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TJ
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more news from texas
Susie Johnston
Sellner (Kingwood, TX) and her husband John considered evacuating to
Austin to stay with friends during Hurricane Rita, but because of
clogged roads, they stayed put, boarding up windows on three sides of
their home. Susie writes that after the storm, “in order to allow
people to return home in a staggered fashion, avoiding the gridlock of
the mass exodus, and in order to allow families to clean up before being
required to be back at work, all the area school districts delayed the
opening of schools…. Who would have thought that I'd be trading the
snow days of
Virginia
for the hurricane days of
Texas
?”
the
virginia
state fair
Jimmy Gregory
(
Virginia Beach
): My favorite memory of the state fair was the hoochie koochie show. Later
in life I associated the fair with the time to plant and fertilize
grass. When I noticed the fair was in town I knew it was time to tend to
the yard.
Pat Sturman
Sanders (
Richmond
): My senior year in High School I went
to the State Fair with my parents. My dad had a booth set up
in one of buildings selling
Florida
property. I walked around the fair
by myself and ran into Buddy Nixon. I asked him to go with me to see my
dad in the exhibition building where my dad was set up. The building was
closed and locked up. I had the bright idea to break into the building. I
lifted the door with the chain on it and proceeded to crawl in. The
security guard grabbed Buddy and me and dragged us to the police station
of the fair. I was pleading for my release, saying, “I was
looking for my
daddy!"
The security guard was very old and
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didn't
believe us. He thought we were trying to steal a car. When we got
to the police station, they announced my name over the loud speaker of
the fairgrounds. My parents showed up wondering what I had done. The
police let us go, and I gave Buddy Nixon a ride home. He probably
wishes he had never run into me….
tobacco
bowl
Joe Segal (
Richmond
)
writes: Now that you mention it, I do remember going to the parades and
climbing up onto one of the roofs at Boulevard and Broad, on the
northeast side of the street, just to get the best vantage point. I also
remember the Tobacco Bowl football game in 1965, where
Virginia
beat previously unbeaten
West Virginia
(I
believe) by a score of 41-0. I was sitting in the stands with a
broken nose suffered the day before in
Charlottesville
playing IM touch football. (I got "touched.”)
faculty
attending our reunion
We have invited a
number of our former teachers to attend the reunion. Miss Ellett
(Chemistry) and Miss Coleman (English) will be at the Sunday
brunch at the Westwood Club. We’ll keep you posted about others as
well.
let us know what you remember about
- dances
at Tillie’s, Up n’ Away Dude Ranch, Tantilla Ballroom,
- drive-in
movies,
- favorite
places to go for dinner,
- anything
else that was fun to do on a date.
Send
your memories to forty65@hotmail.com.
Thanks!
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