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10/03/09 12:22 AM #294     Lindy Clarke (Hall) While some out-of-towners are here this weekend, you may want to consider attending a parade on Sunday: 900 soldiers that are deploying to Iraq, will be marching at 1pm Sunday, from Geo Brown Conv Cntrm to MinuteMaidPark. I'm afraid I'd spend the entire time crying, not exactly what those soldiers may want to see. You can find more info in any of the media outlets.

10/03/09 11:44 AM #295     Stephen Ray Puckett The Enchanted Cup - was that the place where you sat on cushions around tables made of spools? If so, I was there a couple of fun times. I remember a waitress (all wore black stockings) wandering around the tables saying, "Did someone want a strawberry ecstasy and not get it?" There was nothing like that back in Austin! I went to Los Troncos once - very different, interesting decor. I never made it to Art Wren's - I heard vague warnings about that place, that odd things happened there. So, how was it? When I finally moved back to Houston in the early 1980's I used to occasionally be at Valhalla (Rice) and often hung out at the old Munchie's Classic Cafe on Richmond near Dunlavy. I was sorta in the house band, often playing with world-class players. If you played, you got liquids free - great for me cuz that happened most every night! Most of the staff and customers were musicians and we would entertain each other several nights each week when we didn't have outside groups come in. Also, I played with Bert Roth in several groups big & small. Tons of fun for me but I found I was playing there or somewhere else most every night. Many such things came to a big halt in the big Oil Bust - I fled Houston to return to Saudi Arabia in late Spring 1986. You may remember Talley and me at the registration table of the 1985 reunion. Sorry I cannot make it to the current one. It would be fun to see everyone again.

10/04/09 12:03 AM #296     Lindy Clarke (Hall) Art Wren's was a melting pot of the Montrose & Heights folks, and really all over Houston, because it was 24hrs... we had the gays, the bikers, the artists, and ordinary semi-hippie people (like me) that just happened to be night-owls. Often it was the last stop of an evening, but just as often, we went there just to go there only. They served food (nothing fancy, but quite good actually), and after eating, everyone just kept drinking coffee for many hours afterward. Everyone got along. I don't think I ever saw a fight... it was kinda sweet seeing the bikers being friendly with gays and everyone. Everyone was tolerant and appreciative of each other. People would write little poems, or do little sketches, and pass them around for admiration (my friend still has a few of them). If you had a booth, which we always did, as the place filled up, total strangers would ask to sit your booth, sometimes squished in, if there was room, and it was a generally accepted procedure/phenomenon. I've hung out at clubs, restaurants & coffee-shops in several cities, and never experienced a more complete feeling of comraderie, with many people I didn't know. Everyone was part of the whole group. The flaming gays were loved by all, the more flaming the better. The bikers were loved by all. No-one was ever shy... "Hi, what's your name?" was never awkward, it was like a "welcome". Yes, it was the hippie days of peace & love, and at Art Wren's, that feeling permeated everyone. I don't recall sitting on stools at the Enchanted Cup, although that is starting to sound right. Perhaps they had a mixture of chairs & stools. My dad was divorced at that time, and usually ate out at restaurants. One night it might be Prince's, and the next at Chez Orleans or Sonny Look's or Red Lion... and I was lucky enough to get to go, quite often. I only went to Munchie's maybe 2-3 times... it was nice, but hazy to me now. Often went to that 24hr grocery store near Richmond & Dunlavy.... and a brkfst/coffee shop on Alabama near Garrett. It's funny how hard it is to fit the jigsaw pieces of memories together. So many tidbits that are puzzling. Houston (& Austin) have changed so much... those of us with memories of the 60's and early 70's, drive around and everything has changed. I presume you know we have trains that run down Main Street now... and very few stores are on Main Street. You said you played at Munchie's... there are so many clubs now that have jam & open mic nights... and there are lots of older "musician's musicians"... you'd love it.

10/05/09 03:43 PM #297     Donna McAnally (Dillon) Does anyone remember the Friday night dances at the American Legion Hall on Alba? I started going there when I was 12 and went on up until high school. I remember getting a "C" in Science (eighth grade, I think)and was grounded for 6 weeks. I couldn't go to the dances and was heartbroken! Couldn't see all of my friends or dance with my current "love". What an exciting time and so naive!

10/10/09 11:44 AM #298     Mildred Sue (Suzie) May (Cunningham) Photos from the Class of 1964's 45-Year Reunion have been posted on their site (http://www.waltrip64.com/). The tab is on the left side of their home page. You don't have to login to see the pictures.

10/12/09 07:49 AM #299     Jennie Anderson (Dylan) Okay, the forum has been rather quiet lately, but tomorrow evening is another reconnection at Fudd's. It will be fun and hopefully, spark new conversations on this web page. I have been bike riding like crazy lately, in between and at times, in rain during this great weather we're having in Houston. After the summer drought, I can't be out in this cooler wetter weather enough. There are fall festivals all over the area, so it's never boring! Although I didn't go to the '64 reunion, I did go to the cash bar party the night before. It was so much fun hanging out, dancing, and laughing together. I found out some neat stuff, like Lloyd Pond '64 makes guitars. How cool is that? He's a Bob Dylan follower too! Tony Maddox '64 retired from teaching in the Huntsville prison system. I wanted to be a criminologist, but my Dad said I needed to be a teacher. I missed the chance of teaching prisoners though, and I think I would have loved that job! Diane, I hope you can bring Susie with you, I'd love to see her again! See everyone tomorrow night!

10/12/09 07:24 PM #300     Stephen Ray Puckett In October 1962 was the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dad was super worried that Houston would be Target #1 for any missiles fired at the US so we camped out in the woods a few hours north of Houston until events eased. We already had a lot of camping equipment, brought/bought supplies for living 'off the grid' for a month or so, then spent a tense 2+ weeks camping out, paying close attention to what was on the radio. It was a tense time but an adventure for me. I have no recollection of what was going on at school at that time - we were busy with other concerns. Hopefully we saw the last of that kind of worry.

10/13/09 08:24 AM #301     Jennie Anderson (Dylan) My memory was more of the time Russia was going to blow us up! Was that in the mid to late '50's? All I remember about that time was I developed more separation anxiety than I already had. My Dad was not going to build an underground place to go for safety. We would basically be blown up. I relate those feelings to now having a hurricane come to our area and cause a lot of havoc. I remember how traumatic it was to have those bomb drills at school, mine being Oak Forest. I hated the quiet, the positioning of the body, the not being able to look around, w/o sneaking a look. I found it a suffocating experience and very scary that I might have to die away from my family. I can't imagine schools regularly doing that to our kids now. Coincidentally, a few years after that , while I was at Black, a man went onto a playground at a Houston school and set off a bomb, killing people. All those fears came flooding back, but I kept thinking about those kids that survived and how they had gone through those same drills we had; and how awful that must have been to have seen such a horrible event. I think camping would have been fun, like Swiss Family Robinson.

10/13/09 11:00 AM #302     Donna McAnally (Dillon) Camping is fun and cheap! I remember I went to Garner State Park with Margie Kelly and her family two years before graduation. What fun! Then my family went the summer before Senior year and that was so fun! The everynight dances, playing the Frio River, etc. Hope to see a lot of people at Fuddruckers tonight!

10/14/09 01:24 PM #303     John Leediker Having not lived in Texas for over 20 years now, I am out of touch with the popular spots....is Garner State Park still as popular as it once was? I went there with my family a few times and really enjoyed it....I remember they had paddle boats for rent....that was fun.....and the clear and cold river water....I seem to remember there was even a song on the radio in the 60's about Garner State Park....don't remember who sang it....anyone remember?

10/14/09 09:44 PM #304     Stephen Ray Puckett I liked Garner State Park but the place I loved the best, by far, was at Camp Warnecke on the Comal River in New Braunfels. Get a tube, shoot the mild rapids, then drift slowly around the hairpin turn under the trees while occasionally getting refreshments from the cooler riding in its own tube. Once around, you get out, cross the neck of the hairpin, and get to do it all over again. Heaven! I first went there as a little kid. The family would go to Hot Wells pool out the Hempstead Highway but I don't recall going there as a teenager. I thought the heated pools very intriguing. Remember "Duck and Cover" with the cute cartoon Burt the Turtle? See: You may only want to watch just the cartoon part at the beginning.

10/15/09 09:24 AM #305     Kay Watters (Greene) Yes, my husband and I camped (tent and boat) for years. I certainly found it different from the Northside environment, living only with a widowed mom. And i loved it. Our favorites were Lake Conroe, Lake Sommerville. The babies were small and adaptable, grew into teens and loved water skiing. Those times have slipped into my memory, only to be brought out occasionally. I think my happiest times were as a young parent enjoying watching the kids growing up. Never made Garner State Park.....might still. Guadalupe River is only 3 hrs. away and a splendor in itself. So many places and so little time! Tony Maddox is one of my neighbors out here, yes, he is an adaptable guy, and a very good guy at that. I remember when I moved out to a little ole town called Anderson, and thought noone knew of it, certainly I wouldn't know anyone. Why Tony and his brother Gary came over from the ranch they owned right across the road! it is such a small world. Our paths have met many times. He was also the Mayor of Navasota at one time, (he has worn a lot of different hats) Well, the Waltrip 50 yr. celebration in November does sound interesting, suppose all years are involved, can just imagine mingling with all those younger "rams" and roaming the old halls again. May have to go. By the way, WHERE ARE OUR CRAZY GUYS? Beau Wann can't be the only one (Waltrip64.com) any bikers here?

10/15/09 09:33 AM #306     Linda Webster The song by B J Thomas was good but if you went to the dances at night the Number 1 song was Gene Pitney's Town Without Pity. The king & Queen of Garner were 2 Reagan Students--Terry Sealhurst(now deceased) & Bonnie Robinson. I remember many a night going to the dance and doing the Whip. What great times. I also remember one summer when I went with one of my best friends family and we were staying in a motel in Leakey, Tx and we were driving in to the dance and my unnamed friend told her Dad he had to go back to the motel because she had forgotten her bra. Her Dad said to open the glove box and get her a bandaid. She was so angry. I think we about 12 years old. Too funny. I suggested that for our 50th reunion we all go to Garner State Park for the dance one night. That was nixed.,

10/15/09 09:42 AM #307     Linda Webster Kay I grew up going to Anderson, TX and like you I thought I was the only person who had to go there. My great grandmother lived above the hardware store on Main St. My cousin was the Grimes Co sheriff for several years, before all the corruption. I found out years later by accident that James Jarvis's Mom lived in Carlos & his uncle had married a 2nd cousin of my Mom's, so I guess we're cousins. Also, Mary Senske is married to one of the Schroeder's (Meat Market family). I don't think I still have many relatives alive anymore in that area.

10/15/09 11:06 AM #308     Kay Watters (Greene) See, what'd I tell ya.....people coming out of the woods in Anderson......Linda who is James Jarvis? It is Bill Foster's birthday coming up and he's having his usual "big kowboy party". I went to Love Park to dance .... off Shepherd ....talk about magic .... "There's a Moon Out Tonight" I was in love several times there, sometimes we'd go out to the porch to talk and get fresh air....and perhaps, a stolen kiss.

10/15/09 11:55 AM #309     Lindy Clarke (Hall) Anderson Tx... when I lived in Austin, my best friend & co-worker, was Jeannie Brooks from Anderson. She was the youngest, had a couple older brothers (that I never met), but I did meet her parents, real salt-of-the-earth people, they were rather old, even back then. Do any of you Anderson people know the Brooks family? I'd love to get back in touch with Jeannie. Love Park? off Shepherd? doesn't ring any bells... tell me more... I'm just amazed at all these neaty-keen dancing hang-outs I'm only just now hearing about...

10/15/09 01:10 PM #310     Linda Webster Kay-- James Jarvis was a mid-termer in our class of '65. He married a '67 Waltrip graduate. Robby- We have a '66 Waltrip graduate who along with his wife were Champions of the WCS, Whip or whatever and they now teach it. They're on youtube as Heavy & Snowflake. Heavy is Johnny Grammer.

10/15/09 02:42 PM #311     Kay Watters (Greene) O.K. Love Park was located in the Heights area. had a lot of good ole Italians, which Sue and I found intriguing. In the Grimes County area phonebook: there are Brooks J.E. & kim brooks, Charles Brooks, Eddie Brooks, Madora Brooks and Willie Brooks....that's all. I am watching the how Jazz originated on PBS, and again tonight, they will be having Fiesta Tequana on at 8 p.m., really enjoying he music. This girl started looking around at Bolero, and other latin jazz dance lessons after that, LOL. I imagine I will be just as thrilled after tonight....can't beat PBS.

10/15/09 08:17 PM #312     Stephen Ray Puckett Dad and some buddies had a hunting lease just past Anderson. We would stop there and get some supplies. A favorite memory was getting & eating a slab of 'rat cheese' which I could get nowhere else so I looked forward to going to Anderson.

10/17/09 03:47 PM #313     Peggy Lee Pratt (Ervin) I think everyone received this email but, just in case--- Waltrip High School Class Of 1964 All Alumni Homecoming Dance at Waltrip High School Come celebrate Waltrip High School’s 50th Anniversary with your friends from high school and the community! An All Alumni Homecoming Dance will be held at Waltrip High School on November 14, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. The cost is only $15.00 per person or $20.00 per couple in advance, $25.00 per person at the door. What a great way to visit old friends and take a stroll down memory lane at Waltrip. Look for more information at the All Alumni Homecoming Dance link at ww.hs.houstonisd.org/waltripHS Send your check to Waltrip Project Prom 2010, P.O. Box 925245, Houston, TX 77292-5245. Be sure to write the year you graduated on your check! The dance committee is also looking for photos from the past 50 years at Waltrip. If you have a photo you would be willing to share, please send it to the same post office box (photos will not be returned) or e-mail it to waltripprojectprom2010@ gmail.com There is also a short survey for you to fill out on the Waltrip website. http://www.waltrip64.com

10/19/09 08:41 AM #314     Kay Watters (Greene) Hee.....Lord only knows where you got that "rat cheese". I am not one for the old vintage foods, rabbit, squirrel, pig....not even deer meat. But they still talk about all of it. Hey, I went to Madisonville Mushroom Festival this last weekend and it more than lived up to its expectations. Well known chefs prepared different interesting and very palable mushroom entrees and passed out small samples to everyone who paid $10.00 entrance and were seated under a very large canopy and tableclothed tables (weather was absolutely outstanding), and coupled with 15-20 wineries where you could sample the wines they've produced next to the tent. Must have been 300-400 people under that tent. Vendors of all kinds, museum, 5K run (great course-my favorite) etc.

10/19/09 10:48 AM #315     Stephen Ray Puckett Rat cheese is what we usually call cheddar today. A while back, many folks thought it was only suitable for rodents. I remember the little sign in the case saying, 'rat cheese'. Much later I found that we could get it in the supermarket but wasn't the cheapo type we got in Anderson. Speaking of stores, I remember Shoppers Fair in the Shepherd & Crosstimbers area - also Globe farther up Shepherd. These, and Fed Mart farther away, were our pre-WalMart stores. I recall going to Shoppers Fair occasionally with Mom. I was surprised to see women there in housedresses, curlers, and house slippers - I had thought those were only worn at home. See http://www.peopleofwalmart.com for what can be seen now.

10/19/09 02:21 PM #316     Kay Watters (Greene) EEeee-yooooo, both to rat cheese and to housecoats, rollers, and slippers. Guess things were certainly different in that era.

10/22/09 02:15 PM #317     Kay Watters (Greene) FEEL FREE TO JUST JUMP IN AND CHANGE THE SUBJECT.....OUT THERE, WE KNOW YOU ARE THERE!

10/23/09 06:33 AM #318     Jennie Anderson (Dylan) Well, I have an interesting change of subject. I bent down to pick up a scared cat and it became a full-blown attack to get away. As blood, from many bites and scratches, dripped from the wounds on both arms and hands, I passed out. I was riding my bike prior to this event, and in bike attire, so my neighbor seeing me lying prone on the ground, calls 911. By then, I was awake, but unaware of the 911 call. Here comes those EMS people I so admire. As I am sitting in shock, one of the guys says, "Mrs. Wilson", I know you! Wilson was my married name. Anyway, I had taught his son in kindergarten at St. Rose of Lima 23 years ago! Having fainted and having no use of my swelling hands and arms, they took me by ambulance to the hospital. He treated me like I was a queen. How nice to be remembered by a parent from so many years ago! I'm on several oral antibiotics, had several antibiotic shots, a tetanus shot, and pain meds. Have to go to the doctor a few times a week for a while, but I think I'm going to be okay, just scarred up some. I'm sure the people in the emergency room thought, when I exited the ambulance wearing cycling clothes, that a tiger had jumped on me, not just a little cat that I picked up. They kept looking over to get a better idea of what happened. So, does anyone have any animal bite stories?

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