Tuesday, November 27, 2007


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.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

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

Saturday, November 24, 2007

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???

Recognize Anyone?




Left Picture
Top: Bill Fraser, Don Agostino, Beth Kraft, John Cavan, Marcia Phelan, Bim Bowes, John Staples
Middle: Martha Holden, (?) , Mary Gridley, Carol Palmer, Marjorie Ballway, Ellen Alderman, Doris VanValkenburg (?)
Bottom: Skip Daugherty, Jim Gittleman, Michael Crolick, Dave Stout, Don Hand, Chuck Gough

Right Picture
Top: Bim Bowes, Kathy Spaulding, Debbie Johnson, Ken Gray, Dave Stout, Laurie Reynolds, Robert Oldfield, Joyce Olson, Butch Potter, Kerry RoseMiddle: Mary Louise Fisher, Susan Perry, Tom Dye, Mike Forney, Bill Webb, Mike Hutchinson, (?), Sharon Kautzman, Mary Gridley, Ellen AldermanBottom: Chuck Gough, Tom Landers, Donna Hand, Marilyn Menotti, Ellen Reis, (?), Beth Kraft, Jim Gittleman, Bill Motsif, Don Hand

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving to all

I want to wish everyone a very happy thanksgiving and I hope you are able to relax and enjoy the long weekend. I will be at the largest car show in the southeast at Daytona International Speedway for the next three days viewing well over 5000 cars from the 70's back to the 20's. I will be having dinner with Jay Adcook and his family and watching a lot of football. Thanks to all of you who have contributed to this blog and I really hope we can "keep her goin"!!!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

the manlius cinema is still open. it shows more of the artistic movies than the ones that we used to go see on friday. good grief, were we all there??
across from the movies, and up the hill a little was cook's. wasn't it ice cream and stuff like that?