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Last Week's Issue
Charlie Hancock
Class of ' 66
Imagine how Eddie, Wally, and the Beaver have aged! I didn't even recognize them.
I recall an odor that will be recalled to the end of my days. That is the aroma in Vietnam of burning diesel and feces. I never had to do it personally but was subjected to the aroma when the wind shifted.
Another odor is diesel exhaust. Mostly it reminds me of fishing charter boats. Also some trucks the Marines used.
Keep up the good work!
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Subject:My Dad
Ann Wilson Redford
Class of '65
Thanks to those of you who have offered your condolences after I lost my Dad on March 10.
My Dad was a hard-working man to the end -- successful, but had little education. Like so many of our parents who were raised during the Depression, he was determined that his children would receive the best education possible. My 3 older siblings graduated from other high schools, but I was the first of his last 4 children to graduate from LHS. At LHS, he knew we received the best academic background possible for college. These past weeks, hundreds of things have gone through my mind about the wise man he was. He was right, of course, about our high school.....and, about almost everything else!
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Glen Swaim, Class of ’66 - This weeks mystery picture. Old Spice. Never used it but my Dad did. Boy, turning 60 is hard. But I miss some of my friends that aren't around to turn 60. Alot of them died so young.
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Sis LeVan Watson, Class of ’68 - The bottle pictured is OLD SPICE!! I even think my husband has a 30 year old bottle in the medicine cabinet.
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Tom Gilbert, Class of ’67 - That is a bottle of Old Spice. I remember my Grandfather using it. Later on I used it, I still like the smell. I did change from time to time as I thought a new smell would work better:} Now I cant wear any as I developed an allergy.
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Charlie Hancock, Class of ' 66 - I think the mystery photo is a bottle of Old Spice. My Grandfather wore it. And my son did too. That always brings me back...
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Shirley Latta Gomez - Old Spice, by the way, why do men not like to wear it these days? My grandfather wore it and it takes me back to him when I smell it.
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Marc Bentley, Class of ’66 - Tommy, the other popular smells of the day for males were Jade East, British Sterling, and Canoe. I remember because I had a big unauthorized party at my house (parents out of town) and Dickey Cobb drank all my cologne because someone told him they had alcohol in them. The attendants broke my bed literally and the police were called several times. I remember a lot of the people there so be careful or I may blackmail you 40 years later. that means you Eddie Burton!
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Mike Griffith, Class of '66 - No mistaking that bottle; could only be "Old Spice." Reminds me of my father and grandfather every time that I catch that scent.
As per your mention of "English Leather," my wife and I were at a Smothers Brothers concert about two years ago and a man with long sideburns, wearing a white sport coat and gold chains sat down directly in front of us. Before he got to our row, I caught a whiff of English Leather, and just as I started to tell my wife that this smell reminded me of high school, both he and the full aroma hit us. The aroma was so strong that I would swear that he had bathed in it. I kept wondering all night where he could have found enough English Leather in this day and time to be able to bath himself in it. He was alone, but I know that, he too, thought that he was a definite "babe magnet" ... Oh, don't forget those other past-tense aids for attacting the babes, like "Jade East" and "Brut!"
In the mid-60's, I couldn't resist a girl wearing "Ambush!"
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Dink Hollingsworth, Class of ’65 - Ahh the Mystery Photo and the smell of Old Spice. The container has changed very little over the years. I suggest most young males had their first experience with Old Spice by borrowing a "splash" from their dad's medicine cabinet. It was not after my first attempt at shaving, but soon after that I tried my first "splash" just after a shave. I immediately yelled and was looking for a way to hold my head under water. To the female reader's, the best way to describe this pain is to imagine a black 57 Chevy that had been sitting in the sun all day and you lean over the hood and lay the right side of your face on the hood until the skin sticks and then the left side. Child birth has nothing on the pain of Old Spice on tender, freshly shaven skin.
The immitators like English Leather and High Karate tried to unseat the king but it never happened.
I rarely wear after shave today but I do have a bottle of Old Spice that has to be five years old in my shaving kit. I never know when I may be brave enough to take a splash after I shave one day.
Maybe the next reunion?
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Jennifer White Bannecke, Class of ’66 - This is a bottle of Old Spice. My father wore it all the time.
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Jerry Dorriety, Class of ’70 - English Leather is definitely one smell I remember, but you can't leave out Jade East - my older brother, Jim, practically bathed in it before his dates with Betty Jo. and the mystery photo? Whose dad or grandad didn't have a bottle of Old Spice After Shave in the medicine cabinet? I work in an assisted living and memory care home and, on purpose, put on some Old Spice whenever I'm going to go through the home and visit with the residents. They may not remember a lot of things, but you would be surprised at how many of the little old ladies hug me and sigh, saying "you smell just like my husband used to smell!"
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Also sending the right answer, but with no comments were:
Walt Thomas, Class of '64 (sorta)
Rick Simmons, LHS '59-'63
Linda Beal Walker, Class of '66
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