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Sue Coleman (Edwards) has agreed to do this section.   You may contact her at:

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Now is your chance to read about and share the 60's as YOU knew it.  
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Movies     Music     Places     Events     Building     Teacher                                                   

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The Birds   Charade   Cleopatra
The Great Escape The Haunting How the West Was Won
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World HUD
From Russia With Love Tom Jones
Lilies of the Field "Blue Hawaii"  @ Lynwood Theater 

 

 

 

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"Walk on By, Wait on the Corner" :      "I Want to Walk You Home"
            "She Thinks I Still Care"

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I remember riding the old black and white bus to town on Saturdays to go to the movies.  My favorite movie of all times was THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.  I went to see it three times and really miss the 25 cent movies these days.

 I remember going with friends to the Grundy Drug Store for lunch occasionally.  We could buy a hamburger, French fries, and drink for 55 cents.  That was a real treat!

Beta Club initiation day? 

Being in the office when someone was getting a paddling from Mr. John Meade?

Mrs. McElroy's Vocabulary/Spelling tests every Friday?

Going roller skating?

If you were caught chewing gum at school that you had to scrap chewing gum off the hallway floors?

Graduation Night?

Going to football games at the Vansant Elementary School?

The Buchanan County Fairs?

Going to the Junior/Senior Prom?

Going to basketball games?

First day of school in the 8th Grade?

Grabbing your books out of your locker between classes?

Ruby Bailey: 
I remember tenth grade math class with Kermit Yates.  He always called me by my last name - Bailey.
 
I can remember getting our first black and white television set.  Gosh, what an event!  But getting the telephone was the best.  It placed us in that "social" circle.  We could keep up with the latest.  But those party lines!  Everyone knew our business.  Remember the first walk on the moon?  I'm beginning to feel OLD  
 

Dawn White (Neville):

In English class one day, Mrs. McElroy asked Guy Epling to get up and crack the window for her.  The class got totally quiet as he made his way to the windows, the brick door-stop in hand.  He would have "cracked" that window, and we were waiting to see it.  Mrs. McElroy caught on  just in time to stop him!

One day in the library (they weren't called media centers then), Mrs. McElroy reminded us to put our chairs under the table when the bell rang, and sure enough, when the bell rang, Frank Wells and Guy Epling got up and put their chairs side-ways on the floor, totally under the table.  She had a "fit", but we thought it was hilarious.  I think she loved their antics, but had to act upset! 

Phyllis Dales (Davis):
 
I remember Algebra II with Ernest Raines.  It was during his classes that I began to understand that algebra had practical applications, and I am sure his teaching was one of the factors that influenced my becoming a math instructor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
 
I remember sitting next to a potbellied stove in the "chicken coops" on winter days in Colleen Oppenheimer's English class.  It you sat too close to the stove, you were too hot, and if you sat too far away, you were too cold.  So the trick was to find just the right spot in the classroom.

Virginia Mullins Smith

I remember staying up late to watch for Sputnik in the night sky--eating at the Sweete Shoppe and the Gyp Joint @ the school. I also remember the long ride to school in the winter time when we did not get off for snow days and sliding all over the road as we tried to get to school on  those days. Gee, was it ever fun and scary!!!

I especially remember Sea Cruise and Save the Last Dance for Me and hanging out at Griffith's Snack Bar and listening to them


  Mr. Yoder and the Library Club-especially the night we went on the scavenger hunt and up to the Hibbitts Cemetary well after dark to gather something for the hunt--

  Miss Bailey's Spanish class and the time we went Ice Skating and went Christmas caroling in the back of a big truck and almost froze to death-  we had a good time then too.

        End of the year field trips to the Breaks park and exam days when we got squirted with red ink and could not get it out of our clothes--naughty boys!

         Pep rallies on Thursday night between the grade school and high school before a big game the next night.


          Seventh grade days and Beta club initiation days. In fact I hsve so many memories that sometimes I just sit and think and chuckle to myself about some of them.
 

Who remembers Mr. Faye Slone and his homeroom in the chicken coop as well as
his English Class? Mr. Slone also drove the school but to Patterson. I am
sure many of those folks remember him.
 
 

BUILDING and Grounds -  
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Virginia Mullins Smith

I remember sitting at the window in the "chicken coop" English class and
playing with the grade school kids who were out for recess and at the back of
the building.


 

PLACES - Click here to submit to I remember these...    

 Ruby Bailey: I  remember going to the little "store" next to the auditorium and getting snacks for lunch instead of eating in the cafeteria.  I would love to go in the auditorium and gossip.  Remember setting outside on those rails?  Girls, we were not allowed to wear jeans.  It was always an event when one of us tumbled over.

Others:

 Ms. Grethel Williams' Study Hall?

Eating at the Rexall Drug Store at lunch time?

OK, eating lunch at Max's Pool Room?

Hot roasted peanuts at the Ben Franklin?

The Lynwood Theatre, The Morgan Theatre, and the Alamo Theatre?     

Going to parties at the Harman Community Center?
Mr. Glenn's General Business Class?
Mrs. Betty McClanahan's Typing Class?
Mrs. Garber's Home Economics Class?    

Going "up" the "down" stairway?          

Going to Burr's Restaurant at Vansant?   

 Going to the Grundy Drive-In Restaurant?   

 (Girls) Going past the jail house at the Court House and the prisoners yelling to get your attention?           

 Going to the Breaks Interstate Park on picnics or whatever?


 

TEACHERS   -  Click here to submit to I remember these...                                           

Mr. Melvin Fields patrolling the hallways?

Ms. Nellie Hart


 

MUSIC  - Click here to submit to I remember these...          We will add more as they arrive.  Check back often. http://www.1960sflashback.com/1963/Music.asp

"Walk on By, Wait on the Corner" :      "I Want to Walk You Home"
            "She Thinks I Still Care"

 

 

 

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