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Adivsory Board: Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly, George Lehman Williams, Patsy Hughes Oldroyd
Contributors: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 and Others
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MEMPHIS, TN. - Next week Sue and I leave for our annual pilgrimage to Hilton Head, SC. I'll have my computer with me and should have no problems getting the Traveller done on time, but if there is a problem you'll know why.

Please include your class year with your e-mails.
T. Tommy
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Last Week's
Mystery Photo
This Week's
Mystery Photo
We're getting into the "way-back" machine again this week with a Mystery Photo that should stump many of you. You may remember getting these, but from where. If you save 500 coins, you could get 10 5-Cent candy bars free. Can you identify the product? Class year with answers please.
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Huntsville Mexican Food
in the Fifties and Sixties?
by Tommy Towery
Class of '64

Sue and I went out for lunch at a local Mexican restaurant this past week and while awaiting our food we started talking about our early exposure to Mexican food. I told her that I did not remember eating at any Mexican restaurants while I was growing up in Huntsville.

I do remember Mexican food. My grandmother made some of the best tamales I ever ate. I wish I had a dozen of them now. She bought the papers to wrap them in over at J.C. Brown's Store across the street from The Rebel Inn where she worked as a short order cook. Ever so often she and my mother and aunt would set up shop in our kitchen and make them by the dozens. It was a major process, but well worth the effort.

I don't know where she learned how to cook them, but they were a featured item at the Rebel Inn, so perhaps that was where she got the recipe.

But as far as other Mexican food goes, I draw a blank as to where any Mexican food could be found before I left Huntsville in 1964. I know that when I got to Memphis I started eating at a place named Pancho's and believe it was the first place that I ever experience a full Mexican meal in a restaurant.

So, my questions to you this week are whether you remember any Mexican restaurants in Huntsville before 1964 and, if so, what were their names and locations.

Class year with answers please.






















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Subject:Peter Pan Lady
Taylor Wright
Class of '66

I believe that this is the Peter Pan Peanut Butter lady. Back in the mid 50's before we moved to Huntsville my mom worked in the Cooper Martin grocery chain in Nashville wearing this outfit and demonstarting Peter Pan Peanut Butter,however I remember the skirt being a little shorter which prompted my dad to forbid my mother from working any longer in this capacity due to the many passes she got. He also worked in the same store as a stocker.
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Subject:Barbers
Kenneth Owens
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  I recently read an article about barbers and a statement made by a Mrs. Linda Kinkle Cianci caught my attention. She was mentioning the Owens guy named "Bugs." His real name is Larry. Calvin was his brother, which is my grandfather. Both were barbers for many years. I can remember spending many afternoons and weekends at the barbershop with them. It was first in the Lucky's shopping center next to Dipper Dans before I-565 was built then it move onto Halsey Ave.
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