Greetings All!
The class meeting at Sharon's on July 11th was well attended
and a success. Thank you Sharon for your hospitality.
The next class meeting will be held during Norfolk State's homecoming.
Date: Friday, Oct.30 thru Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
Location: The Waterside Marriott Downtown Norfolk
Directions and Reservations: 1-757-6286417
Please make plans to join us and have fun!
More class news is coming soon. Be on the lookout for email from our
Class Secretary Beverly Haynes with the minutes from the last meeting, and an email from our Class President Brenda White with a Newsletter.
Class dues is still only ten dollars per month, or $120 per year.
You can pay in any increment.
We now have a page on the social media site Facebook. It is much more interactive than the blog and fun too. You will have to create a personal page so you can log in and view pages. It's free.
You can find it here:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000076404894&ref=name.
Our other class web addresses are:
Our Blog: http://www.btw68.blogspot.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/btw68
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/btw68
Download and install our BTW68 Toolbar(virus free) all those links are already in there.
Thanks to Karlton Gay for forwarding the entertaining email:
"A stroll down memory lane". It's posted below.
I removed the email addresses to prevent them from being harvested by "bots" and resulting in spam, and to preserve privacy.
Subject: Re: Fwd: A stroll down memory lane
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:09:20 +0000
> > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:44:57 -0400
> > From:
> > Subject: A stroll down memory lane
> >
> > I'm supposed to send this to really OLD friends, etc, but I want some
young folks to laugh too, and maybe ask "What is THAT?"
> > Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when
you were growing up?'
> > 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
> > 'All the food was slow.'
> >
> > 'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
> > 'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
> > 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat
down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on
my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
> > By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had
to have permission to leave the table.
> > But here are some other things I would have told him about my
childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
> >Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on
a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
> > In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card
The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears &
Roebuck.
> > Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
> > My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly
because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed
probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
> > We didn't have a television in our house until I was 5. It was, of course,
black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing
the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at
about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show
on, featuring local people.
> > I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.'
> > When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid
off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's
still the best pizza I ever had.
> > We didn't have a car until I was 4. It was an old black Dodge.
> > I never had a telephone in my room.
> > The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a
party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some
people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
> > Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
> >All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered
newspapers. They delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents
a paper, of which they got to keep 2 cents. They had to get up at 6AM
every morning. On Saturday, they had to collect the 42 cents from their
customers. Their favorite customers were the ones who gave them 50
cents and told them to keep the change. Their least favorite customers
were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
> >Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the
movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly
produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or
most anything offensive.
> >If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may
want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.
Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
> >Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
> > MEMORIES from a friend :
> > My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in
December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the
bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately
what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to
make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the
end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have
steam irons. Man, I am old.
> > How many do you remember?
> > >>Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
> > >>Ignition switches on the dashboard.
> > >>Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> > >>Real ice boxes.
> > >>Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> > >>Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> > >>Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
> > >>Older Than Dirt Quiz :
> > >>Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told
about
> > >>Ratings at the bottom.
> > >>
> > >>1. Blackjack chewing gum
> > >>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > >>3. Candy cigarettes
> > >>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
> > >>5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
> > >>6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> > >>7. Party lineson the telephone
> > >>8. Newsreels before the movie
> > >>9. P.F. Flyers
> > >>10. Butch wax
> > >>11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and
were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3
channels,if you were fortunate)
> > >>12. Peashooters
> > >>13. Howdy Doody
> > >>14. 45 RPM records
> > >>15. S&H greenstamps
> > >>16.20 Hi-fi's
> > >>17. Metal ice trays with lever
> > >>18. Mimeograph paper
> > >>19 Blue flashbulb
> > >>20. Packards
> > >>21. Roller skate keys
> > >>22. Cork popguns
> > >>23. Drive-ins
> > >>24. Studebakers
> > >>25. Wash tub wringers
> > >>
> > >>If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> > >>If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> > >>If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
> > >>If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
> > >>
> > >>I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best
parts of my life.
That's it for now. Take care everyone.
Edward West
