Football in Orlando

Michigan State takes the field

Well, if you like college football as I do, this is the week to be in Orlando. Last night I attended the Champs Sports Bowl and watched Boston College squeak one out over Michigan State, 24-21. It was a very warm December night and the crowd was into the game although the Citrus Bowl was not used in the upper third level. Today, Saturday, I attended the Citrus Bowl parade in downtown Orlando where the teams in the Champs Bowl and Capitol One bowl and their bands along with several high school bands from east of the Mississippi participated for the nearly 2 hour parade. Next up will be the Capital One Bowl on Tuesday, televised nationally at 1 PM, when Forida encounters Michigan. It should be a good game also.

Let us all know what is going on in your world. KR

Try this puzzle

Well, if you have a little free time and you want to do something different, go to the website below and be as amazed as I was. Enjoy!
copy and paste:

http://digicc.com/fido/

Happy Holidays

I have many happy holiday memories as a child in Fayetteville. I bet you do too. Many of my memories center around the evening family service at Trinity Church - how appropriate! I guess that means that at one time Christmas wasn't only about shopping and presents. Although I never could carry even the simplest tune, I was a member of the youth choir. We wore those starched white cassocks (is that the right word?) and long - were they blue?- robes underneath. I remember standing next to Laurie Reynolds who could sing very well. I just happily mouthed the words in hopes that Laurie's voice would be mistaken for mine. We sang those familiar Christmas Carols which have remained so much a part of the holiday for me. Every year we had a mitten tree at the church for hanging our gifts of mittens and hats for children who had none. I can smell the greens decorating the church and the wet wool of everyone's coats right now. A few years, a light and perfect snow fell as we left the church - after dark of course in December. Those were the magical times. Because my siblings Bill and Beth were 6 years younger than me I also had the treat of anticipating a visit from Santa Clause for many years after I myself had grown too old.

During the school vacation it was often cold enough for skating on the ice rink next to the fire station or at the pond by the high school. And hot chocolate at Rutkoff's afterwards. I never skied until after college, but I know many of you did. I expect you skied over the school vacation.

That made me remember snow closings. Can't you still hear that voice on the radio- who was the announcer? - either saying Fayetteville-Manlius Schools closed - oh joy! or skipping right over us - oh disappointment. Thank you Chuck for your post encouraging us to remember.

Wherever you are now, I hope you enjoy the happiest of holiday seasons.

Sharon

OK, I managed to find this fine photo, which I have scanned for your enjoyment. Does anyone want to weigh in on some of the missing names?

Top Row: Bill Webb, John Winters, Dean Stevens, Beau Ogden and Don Wells.

Middle Row : ?, ?, Dorothy Crouch, Kay Martin (then the teacher), Connie Murphy, Candice Duffy, Diane . . . and Sharon Nottingham.

Front Row: Kitt Sealey, ?, Ernie Craw, Tom Dye, John Davis, Jerry Shoemaker and Jon Bird.

anyone want pix??

i just sent a bunch of pictures to chuck gough. a couple of the elementary school, his church in the village, and his home on ledyard ave. if anyone wants me to send them a picture of their home, or anything else they want to see, email me with the address, etc, and i will email them to you. jackie

Old Time Radio in Syracuse

Who remembers the two main radio stations we used to listen to? ...the DJ's? 1260 WNDR, 149(1490) WOLF. How about Dandy Dan Leonard, Jim O'Brien, Jolly Rolly Fowler, Bud Ballou, Mad Man Morton, Happy Jack McNamee, Pete Cavanaugh, Bob Dell, Joey Reynolds.
WNDR was broadcast from a small building on Andrews Rd off Jamesville Rd in Dewitt. WNDR was a sponsor for the Teen Canteen. How about 3 Rivers Inn and Sports'O'Rama in Mattydale for all our musical heros from the 60's?
How about the Syracuse Nats basketball games at the War Memorial. Jim McKechnie was the announcer for them. Who remembers Baron Damon from local television fame? How about Kuela, Fran and Ollie? How about Archibald Stadium at SU. Remember the concrete "seats"! I remember seeing Roger Staubach when they played Navy. Did anyone go to the Pig Stand which is where the route 5/481 interchange is now in Dewitt? Remember they used to always flood out when Butternut Creek overflowed in the spring. I know you do!!!

Try this link:
http://tiffent.com/wendi/60sRadio/index.html

Do you remember.....

Ice skating by the Fire Hall, and the Wellwood pond? Your dad to get the car started at 35 below? Candy dots, jiffy pop, nickel nips & the ice cream man? Not having a TV - and listening to Amos & Andy, Big John & Sparky and The Shadow? Getting a TV - and watching Kukle, Fran & Ollie, I Remember Momma, Roy & Dale, and Hop-Along Cassidy? (check Michael Crolick's shirt in the '52 picture) Climbing trees, DDT, the old Bahouth Building, white bucks, 3-D movies (and comics), roller skates (with keys), sky writing, tire chains and seeing the Northern Lights - from Fayetteville? Doing the bunny hop in gym? When almost every guy carried a pocket knife to school? - and it was OK, and almost every gal wore a circle pin ? (we never really knew why, they wouldn't tell us). Green Lakes, Snooks Pond, Suburban Park and the Swan Pond? Going to a double feature, with cartoons and the Newsreel? Sending in box tops to get stuff? Dance class with Mr. Snell at the Fire Hall? Watching girls try to get on the school bus, with tight skirts & Cappezios? (sp?).....in winter! Friday fish days, 15.9 gas, flat tops, jelly rolls and butch wax? Rushing home from school to watch The Mickey Mouse Club? - and Annette, of course! When 78's were your Grandparents music, 33's were your parents music, and 45's were our music! The Chubby Checker school assembly? And lastly, when someone (Campy Tillman?) took the valve stems out of all the school bus tires?....and we got a "snow" day!
So...........what do you remember???