Lee's Traveller April 10, 1963 |
Advanced Orders Now Being Accepted For The 1965 Silver Sabre on CD-ROM Your wait is over. Thanks to Cherri Polly Massey's generous loan of her own precious 1965 yearbook, I have completed the scan of it and am in the process of putting the final touches on it to create the long awaited 1965 Silver Sabre CD. For those of my class, the Class of 1964, here is a golden opportunity for you to own a yearbook and see how the juniors turned into seniors and followed in our footsteps down the hallowed halls of Lee High School. For the Classes of 1965 and 1966 here is your chance to replace the lost or never purchased yearbook of your highschool days. I am taking orders for the yearbooks in the Souvenir Shop and will be shipping in a couple of weeks. The price is $10 which includes shipping. The CD will include JPG photos, a Microsoft Word 2000 version of the yearbook, and an Adobe Acrobat PDF file of the same. Please click on the link below to go to the Souvenir Shop to order your's now. The following people had their notices bounce back for bad e-mail addresses: clint1144@aol.com brhughesb@netscape.com Answers 1. The Huntsville Times Building 2. Dunnvant's 3. 1550 4. You put your feet into a fluoroscope (x-ray) machine and saw your feet and the shoes. 5. Buster Brown 6. Ring Worm 7. The Twickenham Pharmacy 8. Honey's 9. Jefferson 10. Whitesburg, Parkway, Woody's, University Bonus 1. Neal Neumann 2. Dianne Hughey, Class of '64 |
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Do You Remember...? by Tommy Towery Here's this week's Trivia. These were assembled by me, and as Collins says, from my memory. Feel free to send me e-mail pointing out my mistakes or corrections and also to send me your own trivia items. As usual, the answers are in the bottom left hand column. Okay, do you remember... 1. ...the name of the building in the picture above? 2. ...which department store downtown that had live elevator operators that actually asked "Floor please" ? 3. ...the AM frequency of WAAY Radio? 4. ...how were you fitted for shoes at Belk-Hudson Department Store? 5. ...the major shoe brand for kids sold there? 6. ...what was medically wrong with a lot of kids that made them wear stocking caps until it was cleared up? 7. ...the name of the downtown drugstore on Washington Street that had the restaurant in the basement with the soda fountain? 8. ...the name of the little-bitty grocery store by the railroad tracks on Oakwood near Lee? 9. ...that many of the phones numbers in Huntsville started with JE (i.e. JE 4-2656). What did the JE stand for? 10. ...the name of two of the Drive-In movies? Bonus.... 1. Which classmate had the Lee High radio show on WAAY Radio? 2. Which classmate's dad ran the resturant in question 7 above? ____________________________________________________________________ From Our Mailbag... Subject: Bon Air Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:41:03 -0500 From: Cheryl Massey <cherylmassey@home.com> Is the Bon Air Restaurant still in business in Huntsville? My family used to go there after church on Sundays. My mother still hasn't found yeast rolls that she likes as well as she did Bon Air's. Also, I didn't know Terry Preston in high school, but I'm very curious as to how he got the nickname "Moses". Cherri Polly Massey Subject: On Miss Monroe Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:51:17 +0200 From: Ed Paulette <openmind@passagen.se> I remember Miss Monroe very fondly, but mostly from the 7 or 8th grade. I liked to read at that time and still read other things than science fiction, at least I think I did. (Nancy Drew books? - already a feminist!) Miss Monroe gave us 50 points on our six weeks grade for every book we reported on and she didn't set any limits! As I remember it, there were 600 points total on all the different assignments and tests for each six weeks, but you could take extra points in one area to make up for points in another. By the end of the first six weeks, I had enough accumulated book report points to not have to do too very much the rest of the year! I wonder if any one remembers Mrs Bowling, who she replaced in the middle of the year, and under what circumstances. (Note this was 8th grade, so a lot of folks may not have come to Lee yet. It was still a Junior High at that time. Cecil V. Fain was principal. Six years at Lee was a looong time!) Mrs. Bowling promised us that we would at least remember her - she was a tough teacher -- one always remembers the tough ones, she said. Does anyone else remember the great argument with her predecessor regarding what would happen to the water of the world if the world happened to turn upside down on it's axis? This was after noting that most rivers (at least in the USA!) run more or less north to south. Tie breaker on Mrs. Bowling's predecessor: What book did he sit reading at the back of the classroom while Lindsey Miller and I demonstrated various experiments at the front of the room? This moves one quickly in dimming memories forward to the physics teacher we had later who maintained that the mechanical advantage of a screwdriver was better if it's shaft was longer. I assume that we who ended up working a larger or smaller portion of our lives in the space industry eventually got another viewpoint on that issue! I remember Mike Jet was especially active in that discussion! (Was her name Baldwin? -- better at Plain and Solid Geometry. "The proof is left to the student.") Nuff nostalgia for this lunch hour! Sincerely, Ed Paulette Subject: Thanks again Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 04:32:05 -0700 (PDT) From: The Neumanns <neal_neumann@yahoo.com> You just keep getting better and better on this website. It was great to see Wayne Deason's email. Wayne used to flatten me during the "friendly" neighborhood football games in my backyard on Bide-A-Wee Dr when Dwight Kephart, Jed Stephens, JR Brooks, Don Cornelius, Miles Ramsey, and others would get together. I was always the least athletic and the worst player by far, but I appreciated the guys letting me get in the game. Good memories of good people are always a pleasant part inlater life. By the way, I haven't seen an correspondence from JR Brooks or Don Cornelius or the Schiff twins. Does anyone know their current status? I assume JR is still a practicing attorney in Huntsville. Thanks again, Tommy, and please keep this site going. Neal Neumann Subject: TRVELLER Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:55:31 EDT From: CEB1947@aol.com Tommy, Everytime I click on the Traveller or the page 1, 2 or 3, all I get is a scene of some people dancing. You might want to check it out. By the way Tommy, did you know I attended Lee High from the 8th grade all the way through to the 12 grade in 1966. When I first started there it was Lee Jr. High. I lived on Lee High Dr. directly in front of the school. Eddie Burton Subject: Taxing my poor brain Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:28:53 -0500 From: "Linda Walker" <lbwalker@usit.net> Tommy, how can you remember all these places???? You must have a zillion pictures, clippings, etc, in order to come up with these trivia questions. I think this West Tennessee air has befuddled my brain. I relate these trivia questions to my 88 year old mother, who, by the way, also misses Huntsville. Thanks to this website I see that Marc Bentley is still around. Also I saw a name in the Traveller that prompts me to ask this question - Was it Hub Harrington and Bob Crump that painted Ms. Coon's desk purple and orange, with the Rebel car tag displayed on the front, during the Christmas break '65-'66? Again, thanks for all the work you do on this site. Linda Beal Walker Subject: You mean the horse, of course? Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:19:13 +0200 From: Ed Paulette <openmind@passagen.se Dear Editor; I hope that every red- or blue-blooded Southerner knows that Traveller was the name of R.E. Lee's beloved horse! He had him stuffed after he died as I remember it. Have no idea how suggested the name. Re, the Lyric and the Grand: It was handy having them exactly opposite each other. I remember that I had to go to the matinee every week to keep up with the Flash Gordon serial, then the Superman serial and of course the Movietone news. I remember that it cost me $.15 for a ticket and $.10 for a (soft!) bag of popcorn. I think that I and a lot of others in our class found that 12 years old was a good age to be for a loooong time. Tickets went up to $.25 at age 13 (or am I wrong?) The theaters had a sign saying "10 degrees cooler inside!" The same sign was on several of the stores around town. I remember in particular it on the shoe store down the street a little ways from the Lyric. It sold Buster Brown shoes and had one of those machines that let you x-ray your feet. I remember when I got to be old enough to actually _see_ my feet through the viewer. I'll probably die of foot cancer since I have never smoked! A couple little bits of trivial you can try to check out (save them and use them in a quiz if you want.) Maybe they are Huntsvillian urban legends: Is it the case that Huntsvilles big industry was once the growing of Watercress and that its Civic booster nickname had something to do with "Watercress capital of the USA"? Also, did Jesse James every rob the bank in Huntsville, and if he did, did he get away by way of the door high up on the stone wall behind and under the bank above the Huntsville Spring? Ed Paulette (Editor's Note: Ed sent this in last week, but I knew I was going to use the thingy on the X-Ray machine so I delayed it a week. I thought the prices change at 12 years old at the theaters, but it could have been 13 just as easily. I can verify the "Watercrest Capitol of the World" thing, and I always heard about the James boys too. I do believe that Frank James did stand trial in Huntsville. Maybe that is where it started.) ____________________________________________________________________ |
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Est. March 31, 2000 15,361 Previous Hits September 10, 2001 Editor:Tommy Towery http://www.leealumni.com Class of 1964 Page Hits This Issue e-mail ttowery@memphis.edu |
Advanced Orders Now Being Accepted For The 1965 Silver Sabre on CD-ROM Your wait is over. Thanks to Cherri Polly Massey's generous loan of her own precious 1965 yearbook, I have completed the scan of it and am in the process of putting the final touches on it to create the long awaited 1965 Silver Sabre CD. For those of my class, the Class of 1964, here is a golden opportunity for you to own a yearbook and see how the juniors turned into seniors and followed in our footsteps down the hallowed halls of Lee High School. For the Classes of 1965 and 1966 here is your chance to replace the lost or never purchased yearbook of your highschool days. I am taking orders for the yearbooks in the Souvenir Shop and will be shipping in a couple of weeks. The price is $10 which includes shipping. The CD will include JPG photos, a Microsoft Word 2000 version of the yearbook, and an Adobe Acrobat PDF file of the same. Please click on the link below to go to the Souvenir Shop to order your's now. The following people had their notices bounce back for bad e-mail addresses: clint1144@aol.com brhughesb@netscape.com Answers 1. The Huntsville Times Building 2. Dunnvant's 3. 1550 4. You put your feet into a fluoroscope (x-ray) machine and saw your feet and the shoes. 5. Buster Brown 6. Ring Worm 7. The Twickenham Pharmacy 8. Honey's 9. Jefferson 10. Whitesburg, Parkway, Woody's, University Bonus 1. Neal Neumann 2. Dianne Hughey, Class of '64 |
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Lee's Traveller April 10, 1963 |
Sorry, no new Mystery Classmates this week. |
