whole triangle was in bounds. Later on when walkie-talkies were available we could communicate and give our various locations hoping to coordinate a sneak attack.....Those were indeed great days. BTW, If you have any old photos of the neighborhood or St. Jude Parish, It would be great if you could copy them and either post them here or on the St. Jude Face book website http://www.facebook.com/pages/ Detroit-MI/St-Jude-Roman-Catho lic-Parish/13026593213 | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1340 Registered: 04-2007 |
EB:So they did have fire then? | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 676 Registered: 03-2008 |
They invented it right around the time I was born. We were pretty rich so we always had fire in our cave. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2686 Registered: 04-2008 |
quote: EB-I thought you guys did a great job with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =KW-3KwXpkkM | ||
St_juder Member Username: St_juder Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2009 |
I came across this forum and I saw my good friend Jim Mazzola was mentioned and to answer the question that was asked if he was called muzz. Indeed he was and is still called that to this day. Also Gary Trupiano lived over by Beaconsfield across from Harper Woods. I did graduate from St. Judes in 71 and Denby in 75 barely. | ||
St_juder Member Username: St_juder Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2009 |
I came across this forum and I saw my good friend Jim Mazzola was mentioned and to answer the question that was asked if he was called muzz. Indeed he was and is still called that to this day. Also Gary Trupiano lived over by Beaconsfield across from Harper Woods. I did graduate from St. Jude in 71 and Denby in 75 barely. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 678 Registered: 03-2008 |
Welcome, SJ. Once you read all 8,000+ posts here you'll be fully up to speed. I think you'll enjoy yourself once you get used to the slightly off-center characters who populate this thread. | ||
Tsomyak Member Username: Tsomyak Post Number: 97 Registered: 04-2008 |
Hey, I resemble that remark! | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5771 Registered: 04-2005 |
EB, I may be left of center politically, but I'm perfectly balanced in all other ways. Man, that was hard to type with a straight face. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 679 Registered: 03-2008 |
Boy. We can sure tell who's a little touchy here can't we? :>) JC, I always think of you as a model of stability. TS, I really don't know you well enough to insult you....yet. |
