Diane,
Do you remember when you and Ed double date with me and (sorry I can not remember who it was). Please, fill me in. We saw The Beach Boys and I think Gary Pucket and the Union Gap. I might have the Gary Pucket wrong. I do remember it was at the fair grounds in one of the exhibit halls.
Reggie Jackson and many of the ASU baseball team used to swim in my backyard pool. My dad and Bobby Winkles, the coach, were best friends. I was too chicken to go outside with them, so I just watched them by peaking though a little crack in the draperies. I even named one of my dogs Reggie.
I saw Chris Ladoux when performed in Gilette, Wyoming at the High School Rodeo National Finals. He put on a great show and was very available to talk in person. Too bad he died of liver cancer, not long after that.
I saw Willie Nelson in concert in Sacramento, CA What a great performance.
Gail
Diane,
Do you remember when you and Ed double date with me and (sorry I can not remember who it was). Please, fill me in. We saw The Beach Boys and I think Gary Pucket and the Union Gap. I might have the Gary Pucket wrong. I do remember it was at the fair grounds in one of the exhibit halls.
Reggie Jackson and many of the ASU baseball team used to swim in my backyard pool. My dad and Bobby Winkles, the coach, were best friends. I was too chicken to go outside with them, so I just watched them by peaking though a little crack in the draperies. I even named one of my dogs Reggie.
I saw Chris Ladoux when performed in Gilette, Wyoming at the High School Rodeo National Finals. He put on a great show and was very available to talk in person. Too bad he died of liver cancer, not long after that.
I saw Willie Nelson in concert in Sacramento, CA What a great performance.
Gail
I saw Gary Puckett coming out of the elevator at the Hilton in Reno looking like he was needing a little pick me up before the next show. Old rock stars look real bad up close.
Phyllis,
I saw a story on Jim Morrison on a cable channel not too long ago. It followed what you said pretty closely. His girlfriend taking a bath and finding him, but calling a friend first. Interesting.
Gail,
Yes, I also remember the Beach Boys/Gary Puckett and the Union Gap concert with you and ? We had pretty good seats up front. After Gary Puckett finished performing, he randomly threw his white guitar pick out into the audience, and it landed on my lap! I was wearing a navy blue dress, so it really showed up. Good time.
I think the only detail that's never emerged was the part about the girlfriend hitting Jim Morrison with the chair. The rest of it has come out over time. But that action could have been the contributory factor in his death. We'll never know now.
And how are you doing, Diane? You've led an interesting life, it seems. Gorgeous children, rock'n'roll performers tossings things at you, good friends and a handsome husband. Top of the heap, if you ask me!
Thanks for you kind words. Ed and I have been blessed beyond measure. Don't get me wrong. We've had our trials and tribulations just like everyone else our age. We just have a great faith that keeps us focused, and offers allot of grace when we mess up. The Lord blessed us with some great kids (we too worked our tails off parenting). Our beagle, Gracie Grant pretty much runs things now. Our kids can't believe how she gets away with murder. We tell them, 'We have nothing left to discipline her with because you guys wore us out'!
Yes, Ed still has 'it', and he's a great husband and father too. It's a sweet time of life for us, now that the kids have their educations, are out on their own and doing well. He's a little concerned about all thetime and energy I spend with this website and reunion, though. I've told him it was the last time I had my own identity! He just shakes his head.
I agree that this website has been a way to visit with people we don't get to see or matriculate with anymore. I didn't used to think I didn't had much in common with my classmates, but I know now that I was wrong. After reading the comments, thoughts, dreams, jokes, heartfelt sentiments, etc. I can see that more than anybody else, my classmates at THS are extensions of my own reality. Some people have led bright and sunny lives while others have known war, hardship and struggle. Some of us have been corporate soldiers or business leaders and others are entepreneurs. And we have a farmer or two in the bunch...! I think we're a great group.
All through grade and high school my dad raised me and my 3 brothers and 2 sisters on what he made as a waiter at Durant's Resturant. During baseball spring training most of the San Fransisco Giant players ate there most every night. So when he took me to the games I got to go into the clubhouse. I met Willie Mays, Mcovey, and most of the Giant team. Needless to say I am still a hardcore Giant fan (Diamondbacks run a close second) in spite of Barry Bonds. Willie Mays was my hero and I was 12 when I met him......A kids dream come true.
I also worked as a waiter in my younger days and was able to serve many celeberities and sports figures over the years. But meeting my childhood hero is still the best.
All through grade and high school my dad raised me and my 3 brothers and 2 sisters on what he made as a waiter at Durant's Resturant. During baseball spring training most of the San Fransisco Giant players ate there most every night. So when he took me to the games I got to go into the clubhouse. I met Willie Mays, Mcovey, and most of the Giant team. Needless to say I am still a hardcore Giant fan (Diamondbacks run a close second) in spite of Barry Bonds. Willie Mays was my hero and I was 12 when I met him......A kids dream come true.
I also worked as a waiter in my younger days and was able to serve many celeberities and sports figures over the years. But meeting my childhood hero is still the best.
That's a great story. I started going to Durant's in the 80's. I had lunch and beers there just before and after my last surgery in February. The food is still great and the bar is the only place to sit. Its too bad Monti's changed. It was like the Durant's of the east side.
Bill,
I had lunch at Monti's a couple of months ago.....your right it has change alot but the food is still good. Mike Mahaffey was a busboy at Monti's all through High school....do you remember Mike?
Bill,
I had lunch at Monti's a couple of months ago.....your right it has change alot but the food is still good. Mike Mahaffey was a busboy at Monti's all through High school....do you remember Mike?
I never met Reggie Jackson, but I have his college math book. I bought a used copy, and it seems he was the previous student owner.....he signed his name in the front...but, there are no other notes in his hand....only my notes are there. So, if anyone is interested.......
This is an email i sent to Tommy W in response to an interesting story he told me about a friend that was shot down and captured in Vietman. My son Andy read my email back to Tommy and he said 'that guy is famous'. So I thought, he was famous, famous to me and the other guys who flew with him. Guess I've met two famous people, Arthur Godfrey at the urnial and Neal Black on the flight line.
Tommy
I went thru pilot training out at Willy in '74. ( joined the AF to see the world and went from Tempe to Chandler) Anyway, an ex-POW was in my class. His name was Neal Black and he was one of the longest detained POWs of the war. He was part of the first group of guys at the Hanoi Hilton and spent 7 yrs there in solitary. He was a door gunner on a rescue chopper and got shot down and captured. He didnt talk about it much, and we all understood, but the stories he did share were unbelievable. Some really sad, they beat the hell out of those guys, and some really funny. He lost all his hair in prison and it never grew back, he couldnt wear his toupe on the flight line for fear it would blow off and get sucked up in an engine, we razzed him pretty bad about wearin a rug on his head. After their release from Hanoi the AF gave them the choice of leaving the military or staying in and picking your job. He was an NCO at the time of his capture but he wanted to be a pilot so they gave him a comission and made him a Lt and sent him to flt school. Another intresting fact is Ford Motor Co. (the one that didnt take govt money) gave returning POWs their chioce of any car to keep, and the use of a sports car for one year, free. Neal kept a Crown Vic and drove a Pantera for a year. We will never know all the sacrifices those guys made.
Kelly's sightings are definitely the coolest. When I worked in D.C., though, there was often a stream of black limos going past my office with various heads of state, but you usually can't see anything. They drive fast and don't stop for anything. When Gorbachev first visited DC to meet with Reagan, however, I had heard he got out of his car on our corner and shook hands. On his next visit, which might have been when the first Bush was President, I was paying attention when I saw a cavalcade coming down the street. I ran outside, and sure enough, Gorbachev stopped and got out and started shaking hands. I didn't touch him, but he shook hands with the guy in front of me, who then started passing it on. I think more fun, though, was on Queen Elizabeth's last visit to DC. When her car was driving down Connecticut Avenue, I just happened to be out on the street and no one else was really around. I could actually see her through the window, and she gave her trademark wave, just for me.
