Est. March 31, 2000 25,702 Previous Hits July 8, 2002 Editor:Tommy Towery http://www.leealumni.com Class of 1964 Page Hits This Issue e-mail ttowery@memphis.edu Staff Writers : Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly , Joy Rubins Morris ,Terry "Moses" Preston Collins Wynn Staff Photographers: Fred & Lynn Sanders Contributers: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 |
July 20th Mini-Reunion Plans Expanded We've had requests for classmates to bring pictures, cards, and other items from our Lee Days! I will try to bring a digital scanner and see if we can capture some of those for use on the website. Terry "Moses" Preston, Class of '64, sent the following update to planned activities: "I have a reservation for a poolside room at the Huntsville Marriott for the evening of July 20. Everyone can come over and we can sit around the poolside area outside. We can use the room for setting up an impromptu bar and for the bathroom facilities. I asked the gentleman who took my reservation if this was acceptable and he said it would be fine. Lee High alumni have always been good customers in the past. I recommend that in the weekly Traveller that you announce the afternoon gathering, the Mullins gathering, followed by an evening of drinking and socializing with Moses at the Marriott. If that changes, we can notify everyone later." Judy "Fedrowisch" Kincaid, Class of '66, reports: Additional attendees not listed last week are: Bob Crump - class of '66 Lynn "Bozeman" Van Pelt - class of '66 Don & JoAnn (Crafton) Jarman - both class of '66 John & Carole Carter - John class of '66 (Ken Martz - class of '66 - has a prior committment, but will try to drop by later in the evening) Glenn & Marie James, Class of '65 Susie Wohlschlaeger Schlette ,Class of '66 Looks like all three classes will be nicely represented. We've developed a planning form to gather information about those who might be planning to attend this get together. It is for planning purposes just to get some idea of a head count. This is not binding in any way, but if you think that you might want to attend, then please fill this out and let us know. We need to hear from those of you who live in Huntsville and surrounding areas too. We are thinking of getting a room somewhere and need an approximate number to work with. Click on the button below to go to the form page, fill in the information, and then click on the send button at the bottom of the page. Thanks. _____________________________________________ |
Est. March 31, 2000 25,702 Previous Hits July 8, 2002 Editor:Tommy Towery http://www.leealumni.com Class of 1964 Page Hits This Issue e-mail ttowery@memphis.edu Staff Writers : Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly , Joy Rubins Morris ,Terry "Moses" Preston Collins Wynn Staff Photographers: Fred & Lynn Sanders Contributers: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 |
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Bobby Cochran's Huntsville Trivia (Editor's Note: Here's the Reader's Digest version of the questions.) 1. How many TV stations could you pick in Huntsville in 1956-1960 without cable? 2. What was most every kid's favorite TV show late Friday night 1958-1960? 2. What was the name of the "cowboy" costumed guy on the first local afternoon kids' show on Channel 31? 3. What is the REAL name of the "cowboy" in question 2? 4. What were WAAY's call letters were BEFORE they became WAAY? 5. What was the other station's call letters BEFORE it was WFIX? 6. The radio station above broadcast a show at night from a REMOTE location! Can you name the location? 7. "Henry's Hamburgers", do you remember where it was? 8. What was directly across the street from Henry's? 9. Besides me (Bob), can you name at least two other members of the class of 1964 who worked at Henry's? 10. What "cola" bottling plants were located in Huntsville while we were at Lee? Tommy Towery, Class of '64 writes: For once I can enter a trivia contest because I did not come up with the questions and don't know the answers like the rest of you, so I can get the glory and not the blame for these. 1. The obvious answer is Birmingham, but then some people with good rooftop antennas could get Nashville as well. Remember the old motorized antennas that had the compass rose on a box on top of your TV set and you turned the knob to point to a compass direction and the antenna would turn that way? I know that we could get Nashville as well as Birmingham, but other than WSM I don't know the call signs. 2. The most famous of all Friday night shows was "Shock Theater" out of Nashville with Dr. Lucifer as the host. (The photo hint was him and not Rainer.) I don't know the answer to the other question number 2 that Bobby included, nor do I know the reason Bobby had two number 2 questions. 3, 4, 5 I don't know. 6. I remember that one station was down off Govenor's Drive and WAAY broadcast from a little shack off Oakwood, on the Lee side of the Parkway. 7. Henry's was on Oakwood, right across from Rison School near the street that went down to the VFW club that had the Sherman Tank in front of it. 8. Rison School was across the street. 9. Don't know who worked there, but I do know who almost got arrested there. One evening a couple of us went in and were kidding around. There was a big sign on the counter and someone picked it up and wobbled it back and forth and it made the sound of the instrument in "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" and we all started singing it. We thought our classmate behind the counter was playing along with us but he was serious when he told us to put it down and get out. We thought it was all a joke until the manager picked up the phone to call the police and we all split. 10. The Cola plants were Coca-Cola on Clinton, near the Trailways Bus Station. There was also Double Cola I believe on Jefferson near the Grand Theater. The Pepsi plant or the distribution center was out near Woody's Drive In wasn't it? _______________________________________________ Linda Beal Walker, Class of '66 Can only answer a few of these --- had help from "a friend" 1. WBRC Ch 6 and not sure of call letters on Ch13 - WVTH ?? 2. Shock Theater on Channel 6 7 & 8. Henry's was on Oakwood Avenue across the street from Rison elementary (which is no longer there) and my friends and I walked there many nights to get a fish sandwich. 10. Coke was on Holmes across from the old bus station. And there was a RC/Nehi bottling company on the corner of Andrew Jackson and Halsey(?) across the street from the Baptist church. I think the RC/Nehi was at the corner of Halsey because we lived on Halsey for awhile and I remember, I think, stopping at the stop sign waiting to cross Andrew Jackson Way. _______________________________________ Dwight Jones, Class of '64 says: When I read the first question I couldn't help but laugh a little since the first part was already answered. Anyway here goes. 1. 2....channels....6 and 13.....WBRC and WBMH 2. Grand Ole Opera....channel 4....WSN 3. OPPS....2. again....Bob now you've got me confussed. Ok...second 2. Just a guess...Uncle Bob 3. Bob Evans 4.WHSV 5. WNDA 6.Jerry's Drive Inn 7. On Meridian St. or old Hy.231 8. Cotton Mill 9.No idea 10. Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper The picture is Riet Bulter aka Clark Gable Well, I know i got a few right but it sure is hard to remember. Nowday's I can't even remember my own phone number sometimes. Thanks Bob. You did bring back some old memories. I'm looking foward to seeing everyone on July 20. Y'all be sure to show up if you can. ______________________________________________ Rainer Klauss, Class of '64, sent an e-mail saying : "Here's my response to the Cochran trivia contest. Here are my pitiful answers." 1.WBRC, Channel 3. 2.WFNX, Channel 5, Shock Theater 2a. Who was that masked man, anyway? 3.? 4.WHNY? WHHY? 5. ? 6.? 7.It was on Oakwood, close to Andrew Jackson Way. 8.Rison Elementary. 9.? 10.Coca-Cola, Double Cola My parents bought me a radio as a graduation present from the second grade, and that's when I started listening pretty regularly. I can't remember the radio station call sign anymore, but one of my favorite local shows was the "Slim Lay Show," all country-western music and as down-home as you could get. Hank Williams was still a rising star then. I never got tired of hearing "Kawliga" and "Your Cheatin' Heart." During the summer I enjoyed listening to "Don McNeil and the Breakfast Hour." One of my favorite shows came out of Cincinnati on Saturday morning: the "Big John and Sparky Show." Their theme song was "The Teddybears Picnic." Anybody else listen to that? ________________________________________________ Bob Alverson, Class of '65, was almost too late in getting his answers in, but I took pity on him and decided to go ahead and include his answers (especially since he seemed to have the most correct answers). He wrote: Guess I had better get these answers in before it is too late. 1. WBRC-TV Channel 6 and WAPI-TV Channel 13. Also during this time period WMSL-TV Channel 23 was on the air in Decatur. That station is now WAFF-TV Channel 48 in Huntsville. WAAY also signed on during this period as WAFG-TV Channel 31. There were two number 2 questions. The first dealt with a show out of Nashville which I do not know. The second asked the name of a "cowboy" costumed guy on Channel 31. That was Johnny Evans. He went on to a long career in Television Sales at 31. 3. Johnny's real name is John Osborne. We, at WHNT-TV did the UCP Telethon on April 1 and Johnny came in to help out. It was our second show and Johnny's 40th. 4. WAAY Radio was originally WHBS. 5. WFIX Radio was WFUN. 6. I don't remember WFUN doing a night remote but there was a remote radio program broadcast from atop the Holiday House Restaurant which became Boots. Grady Reeves was the host but his son Robert says it was on WBHP, although Grady did work for WFUN for a while. 7. Henry's was on the corner of Dallas and Oakwood. 8. Rison School was across the street. 9. ? 10. Double Cola and RC Cola were bottled in Huntsville. The RC plant was on the corner of 5th Street (Andrew Jackson Way and Halsey Avenue) across the street from Jackson Way Baptist Church. The location is now Hill's Lawnmower Repair. Thanks for the trivia questions, I really enjoy them. __________________________________________ |
Still Crazy After All These Years |
From Our Mailbox Subject: "Mystery Man" Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 01:35:41 EDT From: Spmclm69@cs.com Oooh! Oooh! I know who the "Mystery Man" clue is! It's RAINER KLAUSS!!! (ha) Bobby ____________________________ Subject: Orange Bowl Trip Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:13:23 EDT From: JBkarmer@aol.com Wow ! Do I remember the Orange Bowl. It was a wonderful trip. The bus as I recall, slipped in the ice and snow on the way out of town and we had to walk for a while down the Mountain. We had a white horse that was the Mascot, that wrecked and did not make the trip. He was not hurt, however. I have a number of pictures from that trip. Two of Sherry Adcock. One where the door to the bathroom was slung open, and there is Sherry on the commode. Ha ! Another of her crying while talking to her Mother. Home sick of course. I remember the band being squeezed out as we approached the TV camera's for our National debut. Not sure if we made it. I enjoy waiting to hear all the other memories of the day. I am not much for writing so I will leave that to those who do it well. Joan McCutcheon Baber Class of '64 (Editor's Note: I was a little disappointed that more of you did not follow up on the Orange Bowl memories. Maybe Joan's e-mail will prime you into sending us some more. I know a lot of you went, so don't make us have to publish photos to hear from you!) _________________________________ Subject: Re: Important E-Mail Info Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:16:34 EDT From: PPCPACK@aol.com My NEW email address is. joemschultz@hotmail.com Tommy, you're doing a great job, many of us who do not often reply, still read and enjoy all the email and the fun stuff you add weekly. Keep up the good work, there are more of us out here than you know. We appreciate you. Your Friend.................Joe Schultz _______________________________________ Subject: This week's trivia contest and more Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 16:01:28 -0400 From: "Rainer Klauss" <rglklauss@mindspring.com> So far four people have asked for copies of the Band CD: Ed Paulette, Joe Barran (2!) , Don Blaise, and Bob Cochran. I recently posted a few words of praise of Bob Cochran, but I take them all back now. This new collection of trivia he's devised is devilish some sort of evil revenge. No more guest appearances for him, Tommy! And no more pictures, either. I don't care what kind of deal his press agent has made with you. I think the boy has a multi-volume set of Huntsville trivia with 3-D maps, color pictures and extensive footnotes that the rest of us don't have access to. Or maybe he knows somebody who feeds him material from the archives of the Huntsville Times. Yeah, somebody who flipped burgers with him at Henry's Hamburgers. At the very least he's in league with Neal Neumann, who would be a natural expert for all that esoteric radio and television trivia. The next time I'm in Huntsville, I'm stopping at Books-A-Million. They have a "Local Interest" section where I should be able to get some ammunition to fight back against The Brain. Rainer Klauss Class of '64 ________________________________________ Subject: Help with mail list Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:29:43 +0200 From: Ed Paulette <openmind@passagen.se> How do you need the mailing list formatted? The Listserv version we have here at Uppsala university accepts batch loading with address one per line - with or without "real names". I can easily put the list you included with this weeks mail into that format (in Word). Let me know what you need and how I can help. For the next week, I have limited network access, but after that I will be online most of the time for about two weeks before I go on vacation again for another two weeks. (It's so hard to fit four - five weeks of vacation into the summer. Hardly leaves any time to work!) Regards, Ed Paulette, Class of '64 (Editor's Note: I have a comma separated field of the names and e-mails from the old site. But before I spend a lot of time just copying that, I think that maybe we should expand the list to become a full directory of people with names, addresses, spouses, besides just e-mail addresses. If we do this, then when the next real reunion comes along, we will have a great start on the mailing list and the directory. I would like to hear from any of you who have ideas on this project. Perhaps we can come up with a common format for all the classes. I know that Alice and others on the reunion committees would appreciate that.) _________________________________ Hey, everybody! Say hello to DAVID BESS ('64) and his wife, Barbara!!!! bbess@bellsouth.net ________________________________ Guest Book entry: Dennis Tribble From: Huntsville E-mail: dftribble@aol.com Year of Graduation: 1964 ____________________________________ This Week's Trivia Question Who is this "Pirate of the Tennessee River" and master of music trivia? _____________________________________ |
Huntsville Times Article Reports Tony Thompson (Class of '64) Loves Crotchless Panties And Has Hemerocallis The Traveller Staff was alerted to the following story that appeared in the Huntsville Times on June 21, 2002 that gave a glimpse into the personal life of one of our classmates. We checked the mailing list and found that the classmate was not registered so that we could confirm or deny the contents of the reveiling story about a personal part of his life. We felt it was our First Ammendment duty to share it with you. Unfortunately we did not receive a copy of the photograph of Tony that we could publish, but did find the above photos on the web. We did in fact send an e-mail to his wife (the only person we could find an e-mail address for) to inform her that we would also be publishing this story. Perhaps now that it is published, he will find his way to the site to defend his honor. Hazel Green Man Gets Thrill Out of Watching His Lily Garden Grow By Patricia C. Stump Times Staff Writer patricias@htimes.com It all started in his grandmother's flower beds in Huntsville's Lincoln Village. There were day lilies, they were beautiful and Tony Thompson loved them. Thompson, a 1964 graduate of Lee High School, didn't have a chance to plant some of his own until more than 10 years ago when he and his wife, Susie, moved into a townhouse with a tiny yard. Shortly after moving there, he saw some yellow day lilies growing on the side of the road. He dug them up and replanted them in his small plot of green space. That's when the affair officially started. ''Just look at them,'' Thompson says, surveying his and Susie's garden of more than 600 varieties of multicolored day lilies. ''They couldn't be prettier.'' The scientific name is ''hemerocallis,'' and Thompson says that means ''beautiful for a day.'' And they are. They bloom by 9 a.m., and by 3 p.m. their color begins to fade. But pinch the dead heads off, and new blooms shoot up for the next morning. Some varieties will bloom for months. Others bloom only for a day. ''In China, they grow them for food,'' says Thompson. ''They batter the buds in cornmeal and fry them. I'm sure they taste good, but I'd rather look at them.'' The Thompsons have invested quite a bit in looking at them. Besides planting the flowers all around the Hazel Green house they bought seven years ago, they purchased the empty lot between them and their neighbor. As they cleared the overgrown property, Thompson placed a metal-edged bed in the middle of the lot. They uprooted the day lilies from the townhouse and put them there, as well as other varieties. The more they bought - ''Which we thought were quite expensive at $5 a flower!'' - the more they wanted. They went to a sale at the Huntsville Botanical Garden, and got hooked for good. They learned that there are more than 40,000 types of day lilies. The difference in some breeds is microscopic. The flowers look alike to the uninitiated, but Thompson swears there is a difference. Maybe the petal of one is tangerine, and the other is deep melon. Maybe one has a slightly more ruffled edge. Maybe another has tiny white stripes shooting off the center. New varieties continue to be produced. People like Thompson keep creating them. This is done by rubbing pollen from one flower onto the pollen-producing tips of another flower. When the hybrid blooms for the first time the following spring, it will be possible to see if something new was created. So far, the Thompsons have registered two new varieties. One is pink and white and is called ''band in Hazel Green.'' The other is melon with white ribs, and it's named ''this momentous day.'' Thompson didn't follow in the footsteps of renowned day lily hybridizer Pam Erikson in British Columbia. When she asked a successful grower how to market a desirable flower, she was told to create as colorful a flower as possible and give it a name that everyone would talk about. That's when she came up with ''crotchless panties,'' which is one of Thompson's favorites, even though it caused quite a stir among the ''stick in the muds'' of the flower world. He displays it proudly, including a name stand beside it. The flower gets a chuckle as well as admiration. ''When a newly hybridized variety is available, it can cost $250 a plant,'' Thompson said. ''In five years, they may only cost $20 a plant. But nuts like us want the new stuff as soon as possible.'' And they want to share it with the public. Their garden, which is among the 325 display gardens listed with the American Hemerocallis Society, is open for public viewing. The Thompsons will hold their annual open house this Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., but they say they welcome visitors to their garden, which backs up to a corn field, any time. If guests arrive when Thompson is in the garden - plucking off dead blooms or cross-pollinating varieties - they will see just how diverse a tire store manager who waxes poetic on a flower's delicate distinctions can be. There's also his career in photography, which involves his interest in country music because he spent seven years as Hank Williams Jr.'s official photographer, which opened the door for him shoot other stars such as Merle Haggard, Barbara Mandrell, Kenny Rogers and Alabama. ''The pay was good, but I got to tell you that that life is crazy,'' Thompson said. ''It's like living in a fish bowl. It's confining. I don't see how famous people do it. They can't go anywhere without worrying about how the public will react to them. ''Hank said what he wanted to do more than anything was go into a McDonald's, order a hamburger and eat it there.'' Also open for discussion is Thompson's love of airplanes - both flying them and jumping out of them. He did 30 military jumps with the 20th Special Forces group, and he said he did another 20 jumps as a civilian. ''Man, I love to jump out of airplanes,'' he said. ''But as I've gotten older, it makes more sense for me just to fly them.'' He's got lots of stories for visitors. He can tell about how he was born in a house because his mother - who was told she'd never be able to have children - was afraid he'd get mixed up with another baby at the hospital. ''But she went to a hospital when it was time to have my younger sister,'' he said. ''I guess she wasn't too worried about that one.'' He can tell about hunting sharks off the side of Hank Jr.'s road manager's boat. ''I like thrills,'' he said. ''And I also like to grow day lilies. Isn't that fun? Being something different than somebody else expects you to be?'' _______________________________________________________ |
I was out of town this last week visiting Sue's daughter in Des Moines so I had to rush on Saturday to finish up this edition. I was also out of work for a few days, since the State of Tennessee's legislature could not come up with a budget and so we closed down. But all is well now, and visitor's to Tennessee will help pay my salary with the upping of the state sales tax by one cent, bringing it to nine cents state tax plus whatever local governments add on to it. We almost have the mailing list problem solved, so if you can please respond if you are not receiving the updates at the e-mail address you want we need to hear from you. Just e-mail me with your information. Reunion plans are growing as are the number of participants. We had a few classmates worried about the activities for two reasons...(1) Mullins closes at 9pm on Saturday night, and (2) they don't serve alcohol or BEER! But thanks to some last minute work, we think we have a solution to that problem and everyone should be happy. See the Mini-Reunion article below for details. We only have two more weeks to firm up plans and to get classmates recruited, so a special invite goes out to you Huntsville locals to come join us. T. Tommy ____________________________________ |
The Thompson's Garden (above) and a view of Crotchless Panties (right) |
Returned E-Mails The following e-mails were returned because of bad addresses or something wrong with the account. Please check to see if you can correct this list. thomasangus@yahoo.com alandal898@cs.com blaised@bellsouth.net p-deluca@msn.com faulkner@glatmos.com nintai@clark.net orlich2@home.com rgswaim@home.com ghoffmeyer@aol.com smlovell@indiana.edu _______________________________________ The Truth According to Bob Here's the answers to the trivia quiz: 1. 2 stations: WBRC Channel 6, WABT Channel 13 2. Shock Theater, Channel 8 in Nashville, WSIX (I always thought it was unusual that Channel 8's call letters were W"SIX"! SECOND 2. Johnny Evans 3. Johnny Osborne 4. WHBS (Huntsville Broadcasting System) 5. WFUN 6. Boots' Lounge (on the east side of the Parkway just south of Fifth Avenue). 7. Oakwood Avenue & I-565 Overpass (location is now UNDER the overpass) 8. Rison School 9. Terry Davis, Wayne Deason (and probably a whole bunch more Lee students) 10. Coca-Cola, Double Cola _______________________________ |
