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Skriven 2008-03-23 08:13:20 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: School days
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Happy Easter Ruth!
-> 
-> -> graduated high school; I think they've had a couple of reunions in that
-> -> time but we've not made any of them.  I keep in off and on touch with
-> -> some of my college friends but mostly the people I stay in contact with
-> -> are from past assignments. Rachel is going to Tucson this week to see a
-> -> couple of her friends from the time we were in Berlin--they were all in
-> -> 6-8th grades together.
-> 
->  hn> I've not been to any of my reunions from high
->  hn> school, and now that they've torn down the
->  hn> building that I went to school, and built a new
->  hn> school with the same name about 2 miles away
->  hn> (that looks more like folsom prison than a school)
->  hn> I have even less interest in it. I was asked if I wanted
->  hn> to donate money for a "brick" with my name on it
->  hn> for the courtyard and I declined saying I didn't want
->  hn> anyone to blame me for that monstrosity!
-> 
-> Afraid they might hunt you down and take revenge? (G) Our school was
-> built in the 30s as part of the WPA program, as were quite a few in the
-> area.  They all looked similar--you knew it was the town school.
-> Traveling the country, I've seen quite a few more that have the same
-> basic look.  I know mine has been remodeled, and I presume others have
-> as well.  Most of the time the remodel job is done at the back part of
-> the school or internally so as not to destroy the "curb appeal" it
-> seems.
-> 
Actually yes!! The new school has no curb
appeal at all....more like repulsion!

-> and came up with some interesting dishes 
-> themselves.  When we were in
-> Berlin, they liked to get up early to watch Saturday cartoons. The first
-> year or so we were there, I didn't want them using the stove without
-> adult supervision so they came up with "plate-o" omelettes, done in the
-> microwave so they could have breakfast while watching tv.
-> 
->  hn> When we were in France we had no TV, Microwaves had not
->  hn> been invented...On saturday mornings we'd go on comic book
-> 
-> AFN-TV came to Europe in the 70s as I recall.  Microwaves were around,
-> but just not for home use yet. It was a good way to ease the girls into
-> cooking by fun things.  BTW, "plate-o" was their name for the omelettes
-> since they were made on a plate.
-> 
Kids can come up with some pretty good 
names! 
-> 
->  hn> trading expeditions throughout our housing area...We had a
->  hn> footlocker with wheels that we could haul from building to building
->  hn> and trade with our friends. We'd go to the base to watch a
->  hn> movie or to the teen club (well I went to the teen club) to play
->  hn> pool, or to the skating rink to roller skate, or to the bowling
->  hn> alley. Other than that, we'd hang out at the snack bar.
-> 
-> And you all managed to have fun in spite of no tv or microwave. (G) By
-> the time we hit Germany, most of the recreational facilities had shut
-> down other than the youth (school age children) services and a bowling
-> alley in Frankfurt.  I don't think Berlin had a bowling alley.  Instead
-> of snack bars, the kids would go to Burger King.
-> 
Gosh! We had a bowling alley, skating rink, golf course, 
teen center, two snack bars (but only one got teen 
attention the other was too small), and a movie house.

-> ->  hn> His first song and big hit was CONVOY, the trucker's song!
-> ->  hn> Talk about a 180 degree switch from Manheim Steamroller's work!
-> 
-> -> Never would have guessed it!  It is nothing like what he does now but it
-> -> was so identifying of the mid 70s time.  I think the last time we used
-> -> our CB radio was in summer of 1986, driving back down to TX from NY
-> -> about 3 months before we went to Germany.  Couldn't use them over 
there
-> -> and when we came back in 92, they were a thing of the past.
-> 
->  hn> Oh the times they are a changin!
-> 
-> As are we. (G)
-> 
hard not too (grin)!
chat with you soon
hap 
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