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- Knowing just about everyone in town
was both a good and a bad thing!
- Getting your house TP'd was an honor
that you bestowed on someone else in return.
- Mr. Santoni went ballistic when Terry
Wells confiscated his shoes and put them on a snowy window ledge.
- Pea vines from pea trucks on the way
to Kuner's littered the streets of Loveland.
- I met and made friends with people
who are still my friends today!
- A ton of real estate "For Sale" signs
mysteriously appeared in bathrooms at the park.
- We raced around a drained Lake
Loveland discovering camouflaged mud holes.
- November 22, 1963, the cafeteria was
serving chili that day, and Miss E walked through the cafeteria with
her new-fangled little transistor radio to her ear, telling us that
President Kennedy had died.
- Riding your bike all over town after
dark was a fun - and safe - thing to do. (And getting off the
bike and throwing it to the ground, confident that it would be there
when you returned four hours later.)
- The bitter cold water at the swimming
pool in the early morning.
- "Activities" in the journalism
darkroom, where the door locked from the inside.
- The sponsors woke the Washington D.C.
trip participants up at 3:00 A.M. as the train crossed the
Mississippi River.
- Jade East was the first major men's
cologne, and most of us bought a bottle of the nasty stuff.
- Gym class, where running laps around
the balcony was punishment for something or other, and if you did
something worse, you grabbed your ankles and got several whacks on
your butt with a gym shoe!
- The pungent aroma of sugar beets
filled the air.
- We had to drive to Fort Collins for a
McDonalds but we had "Toot-n-Tellum!
- We thought teachers actually checked
hall passes for monitor's signatures, scrutinizing our travel route.
(Does anyone remember being a hall monitor or where the checkpoints
were?)
- Campus was "closed," unless you were
on the newspaper or yearbook staff and you could go sell adds - and
stop at City Dairy.
- We were reading poetry by the
Scottish poet Robert Burns in senior English and Miss Scott asked if
anyone in the room had Scottish blood in them. Paul Salas
raised his hand! ("I am looking forward to seeing him.")
- Mrs. Whitehouse was at the blackboard
waiving her hands in the air when she dropped her chalk into the
open top of her generous neckline. It must have been her only
piece because she started searching for it -- and searching -- and
searching!
- Playing ponies in the gravel yard at
Lincoln Elementary.
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- I could fake my mother's signature
perfectly.
- Loveland telephone numbers began with
Normandy 7.
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- Cherry orchards blossomed from
Loveland to Fort Collins and a lot of us had summer jobs at the
cherry factory.
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- Namaqua Hills was the place to park,
not a neighborhood.
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- Boys had to wear belts and girls had
to kneel to be sure their skirts touched the floor.
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- The girl's P.E. class threw Mrs.
Tuller in the shower.
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- Mrs. Goudy had a Thunderbird.
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- Mrs. Whitehouse got so involved in a
scene from Shakespeare that she fell into the trash can.
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- You could flip a U on 4th Street.
(Some people insist that you still can!)
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- It was 13 miles from Loveland to the
new McDonald's on the southern edge of Fort Collins and you were in the country when you
ventured east of Factory Street..
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- There was a
slumber party after Rag Day and were
outside pretty late. We noticed something going on at Westlake
Grocery Store and discovered that it was being robbed! That
was the year we were "convicts" in our skit!
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- We went "bushwhacking" at Lake
Loveland.
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- "Older" friends bought us quarts of
3.2 beer at the Hub.
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- We followed police cars around town.
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- Chinese Fire Drills were daring
deeds.
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