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03/15/10 06:12 PM #366     Fred Thomas Life's Biggest Waste of Time I guess I have been mowing lawns since I was about ten years old so I have probably spent months or even years cutting grass. What a waste of time. I could have been watching re-runs of the Mickey Mouse Club with Annette Funicello. Someday I will find out who invented the lawnmower and the idea that you need to cut prairie grass anyway. We will have it out mano on mano and I will piss on his grave. People actually put fertilizer on grass, then weed killer, bug killer, them water. Then they cut it and throw away the clippings. Does that make sense? WTF!! I think I'll try to plant corn instead.

03/16/10 04:51 AM #367     Larry Gilbert Annette Funicello .... now you're talkin', Fred. Wentzie's dad used to make him keep a log of how much gas he bought, which was another way to keep an eye on the boys as we cruised around town.

03/16/10 02:36 PM #368     Fred Thomas My Biggest Fear Annette Funicello had nothing on the girls in our class. My biggest fear was that all those cutie pies that I went to school with would eventually learn to read my hormone flooded one track mind and I would have had my face slapped more than playing a game of "Whack a Mole." My nightmare would be walking to class and the girls would scream as I walked by, "NO I won't, SLAP!" "What are you looking at! SLAP!" "You've got your nerve!! SLAP" "PERVERT!! SLAP SLAP!" Luckily, none of the girls knew what I was thinking so I survived high school.

03/16/10 07:14 PM #369     Fred Thomas John, What's up with the double post? And that 1950 to present comment is painting with a very broad brush. Maybe you should go back to using that little brush in your paint-by-number kit.

03/17/10 07:35 AM #370     Randall Smith I think John is cheating by using word, spell checking and then copy and pasteing. I wish I would have thought of it.

03/17/10 02:03 PM #371     Robert (Mike) Kelley Sister Mary Josita was the evil ones name. Mrs. Botto was the end of the line for Pat Reali at St. Chris. He caused her so much grief that his Mother had to tranfer him to the Jr. High. By the way about ten years ago my sister-in-law had a reunion from St. Chris and was told at that time that Marie Botto was still alive at the age of 104 !

03/17/10 06:53 PM #372     Robert (Mike) Kelley Sister Mary Camilla was the principal at that time and in eigth grade it was Sister St. Anne. I remember because that was the first year I got in trouble. It was also the first year after Mngsr. Ahern retired and his phone calls to my father about his sister with the lead foot stopped. If you remember my father was the Police Chief at that time. So It was the first time my parents got called about me, and it was from Sister St. Anne. I had to behave the rest of the year.

03/18/10 09:35 AM #373     Randall Smith Hot rod update Windshield, interior, dash board and wheel wells are back together. Gas tank still not done. Fired the engine yesterday and all is well. I will get to the tank when I get back from AZ. Frist show for us is April 24.

03/18/10 02:26 PM #374     Robert (Mike) Kelley Boy, John Soxie, that is a name out of the past. His parents ran the little store at Northview and Center Ridge. The guy was very funny. My brother Jime pitched in the minors for Cincinnatti until Uncle Sam drafted him. He played a little in the service on some Generals team.By the time his hitch was up he lost interest in it, I think because of a girlfriend, and never went back. He still lives in Florida and has been there since 1962.

03/20/10 07:39 PM #375     Randall Smith Fred If you hate mowing lawns why did you move to Texas. I would think that the growing season is longer in Texas than Ohio. It appears that you like wasting your time and effort. I enjoy watching Chris mow our lawn. But thats just me. My hat is also off to Al and Larry. They have done a great job on this web site. I have been able to talk too and see some of my oldest friends Thanks to them. John Fred's busy mowing his lawn or what appears to be his lawn. You would think living in a gated community that they would mow it for him considering his age and how much he hates mowing. I wonder if he has to shovel his B/S oops sp (snow) too.

03/21/10 06:43 PM #376     Larry Gilbert I lived on Northview across the street and two houses down from John Soxie's store. Those were the days when you bought pea shooters and navy beans. Wax Coke bottles and red lips. Those little candies that were glued to strips of white paper. Smokes for your older brother were $.25 a pack. There was another little store further north with a large older lady named "Dolly" running the store.... anybody remember Dolly?

03/21/10 07:17 PM #377     Robert (Mike) Kelley She was Dolly Fagan. I lived straight thru the woods behind her store on Wagar. We would cut thru the woods and get a warm coke because her cooler didn't work and a bag of chips all for 25 cents. There was another store next to Beach School, call Blackies. Mrs Faranelli ran it and everybody was afraid of her because she never smiled. Hey John, great idea on the tax stamps, I had forgotten all about them. Eagle stamps were another.

03/22/10 01:49 PM #378     Fred Thomas Mowing lawns wasn't so bad when people paid me to do it. Raking leaves amd painting fences was good but shoveling snow was the best way to make some fast money. A snow blower had nothing on me after Someone told me that they would pay me five bucks to shovel their walk and driveway. It was great to make my own money. My first real job though at the age of 16 was working at a bakery and the best thing about that 95 cent an hour job was filling the jelly donuts. I would pump a few extra squirts of jelly into the ones that I would eat. I also learned to drive stick shift on their delivery truck. I finally learned just before I ground down all the gears. I moved up to $1.15 an hour and two free passes when I got a job as usher at the Beachcliff Theater.

03/23/10 10:55 AM #379     Lynn Jaenke (Erb) You guys are just so funny! It is fun to hear about the school experience from the male point of view. We girls were just in our own little worlds of fun and total lack of confidence that any boy would ever like us. Boys had their stuff on their minds, and girls just wanted undying love from whatever boy they liked. I remember Blackie's also. It seems to me that my parents didn't really want me going in there for some reason. But (and I think I am right on this), they were the place we all went to get the taps on our shoes...yeah, taps. Do you remember the short lived obsession we all had with putting taps on our shoes?......it drove the powers that be at the Jr. High crazy (no carpeted floors in the halls), and although we loved the sound all those taps made going down the halls, they were banned pretty quickly. Does anyone else remember this?

03/23/10 12:58 PM #380     Fred Thomas Lynn, Most of us boys lacked confidence too and it's probably a good thing or there could have been a population explosion at RRHS. By the time males get fully confident and perfect their lines it is too late to do anything about it. The name Blackie's has a sort of underworld nefarious tone doesn't it? I remember taps but I can't remember if we wore them so our shoes didn't wear out so fast or we liked the tapping sound they made as we walked or if it was just a silly fad.

03/23/10 07:50 PM #381     Robert (Mike) Kelley The name of the Northview was Girlie's, not Dolly's as we thought. I talked to my brother last night and he corrected me. And now that I think of it her name was Girlie Hagan. And I thing the one at Smith Ct. and Detroit was call Save-ons or something like that. Fred, when did you work at the Beachcliff ? I was there to, but I think I was a Sophmore or Junior. Bob Duggan was the asst. manager.His father owned the barber shop next door.

03/23/10 10:04 PM #382     Fred Thomas I worked at the Beachcliff Theater too as a Sophmore or Junior but I remember seeing "101 Dalmations" about 20 times. When I interviewed for the job and asked the old man how much I would be earning he seemed pissed off that I would ask such an impertinent question. I think I made $1.15 an hour and two free passes. I made a lot more mowing lawns, raking leaves, painting and shoveling snow. I needed a lot of money because our female classmates were all high maintenance.

03/24/10 06:43 PM #383     Robert (Mike) Kelley The old man's name was Fred Holzworth. Had a constant cigarette in his mouth and did nothing but bitch. Old man bitching named Fred ? Hmmmm! Did you ever have to work on Bank night ? Must have been all of maybe 15 or 18 people there and nobody ever won.

03/24/10 07:01 PM #384     Lynn Jaenke (Erb) I think we wore the taps because they were a silly fad and it least I liked the sound they made on the floor. I did take tap dancing lessons in my late thirties and loved it. I was in a recital in an Irish outfit and didn't know I was pregnant with my youngest son, who is 16 years younger than his older brother. Phil and I had been married close to twenty years by then, and it was a really huge surprise. I haven't taken tap dancing again....very busy with 2 teenagers and a baby (and horses, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, 2 lizards.....ay carumba how did I do it?). Anyway, maybe I can blame it all on Blackies.

03/25/10 09:33 AM #385     Fred Thomas Mike, If I start reminding you of old man Holzworth, I give you permission to slap me upside the head with your old Beachcliff usher's flashlight. Do you remember the plan for taking care of rowdies disrupting the movie? All the ushers were supposed to rush to the scene and use our flashlights as weapons if necessary. It could have been a bloodbath if it actually happened, but after all this was Mayberry RFD, the Whitebread town of Rocky River not East LA.

03/25/10 11:04 AM #386     Robert (Mike) Kelley I do remember that, of course at that time rowdies threw popcorn boxes at the screen and were more of a nuisance than anything else. I think Rocky River is uptight and white collar now than ever before. My old neighborhood up on Wagar has changed so much I hardly recognize it anymore, except for some of them that have been there for years. Even here in Fairview on my street, we used to be the young ones now we are the old grumpy ones. I guess that is part of the ever changing world.

03/25/10 02:40 PM #387     Bruce Beard Reading all this reminds me of my father-in-law who passed on 2 years ago.....stories and more stories. Are some of us getting that old? Glad I'm not one of them! Of course, I do remember a few times............

03/25/10 02:48 PM #388     Fred Thomas Bruce, I'm glad you jumped in here on the message board. Randy Smith and John Dawson have been jumping all over me just because I'm a proud Texan now. As a fellow Texan you can help me fight these Buckeyes and tell them all the great things about living in The Lone Star State. Remenber The Alamo!!

03/25/10 08:51 PM #389     Larry Gilbert You're right, Mike. It WAS Girlie - I was thinking of Jolly Dolly, who I believe was the fat lady either at the Westgate carnival or the sand pits. Anybody know where the sand pits were??? All rightie, then - what was "Savons", or something like that? Lynn, welcome to the club. Other than Ellen Aspinwall, I believe you are our only girl visitor... That may lend a little decorum to the room.

03/26/10 12:19 AM #390     Ellen Aspinwall (Templar) The Sand Pit was close to our first house on Riverview (close to the Jr Hi and my favorite place, the Library). The neighborhood kids (including moi) played there all the time. It seemed a wild place with lots of open sandy 'hills' and some hiding places. The carnival parked there summers. I nearly went into shock the first time I saw a strip mall and parking lot there....Nice to see you here, Evergreen....

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