60+ year old thread.

73’

 

Good Morning everyone

Class of 1980 Mission San Jose HS Fremont Calif

 

'71

Wife and I graduated same year, same school, and never knew each other. Got together in '77.

Mornings here recently have been in the upper 50s.

 

Good morning everyone , already hot as F outside at 9AM

 

Good Morning Porch Pals & Sue! Looks like a watering night....sigh. We should still get something from the sky next week.

1973 Loy Norrix, Kalamazoo

 

No flipping way, I live in Paw Paw, grew up in Detroit, lived in Kalamazoo for 25 years before moving to Paw Paw

 

If Norrix is still there, it's the only school I attended that still is. That metal pedestrian bridge over South Westnedge? My elementary school got that done; because it was too scary to do Safety Patrol for kids crossing that street. We helped our teachers and PTA with that project.

 

Still there last time I was over that way

 

That bigger building on the West side was my elementary school. It's been several things since. I suppose people still use that to get across.

 

Kazoo schools are pretty good, Strikers have helped a lot

 

Didn't have it when I was a kid, but they have the Kalamazoo Promise, which is pretty cool.

Kazoo is amazingly resilient; gone are the GM plant, Checker Motors, Gibson Guitars, many of the downtown anchors and big names, and much more (duh - Upjohn!). Yet, every time I visit my sister (in Schoolcraft), I am amazed by all the business, food, entertainment, and the shape of the city itself.

 

We really love downtown, go to the State Theater all the time, and of course Taco Bobs and Bells

 

Well, you will just have to go see "Duke and the Loose Cannons" at Ruggers Down under for a Happy Hour. Tell Craig the bass player I sent ya' in my place!

 

I’ll make a note
Great music scene in Kzoo, really miss Club Soda

 

Celebrated the 50th anniversary of the class of ‘74 from Portsmouth East HS. 79 in the class and 27 made it to the reunion.
Jim

 

changed undies

 

Class of 1982 here. Went to El Camino High School in Sacramento Ca.

 

Went to High School about 3 miles west of you. Grew up near Marconi and Fulton.

As a kid, I remember asking Mom about the street names. Most were named for inventors, so it was great fun for the bookworm (I was the sickly child, the youngest of six, but left at home with many books) to figure out who they were named after.

Edison, Marconi, Fulton, Wright, Bell, Hurley, Northrup, Morse, etc. Those street names were laid out in the 1920s-1940s. No inventor named El Camino, so Mom suspected it was named after the Mission Trail. Some names were Jesuits.

As a kid, friends of my dad lived out at Phoenix Fields. Fly in the neighborhood, an old airport long since bulldozed and paved over.

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SacramentoNE.htm#phoenix

 

Something wrong with that guys leg on the corner?