Remember? Archive Number 7
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Friday November 23, 2007
11:57 AM
I keep trying to tell her that we should break away from her family and do our own thing. That would only be 25 people counting our 5th grandchild born last week, but she'll have no part of it. She enjoys crowds more than me. Don't get me wrong, I love her family, they are a great bunch, but, well, you know..... Where do we eat? This year was at my brother in laws. Borrowed folding chairs and tables from the church and set them up where there was room. ..Ed
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Thursday November 22, 2007
03:15 PM
Ed - Your wife must have nerves of steel and good planning abilitites even with the help. Where do you seat all of those people? Do you have a special building somewhere? Loretta '68
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Wednesday November 21, 2007
07:05 PM
Once again Ed's Thanksgiving eclipses the original 1621 Thanksgiving where there were 22 men, 4 women, 9 adolescent boys, 5 adolescent girls and 13 young children for a total of 53 Pilgrims. John O '72.
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Wednesday November 21, 2007
04:22 PM
My wife and her three sisters and two sister in laws team up to make a meal for about 80 people. This Thanksgiving is no different, a couple turkeys, a couple hams, maybe some venison. A real good feed, though noisy. Wishing a blessed Thanksgiving to all. ..Ed
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Wednesday November 21, 2007
03:09 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all! My Dad use to come to my house every Thanksgiving morning to peel the potatoes. Of course, he had to bring his own peeler, because mine just wasn't right. Dad's gone, and now I make the mashed potatoes the night before. When did I become the cook? CT'69
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Tuesday November 20, 2007
06:00 PM
Looking forward to Packers-Lions on Thanksgiving Day. The Lions have a 33-32-2 Thanksgiving Day record. The Packers have an 11-18-1 Thanksgiving Day record. Detroit has a 11-5-1 command over Green Bay on Thanksgiving. The Packers and Lions have only met three times when both teams had winning records and this will be the fourth time. In 1960 the Packers had a 8-4 season and the Lions had a 7-5 season and when they met on Thansgiving the Lions won 23-10. In 1961 the Packers had an 11-3 season and the Lions had an 8-5-1 season and when they met on Thankgiving the Packers won 17-9. In 1962 the Packers had a 13-1 season and the Lions had an 11-3 season with the Lions giving the Packers their only loss on the season on Thanksgiving 26-14... The Lions have been playing on Thanksgiving since 1934 when th game was broadcast nationally on 96 radio staions...The Packers have played dallas a couple of times on Thansgiving but the reason they have 41 games played on Thansgiving is because they played on the day every year from 1920 to 1935. The teams they played back then on Thansgiving Day were the Stambaugh Miners (from the UP), the Duluth Kellys (before they became the Duluth Eskimos, the Hammond Pros, the Kansas City Blues, the Pottsville Maroons, the Frankford Yellowjackets, the Providence Steamrollers, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Staten Island Stapletons and the Chicago Cardinals. John O '72.
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Saturday November 17, 2007
03:08 PM
Oh, and don't forget the recipe for a turkey parfait made from frozen TV dinners on that web site also. I agree with you J 65, that hours of work make for only 10 minutes of enjoying the meal. I like your suggestion of the men taking their turn. My husband is actually great about sharing the cooking chores at holiday time. Loretta '68
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Saturday November 17, 2007
03:04 PM
To add to your turkey T.V. dinner, go to the Tacky Living web site for instructions on making a turkey shaped cheeseball. Looks and sounds disgusting. On closer inspection, the wishbone jewelry mentioned in my earlier posting is not sold by the Tacky Living web site. You have to buy the plastic wishbones from another company, and then Tacky Living tells you how to transform them with gold or silver spray paint, and rhinestones. I may be laid up from this surgery, but I'm not that desperate for something to do. Loretta '68
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Wednesday November 14, 2007
07:18 PM
Thanksgivings are great, but that is from a man's perspective. While women naturally would enjoy seeing family etc. and some enjoy cooking, it seems that 8 to 12 hours of cooking and cleaning up, not to mention days shopping and other prep, is not worth it. Think how fast the actual meal lasts. People should have turkey tv dinners or go out to eat, or have men do the honors every other year from start to finish. J. 65.
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Sunday November 11, 2007
01:49 PM
Thank a Vet today!
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Saturday November 10, 2007
09:59 AM
There's a website called "Tacky Living" that sells jewelry made from plastic wishbones. Loretta '68
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Friday November 09, 2007
04:44 PM
Great Thanksgiving Moment - Being one of the kids who gets to make a wish on the wishbone, and then having it break to your advantage. Loretta '68
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Wednesday November 07, 2007
05:20 PM
Great Thanksgiving Moments: 1956 - Green Bay 24 Detroit 20, 1959 - Green Bay 24 Detroit 17, 1961 - Green Bay 13 Detroit 13, Green Bay 17 Detroit 9, 1986 - Green Bay 44 Detroit 40, 2001 - Green Bay 29 Detroit 27... Those are the great moments but Detroit has a significant edge with an 11-5-1 record against Green Bay on Thanksgiving Day... Dallas has a 2-0 edge on Green Bay on Thanksgiving Day. John O '72,
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Wednesday November 07, 2007
10:01 AM
Great Thanksgiving Moments...Moving from the "kid's" table (a card table at our house) to the adult table...Jim S '71
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Tuesday November 06, 2007
08:03 PM
Susan......It couldn't have been that bad because I don't even remember this!! Polly
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Tuesday November 06, 2007
05:57 PM
Despite the long endearing popularity of Thankgiving there are very few Thanksgiving movies. "Miracle on 34th Street" begins on Thanksgiving but quickly turns in a Christmas movie. A couple of movies that take place on Thanksgiving came out in the late 1980's and mid 1990's and both were comedies, "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" and "Home for the Holidays." John O '72.
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Tuesday November 06, 2007
04:36 PM
Thinking about Thanksgiving dinner, I'm reminded of one dinner contribution that didn't turn out so well. I'd been invited to my friend Polly's house for dinner. I think she was trying to give me an easy food assignment when she said I could bring jello. Well, I don't make much jello but remembered one that I made with red jello, cool whip, and strawberries that would look really pretty in a clear glass bowl. But I couldn't find the recipe and so I used another recipe that called for blackberry jello, cool whip, and blue berries. I didn't help matters that her kids don't like blueberries, but it would have flopped anyway. Imagine this, purply foam with blueberries in it. It looked odd for lack of a better word and probably looked even worse to non-colorblind people. What made it even worse that when it was being scooped out of the bowl, the blueberries would fall out of it making it look like pock-marked purply foam. A lot of that went back home with me and it actually tasted good if you could get past the appearance. Susan '66
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Tuesday November 06, 2007
04:23 PM
When I was a kid, Christmas was my favorite holiday, but now that I'm older I think I like Thanksgiving better. It's less frantic and the focus is sitting around a dinner table talking with friends and family over the scrumptious holiday food. Susan '66
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Monday November 05, 2007
11:22 AM
... it's all about the green bean casserole. :) paula '73
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Sunday November 04, 2007
05:51 PM
I love Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. Memories intermingled... family, food, deer hunting, watching the Packers on TV, lots of laughing and sharing stories. Lynn 69'
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Sunday November 04, 2007
01:26 PM
Thanksgiving Day memories: For the fathers, uncles, and sons (not too many women were hunters)it was deer season and we were in the woods...either at the deer camp or just out for the day...but we always came home in the afternoon for the turkey (and to watch football). On Friday it was back to the woods...but with a big lunch of leftover Thanksgiving dinner. A little change now-a-days in Colorado. We have a big traditional Thanksgiving dinner and on Friday the men go pheasant hunting (with the same big lunch of leftover Thanksgiving dinner)and the women go shoppping. Everyone is happy. TB'66
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Sunday November 04, 2007
12:44 AM
NBC broadcast Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from New York and CBS broadcast parts of Macy's Thanksgiving from New York, Gimbel's Thanksgiving from Philadelphia, JL Hudson's Thanksgiving from Detroit and Eaton's Santa Claus Parade from Toronto. On November 28, 1963 Captain Kangaroo read part of the prepared Thanksgiving Day address to the nation that President John F. Kennedy never lived to give himself. John O '72.
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Saturday November 03, 2007
12:28 AM
Here comes Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving for me was all about Captain Kangaroo and how at the end of his show, he would read a poem about being thankful (with Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit standing by) and then turn everything over to CBS which showed parts of five parades (Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis, and Toronto). I guess Thanksgiving morning meant more to me than the meal itself! My mother (following a recipe) would put the stufffed turkey in the oven at 10PM and have the timer start the cooking at 7AM. Seems the fanatics concerns about meat sitting at room temperature for such a long period of time didn't apply in those days. Oh well, along with lead tinsel, we all survived! RAL'72
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Wednesday October 31, 2007
06:33 AM
The Halloween fun frolick at the township building was a "great event" every year. Roosevelt PTO members and parents donated a lot of time to put that together year after year. I can still see us standing in the long lines waiting to "fish", and Tony Stella must have worked the game in the back corner of the gym every year! Great fun. gk 71
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
06:24 PM
According to the forecast here, the kids will be trick or treating in the snow. Lynn'69
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
09:55 AM
Halloween memories of going up one side of the Resettlement and down the other. Lots (too much) of candy! Didn't have to be driven anywhere. Just stay in our neighborhood. Halloween fun frolics and the Township Community Building aka the "Cow Palace." Great times. Great memories. DL '75
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
09:54 AM
Halloween memories of going up one side of the Resettlement and down the other. Lots (too much) of candy! Didn't have to be driven anywhere. Just stay in our neighborhood. Halloween fun frolics and the Township Community Building aka the "Cow Palace." Great times. Great memories. DL '75
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Monday October 29, 2007
07:46 PM
We can tell our grandchildren how we walked miles for treats, uphill, in a driving wind, with snow and rain soaking us to the skin. (violins here) Kind of like the old stories about walking miles to school in all kinds of weather. I must have a selective memory or a rotten one. I don't remember the weather being that bad for trick or treating. Maybe we chickened out and stayed home when is was raining. Loretta '68
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Monday October 29, 2007
10:45 AM
Halloween memories: Rolling garbage cans down Houk or Pine Street in Norrie. Trick or Treating at the (old) Aurora Club on Pine Street in Aurora Location. Being old enough to "sneak" over to Hurley to Trick or Treat in the taverns where the customers would give you their change. Fun Frolic at Newport School--mentioned before but worth another mention. Almost all homemade costumes--rarely did someone have a store bought costume. Homemade treats (popcorn balls, fudge, etc) in your bag...certainly a no-no today. No parent would ever think of driving you around and waiting for you on the street!!! Snow, sleet, rain, cold, wind...often all at the same time.
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Sunday October 28, 2007
06:13 PM
Talk about Halloween, Newport school had a good fun frolic also and the cute Boys. that is my story and am sticking to it. Good memories.
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Sunday October 28, 2007
06:09 PM
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Sunday October 28, 2007
04:04 PM
I had forgotten about the Halloween fun frolic at Sleight School. As a kid always liked cake walks or fishing booths the best at any event. I almost bought a bag of peanut butter kisses the other day at Wal-Mart. Seems the old timers always gave those out, and I figured it is now my turn to give them out. Decided against it, though. The peanut butter kisses were always the last thing to go from my treat bag, especially if they were hard. Always remember the neighbor who gave us a bunch of bananas because she had run out of treats. Loretta '68
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Sunday October 28, 2007
12:30 AM
Halloween is upon us which brings up wonderful memories of trick-or-treatings past. Sleight School always held a Halloween night in their gym during which kids could "fish" over a curtain for toys..while all being in their costumes. Trick or Treating itself reaped apples, brownies, homemade honey candies and fudge. Make-up for the hobo was burned cork rubbed on one's face. And, of course, whatever the costume, it would be covered by a coat because of the cold. I can recall winning a cake trimmed with candy corn at Central Jr. High at a fun fair cake walk and walking it home west across the railroad tracks to the "northside" in a blizzard. RAL'72
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Friday October 26, 2007
10:59 PM
It's likely that this has been covered before in these annals, but I was remembering the giant elm tree, North of Hauttala's Tavern in the township. It took many of us joining hands to ring it and, as I recall, it was hit by lightning at one point, which took a good part of it. Our town, as did the rest of the country, took a huge hit when Dutch Elm disease killed so many of our great trees. Lake road once had many majestic trees lining it.
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Saturday October 20, 2007
01:16 AM
THAT, is priceless! What Americana.
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Friday October 19, 2007
06:51 AM
That reminds me of a time when my brother Bruce and I were out behind the barn shooting arrows with my new orange fiberglass recurve bow. We were only standing about 4 feet apart and I shot an arrow straight up. Real bright! Well, it went out of sight and we just stood there wondering where it will come down. When it did return to earth it was coming so fast we didn't even react. It landed right between us and buried the shaft of the arrow about 6 inches into the ground. We just stood there with our mouths open staring at each other. Needless to say that was the last time I pulled that stunt. ..Ed
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Wednesday October 17, 2007
11:47 PM
With the series, "War" on PBS, I'm reminded of the boys playing "Combat" in the open fields leading up to Mt. Zion with BB guns (which unlike today's AirSoft ammo, HURT when they hit you). There was a particular line of farmer-cleared stones and trees left standing in the middle, which always represented the stronghold to attack or defend. And on a calm day, and if you were good at this, you could shoot a BB gun straight up into the air and have the BB land next to you on the return trip. RAL'72
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Wednesday October 17, 2007
03:02 PM
The other was Ricky Baross.
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Tuesday October 16, 2007
08:32 AM
One was Bill Balduc.
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Tuesday October 16, 2007
08:30 AM
One was Kevin Vukovich. Class of 1974 ~ LLW. I also attended Holy Trinity - St. Michael's grade school with him & was in the same class as his brother Brian. It is very sad .... Paula '73
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Monday October 15, 2007
06:16 PM
What was the names of the 3 young people who passed away? That is so young.
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Monday October 15, 2007
06:15 PM
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Sunday October 14, 2007
06:47 PM
Here's something for you Moms. I put this in the Remember section because I heard many of these from my Mother, excepting maybe the texting at the table and ipods. ..Ed http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU
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Friday October 12, 2007
01:33 PM
It was a sad week in Ironwood last week. Three "young" men passed away with Ironwood connections...all were 50 or 51, one graduated in 1974 from Ironwood, one from Ironwood Catholic I believe in 1975 and one just attended IHS.
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Tuesday October 09, 2007
05:56 PM
I'll have to post again. It was so scary I typed the address wrong. http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/wp-content/uploads/wickedwitch_east_hillary.jpg
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Tuesday October 09, 2007
05:52 PM
Here's something frightening for Hallowwen: http:/www.the-two-macontents.com/wp-content/uploads/wickedwitch_east_hillary.jpg
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Thursday October 04, 2007
06:35 PM
I like the aroma of burning leaves too. Especially if they give off a skunky smell. John O '72.
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Thursday October 04, 2007
05:43 PM
I have a lot of great memories of the Norrie Rink. Walking there, skating and then walking home. In the summer we were at Norrie Park. I remember having a fifth grade class picnic there with our teacher Mr. Olson. Lynn '69
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Thursday October 04, 2007
02:15 PM
Talking about burning wood "slabs" as we called them reminded me of the Norrie school ice rink building. Who skated there like we did? Was a great thing for kids in the 60's. Built by neighborhood dads and another Tommy Viczanko led project. I know my Dad worked on the bldg, did yours? Let us know? AL E. 71
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Thursday October 04, 2007
06:43 AM
Another olfactory memory--the aroma of burning leaves in the fall of the year...JM'68
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Wednesday October 03, 2007
12:12 PM
We also had the tongue and groove pieces delivered to our house from Ahonen's. We called them "clippings" and burned them in our kitchen wood stove. We all shared the job of tossing them into the basement. We liked using them as blocks to play with. Our own version of Lincoln Logs! Lynn'69
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Wednesday October 03, 2007
11:17 AM
My Dad was a switchman for the ol' C&NW railroad and used to bring home creosote from work. He would apply it to every piece of exposed wood around our house, esp. the back porch. That smell along with the odor of paint brushes soaking in a coffee can filled with turpentine always takes me back...Jim S '71
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Wednesday October 03, 2007
12:51 AM
As a kid, I remember having the best time climbing up and down a huge pile of tongue-in-groove wood pieces delivered to our house by Ahonen Lumber for burning in our furnace in the basement. It was up to my Dad to push the wood down into the root cellar part of the basement (which doubled at as a "bomb shelter" back then). Sometimes, it took him a few days to move it in - which kept us climbing all the longer! I can still smell the wood.. RAL'72
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Tuesday October 02, 2007
08:12 PM
My Dad used creosote on the shingles that sided our house for many years, rather than paint. That is a smell that stays with you. Loretta '68
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Tuesday October 02, 2007
05:25 PM
Informative as usual. Thanks Al. John O '72.
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Tuesday October 02, 2007
05:20 PM
That stuff John O. is creosote and is a by product of the destructive distillation of wood, most coming from the production of charcoal. It is a known potent carcinogen and was used for timbers like railroad tressles, ties and power poles. It is still used for ties but not poles which are treated like the green lumber you use for decks, etc. Many EPA cleanup sites involve creosote, there is one up in Laurium and we had one when I was an engineer at KI Sawyer at our jet fuel terminal in Gladstone which had been a charcoal plant site many years previous. Creosote is also the stuff that causes most chimney fires, especially when you try to burn green wood. Al Erickson, 1971.
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Tuesday October 02, 2007
04:58 PM
I used to like that resiny tar-like smell of the weatherproof sealant they would use on the wooden oredocks in Ashland. The Black River Harbor bridge had that smae smell. So did every campground picnic table. Must have been some chemical that since has been outlawed. John O '72.
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Sunday September 30, 2007
04:37 AM
We used to put that road binder down on the dustier roads in the townships and we called it pickle juice because of the smell. It actually was a by product of the wood industry and I think it was always picked up from Park Falls. BJ67
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Saturday September 29, 2007
09:00 AM
Jim, we used to call it "Road Binder". I Googled it and came up with this. http://www.americandistributing.com/dustcontrol.html It is a bi-product of the pulp industry. They say odors along with sounds trigger memories. I'm sure if I could smell that stuff again a ton of memories would come back to me of my childhood. ..Ed
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Saturday September 29, 2007
06:50 AM
I was out running the roads the other day and came upon a sign that cautioned that this backroad was freshly oiled. But it didn't smell like the stuff they used to use on some of the roads out in the township. Does anyone remember the distinctive odor of roads that were treated with that stuff? They used it to keep down the dust and to stabilize whatever aggregates were on the roads--usually gravel roads, like the Pump Station Road. Does anyone know what chemicals were used? JM'68
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Wednesday September 26, 2007
08:04 PM
We were discussing the 50's Ironwood area rock & roll band The Galaxies here recently and I see in Today's Ironwood Daily Globe online that Galaxies original drummer Bernie Michelli of Bessemer has died at the age of 76. He was also a 44 year and founding member of Marty's Goldenaires. His obituary says he also played in backup bands for such luminaries as Conway Twitty, Della Reese and the Kingston Trio and played with the Harry James big band and the Guy Lombardo Orchestra. John O '72.
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Thursday September 20, 2007
07:46 PM
I saw Paul at the Forum in LA in 1989 and went to an after concert party but he and Linda and guitarist Hammish Stuart from his band didn't go. His other guitarist Robbie McIntosh, his drummer Chris Whitten and his keyboardist Paul Wickens were there though and I had them sign my program. Rick Springfield, Ace Freeley and Edie Brickell signed it too. I traded my other program with Ringo Starr's manager for his VIP pass to get into the party. Ringo couldn't make to the shows so his manager wanted a program to give to him. John O '72.
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Thursday September 20, 2007
02:30 PM
Had the pleasure of seeing and hearing Sir Paul last year in Saint Paul...bumped into Mary Grace '72 at the show. He was very much alive, in tune, and a great showman. Mike S '71
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Wednesday September 19, 2007
05:08 PM
Of course we are just having fun reviving the "Paul is dead" rumor that has been around for so long that various books have been written about it. It's first origins were in December 1965 when Paul was slightly injured in a moped accident near his fathers home in Liverpool and rumors spread that he had been killed. In February 1967 the Beatles official fan pubished a story that rumors were going around that Paul had been killed in a car accident on the M1 and assured thae fans that he was indeed alive and it was a false rumor. It didn't immediately go away and for much of 1967 rumors of his death occasionally popped up around England. In late 1969 a story was concocted that Paul had been killed in a car accident on November 9, 1966 leaving a recording session at EMI's Abbey Road studios. This rumor suggested various clues could be found in Beatle songs and album covers. This was intended to be a hoax but soon people were reading into and finding things in songs and covers that not only supported the hoax but offered even more clues as to it not being a hoax. People were reading into things that weren't there for example the OPD patch Paul wears on Sgt. Pepper was interpreted as "Offically Pronounced Dead" when in fact because the angle it looks like a D but it actually is a badge Paul got in Canada and it says OPP for Ontario Provincial Police. The Beatles themselves seemed to intentionally fuel rumors by including such things as the lyrics in the 1968 song Glass Onion "Here's another clue for you all/The walrus was Paul" suggesting that there are clues to be found in Beatle albums. John Lennon had fun with the rumors when he was fueding with Paul in his 1971 song How Do You Sleep off Imagine with his lyrics "Those freaks was right when they said you was dead." McCartney himself poked fun at the rumor on this 1993 live album Paul is Live. On the Abbey Road cover a volkswagon has a license plate reading IF 28 interpreted as if Paul had lived he would be 28 which he would have been. On Paul is Live he recreated the Abbey Road cover and the license plate reads IS 51 meaing he is 51 years old which he was. Paul is indeed alive and well but with the nasty divorce he's going through I'm sure there are times he wishes he were dead...or Heather Mills was. John O '72.
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Wednesday September 19, 2007
09:36 AM
Here is a fun site featuring hot cars from the 50s and 60s and I know the 70s. Cars had much more character then as did the music, I believe. http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm J 65
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Wednesday September 19, 2007
06:45 AM
Ah yes, sometimes they have a way of making a bloke not to notice an important thing like a stop light. Still, I'm not so sure I buy into all this. Weird stuff.
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
10:19 PM
Lovely Rita may have had something to do with his demise but since she was also killed when his Aston-Martin crashed we may never know. He had picked her up hitchiking and was taking her home and almost made it but the car swerved and hit a stone wall resulting in a fiery fatal crash. His head was horribly crushed and burned. Apparently he ran a stop light not noticing that it had changed.
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
07:04 PM
So if Billy Shears signed the Les Paul, was it Rita who did him in? And why wasn't she reading metas?
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
06:44 PM
The last known burial took place in 1936. This of course was kept very secret when it took place in 1966. George dug the grave. Ringo dressed the body and John officiated the funeral service. Former policeman William Shears Campbell who would become Paul's replacement double likely signed that autograph.
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
05:17 PM
In a small coffee shop along the Charles, my good friend Rosie Brooks told me about painting a 10 foot tall Les Paul that Paul had autographed. He couldn't have been a stiff at all to do that, no?
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
05:08 PM
Did you sneak him in the back gate? The last burial took place in July of 1936 and the cemetery was officially closed.
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
04:46 PM
St. James Churchyard Cemetery, Liverpool, England.
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
08:34 AM
Where?
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
01:11 AM
Dead...Till proved alive. I buried Paul.
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Sunday September 16, 2007
07:24 AM
Ah suppose since Paul is still alive, ah should avoid any plagiarism charges against me by saying: Previous post credited to Paul McCartney.
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Saturday September 15, 2007
07:19 PM
If you really like it you can have the rights, // It could make a million for you overnight. // If you must return it, you can send it here // But I need a break and I want to be a paperback writer, // Paperback writer.
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Saturday September 15, 2007
10:26 AM
How about a sequel, Ed? There must be some other hidden secrets of Ironwood history. Loretta '68
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Friday September 14, 2007
04:06 PM
Pulitzer Prize! John O '72.
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Friday September 14, 2007
09:51 AM
That was GREAT Ed! I can almost smell the cigar smoke!! :) Paula '73
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Friday September 14, 2007
07:12 AM
Jimmy Taylor leaned back in his mahogany chair. Three more hours. That was all that separated him from his long awaited vacation. He and Shirley had planned this one together and it was going to be perfect. The smoke from his cigar rose lazily to a height of about five feet off the floor and then formed a cloud that spread across the room. James Knox Taylor gazed absent mindedly out the window at the city skyline and dreamed of slower times. The way it used to be before pursuing this architectural occupation. Now with this vacation he and his beloved could go back for a little while and enjoy a taste of life from yesterday. He hardly noticed the creaking of the door. His business partner had to clear his throat before he came back to real time. Oh, how that irritated him when Gilbert did that! Always clearing his throat. It was as if his small stature was enlarged somehow when he would clear his throat. "We just got word, James, that we have to have this job done in two weeks", Gilbert rasped. "A one horse town called Ironwood up in no man's land needs a Post Office designed." Of all the luck. Jimmy was in charge of all the Post Office jobs designed by the firm, so he knew what this meant. He snuffed out his cigar in the large glass ashtray and tried to sort out his thoughts. There had to be a way. Gilbert cleared his throat as he left the room and Jimmy thought he noticed a little smile on his face. The dirty rat! He felt the temptation to fling the ashtray at the back of his little half bald head. Then it came to him. In a flash it came to him. Three hours later as the sun dropped down along the city skyline, James Knox Taylor walked out of his office. Underneath his trenchcoat was a set of plans rolled up. In faded blue ink one could read the writing, Albuquerque. "Oh Gilbert," he said as he walked past his partners office, "I will be working on this project from my home." ..Ed
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Friday September 14, 2007
02:07 AM
And thanks to you to RAL. But we still don't know why it was built in Ironwood. Why use a southwest design of an exisitng building in Albuquerque that had been built in 1908 for a new post office built in 1931 in Upper Michigan? I saw pictures of the 26 buildings I mentioned below and they are all different from each other except for Albuquerque-Ironwood. It's not like James Knox Taylor had a master design that they used to make duplicates. His tenure as Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury was from 1897-1912 and all his designs were built during those years. Taylor became a professor of architecture at M.I.T after he left the federal government and died in 1929. The architectural design is beautiful but it's for the southwest and doesn't fit a northwoods environment. Plus the plans were 25 years old. Doesn't make sense. John O '72.
75.57.137.66
Friday September 14, 2007
12:13 AM
Thank you, Lt. Col Erickson (Ret) for your input and your service. RAL'72
170.20.96.116
Thursday September 13, 2007
08:29 PM
I like architecture so looking into architect James Knox Taylor, the designer of the Ironwood post office I've found he was quite an influential person. As part of the St. Paul firm Gilbert & Taylor he designed the Endicott Building in St. Paul. Gilbert would design the Minnesota State Capotol. He then went to Philadelphia for the firm Boyden and Taylor. After a year there he went to Washington D.C. And from 1897-1912 was the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. He designed the post offices of Atlanta, Albuquerque, Newark, Buffalo, Houston, Tampa, Denver, Boulder, Ft. Collins, Niagra Falls, Ithaca, Kenosha, Muskegon, Mandan, Clifton Forge, Wichita Falls, Lynchburg, Yakima, Michigan City, Athens, Akron, Hot Springs, Bristol and Kearney among others and the Federal Buildings and Couthouses of San Francisco (one of the only buildings to survive the 1906 earthquake), Cleveland, Ashtabula, and Souix Falls among others. Most of his buildings are still standing and in use today for other purposes than originally designed for. Of all his architectural designs that I found only the Albuquerque, New Mexico and Ironwood, Michigan post offices are exactly alike. The Fort Collins, Colorado post office is similar but smaller. Thanks to Al Erickson '71 for the initial information to find out about this. John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Thursday September 13, 2007
06:02 PM
The A&P is correct...The Albuquerque post office of which the designs were used for the Ironwood post office in 1931 was built in 1908 and designed by architect James Knox Taylor. I served as both post office and federal building for Albuquerque until 1930 when a new federal building was built next to it. It continued to serve as Abuquerque's post office until 1972. The building still stands today at 123 4th Street and now houses Amy Biehl Charter High School. John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Thursday September 13, 2007
05:55 PM
Thanks to Al on that info. So Ironwood's post office wasn't built in New Mexico or anywhere else. It was built in Ironwwod from recycled plans of a post office in Albuquerque. They weren't plans from Birmingham, Alabama at all. They were the plans for Albuquerque, New Mexico. Here it is: http://www.postmarks.org/pop/2100/2199.jpg and another view http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/bernalillo/postcards/albpo.jpg John O '72.
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Thursday September 13, 2007
05:50 PM
It was the old A&P store according to the Chamber website. Al E. '71
170.20.96.116
Thursday September 13, 2007
05:31 PM
Interesting! Here's some post office trivia: What building was built as the Ironwood post office in 1898 and served as the post office until 1931? John O '72.
76.114.255.102
Thursday September 13, 2007
04:50 PM
I can't remember the source but I recall reading that the IWD post office was built from the same plans for one in Albuquerque, NM, hence the Spanish motif with the brickwork and the red tile roof. I'll bet there isn't another red tile roof on a public bldg in the whole UP but they are the norm out west in CO, NM and TX. The govt. is famous for reusing architectural plans, especially the military and all postal facilities years ago were built under the purview of the Corps of Engrs. Also explains why when one goes to various bases that you see the same theater, same chapel, same hospital, etc. All the same plan. Cheers. Al Erickson, '71. Retired AF Lt Col and civil engineer.
69.7.218.210
Thursday September 13, 2007
08:22 AM
The switched blueprints story is firm, but I heard the Ironwood PO was built in New Mexico. Can't confirm that tho. RAL'72
170.20.96.116
Thursday September 13, 2007
01:59 AM
Wow, I'm right about the post office roof? Cool. I knew of that story for decades but I don't think I was ever able to verify it. Where did Ironwood's post office go? Did it end up in Alabama or did they catch the mistake and not build it there?
75.57.148.231
Thursday September 13, 2007
01:02 AM
John O.72: you are right about the post office roof. And "lighting up" the Remember? port of this website didn't take much, did it? RAL '72
170.20.96.116
Wednesday September 12, 2007
11:09 PM
Ed, I knew Dominic Sicchio during those high school years and when he was at Northern. He was a great guy. Of course I never did anything to cross paths with him but as a witness to those who did consider yourself fortunate he didn't find you that day and you are probably right in you assumption because he did go looking for certain people when he was in high school. We worked together one summer planting trees. In the time it took me to plant 1 tree he'd plant 10. There was always great Italian food being cooked in the Sicchio house too! John O '72.
65.31.162.48
Wednesday September 12, 2007
10:10 PM
Speaking of the Leonard Street Gang....there were sooooo many boys in the 500, 600 and 700 blocks of Leonard Street back in the 50-60's. Very few of us females. In the 700 block you had the boys of the Helander, Piete, Erickson, Dudra, Kusz, and Edyvean families; in the 600 block there were the boys of the Dudra, Blomquist, Lakner, Ruppe, Lindberg, and Nezworksi families; and in the 600 block the boys of the Negrini and Dudra families - yes, a Dudra family in every block. I must say, we girls never were picked upon (in a bad way) but always made to feel safe when kids from "other" blocks came around and tried to stir things up. We had the green apple wars, pea-shooter competitions, the summer of the rubber-band guns, bike trails in vacant lots, baseball games and of course the favorite, tree swings. I don't recall anyone ever getting hurt, although I did get my first black eye at age 7 curtesy of Red-Top/Scootchy Dudra on the eve of my piano recital...but that was mostly my fault for getting in the way behind the plate. It was a great couple of blocks to grow up in. Greta '70
75.68.37.47
Wednesday September 12, 2007
07:53 PM
Is there anyone else here that was with me in Gary Kivi's Rambler that day in the spring of '70. The day when we packed 11 juniors in that car and went looking for trouble in Hurley on our lunch break. Frank Kesti tried to catch a Hurley track team member that was out running the streets of Hurley. Frank would ride on the front fender until we got close and then jump off and try to catch him. The poor kid was so pumped on adrenaline Frank could've caught a gazelle just as easy. We didn't hang around town too long though. Rumor had it Domenic Sichio (sp)and his henchmen were after us. Time to scoot back over the river to our own turf. ..Ed
75.68.37.47
Wednesday September 12, 2007
07:13 PM
Last week I email "chatted" with Jerry Helander '60. He related how the "Leonard Street Gang" had a reunion recently. He wrote a little about life growing up in the 50s and how the gang got started. Does anyone else have stories about the Leonard Street Gang or any other "gang". Guys or girls, humans are social creatures for the most part and hang together. Sometimes these "cliques" are for good and other time not so good. We had our bunch of guys in the township, nine of us from the west side of Lake Road and north of Airport Road. The hangout was a 8 foot by 12 foot shack built on Bertrams land off of Pilola Road. I remember the "Shack Gang" from the class of 1970 down town. That year the rivalry between Ironwood and Hurley was intense. ..Ed
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Wednesday September 12, 2007
07:06 PM
The little bar across US-2 from the hospital was called Riley's. I think it was the bartender; the woman's body that was found in the woods behind the bar. I don't think the murder was ever solved. BJ67
64.211.101.7
Wednesday September 12, 2007
09:10 AM
Dino Gheller was operating the old Gallery bar (called it Little Italy??) when it burned down...I had a house across the hiway on old US2 now Gheller Road. We got a to go pizza from Dino around 11pm one winter night and when we woke up the next morning it had burned down. Mike S '71
69.7.218.210
Wednesday September 12, 2007
08:43 AM
I can sure see it, but don't recall its name. RAL'72
24.247.47.118
Wednesday September 12, 2007
04:19 AM
The Gallery Bar was on the north side of US-2 on the way to Bessemer. Do you remember the one on the south side just across from Grand View Hospital where the Vet Clinic is now located??? A murder took place there and I think it was tore down in the early 70's. BJ 67
170.20.96.116
Wednesday September 12, 2007
03:06 AM
The orignal plans for the Birmingham, Alabama post office were sent to the contractors for Ironwood's post office and the Birmingham post office was mistakingly erected in Ironwood from what I recall or had heard. Mot sure 100% if that story was true or not or if Birmingham was the actual city involved or what happened to the plans for the Ironwood post office whather they ended up in Birmingham or not. John O '72.
75.57.130.187
Tuesday September 11, 2007
11:38 PM
Let's go around again: anyone recall the bar 3/4 the way to Bessemer on the north side of Hwy 2 next to what was in the 60's Scotty's Fried Chicken place? We used to roll dice there in a game of 7-14-21. It, too, burned down. RAL '72
75.57.130.187
Tuesday September 11, 2007
11:38 PM
Let's go around again: anyone recall the bar 3/4 the way to Bessemer on the north side of Hwy 2 next to what was in the 60's Scotty's Fried Chicken place? We used to roll dice there in a game of 7-14-21. It, too, burned down. RAL '72
75.57.130.187
Tuesday September 11, 2007
11:17 PM
Fr. Matejik's Holy Trinity was virtually across the street from the post office. It was eventually torn down and melded with St. Michael's with St. Ambrose to form Our Lady Queen of Peace. The old bell from Holy Trinity is now on the Historical Society lawn. Better yet, anyone know the story behind the terra cotta roof on the post office?
71.36.2.30
Tuesday September 11, 2007
08:55 PM
The church directly south of Carlson's was St. Michael's.
24.211.29.143
Tuesday September 11, 2007
06:29 PM
Was that the church south of the old Carlson's Supermarket? When was that torn down? When was the fire you wrote about?
170.20.96.116
Tuesday September 11, 2007
04:56 PM
Yeah, good luck on firing up the Remember section. You would stand a better chance at jolting the memory of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. John O '72.
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Monday September 10, 2007
12:13 AM
Let's light up the "Remember?" section: Does anyone recall the cold winter night the taxi/limo building directly south of Holy Trinity Church burned to the ground? Fr. Ambrose Matejik and some nuns spent hours scurrying into and out of Holy Trinity, carrying statues and other important items out of the old church. Fortunately, Holy Trinity was not damaged. But with all the water thrown on the fire in combination with the sub-zero tems, the site was absolutely beautiful the next blue sky morning, with thousands of icicles covering everything!
170.20.96.116
Thursday September 06, 2007
02:00 AM
Sad to hear of the passing of operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti who died of pancreatic cancer in Rome this morning at the age of 71. One of the great voices of this or any other time. I'm happy I was once able to see him in person in concert. A legend. John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Tuesday August 28, 2007
12:50 AM
I'll file this under things I find while looking up something else. The first US Navy ship sunk by hostile action in World War II was the USS Reuben James, torpedoed by a German U boat in the North Atlantic on October 31, 1941 near Iceland while serving as a convoy escort for ships sailing to the UK. 115 of the crew died and 44 survived. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about it called "The Sinking of the Reuben James." One of the 44 survivors was Gunner's Mate 1c USN Rudolph Kapecz of Ironwood, Michigan. John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Friday August 24, 2007
05:34 PM
Thanks for the clarification Marlene. When Elvis is the topic of conversation I though MOA may have stood for Mayonaise, Onions and Anchovies...Instead of saying "Thank you very much" does the MOA Elvis say "You Betcha?" John O '72.
204.117.78.97
Friday August 24, 2007
08:31 AM
Oops, MOA is Mall of America.
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Friday August 24, 2007
08:29 AM
John: he was at the MOA last Saturday performing in front of Sears. Didn't stay to watch him because I was shopping with my 14 year old who thought he was "annoying". Marlene '74
170.20.96.116
Wednesday August 22, 2007
12:55 AM
Well, the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis came and went this past week. No Elvis sightings to report by anyone here? No Elvis memories to recollect? John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Friday August 17, 2007
07:51 PM
The compact disc turns 25 years old today. The first commercially produced CD's rolled off at a manufacturing plant near Hanover, Germany on August 17, 1982. It was Robert Strauss' "Alpine Symphony." There was nothing to play them on yet though. The first commercially produced CD players weren't availble until October 1, 1982 in Japan and later that month in Europe. They weren't sold in the USA until the spring of 1983. The first pop music CD was Billy Joel's "52nd Street." By 1986 CD players were outselling record players. By 1988 CD's were outselling records. CD's are still the the largest selling source of recorded music but their sales peaked in 2001 and have dropped 22% since. John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Wednesday August 15, 2007
08:15 PM
Very seldom do I see umlauts used in English language print so I must commend the Ironwood Daily Globe for using them to properly spell the name of John William Räisänen in today's online obituary section. I didn't know the man but as the obituray pointed out he was obviously a man who spent his life celebrating his Finnish heritage so it was a perfect way to pay a final respectful tribute to the man. John O '72.
75.17.204.84
Thursday July 19, 2007
06:14 PM
We lived on Lake st and Lady Bird went right by my house on her way downtown.The Ironwood Police car came first (a 66 chevy), then a 4 door Lincolin with suicide doors-must have been a 65 or 66.Then a big greyhound with the press corp inside.How do I know for sure? my Ma was out front ant took pictures with our 8 mm. camera. Mike O. 72
170.20.96.116
Wednesday July 18, 2007
06:30 PM
Good question JM. Being that Joe Mack was the State Senator of the district and he had a financial interest in gogebic Auto which sold Chrysler products I wouldn't doubt if he arranged for a new Imperial to travel through town in...Another question I have is what did she fly into Ironwood on? If it were today, a First Lady on official business would have access to one of the planes that make up the fleet of Air Force 2's. The Secret Service would provide the land vehicle upon her destination arrival. As the wife of the vice president from 1961-1963 Lady Bird Johnson routinely flew on commercial planes when she wasn't accompanying LBJ. I don't know what mode of air travel she used as First Lady when away from the president...On September 21, 1967 Lady Bird attended the dedication of Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. On September 22, 1967 arrived in Ironwood and went on to Watersmeet to dedicate the Sylvania Wilderness area. On September 23, 1967 she attended the World Food Exposition in Madison...The Dallas Morning News website tribute page of Lady Bird Johnson has the audio of the speech she gave at the Sylvania dedication. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/longterm/stories/071207dnltsladybirdjohnson.66f0de60.html Scroll down to Audio Lady Bird Johnson In Her Own Words and the very first audio is titled "Remarks at the dedication of Sylvania Recreation Area in the Ottawa National Forest, Ironwood, Michigan September 22, 1967. Right on Dallas! They give Ironwood the top billing of nine audios of their Lady Bird file. John O '72.
74.92.156.45
Wednesday July 18, 2007
03:40 PM
John O: Was it a Chrysler Imperial????JM'68
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Wednesday July 18, 2007
11:16 AM
Minnesota, "The State where Nothing is allowed."
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Tuesday July 17, 2007
05:53 PM
Wall Drug signs are the main staple along I 90 thru South Dakota. Hard to beautify the plains of westerm SD, and the farmlands on the eastern side. Gillette does a pretty good job of trying to make things look nice. We have planters all over the city that people and organizations adopt. Right now those plants are roasting in the heat. The hot weather over the last two weeks is starting to get on my nerves. Thank goodness for air conditioning. Only thing is the sky high electric bill this time of year. Loretta '68
170.20.96.116
Tuesday July 17, 2007
04:22 PM
Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Billboards.
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Sunday July 15, 2007
11:07 PM
Minnesota it seems never got the 'Beautiful Highways' idea that Lady Bird preached, unlike most of Michigan. I'm always appalled at the hundreds of massive billboards on the stretch from the Twin Cities to Duluth. CN71
170.20.96.116
Friday July 13, 2007
04:04 PM
She wasn't in a limo as her motorcade passed us at Hiawatha. She was in a regular car but I can't remember what make. John O '72.
24.213.39.67
Friday July 13, 2007
01:56 PM
Lady Bird was NOT in a limo- her entourage from Sylvania was travelling in motor coaches, i.e., Greyhound-like buses. I, too, was there when she passed the HS heading down Ayer St. AL E. '71
170.20.96.116
Thursday July 12, 2007
04:37 PM
I may add that when Lady Bird asked us if were let out of school just for the occasion of catching a glimpse of her, she said it with a tone in her voice and expression on her face like one of your mother's friends catching you skipping school. I got the impression that she really didn't approve of kids getting out of school just to see her. John O '72.
71.87.20.2
Thursday July 12, 2007
09:03 AM
John O - I was in high school at that time and they let us stand out in front to watch the motorcade. All I saw was her hand waving from the window as her limo zipped by...Jim S '71
205.188.117.15
Thursday July 12, 2007
07:23 AM
Lady Bird's 'vision' is always evident every Spring as the Texas wildflowers come into bloom. The nation lost a strong, yet graceful first lady ~ Texas lost her most beloved daughter ~ and this little girl from Holy Trinity - St. Michael's school remembers waving to her during her motorcade thru Ironwood. Thank you Lady Bird! Paula '73
170.20.96.116
Wednesday July 11, 2007
05:56 PM
Former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson passed away this afternoon in Austin, Texas at the age of 94. We all recall her visit to Ironwood when she was Fist Lady along with Muriel Hmphrey, the wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Her husband Lyndon Johnson had signed the 1964 Widerness Act creating the National Widerness Presevation System and she in 1965 launched her "Beautify America" campaign. Those two events came together for her visit to Ironwood. In 1967 the US Forest Service took over what was once the site of the Sylvania Club in the Ottawa National Forest near Watersmeet. That club and its buildings by the way, were created by A.D. Johnston who Bessemer High School was named for. The Forest Service tore down the buildings and created the Sylvania Wilderness and Recreation area and in 1968 Lady Bird came for it's dedication. Because Ironwood was then calling itself the "Flowerbox Cituy of the North" she waanted to see the downtown as a symbol of her Beautify America campaign before driving on to Sylvania. The motorcade's quick trip through town also included a drive-by of the statue of Hiawatha. As an eighth grader at Norrie School they let us out to go up to the indian and watch her motorcade pass by. Of which upon seeing us she asked, "Did y'all get out of school just to come see me?" John O '72.
75.68.37.47
Saturday July 07, 2007
06:53 AM
I recall the embarrassment felt by some who sent a plane up from the airport to investigate a UFO which turned out to be a thin plastic "dry cleaner" type bag that received its lift from hot air generated by birthday candles. ..Ed '71
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Tuesday July 03, 2007
06:34 PM
The Ironwood Daily Globe reported on March 30, 1950 that the on the previous day of March 29th, Tom Christensen, airlines representative for Wisconsin Central Airlines, and six other persons at the airport, viewed a round UFO through binoculars at 2:55 p.m. It was moving directly into a north wind at "pretty good" speed. As it traveled, the UFO made a "slipping and sliding sideways" motion. John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Tuesday June 26, 2007
05:02 PM
You must be refering to the crash of two B47 Bombers in Iron county on February 24, 1961 and May 2, 1961. There is a link to more information on those crashes here on this LLW site under 'Links of Interest' as "B-47 Crash Memorial." or at http://www.40th-bomb-wing.com/gallery10.html Tank Hill I believe was operated by the USAF 10th Radar Bombing Squadron, Detachment 12 (SAC). John O '72.
208.68.25.175
Tuesday June 26, 2007
01:11 PM
Speaking of things blowing up. Remember when the jet went down, south of Ironwood. The old radar base on Tank Hill had an open house every summer, so you could tour the facility. I wonder what they were really up too! Anyone remember the Civil Defeat drills. We had to lay on our bellies in the hall of our school. I remember getting sand in my mouth. Waiko Spets drove around in the CD vechicle, and many people built bomb shelters. The Cold War was on! CT'69
71.87.20.2
Tuesday June 26, 2007
09:31 AM
Between the gasoline ruptures and the landfill fires, it's lucky the whole town didn't burn down...Jim S '71
24.213.39.67
Monday June 25, 2007
03:14 PM
That gas line ruptured on my dad's cousin's farm, Nyman's farm. His mother thought it was the end of the world, scared her nearly to death- flames 200' high, sounded like a huge jet engine. AL E. '71
65.31.162.48
Friday June 22, 2007
07:09 PM
Sure do - didn't it happen around noon? I seem to remember being home for lunch and seeing the flames shooting up into the sky right from our kitchen window which faced north. Then having to walk back to LLW for afternoon classes wondering what really had happened. Greta '70
69.7.218.210
Friday June 22, 2007
10:53 AM
Around 1969-71, I recall a winter day when the gas pipeline north of Powderhorn ruptured, sending a column of flame straight up into the sky, so tall that it could be seen from the circle in front of LLWHS - and lasted well into the night, a glowing yellow column of flames - like a giant pilot light. Also, it came with a muted howling sound as it burned. Wonder if anyone else recalls this.. RAL'72
65.31.162.48
Sunday June 17, 2007
12:21 PM
Remembering all the Dad's on this Father's Day. Who has not heard these Dadisms - and even said some of them yourselves. As you look in the mirror, remember you've done the best with what you had. DAD SAYS... Don't ask me, ask your mother.... Were you raised in a barn? Close the door.... You didn't beat me. I let you win.... Big boys don't cry. Don't worry. It's only blood....Don't you know any normal boys? ....Now you listen to ME, Buster!....I'll play catch after I read the paper....Coffee will stunt your growth....A little dirt never hurt anyone--just wipe it off....Get your elbows off the table....I told you, keep your eye on the ball....Who said life was supposed to be fair? The fair's in October....Always say please and thank you. That way, you get more....If you forget, you'll be grounded till the end of the world... You call that a haircut? ...."Hey" is for horses...This will hurt me a lot more than it hurts you....Turn off those lights. Do you think I am made of money?...Don't give me any of your lip, young lady....You call that noise "music"? ...We're not lost. I'm just not sure where we are....No, we're not there yet....Shake it off. It's only pain.... When I was your age , I treated MY father with respect. As long as you live under my roof, you'll live by my rules... I'll tell you why. Because I said so. That's why....Do what I say, not what I do. .. Sit up straight, knucklehead! ...So you think you're smart, do you?...What's so funny? Wipe that smile off your face....Young ladies perspire, they do not sweat....If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times... You want something to do? I'll give you something to do...You should visit more often. Your mother worries....This is your last warning....I'm not sleeping, I was watching that channel.... What keeps those jeans of yours from falling off?...I'm not just talking to hear my own voice!...A little pain never hurt anybody.... I knew how to cook when I was your age, young lady!...Don't take yourself so seriously, take what you do seriously!...Laugh at yourself first, you'll take the bite out of others doing so for you....You're always a winner if you lose with a smile....Go tell your mother she wants you.... Any fights, I win!...That's the best way I know to put out an eye!...You could drive a wooden man nuts!...In MY day...... Eat it! It will grow hair on your chest!...Don't forget to check your oil....Four things come not back: time past, the spoken word, the sped arrow and a missed opportunity....You can want in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first. ...If your friend jumped off a bridge would you?...If I didn't love you so much I wouldn't punish you - I would let you do whatever you wanted....Stop crying or I'll give you a reason to cry....You have things so easy! When I was your age I had to walk to school in 10 feet of snow up hill both ways!...You're only young once. You're gonna like it, whether you like it or not!... The early bird gets the worm. Rise and shine!...Don't take any wooden nickels!...Life is a journey and you've just reached one of many speed bumps to come....Don't look at me in that tone of voice!...How many times do I have to pound that into your head?...I'm not lost, it's just over the next hill!...If you want to do something, do it because you want to. Don't do it because someone else did....As long as you tried your hardest, that's all that matters....What do you think this is, your birthday?... If ifs and buts were candy and nuts then we'd all have a merry Christmas....Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see....What do you think I am, a bank?...What part of NO don't you understand?...I don't care what other people are doing! I'm not everybody elses father! ...You're not leaving my house dressed like that!...What will other parents think?...Could those sleeves be any longer? You look like a bag lady!...Headache remedy: Put your head through the window and the pain will be gone....Worrying about things you can't change is like a rocking chair- it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere....Hurt much? I didn't feel a thing....I feel for you, but I can't reach you from here.... If you're gonna be dumb, you've gotta be tough....Didn't your teacher learn you anything?!...You can marry a rich guy just as easily as you can a poor guy....It's hard to be good, and easy to be bad....If you're going to steal a car, at least make it a Cadillac (but don't call me asking for bail.)...I got my tongue wrapped around my eye-tooth and couldn't see what I was saying....Men are like buses. Just wait on the corner and another one will come along.... Don't tell on anybody unless you tell on yourself first....Hey, did you hear me talking to you?.... I'm not watching television. I'm resting my eyes....Don't use that tone with me!....Am I talking to a brick wall?...If I catch you doing that one more time, I'll ---- ...Act your age... Two wrongs do not make a right... Wipe your feet! ...Enough is enough!...Don't make me stop the car!...What did I just get finished telling you?... You know you're always gonna to be Daddy's little girl... Greta '70
65.31.162.48
Thursday June 14, 2007
09:37 PM
TT'76 - yes, that was my grandmother Hildur Blomquist. And almost 70 years later, there are still Blomquist fingers playing for funerals. My grandmother, mother and I have married and buried a huge number of folks - mostly from the Ironwood area, although I now ply my trade in Milwaukee. Greta'70
170.20.96.116
Tuesday June 12, 2007
09:52 PM
Don Herbert who was TV's science geek Mr. Wizard from 1951-1964 has died in Los Angeles at the age of 89. He revived the show for a short time in the 1980's on Nickelodeon TV. John O '72.
34.556.34.899
Friday June 08, 2007
02:47 PM
Listen to Sargent Peppers http://youtube.com/watch?v=7x2bL-tJr2I
170.20.96.116
Friday June 01, 2007
05:42 PM
"All summer long we were dancing in the sand, Everybody just kept playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." - Johnny Rivers - 'Summer Rain'
170.20.96.116
Friday June 01, 2007
04:42 PM
It was 40 years ago today that The Beatles released the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. June 1, 1967 in the UK and June 2, 1967 in the USA. John O '72.
75.164.149.89
Wednesday May 30, 2007
11:31 PM
I guess I was going for the sorcerer's apprentice analogy.,CN71
170.20.96.116
Wednesday May 30, 2007
05:47 PM
"If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" - Thomas Huxley
64.211.101.7
Wednesday May 30, 2007
11:05 AM
CN, does that mean lotsa knowledge is even more dangerous? I sleep well at night knowing I'm in the safety zone. Mike S '71
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Sunday May 27, 2007
10:20 PM
Mike71, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. CN71
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Friday May 25, 2007
06:24 PM
Thanks for checking out this website Andrew. I didn't know your father but being this is Memorial Day weekend we should take a moment and scroll down the "In Memory" page and keep in our thoughts those we did know. 234 names on that page from the 1960-1975 classes and I'm sure there are many who have passed who have not been added to that page yet. I knew quite a few of those listed and many of them were very good friends. John O '72.
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Thursday May 24, 2007
09:55 PM
Anyone remember Art Ranta from the class of 60? This is his son Andrew...
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Wednesday May 23, 2007
04:58 PM
Mike, I remember him when he was known as Toivodini the world's only Finlander hypnotist. He'd dangle a cedar bough on a string that you followed with your eyes until you fell under his hypnotic spell. John O '72.
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Wednesday May 23, 2007
11:16 AM
CN '71, Do I recall that you tried your hand at hypnotism? Mike S'71
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Tuesday May 22, 2007
09:49 PM
Besides playing at Syracuse in football Dr. X was also an assistant football coach at Syracuse when they went undefeated in the 1959 season and won the national championship beating Texas in the Cotton Bowl on New Years Day 1960. John O '72.
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Tuesday May 22, 2007
09:17 PM
We brought duck calls to the wrestling match to get Dr X worked up. Funniest live event I ever saw. I don't think they ever got his mask off. Dave '72
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Tuesday May 22, 2007
05:44 PM
Dr X by the way was Dick Beyer. As a college football player he played in the 1953 Orange Bowl losing to Alabama. He recieved a masters degree in education. From 162-1967 he wrestled out of LA as The Destroyer and from 1967-1972 in Minnesota as Dr. X. then went to Japan before retiring from wrestling. He was a Phy-Ed teacher and football and wrestling coach at a New York high school before retiring from teaching in the 90's but he still is a high school swimming coach. John O '72.
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Tuesday May 22, 2007
04:02 PM
Jim, From what I remember it did indeed have something to do with a book of matches. John O '72.
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Tuesday May 22, 2007
12:37 PM
John O - You never did relate the Zippy Shea story. Did it have something to do with a book of matches?...Jim S '71
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Tuesday May 22, 2007
12:13 AM
I recall a hypnotism show at the HS gym forty plus years ago that was a hoot. CN71
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Monday May 21, 2007
08:21 PM
George Gadaski was a "jobber," a wrestler who is paid to lose. He also drove the ring truck and set up and broke down the ring from city to city. Mad Dog Vachon's brother was wrestler Butcher Vachon and their sister was wrestler Vivien Vachon. Butcher Vachon's daughter Luna Vachon also became a wrestler. John O '72.
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Monday May 21, 2007
08:36 AM
I mentioned Scrap Iron Gadaski & Capable Kenny Yates in my All-Star Wrestling post. They were the guys the "stars" would wrestle when they wanted a "sure win". Kinda like the poor Washington Generals who were beaten by the Harlem Globetrotters a few thousand times. Once in a while Scrap Iron & Yates would wrestle each other in a "Battle Of The Losers". It seems to me Scrap Iron would referee some matches on TV as well...Jim S '71
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Sunday May 20, 2007
10:14 PM
I haven't thought about Verne Gagne for a long time. He was definitely an original. His TV studio/ring was in the hotel overlooking Lake Calhoun in SW Minneapolis...the suburb of St Louis Park, I think. He was the "World Champion"...at least for the Upper Midwest. You are right about his son being a wrestler...he first played baseball at the U of Minn but couldn't resist the lure of the ring. Many of the wrestlers were recruited from the Gopher teams. My roommate was on the Gopher football team (1966-1970) and he always said that if he didn't make it as a pro football player he was going to sign with Verne. He was a heavyweight wrestler for the Gophers as well. His name was Dick Enderle (he was a guard) and he did make the pros...played for 7-8 years with Atlanta and the NY Giants. I often wonder what his ring name would have been? Ah, memories. TB'66
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Sunday May 20, 2007
09:42 AM
I know one nickname I wouldn't give to my girlfriend Sue - and that's the name Lucky. She, I and another friend went to Rapid City to goof around for a day. Bad luck seemed to follow her the whole day. She started out by not being able to find her car keys, and she was the one who was supposed to drive us to Rapid. Found out her boyfriend had them, but he was 40 or 50 miles out in the boonies working on a sprinkler system, so I ended up driving instead. She had lost her spare key a while back and never got it replaced. We got to the spa where we were supposed to have some pampering, and her appt. for a pedicure was mistakenly given to another lady. She broke a tooth at lunch. Got a call on the way home that her boyfriend couldn't get into her house because someone had hit a transformer and power to that end of town was out. She had the house key with her, and he couldn't open the garage door to get inside without power. He ended up crawling through her basement window. A person doesn't realize how much they miss streetlights until I drove her home. Some other person really had a horrible day as there was a bad collision that had happened on the highway a few mintutes before I got to that spot. About the worst thing that happened to me was that I got a $5.00 parking ticket as we took longer at the spa than we thought. Just missed the meter maid by seconds. We all still had a day of laughs and got away from our daily routine. Loretta '68
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Sunday May 20, 2007
12:48 AM
I interviewed the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff in 1999. Sheik was 56 at the time and Volkoff was 52 and they were still wrestling. The Iron Sheik came up through Verne Gagne as Gagne was his trainer as Sheik was starting out in wrestling. The Iron Sheik really was from Iran but Volkoff who portrayed a Russian was actually from Croatia. John O '72.
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Saturday May 19, 2007
10:55 PM
How could I forgrt Mad Dog? Or Crusher's brother the Bruiser who said he would train by running the hills in Duluth with a keg of beer on his shoulder. There was also the perrenial champion Vern Gagne who was around so long his son was also a wrestler...Jim S '71
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Friday May 18, 2007
08:00 PM
I remember the All-Star Wrestling at the LLW gym. Mad Dog Vachon in particular. It was a big thrill to see these guys in person since it was such a deal to watch them on TV every week. You just couldn't miss....always some drama going on. Greta '70
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Friday May 18, 2007
04:22 PM
All-Star Wrestling at the IHS gym with Dr.X. I think there is a Zippy Shea story in that. John O '72.
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Friday May 18, 2007
10:21 AM
Does anyone remember when All-Star Wrestling came to the Ironwood High School? All-Star wrestling was a show on one of the Duluth TV channels and the promoter's name I believe was Harry or Harvey Solon. The wrestlers featured included Cowboy Bill Watts, Pompero Firpo (the wildman of the pampas), Scrap Iron Gadaski, The Crusher (no, not Steve Thomas), Dr. X (quack, quack), "Capable" Kenny Yates and many others. I remember seeing them having lunch at Kenmar's and there was one guy there that I didn't recognize. I assumed it was Dr. X without his mask...Jim S '71
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Thursday May 03, 2007
01:08 PM
I want to share with everyone the passing of my brother Scott Gaudreau "78". Scott passed away on Sunday, April 22nd after suffering a pulmonary embolism. Scott was a quick-witted, crooked-smiled burley guy who was loved by many. Scott made a difference in the lives of so many people and had friends in every nook and cranny of the world. Scott came back to school at NMU and was a week short of completing his second year in creative writing. He will receive his grades for this semester and be a student in good standing. I am very proud of my brother. He will be missed. Brian "74"
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Sunday April 29, 2007
09:28 PM
A while ago I was interviewed by a student who asked me what course I took in high school was most helpful in my job (I am a librarian)-I told besides just general knowledge information it was my one semester of typing (Thank you Miss Brennan)-all our library work is done on computers. TT 76
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Saturday April 28, 2007
12:13 PM
Didn't want anyone to miss out on some of the fun memories that were brought up before.
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Saturday April 28, 2007
07:10 AM
Don't worry about repeating a previous discussion. New people may remember something we haven't. At our age we have that privilage of repeating things, it's to be understood. New people may remember something we haven't. At our age we have that privilage to repeat things. ..Ed
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Friday April 27, 2007
06:23 PM
Back in the archives aways there is a great discussion on the old corner stores.
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Friday April 27, 2007
03:17 PM
Ed, I know what you mean about kids and computers. We bought our first one when Tom was about 14. He didn't like the way it was set up, so he reformatted it for us. Turned out OK, but really made us upset at first. He still works with computers for the Air Force, and one of his favorite things is trying to come up with ways to streamline jobs by changing how they are done on the computer. Has gotten himself a few commendations for it. Maybe there is a great future in the computer industry for your son. Loretta
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Friday April 27, 2007
12:28 PM
Anyone remember the many neighborhood/country stores? Talaska's, Sher's, Cubby's, Auvinen's, Andreina's, etc.?
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Friday April 27, 2007
10:36 AM
The "New Math" morphed into "No Math" or what I refer to as "Discovery Math"--students were encouraged to discover math on their own. The end result is the students I now have in College (Freshman level math) who did not "Discover" any math and are now required to DO math. It is a challenge for them and me. And an expensive calculator doesn't help if you don't understand the underlying math concepts. Here is my lecture for the day...please make sure your kids are doing and learning math--especially 7th-8th-and 9th grade Algebra and if possible Geometry and Trigonometry. That will prepare them for college math courses. Don't worry about Calculus...we will teach them that one. TB'66
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Friday April 27, 2007
06:27 AM
Lynn, I think it all goes back to Mrs. Brennens typing class. We learned that one wrong keystroke, especially if it wasn't caught right away, would cause a heap o trouble. Usually remedied by grabbing the paper by the top edge and yanking it out of the typewriter as if we were starting the lawnmower, and starting anew. It's pretty hard to break a computer unless you are trying to do it. Most problems fix themselves with a reboot. Kids seem to know this and just dive in. Trouble starts when they get curious and start snooping around in the setup files or the registry. My 12 year old son is at that stage. He knows enough to be dangerous. ..Ed
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Thursday April 26, 2007
09:33 PM
Ed, isn't it amazing how fast the kids catch on to computers, calculators, etc? It all seems to come so naturally for them. Lynn
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Thursday April 26, 2007
05:21 PM
I bet that state you were referencing that was making the clocks don't make em there no more. Do they teach Chinese Geography in U.S. schools today? John O '72.
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Thursday April 26, 2007
04:49 PM
Lynn, talk about math changing. I remember moving east in '71 and buying one of those expensive little Texas Instruments calculators. It was tiny, probably about 4 inches by 7 inches by 1 inch thick. And then I never trusted it. I would work out a problem with it and then double check it doing long hand math. Now it's just the opposite. If I have to work out some math, (helping kids with homework) I'll double check my math with a calculator. ..Ed
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Thursday April 26, 2007
04:43 PM
I just remembered something else from 8th grade at Norrie. The "New Math". It was so different than what we had been previously taught. Math keeps changing all the time, but the basic facts we learned early on still seem to stick with us. L'69
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Thursday April 26, 2007
04:43 PM
All you Roosevelt kids, remember "Science Projects"? Having them all set up in the gym. I remember having mine on airplanes and flight. And then there was Mrs. Ekstrom and her "Declamations". I still can't believe Ginger remembered what they were called. ..Ed
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Thursday April 26, 2007
04:36 PM
CT, I sure do remember the maps. Also the units we did on Alaska and Hawaii, our newest states. Remember cutting out the pictures of Dole pineapple from the magazines? The skating rink was so much fun. All the exercise we got walking there, skating for hours and then walking home. We even got to have skating parties during school hours on special days. Good times. Lynn'69
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Thursday April 26, 2007
03:38 PM
I think it may have been sixth grade at St. Ambrose, but for U.S. Geography each student picked a state and then made a cardboard map and added the products the state was known for manufacturing or growing to it. To make it more interesting we were encouraged to use the real thing. For instance when one of the items manufactured was clocks, my Mom gave me the dial portion off of an old watch to glue on my map. It was one of those projects that was a lot of work, but turned out really neat. Loretta '68
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Thursday April 26, 2007
11:47 AM
Does anyone remember making the clay maps with the alphabet noodles, for Mr. Pavlovich's 7th grade class at Norrie? What a project, but we sure learned our countries. I also remember Theron Peterson taking the upper grades, skiing to Benson Hill. We thought we were something cuz the boys had built a ski jump on the hill. Also skating to the old 45's at the Norrie Ice Rink. Those were the days, weren't they. There are no more outdoor rinks in Ironwood. How sad is that? CT '69
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Tuesday April 24, 2007
06:07 PM
Here are links to two internet tribute sites to the old North Central Airlines better known as the Blue Goose or the Ruptured Duck: http://www.northliner.com/viewpage.php?page_id=9 and another site at: http://www.hermantheduck.org/ John O '72.
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Monday April 09, 2007
05:07 PM
Loretta - I remember making soap carvings out of Ivory in grade school at Newport. Don't remember what grade it was, but we did have some creative pieces. Can you imagine schools these days allowing any type of instrument you could carve with? Oy vey! Greta '70
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Sunday April 08, 2007
01:29 PM
Jim S., I remember my Mom dying eggs with onion skins. I think it brought back memories for her, because that was the only way they had colored eggs when she was young. Loretta '68
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Sunday April 08, 2007
10:27 AM
Happy Easter! This holiday always reminds me of the onion skin Easter eggs my Dad would make every year. He would boil eggs with onion skins while we were slaving over the Paas egg dye and they would come out a beautiful shade of brown. Anyone else remember onion skin eggs?...Jim S '71
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Saturday April 07, 2007
12:18 PM
A friend sent me some pictures of elaborate soap carvings, and she mentioned carving Ivory soap in art class as a kid. She's about ten years older than I am and I'm not sure where she grew up. Somewhere in my dim memory that sounds familiar about carving soap, though. Anyone else remember doing that? Loretta '68
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Tuesday April 03, 2007
09:59 PM
The Ironwood Theater's 2/7 Opus 145 Barton Theater Organ in 2002 became the 42nd inductee into the American Theater Organ Society's National Registry of Historic and Significant Instruments. The only inductee that year. Since then 12 more theater organs have been added to the registry. John O '72.
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Wednesday March 28, 2007
08:29 PM
I believe Jim Kennedy played "The Grand Old Lady" in the 50s and 60s before evening movies.The theater opened in 1928 and the last picture show was in 1982. Restoration began in 1984 and continues today. Maybe...just maybe...Greta could perform on that keyboard some day.D.H.
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Wednesday March 28, 2007
04:27 PM
I know years ago Alma Nelson often played the Barton before some special programs. And in the past 20 years or so, my mom has played it a few times. I think most recently it's been played by Alex Marciniak and Rev Pepin. G'70
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Wednesday March 28, 2007
04:20 PM
Does anyone remember if they had someone playing the Barton organ before the shows? I seem to remember that happening, but maybe it was just my Mom taking about it when she was younger. Loretta '68
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Tuesday March 27, 2007
07:15 PM
The only drawback to the theater was the price of candy. eg. A box of rootbeer barrels cost all of 5 cents on the outside but the price was jacked up to 6 cents in the theater. I say this with my tongue impaling a rootbeer barrel into my cheek. D.H.
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Tuesday March 27, 2007
06:50 PM
Back in those days you got 9 dollars worth of movie for 9 cents while today you get 9 cents worth of movie for 9 dollars. John O '72.
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Tuesday March 27, 2007
05:41 PM
The Saturday movies were the best. There was always the lucky # popcorn box contest - usually got one of those all-day suckers. And if you had a birthday, you got to go up on stage for the sucker gift as well. I know lots of families participated in getting the kids to the theater. They'd drop off the kids and then go grocery shopping in peace, go home and unload the stuff and then go back to town and pick up the kids. I think we had Halloween costume Saturday, too, with prizes for the best costumes for each grade level. One of the Saturday's near Christmas was also a special feature and everyone got little bags of Christmas candy. I'm sure the merchants all chipped in for that, as the parents could go shopping while the kids were being entertained. Life in a small town - we really did have it good. Greta '70
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Monday March 26, 2007
05:07 PM
Oh yes! Those little rectangular ticket stubs were pure gold for us kids. I think each movie had a face value of 9 cents with one of those tickets. The kids would scream once the movie began...and the poor projectionist would be booed unmercifully if the reel broke. It was cool to sit in the front row and catching a hotdog at Kresge's hotdog stand with the four stools before the movie was really cool. Don't forget the free skating at the Colonial on week-nights and free skiing for all at Mount Zion. I imagine the mines sponsored many of these activities but as they closed down our city fathers must have come to the rescue. We had some great perks and took much of it for granted. D.H.
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Monday March 26, 2007
09:28 AM
I think the matinees were sponsored by the PTA. Remember at intermission they would call out names or have contests(yo-yo, hula hoop ) and then prizes to the winners? Lynn 69
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Monday March 26, 2007
08:24 AM
TT '76 - I remember those Saturday moring movies very well. I seem to recall that you bought the tickerts in advance at school (I believe the promotion was dreamed up by Al Wright) And they would tear one off each week. I don't recall many of the movies, but they always began with one of the old Republic Serials (my favorite was Commando Cody: Sky Marshall of the Universe) and a cartoon or two. One of the shows consisted of 15 cartoons in a row...Jim S '71
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Monday March 26, 2007
06:46 AM
in the Gab Session someone mentioned "going show". Does anyone remember the Saturday matinees we had. I remember tickets were sold at school-something like a 10 week session at a really good price. Does anyone know if this was a "sponsored" program or what? I just remember getting the tickets and the theater totally packed with kids upstairs and down. TT '76
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Sunday March 18, 2007
04:06 PM
we Sleight kids played Russian Handball, too, but there weren't any super balls yet. We played with any old ball that we had. Also when we played tag or hide and seek we also called goal gool. Susan '66
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Saturday March 17, 2007
01:35 PM
We once had a rather messy 'game' down at Mud creek when someone found a snapping turtle nest. There were dozens of eggs about the size of ping pong balls that were pretty nasty when they hit somebody. CN71
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Saturday March 17, 2007
01:11 PM
I recall a number of us riding all over the township on motorbikes when we were 13 0r 14, good thing there wern't many cops around. I had an automatic cushman, just the gas and a floor brake, wish I still had it. CN71
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Friday March 16, 2007
01:00 PM
Nope. My mother made sure my tetanus shots were up to date. I stepped on a lot of nails and once fell from the hayloft and landed on a bale hook that went a few inches into my thigh, but no broken bones. My worst accident that I didn't get a scratch from was when I laid down my Honda 90 on a gravel road at 60 mph. I was wearing my uncles old Eisenhower jacket and that took the abuse. I kept my guardian angel busy. ..Ed
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Friday March 16, 2007
10:10 AM
I've got to know Ed. Did you ever have any broken bones as a kid? Have to admit that it sounds like you had an awful lot of fun growing up in the township. Loretta '68
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Friday March 16, 2007
05:26 AM
The way we would play "hide and seek" was this way. The person "it" would count to 100 at "gool" with their eyes covered. Everyone else would go and hide. The "it" would then start looking for everyone. The goal for the hidees would be to reach "gool" before the "it" person did and called your name. So when you were found the race would begin to "gool". Whoever reached it first would determine if the hidee would be "it" or if the "it" would remain "it". (Ironwood township legalize) A favorite place for this game was at my cousins, Bart and Brad Estola's, when Eino and Pricilla (parents) owned the "Corner Cafe" at Lake and Airport Roads. The wall of the back porch was "gool". I recall running neck and neck to "gool" and hitting that wall wide open. No slowing down, slamming into the wall and falling down on our backs on the ground laughing. Looking back now, I wonder if Pricilla was ever in the back porch when we reached "gool"? It would've scared the day lights out of her I'm sure. ...Ed
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Friday March 16, 2007
05:05 AM
Hey! Look at this, we weren't the only ones. ..Ed http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990217
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Thursday March 15, 2007
04:47 PM
Of course there was the ever-popular Kick-The Can...Jim S '71
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Thursday March 15, 2007
04:32 PM
We had some favorite outside games in our neighborhood. Rain on the Roof ..involved throwing a ball up on the roof (not going over) and if your name was called by the throwee, you had to stay there and catch it while everyone else ran away. Then after you caught the ball you could take 3 giant steps towards someone and tag them with the ball and they would be the "it" to throw the next time. Auntie, Auntie I Over was throwing the ball OVER the roof and it had to be caught by someone on the other side...memories of that game are vague. Of course we had Statue Tag and Red Rover. We were always making stuff up to do outside. As I think back, houses were smaller and filled with more kids than most houses today, so it was preferable to play outside where you didn't get on anyone's nerves. Greta '70
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Thursday March 15, 2007
02:21 PM
I don't remember calling the goal gool. Must have been youse Township kids. One of our favorite outdoor games was called "Seven Steps around the World" (I think). One person would try to catch the rest of us moving as we made our way around the house. It was kind of like trying to steal base and not get caught. We also played Captain, May I", but that was always good for getting into an argument. Loretta '68
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Thursday March 15, 2007
01:18 PM
Speaking of outside games. Remember, those ones we wish kids today would play instead of exercising their thumbs only with video games? Did everyone call the goal "Gool" when they played hide and seek or was just us in the township? ..Ed
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Thursday March 15, 2007
08:27 AM
The one activity I recall involving Super Balls was bouncing them off the sidewalk and trying to get them to sail over the house. We lost a lot of perfectly good Super Balls that way...Jim S '71
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Wednesday March 14, 2007
05:19 PM
I seem to remember playing a game with that name. After throwing the ball against the wall, didn't you have to clap a certain amount of times before catching it? I think you had to keep moving back in order to give yourself more time to do the clapping sequence. Loretta '68
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Wednesday March 14, 2007
07:02 AM
I remember playing a game with the super ball which involved various "levels" of manuevers. did we call it russian handball? Some of the movements including throwing it against the wall of the school. This was at Newport. TT-76
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Tuesday March 13, 2007
04:51 AM
That second hop was mean. How many times did you bounce a superball to someone and try to get it to bounce twice before they caught it. When it hit the ground the second time the afterburners would kick in because of the spin and you'd watch your partner catch it in the teeth. OUCH! Maybe it wasn't the second hop that was mean but the kid throwing it. ..Ed
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Monday March 12, 2007
09:26 PM
Ed,,, Yes the "super balls" they must still be out there, somewhere, by the thousands after pinging off of hard surfaces and soft,(as I recall the pain). Perhaps someone in a future archaeological dig will think of them as weapons, which they actually often were. I don't think that I ever witnessed the true potential of the darn things because they seemed to hit the roof of the gym almost immediately on a bounce and were just then getting going. I always thought, back then, that adults must have outlawed them for a good reason. Just like the pistol pea guns that you loaded with dried whole peas, a cheap, almost unlimited supply of ammo. Maybe it was just too much fun. Carl'71
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Monday March 05, 2007
10:11 AM
Carl, you gotta love those memories of the first baseball games in the spring! First, waiting for the snow to melt. The early games always had some areas with a little snow. The ol' waterlogged softball gave off a good spray when whacked by the power hitters. Rounding first at a good clip and having your feet go out from under you in the muddy grass. Someone always went back into school with a muddy behind. Remember tossing the bat up and doing the hand over hand bit to see who had first at bats? Trying to hit the long ball into Mannu Kangas's field? I remember when the "Whamo" super ball first came out. We tried using that for a baseball but it just went too far. Spent more time looking for it than playing. ..Ed
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Monday March 05, 2007
09:20 AM
Paula, You gave up giving something up. Gotta count for something.:) When I asked my son what he would miss about Europe (they leave on April 6th for Ohio), he said it would be the beer. Loretta '68
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Monday March 05, 2007
08:34 AM
ah ... LENT. the past couple of years I've (which even my non-Catholic husband also does)given up: bread - which included tortillas .... VERY hard to do. another year it was beef - not as hard, but made living in Texas 'interesting' (folks eat beef with a side helping of beef!!) lol last year it was BEER - OMG ... that was the toughest!! We go out often and we have parties ... PLUS we like to imbibe in an 'ocassional' miller lite (hey - it's 5:00 somewhere ... AND national peanut butter day ... let's have a BEER? "OK") this year - well, i'm embarassed to say, i sort of forgot to give up anything. i'm still a good person ... right? :) guity-ex-practicing- Catholic-Paula '73
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Sunday March 04, 2007
10:00 PM
No doubt this remembranace has been remembered here before. I remember spring at Roosevelt J.H. and the subtle fragrance of the local farmers cows, aged manure, that they spread on the fields in the spring. A good smell, mind you, after the long hard winter. And then, in the fall, the smell of fallen apples. CN'71
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Sunday March 04, 2007
08:20 PM
No doubt this remembranace has been remembered here before. I remember spring at Roosevelt J.H. and the subtle fragrance of the local farmers cows, aged manure, that they spread on the fields in the spring. A good smell, mind you, after the long hard winter. And then, in the fall, the smell of fallen apples. CN'71
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Saturday February 24, 2007
07:47 PM
I've been rather pathetic the last several years when it comes to giving something up and staying the course during Lent. Our church has a neat little program going where we donate items to various charities each week during Lent. That's more my speed. Give up chocolate? That would be hard for me. I think it runs in my veins - especially Dove milk chocolate. Loretta
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Saturday February 24, 2007
09:26 AM
Anyone still give up something for Lent? I remember as a young'un not worrying about it as Lutherans didn't really do that. Now, since the '70s, more Lutherans are jumping on the pennance bandwagon of giving up or denying themselves something they really like during the 40 days of Lent (Sundays are still "free" days). I could take the easy way out and give up chocolate - since I hate the taste and don't eat it anyway. But this year I've decided to give up my Scotch and tequila. Okay, so over the 40 days it will probably amount to missing only about 4 drinks. But it's the idea of it - and since I made the decision, of course I really wanted to have a little Scotch while watching TV last night. The old "you only want what you can't have" syndrome. G ' 70
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Thursday February 15, 2007
05:39 PM
I was doing some reading on William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908) who Vilas County is named after. A prestigious career as a lawyer, professor, Civil War colonel, Postmaster General and Secretary of the Interior in the first Grover Cleveland administration and United States Senator from Wisconsin. And also a robber baron. In the 1880's woodsmen would survey and plot tracts of Wisconsin northwoods land for lumber. Vilas was in on an agreement with John H. Knight, the register of the land office in Ashland to cheat woodsmen out of prime forest lumber so they could profit by buying acreage cheap. The trick was to get the woodsmen to do all the survey work for them to find out where all the good timber was and then grab it for themselves. A woodsman would go to the registers office and Knight would tell them that the land may have already been claimed and to come back the next day. If it was a good forested tract he would forge Vilas' signiture on a copied deed drawn from the woodsman survey and when the woodsman came back in he would say it's already been claimed and sold. Vilas and Knight under this plan bought up thousands of acres of land with millions of prime trees. Some of these woodsmen were pretty savy and took safeguards from being ripped off. They would submit a survey that had a big swamp in the middle of a tract of forest. Their purchase would go through. There was no swamp. John O '72.
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Friday February 02, 2007
01:16 AM
Here's a little tidbit of Ironwood history. Walter S. Goodland was the owner and publisher of the Wakefield Bulliten in 1887 and then sold that to publish the Ironwood Times. In 1895 he became Ironwood's Postmaster until 1898. In 1898 he left Ironwood and bought the Beloit Daily News. In 1902 he bought the Racine Daily Times. In 1911 he became Mayor of Racine until 1915. He was also an attorney and practiced law. In 1939 he was elected Lt. Governor of Wisconsin. When the Governor Elect died in 1942 he became Acting Governor and was elected as the Governor of Wisconsin in 1944 and reelected in 1946. He died in office at the age of 84. The oldest man to have ever served at a governor of any state in union. John O '72.
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Wednesday January 31, 2007
04:10 PM
You may have already surmised that it was St. Mary's school in Hurley. Loretta
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Wednesday January 31, 2007
02:57 PM
Talking about lunches making you sick reminded me of the spaghetti with tuna that St. Mary's school served during Lent, when I taught there during the 75 to 76 school year. I'm not sure which was worse - the smell or the taste. We did have a second grader get sick after eating it and words cannot describe the aftereffects in the hallway. Thinking about getting shots at school brought back memories of the lingering odor of rubbing alcohol in the air. Loretta '68
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Wednesday January 31, 2007
08:59 AM
Thought of gathering in the gym remind me of when we had to take the Iowa Basics tests every year or get our vaccines for polio and TB (it seems some kid would always faint)...Jim S '71
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Tuesday January 30, 2007
06:41 PM
Remember the all-school programs in the gym for special holidays? All classes would prepare a dance, or a little play or song, or special readings. All the parents would be invited as well and it seemed like a lot would come, since most mothers didn't work back in our day and a lot of the dads worked different shifts at the mine so they were often available in the afternoons. I remember one February program where our class (might have been 3rd grade with Mrs Lundin) did the minuet as a "tribute" to George Washington since we were told they did that dance during his day. And then there was the re-enactment of the infamous cutting down of the cherry tree and "I cannot tell a lie". The janitors must have hated these program since they had to drag out all those banks of wooden folding chairs where there were several all hitched together - and then clean the gym floors really good afterwards because of scratches and people wearing "real" shoes. That and cleaning up all the projectile puking must have been the worst jobs they had. And why did we have so many kids that puked at school in those days? I wonder if some wasn't from the lunch box food - since we couldn't refrigerate anything and the lunch boxes were often stored/kept near the radiators. We didn't have the hot lunch programs start until I was out of grade school so all of us bus kids had no choice but to have lunches from home. Greta '70
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Tuesday January 30, 2007
07:14 AM
The songs we learned for the spring music festivals are still with me. I remember each year there was a special "dance" for each grade to perform. One year we marched around the LLW gym to "California Here I Come" another year there were some classmates that got to dress up as Raggedy Ann and Andy and do a dance to "Brother come and Dance with me". I also remember in 2nd grade at Newport Miss Nelson getting out this big radio from the closet and we sang along with a radio program but at that age I never thought to wonder where it from. Another clear memory I have from my days at Newport was in first grade Mrs. Edmark handing out handfuls of popcorn from a big bag onto spread out brown toweling on our desk. I think it must have been a Friday treat. Trix '76
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Monday January 29, 2007
09:30 PM
Greta, I remember the round about white silver bells very well. I used to really enjoy singing it. I want to say that the music program we used was on Wisconsin Public Radio, but I may be remembering wrong. It may be the same one you heard. We also had dances that we learned from the same program. I believe it was in fifth grade, we had a kid in our class from Canada. I think his name was Peter Sylvestry - or something like that. Everytime we had a choice of what to sing during music class he would pick "Oh Canada." We used to moan and groan about it after awhile. I think he was also the same kid that would bring a thermos of coffee with milk with his sandwich for lunch. Funny how certain things stick in a person's mind. Loretta '68
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Monday January 29, 2007
09:13 PM
"White silver bells, upon a slender stalk; lillies of the valley deck my garden walk. Oh, don't you wish that you could hear them ring. That will only happen when the fairies sing." I remember singing that round in grade school music class. Remember the grade schools listening to the radio broadcasts from Univ. of Michigan or was it Michigan State - I think it was at 1 p.m. but I can't remember the day. Every year we had new books that went with the program, and in the spring we had the Festival of Music at the high school and there were always several of the college students that would come and direct the mass choirs. I remember learning the verses to "Michigan, My Michigan"....but can't recall them now. Always loved that song ---"our land of the sky blue waters, our land of the lakes and seas. Michigan, My Michigan - home, sweet home to me." Greta '70
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Monday January 29, 2007
08:41 PM
Doesn't that drive you nuts when a song sticks with you, Susan? It's even worse when you can only remember one line or a few words to a song. There is a children's songwriter and singer named Raffi that my kids loved when they were little. I sent a CD to Tom and Belinda for granddaughter Aurora and they were actually singing one of the songs to us over the web camera the other day because the songs are stuck in their heads now. "Baby Beluga" is one that is really catchy. Loretta '68
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Monday January 29, 2007
05:39 PM
If you go down to the woods today/You better not go alone./It's lovely down in the woods today/But safer to stay at home./For every bear that ever was/Will gather there for certain, because/Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
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Monday January 29, 2007
04:59 PM
Another verse, and it's the only one I remember, is: "Kookaberra sits on the old gum tree, counting all the monkees he can see. Stop, Kookaberra, stop, Kookaberra. That's no monkey, that's me." And now, that song, and The Happy Wanderer are going to be looping through my brain all night. Thanks, Loretta. Well, at least it's better than "On Top of Spaghetti" that I remember from childhood and heard in its entirety on the radio this summer. I didn't know it was an actual recorded song from the 50's. I just thought some local person made it up. Susan '66
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Monday January 29, 2007
09:27 AM
The childhood book that stands out in my memory was the huge Dick & Jane book that they used at Sleight School to teach reading in the 1st grade. That thing must have been three feet tall!...Jim S '71
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Monday January 29, 2007
09:16 AM
It must have been a weekend for thinking about childhood songs. I was doing a word puzzle about the Kookaburra bird and remembered a tune that we learned from the public radio music programs that were used at St. Ambrose. "Kookaburra sits on an old gum tree, merry merry king of the bush is he. Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra, gay your life must be." There's a couple more verses I guess, but I only remember learning the one. There was also the "Happy Wanderer" that was a favorite - valderee, valderah, valderee, valderah-ha-ha-ha. Loretta '68
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Sunday January 28, 2007
11:33 PM
I was remembering the other day about childhood books that we read, (in our case, at the good old North Bessemer School that we went to, even though we were Ironwood townshipper's). Aside from the classics, i.e. 'the three billy goats gruff' , there was one about the obstinate wife who refused to listen to her wise husband and did the opposite of what he said. Lo and behold, one day he forgot her nature and said not to step on a board in a bridge that they were crossing because it was rotten, and the obstinate wife........well I don't want to give the sad ending away.. what a hoot. I also remember us singing a fabulous rendition of "Smokey the Bear".. Its good to see that the old the school is still there with the wise old owls on the facade. Carl 71
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Wednesday January 24, 2007
06:30 PM
Remember when they used to hold Veteran's Day parades and there would be a couple dozen World War I vets in the parade? In the last month three WWI vets have passed away at great ages around the country and the Veteran's Administration estimates there are only about 20 left in the entire United States. This of out of more than 4 million Americans who fought in WWI. Within our liftimes the last veteran of the 1861-1898 Indian Wars, Frank Fraske died in 1973 at the age of 101. The last Union soldier of the 1861-1865 Civil War, Albert Woolson died in 1956 at the age of 109 and the last Confeserate soldier, John Salling died in 1958 at the age of 112. The last veteran of the 1898 Spanish American War, Nathan Cook died in 1992 at the age of 106. Someone from the class of 1975 born in 1957 will concievably experience the last Indian Wars, last Civil War, last Spanish American War, last WWI, last WWII, last Korean War and last Vietnam War veterans to die within their lifetime. John O '72.
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Tuesday January 16, 2007
07:35 PM
Actress Teri Garr got her start in show business as a cast regular go-go dancer on Shindig. John O '72.
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Tuesday January 16, 2007
06:13 PM
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Tuesday January 16, 2007
05:02 PM
Yep Lynn! Hootenany featured folk singers primarily. The Kingston trio, Peter,Paul,and Mary, Gordon Liaghtfoot...D.H.
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Tuesday January 16, 2007
12:31 AM
I seem to remember go-go dancers with tall white boots, mini skirts, and hair in a flip on Hullaballoo. Loretta
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Monday January 15, 2007
11:14 PM
Wasn't there also a show called Hootenanny? Lynn
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Monday January 15, 2007
05:26 PM
I think that show Where the Action is was by a beach. IT came on everyday after school. Dick Clark show. Paul Revere and the Raiders were on there alot plus other guests. Kathie 72
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Monday January 15, 2007
05:26 PM
I think that show Where the Action is was by a beach. IT came on everyday after school. Dick Clark show. Paul Revere and the Raiders were on there alot plus other guests. Kathie 72
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Monday January 15, 2007
05:22 PM
I remember Shindig, and Hullaballo. They had a lot of singing and dancing on them. Lynn'69
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Monday January 15, 2007
02:56 PM
Shindig was out of California but acts came in from around the world. It had more of a stage setting than a beach setting. The Righteous Brothers made it big thanks to this network creation. I also remember Petula Clark,Freddy and the Dreamers,Herman's Hermits,and other Brit groups making their American debut on this show. A ton of up and coming talent was featured. D.H.
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Monday January 15, 2007
02:18 PM
Susan, According to Wikipedia, Shindig was a musical variety show which aired weekly on ABC from Sept. 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. I don't remember it at all, so don't know about the beach setting. Loretta '68
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Monday January 15, 2007
12:51 PM
I told my hair stylist she keeps me looking spiffy. She's about 25 years younger than me. I wonder if she had to ask her father what spiffy meant. I guess I could have said snazzy with the same result. Those expressions probably date back to my parents' era. I did send out an email at work not long ago referring to a party we were having for a departing employee as a shindig. Using it like, "I'll email you later when we know what time this shindig is going to start." The staff from my generation knew what a shindig was and remembered the TV show called Shindig. Seems like the show always took place in a beach setting and featured a lot of surfing music. Is my memory right? Susan '66
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Thursday January 11, 2007
08:13 AM
Overheard one of my supervisors tell one of his subordinates to "get going lickedy-split". Another oldy but goody. JM'68
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Wednesday January 10, 2007
10:03 AM
A co-worker of mine who is in his early 20's actually used the word "humdinger" the other day. I haven't heard that one in quite a long tome...Jim S '71
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Tuesday January 09, 2007
03:32 PM
Once in awhile my younger sister and I would get ornery and mimic my Mom while she was on the phone. We'd echo everything she said. She'd keep her cool pretty well until she got done, and then we'd catch holy hell. Loretta
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Tuesday January 09, 2007
01:02 PM
Loretta, I laughed when I read that. Although I deny it, my kids tell me I often say "okey dokey" when talking on the phone with customers. Then when I get off they start to mimic me. ..Ed
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Tuesday January 09, 2007
11:54 AM
I was thinking this a.m. about some two word sayings that a person doesn't hear very much anymore. Things like whoopsy daisy, hunky dory (one of my Mom's well used expressions),okey dokey, and super dooper. I guess they are too corny for the new generation. I do like to use Jim Carey's expression - alrighty then - especially with the inflection he puts on it. Loretta '68
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Wednesday January 03, 2007
02:26 AM
J, It seems that this year that alcohol would have been nicely chilled and very drinkable with a December 31 high of 37º and a low of 33º for the day in Ironwood. John O '72.
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Monday January 01, 2007
08:11 AM
I Remember a New Year's Eve when early in a High School (1961?). A few of us got hold of some beer ahead of time and hid it in the garage in anticipation of bringing in the New Year. As you may have guessed, when we went to fetch it on Dec 31st it was frozen solid. Was there a life's lesson there relating to alcohol or as to our intelligence? Hmmmm. J. 65.
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Sunday December 31, 2006
12:57 AM
I don't think it was Hedin Street where Mr. Stiles lived but the next street over on Hill Street in the house where Bill Penrose now lives in. John O '72.
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Saturday December 30, 2006
10:42 PM
Hmmm...I thought Mr. Stiles retired in 1960 and Mr. Wiele took the reins. Mr. Stiles bought the custard stand on U.S. 2 and ran that as a summer gig. Maybe he returned to teaching but I was long gone by that time. D.H.
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Saturday December 30, 2006
01:53 PM
The band director in question was E.G. Stiles, he lived on Hedin Ave and drove a big old green Hudson car. He was a helluva guy- played the trombone and sometimes he would play for us kids during band practice if we begged him. They must have heard down in the boiler room! He left in about the '66 time frame and was replaced by Clyde G. AL Erickson, 1971
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Friday December 29, 2006
04:18 PM
Jim, was the band director Mr. Tezak or Mr. Stiles? There was one other man, besides these and Mr. Wiele, who taught band when I was in it but I can't remember his name. I think he only stayed for a year, kind of short and young. Susan '66
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Friday December 29, 2006
08:36 AM
Dave '75 - No, it wasn't Clyde. Wish I could remember his name, he was a nice guy...Jim S '71
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Thursday December 28, 2006
09:32 PM
Jim, was the band director Clyde Gasperick? I know he did band but not sure when he started teaching. Dave '75
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Wednesday December 27, 2006
09:30 AM
Susan 66 - I remember the smell of valve oil very well. I played the trumpet my parents bought at Johnson's Music Store (I still have it as a matter of fact). I still remember walking up to Luther L in junior high for Honor Band practice. I remember the band director (not Mr Weile), but I don't recall his name. Of course the trumpet was long gone once I started high school...Jim S '71
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Wednesday December 27, 2006
08:11 AM
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Sunday December 24, 2006
04:58 PM
I never played an instrument, but son Tom played the trumpet. I remember the smell of valve oil when he used it. He was so rough on that poor trumpet. It had quite a few dents and dings by the time he got done using it. Loretta
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Friday December 22, 2006
04:47 PM
Does anybody who played a brass instrument remember the smell of valve oil. I haven't played since high school, but smelled some valve oil a couple of years ago. Instantly knew what it was and got mentally transported back to the LLW band room in the 1960's. For some reason, I've always loved the smell of valve oil. Must remind me of fun times in band. Susan '66
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Thursday December 21, 2006
06:13 PM
There was pink and green Dippity Do...don't know if there was any difference in them. I remember girls using HUGE rollers and cans to straighten curley hair as well. I remember braiding my hair in 12-15 small braids while wet - and then just fluffing it out when dry for that angel hair effect - although using electric curlers afterwards gave the hair more body. Greta
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Thursday December 21, 2006
05:51 PM
Ah but the boys from Khourys had a great cribbage team. The weekly results and standings were even posted in the Globe. I hope nobody waited for the smoke to clear to see who won.D.H.
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Thursday December 21, 2006
03:52 PM
Loretta, I'd forgotten about the bobby pins. They made cute little "spit curls". Saturday night was surely the night of getting ready for church the next day. I imagine it was quite something for a Mom with a lot of kids. Lynn
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Thursday December 21, 2006
03:40 PM
Go even further back to the pin curls with the bobby pins. Each Saturday night when I was 6 or 7, my Mom would take small sections of hair and curl it around her finger and secure it with a bobby pin. She would do my and my sister's hair for church the next day. Loretta
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Thursday December 21, 2006
01:03 PM
My Mom and the neighbor ladies took turns giving each other home perms. It's a smell that is unforgetable! Gals, remember the pink sponge curlers, and the bristley ones that you put the pick through? The Dippity Do, and the Aqua Net hairspray? I even ironed my hair to get that straight look. Lynn '69
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Thursday December 21, 2006
09:04 AM
Greta, Not only curl anything, but burn anything - your hair, your scalp, your neck. Not so much the home perms maybe, but the salon perms back then for sure. I remember sitting on a kitchen chair while my Mom gave me those home perms. I could hardly wait until it was over. Loretta
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Thursday December 21, 2006
07:14 AM
I know lots of the females will remember this.....the smell that brought the promise of beauty...the Tonette home permanents, and then as you got older, the regular Toni home permanents. The smell was enough to curl anything. Greta '70
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Thursday December 21, 2006
03:24 AM
John O; YEEOOW!!! I hadn't thought of the smell of that place in years. It was enough to burn your nose hairs. Another smell I thought of was the electric smell from the transformer of an electric train. JM'68
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Wednesday December 20, 2006
01:49 PM
AAAAHH THE SMELL OF KOURY'S BAR WHEN YOU FIRST OPEN THE DOOR !! I THINK IT WOULD PROBABLY KILL ME NOW !! JOHNNY "62"
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Wednesday December 20, 2006
12:37 PM
Smells and memories. A few years back I saw an old "roundie" Ski-doo for sale. It was just like the '70 model we had back then. When the guy started it up, and I smelled the exhaust, it brought back a flood of old memories connected with our snowmobiling days back then. Marlene Saari's Elan, Sonny's Polaris, Fred Kivi's Panther, Gary Bertram's Rupp, Kenny Haanpaa's Elan. Good times back in North Ironwood. ..Ed
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Wednesday December 20, 2006
12:17 PM
Add to those scents a newly cut Christmas tree and Liberty Bell pizza. Loretta
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Saturday December 16, 2006
08:19 AM
Favorite scents; coffee brewing on an open fire, bread baking in the oven, the smell of the sea when you first get to the ocean, sterling silver roses, allysum, newly mowed lawn, fresh tilled soil in the spring and the new smell of my granddaughter. JM'68 BC72; Did you mean British Sterling?
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Friday December 15, 2006
10:08 AM
youse guys are crackin' me up! fragrance & cosmetics has been my career path (i must have zigged, instead of zagged to jump on that path) for over 30 years. it's a fun and verrrrry profitable way to 'make a living'. was with a company that many of you would cringe ... giorgio beverly hills. (i can just see y'all scratching just thinking about it). i was an account exec for them in the 80's - early 90's ... the places we'd go for meetings -- all first class. the bonus checks were wonderfully obscene!! anyway - after selling 'my smelly water' to the likes of neimans, macys, dillards, and getting transferred by said companies to kansas city, and since 1991 - dallas, it's been good to me. those 'sprayer' girls and boys in the stores .... they make $18 - $25 an hour to do that. yes, they can be obnoxious ... but they do produce results. the best one that worked for me awhile ago was also miss gay america. he was not in costume when working in store. i'm now selling skincare items to dermatologists/plastic surgeons and to medispas, but the fragrance/cosmetic industry is still in my blood ..... or is that red, by giorgio!! lol my favorite saying about fragrance is: "what a lovely fragrance ... but must you MARINATE in it?" one of my fun memories is going to the hugo boss (that fragrance was part of the P&G collection that owned giorgio) fashion show in NYC. how very exciting for a little town girl to be at a real fashion show!! dennis hopper was there and was an absolute doll! the models were sooo dang skinny .. and they all smoked cigs at the after-party. thought that was interesting. nowdays i wear prada or dolce & gabbana ..... but not so much i would offend. :) when friends would say they can't wear perfumes because of allergies, i'dsay try a light body lotion of the scent first to see how & if you react. just a suggestion. my fave scents are: pasties, homemade pasta sauce simmering, the ice in a hockey arena, the tomatos from my garden, the pine trees back up north, smoked brisket on my smoker, star-gazer lilies, and the scent of my loved ones. paula '73
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Friday December 15, 2006
09:08 AM
Oh yeah. I forgot about Canoe. That was good. And about the same time there was British Leather. Pretty good too.bc72
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Thursday December 14, 2006
10:00 PM
Me, I vote for White Musk by Jovan. In fact it's the only scent I will wear. I've had the same experience as Greta. My daughter tried a sample that was fantastic on her, but it was awful when I tried it. Loretta '68
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Thursday December 14, 2006
08:20 PM
Jim S'71; Wrong. My favorite was Canoe. There are some colognes & perfumes that give me an instant headache. I can't even walk into a Yankee Candle Store without getting a blinding headache. Yeah, I stay away from those perfume sprayers at Macy's. Man they are obnoxious. I still like bey rum and Royal Copenhagen. Real subtle stuff. JM'68
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Thursday December 14, 2006
04:07 PM
Greta, I have the same problems with scented things as you have. I get asthma from it, and also sneezing and eye burning. It started with Avon when I was a child and progressed through every scent I tried after that. I kept at it though, switching brands and scents each time I developed a sensitivity to the one I was using, and now can't stand any of them. Too bad since I used to like wearing scent. One of my favorites when I was in my early twenties was brought back from Hawaii by a friend--it was called Wicked Wahini. You didn't need much of it but it had an unusual tropical floral smell. Susan '66
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Thursday December 14, 2006
02:34 PM
Blue Waltz was nice because it came in that cobalt blue heart shaped bottle. Lynn '69
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Thursday December 14, 2006
02:32 PM
My favorite Avon perfumes were Lilac or Hawaiian White Ginger. We still have some of the collector decanters. I also liked Ambush. Lynn '69
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Wednesday December 13, 2006
11:02 PM
What about Blue Waltz? Very inexpensive, in another words CHEAP. We were forbidden to wear it at our home because of its strong and lasting scent. The teachers at Newport refused to let the girls bring it to school. km65
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Wednesday December 13, 2006
07:27 PM
Used to get together with a girl in the 60s who wore Jungle Gardenia perfume. Haunting aromoa. Every time I ran into the scent in a crowd I thought of her.Ended up marrying her years later. J 65
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Wednesday December 13, 2006
06:01 PM
I seemed to remember liking Muguet something or nother....smelled like lillies of the valley. I also liked the way Emeraude smelled on other folks - but it definately didn't go with my body chemistry as it smalled like rotting coconuts on me. Now, I have so many respiratory sensitivies that I can't wear any perfumes or colognes and sometimes even deoderants have too much scent for me...sets me to coughing something fierce. Greta
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Wednesday December 13, 2006
01:38 PM
I recall Emeraude and Obsession as having quite a positive effect on my hormones, and Musk for men worked pretty well on the ladies...at least in my dreams.bc72
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Wednesday December 13, 2006
09:00 AM
JM68 - I remember going to the movies at the Ironwood Theatre in junior high and the place would reek of a sickly combination of English Leather, Jade East, Hai Karate and British Sterling. It seems to me you were fond of wearing one or all of those fragrences back in those days (I wore English Leather myself, it had that cool wooden cap)...Jim S '71
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Tuesday December 12, 2006
06:37 PM
can't remember if i already told this story or not .... :::: gah! getting older & forgetful! :::: anyway .... first boyfriend bought me a bottle of 'Intimate' by Revlon. i was 12 or 13. parents thought it was a TAD innappropriate!! lol but i DID wear it! i also remember wearing avon stuff. topaz, i think, and cotillion. ::: now WHY on this earth did i remember THAT??!!::: then later in high school i wore jasmine oil and, natch -- patchouli! ;) paula '73
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Tuesday December 12, 2006
02:54 PM
I remember wearing Tabu by Dana in my early college years. Now I find the scent way too overwhelming. Loretta
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Tuesday December 12, 2006
04:24 AM
Remember around the early to mid '60's when it seemed that just about everyone got English Leather, Jade East or Hai Karate for Christmas? I think females got either Windsong or Tigress by Faberge. I was thinking the other day about the old barbershops and how it is impossible nowadays to go anywhere and get a shave with a straight razor. The old shops you could walk in and they'd wrap your face in hot towels, slather you with hot lather and then shave you so close it was unbelievable. When the barber finished you'd have your choice of bey rum or lilac water. You walked out of the barbershop feeling like you had a new face. JM'68
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Monday December 11, 2006
08:16 AM
Whatever happened to Dave Duma of St. Ambrose class of 1965? Many of his classmates, including me, have wondered that over the years because nobody has heard from him, nor has he attended any of the class reunions. My recollection of Dave is that he was a fairly quiet unassuming kind of guy, ntelligent, a really good basketball player, a good friend and away from school, he kind of kept to himself. After we graduated from St. Ambrose High School in 1965, Dave and I enlisted in the United States Navy at about the same time. I went to Great Lakes Naval Training Center and he went to San Diego. (This is where it gets good, GOOGLE is great). In 1968, Dave was selected into the Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program, and chose to attend North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated in 1971 with a BS degree in Nuclear Engineering. Upon completion of Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, in August 1971, he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Dave also has Masters of Science degrees in National Security and Strategic Studies and in Management. Dave has 30 years of naval experience and served on the submarines USS Guardfish (SSN 612), USS Alexander Hamilton (SSBN 617) (Blue), USS Pargo (SSN 650) and was the 10th and the last Commanding Officer of the nuclear powered submarine USS Scamp (SSN 588), until its decommissioning in 1987.) What does he do now? (CHECK THIS OUT) On February 1, 2005, Dave became the Acting Director of Operational Test and Evaluation and serves as the senior policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense on testing of Department of Defense weapon systems, and prescribes policies and procedures for the conduct of operational and live fire test and evaluation. Dave previously served as the acting Deputy Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. In this capacity he was responsible to the Director for oversight of the planning, conduct, and reporting of operational test and evaluation for all major conventional weapons systems in the Department of Defense. He supervised the development of evaluation plans and test program strategies, observed the conduct of operational test events, evaluated operational field tests of all armed services and submitted final reports for Congress. So, for all of you that have been wondering what happened to Dave Duma, now you know. I suppose you could write to him at : David W. Duma, Acting Director and Principal Deputy Director Operational Test and Evaluation Office of the Secretary of Defense Washington, D.C. 20301-1700, but I would bet he doesn’t even get to read his own mail. At first I had my doubts if this was really the Dave that I knew. Its him. His biography is on the USS Scamp website, has his picture, and says that he graduated from St. Ambrose in 1965. This is his e-mail addy for the USS Scamp website: duma@cox.net. I don’t know if he checks it or not. I sent him an e-mail........we’ll see what happens. JA ‘65
24.213.27.202
Monday December 11, 2006
08:12 AM
170.20.96.116
Wednesday December 06, 2006
05:39 PM
Imagine playing six rounds of competitive golf (108 holes) with one of those rounds being a 64 and missing getting a PGA tour card by one shot. That's life on the PGA tour though where one shot in the Masters separating 1st and 2nd place is worth $504,000. John O '72.
67.136.153.148
Wednesday December 06, 2006
04:16 PM
Darn! Misinterpreted what I read. Mario was on the Nationwide tour last year also. I was hoping to follow him at the R.T.O. again this year but with that being a PGA event it won't happen. Thanks for the correction Jon. D.H.
170.20.96.116
Tuesday December 05, 2006
11:44 PM
DH, Mario Tiziani didn't make the Q school cut and he didn't have six solid rounds. The top 30 scores and ties get the PGA tour cards for next year and this year 40 players got them. Jaco Van Zyl with a 424 was the 40th qualifier. Mario Tiziani carded a 425 and missed by a shot. He shot four solid rounds of a 70-69-71 and an amazing 64 but he opened with a round of 77 and closed with a round of 74. He goes to the Nationwide Tour for 2007. John O 72.
67.136.154.233
Tuesday December 05, 2006
09:32 PM
Tiz just finished six solid rounds of golf at La Quinta to qualify for the PGA tour for 2007. Only the top 125 money winners from the previous year receive an exemption. Hope 2007 is a good year for all of us. The pictures from Siberia look like the early years of the AlCan highway.D.H.
64.211.101.4
Tuesday December 05, 2006
09:57 AM
I was in Ironwood last Saturday and bought a copy of "Ironwood, Hurley and the Gogebic Range" at the Pine Tree Gallery. It is very interesting, great pictures of the range, mines, miners, etc. I didn't meet the author, Matthew Leisch, who was signing books at the gallery last Sunday. Mike S '71
170.20.96.116
Tuesday November 28, 2006
04:47 PM
The greatest single tragedy in terms of loss of life in the mines of the Gogebic Range occured over a hundred years ago in Ironwood. It's 100th anniversary was last December but went unnoticed. I guess there are no relatives of the miners left in the area and no one left alive who remembers it. Some who had grandparents who were little kids at the time may have heard of it from them. On December 23, 1905 a crew of eight men were working a section of the 1,300 foot level of the Newport Mine when the roof collaped dropping 1,000 tons of rock onto Joel Haryu, John Frank, Peter Demarer, James Blinch, Alexander Pareaceare, Nick Gregovgil, Frank Tian and Joseph Luckner, killing all eight men. The story made the front page of the Washington Post the next day. The mine was shut down for days because of the fear of shifting timbers and unstable rock. I've never seen pictures of eight horse-drawn herses and a public memorial for the men. I wonder if they even got the bodies out or instead of extracting 1,000 tons of rock and retimbering the section they just sealed it off leaving them entombed 130 stories underground? John O '72.
70.94.62.59
Friday November 24, 2006
02:39 PM
My father went to the Bonnie School during the late 20's and early 30's. He lived near the high school so I don't know how he ended up going there. We were able to go thru the school in the 50's. I can't remember much about how it looked, but it was in pretty good shape at that time. TR'65
24.213.1.54
Thursday November 23, 2006
02:56 PM
I wonder if the ROTC still has a rifle team. The rifle range was under the bleachers in the 60's. Is it still there? I don't think they would allow the use of firearms in a public school anymore. J,"63"
24.213.24.2
Wednesday November 22, 2006
09:29 AM
The Bonnie School is still there. I grew up in the first house north of the school, right across from the mine shaft. As far as I recall my Dad saying the school closed in the late forties, was never open that I recall, We all went to the Erwin school which was later turned into the Kodiak Corp which burned in 1976. Rod P '71
69.179.46.198
Tuesday November 21, 2006
04:19 PM
I ASKED BEFORE BUT NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING. DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHEN THE BONNIE SCHOOL CLOSED OR ANYONE WHO EVER WENT TO THAT SCHOOL? IT IS STILL THERE. QUITE A BUILDING. ODD SPOT, THOUGH, RIGHT ACROSS FROM AN ENTIRE MINE COMPLEX WHERE NO HOMES WOULD HAVE EVER BEEN RATHER THAN BEING CENTRALLY LOCATED FOR KIDS TO ATTEND. AWFUL CLOSE TO NEWPORT SCHOOL AS WELL, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN ANOTHER DISTRICT ALTOGETHER. J. 65.
170.20.96.116
Tuesday November 14, 2006
06:08 PM
I'm not remembering "Full Metal Jacket Mattson" but I remember taking Hunter's Safety class in 7th grade and I think Herb was the instructor of that class. We got a certificate for completing the course. John O '72.
67.4.173.204
Tuesday November 14, 2006
04:38 PM
At Sleight School we had similar gym classes with Mr. Peterson. Some marching, about faces, and boot-camp type of calisthenics. On the plus side, I knew how to do right turns, left turns, and about faces when I got into the marching band. All was not lost. My guess is that he just got out of the service. Was that the case with Mr. Mattson? Susan '66
67.22.254.164
Saturday November 11, 2006
07:21 AM
Anyone remember when Herb Mattson took over gym class for part of a year. I'm guessing I was in the seventh grade, maybe 1966. If I remember correctly, our normal gym teacher was out for a while so Herb took over and changed it into a preliminary ROTC class or something of the like. He had us marching in formation, doing about faces. Barking out orders like a drill sargent. "Left face, Harch" "Right face, Harch" "Click dem heels" " At ease" Whew... ..Ed.
170.20.96.116
Friday November 10, 2006
05:15 PM
In the picture in my post below all five of the mandolins are Gibsons. Herb has got what looks like an A3. Next to him is an F5, then an A4, an F5 and an F5. Those were expensive mandolins even back then. The mandolin craze of the 1910' and 20's had pretty much died out by the time that picture was taken in 1930. It wasn't until a couple years later when Bill Monroe added a Gison F5 to old-time country music and created and popularized the bluegrass sound. The Gibson mandolins from the late 20's in the picture would sell today in mint condition for over a grand for the A3 to over six grand for each of the the F5's. An F5 from that era signed by master luthier and chief of Gibson's instrument development Llyod Loar sells today in the $100,000 range. A 1924 Gibson F5 mandolin signed by Loar just sold this month for $160,000. He was with Gibson until 1933 so if one of those in that picture bear his signature and date signifying he made it or personally took part in it's production it would be worth at least hundred grand today. The Gibson Loar F5 mandolin is the Stradivarius of mandolins. John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Thursday November 09, 2006
10:02 PM
Speaking of Roosevelt, here's a picture of Ironwood Township School District Superintendent Herb Mattson from about 1930 or so when he had a band: http://mattsonworks.com/mandolin.html I never knew the guy could rock out. John O '72.
24.247.47.14
Friday November 03, 2006
08:39 PM
And the Halloween Fun Frolic at the Ironwood Township Community Building! I remember standing in line forever at the Fish Pond. I think Tony Stella worked those games for us even after his kids had all grown up! The Roosevelt PTO did a wonderful job in planning our township parties year after year. gk 71
208.68.25.175
Friday November 03, 2006
11:48 AM
How about the Halloween Fun Frolics are the grade schools. Oh what fun we had! The cake walk was my favorite!!!!! Mike Pavlovich would be the announcer, on the stage at Norrie School. Prizes were given out! What a glorious night! Then we'd walk up Ash Street to the top of the hill where I lived. I also remember Trick or Treating. Kolson's house at the bottom of Ash Street was the best, because they always made Popcorn Balls! We'd come home with our bags full of candy! You're right, we never had to worry about someone putting bad stuff in our candy. If you got a 5 cents candy bar, you had the world by the tail!! CT :) 69
199.103.143.97
Friday November 03, 2006
07:53 AM
John: she is not very small and has very dark beautiful skin but she does a lot of "make believe" and transforms into anything she wants to be. She actually wanted to be Elizabeth Swan, the blonde blue eyed beauty (Keira Knightley) in Pirates for Halloween this year but I pulled a few strings and convinced her to be Spiderella. Marlene
170.20.96.116
Thursday November 02, 2006
10:44 PM
Marlene, Only Ginny Weasley's name implies being fair. In the story it's short for Ginerva which is an Italian version of the name Guinevere which means fair or smooth. Ginny Weasley herself in the book series is described only as being small with long red hair and bright brown eyes. The actress who played her may have had freckles and been fair skinned but I don't think that would be mandatory to being Ginny Weasley. If your daughter is a small, smooth skinned girl with bright brown eyes wearing a red wig I think she met most of the criteria. John O '72.
199.103.143.97
Thursday November 02, 2006
07:37 AM
This year I had it easy but last year my little seven year old was determined to be Ginny Weasly. Ginny Weasly is a red-haired, fair skinned, freckled faced little girl in Harry Potter. My daughter is Korean. But I painted red spots on her face, put her in a red wig and a Gryffindor robe and she became Ginny Weasly, at least she thought she did. And when her dad took her around the neighborhood, the neighbors said, "you must be Ginny Weasly!" (We prompted them). This year she was just Spiderella so that was a piece of cake. Marlene '74
170.20.96.116
Wednesday November 01, 2006
10:08 PM
Greta, keep the outfit but next year bake mini-pasties to give out and be the Pasty Fairy. John O '72.
65.31.162.48
Wednesday November 01, 2006
05:26 PM
Jim S - I can identify...I dressed up with my Madrigal underdress, gauzy slip-on wings and a feathered halo to be a "good fairy". I had a copper art/hand blown glass "wand" that I used to grant wishes. The 4-6 year old set was the most impressed. The adults always wished to be rich....so I told them if they worked really hard and invested well they would be and being out there with their kids made them richer than any lottery. Greta '70
71.87.20.2
Wednesday November 01, 2006
12:31 PM
Greta - Margie really gets into Halloween so we have a ton of decorations both inside and outside of our house. She dresses up as a witch for Trick-Or-Treating so some of the parents take pictures of her along with their kids. Our granddaughter reports that her classmates tell her that our house is THE place to go on Halloween...Jim S '71
67.22.254.164
Tuesday October 31, 2006
06:56 PM
We always came into town to trick or treat. The candies per mile was much better than in the Township. My Dad would park on the corner and we would go up and down the four streets from the car. The worst thing was when some adults were having a party and we had to come in and parade for them before we got our goodies. ..Ed
65.31.162.48
Tuesday October 31, 2006
05:19 PM
I also remember that if the person in the house didn't recognize you or think you were from the neighborhood, you were told so and didn't get anything. None of that dropping kids off in other areas of town like they do now. And you wouldn't dare go out without a costume - unlike some of the "older" kids now (8-12 year olds). The last few years I've taken pictures of some of the really imaginative costumes that have shown up at my door. The kids really get a kick out of posing. Greta '70
71.87.20.2
Tuesday October 31, 2006
02:27 PM
Loretta - Peanut butter kisses are still around and they still come in orange or black wrappers for Halloween. I always liked when you would get an entire candy bar in your trick or treat bag instead of the miniatures they hand out now...Jim S '71
63.227.165.238
Tuesday October 31, 2006
02:06 PM
Hated getting peanut butter kisses in my trick or treat bag. Those seemed to be pretty popular years ago. Wonder if they still make them? Loretta
71.87.20.2
Tuesday October 31, 2006
08:59 AM
Happy Halloween Everybody - Remember back in our day when we went Trick-Or-Treating ON Halloween Day in the DARK? Our parents didn't come with us (no mini vans parked at the curb) and we didn't have to worry about anybody putting foreign objects in our candy? We may have had to wear snowsuits under our costumes however or head for home for a new bag after someone threw an apple in the old one. I even remember smelling BURNING LEAVES! Good times, good times...JIm S '71
69.179.29.41
Saturday October 21, 2006
07:18 PM
Had a chance a few years back to go underground on a tour of that Mine near Hancock. It sure gives a person empathy for the many miners who spent their working lives underground earning a living for their families. Conditions improved some in later years but it was never a piece of cake. J. 65.
170.20.96.116
Wednesday October 18, 2006
09:27 PM
Of course if the the proposed mine delivers on their projection of 1,000 jobs at $30 an hour which would create hundreds of other jobs and preserve hundreds of existing jobs it might not meet with much resistance. John O '72.
170.20.96.116
Tuesday October 10, 2006
05:45 PM
62% of the land proposed for the mine is owned by RGGS Land and Minerals LTD out of Houston, Texas, a real estate company owned by Russell D. Gordy. The rest of the land is owned by LaPointe Iron Company headquartered in Hibbing, Minnesota whose president is John P. Congdon of Denver, Colorado. Congdon is the great-grandson of the Minnesota lumber baron Chester Congdon. LaPointe was a subsiderary of US Steel. US Steel sold off 760,500 acres of mineral rights and 35,000 acres of surface rights in 15 states to RGGS Land and Minerals LTD. RGGS Land and Minerals LTD is now the major stockholder of LaPointe Iron Company. John O '72.
67.4.174.241
Tuesday October 10, 2006
04:33 PM
I read about that open pit mine proposal that Carl is talking about. I must have read it in the Ironwood Daily Globe. The article also mentioned a steel manufacturing plant to be built in conjunction with that mine. It sounded like the location would be close to Lake Superior. I can't imagine either the mine or the plant being allowed so close to Lake Superior. Either one would pollute the air and the lake. The Ironwood area historically has turned down a lot of proposed industry because of the pollution it could cause. Susan '66
71.222.44.215
Monday October 09, 2006
09:18 PM
Although mining regions are famous for the rumours of new mining adventures that you can generally count on for being false, there is perhaps a valid and disruptive proposal making the rounds. There is a twentythree some mile stretch of iron ore only about a thousand feet wide and as deep that extends from the Michigan border to several miles beyond Mellon. You can actually see the rift if you go to the Google satelite photo site. A Texas billionare and a friend have bought up the mineral rights to almost all of the land. Most people don't know that although they may hold title to a piece of property, they don't hold mineral rights and can be bought out cheaply if someone shows that they can and will mine it. This deal has been in the Ashland papers a number of times, as has been their initial courting of Wisconsin politicians. Their basic proposal is to make a sort of moving open pit mine that would go from one end to another over the course of many years, a novel and unprecedented idea that could be rife with problems and issues, both economic and environmental. Perhaps it won't come to anything, but I'm sure many people said that of the proposed sulfide mining up near Big Bay that is moving ahead, or the massive clearcutting for paper making that is now happening in the UP and upper Wisconsin. There needs to be open disclosure of issues that affect us all. Carl71
67.4.146.244
Friday October 06, 2006
02:32 PM
Thanks for clearing that up, BJ. I gave the right answer to the person I was talking to so I won't have to try to remember who it was in order to correct the info. Susan '66
24.247.47.118
Thursday October 05, 2006
03:58 AM
Susan'66 The mines are not active, it's their remaining stockpiles that are being processed. Poquette has Heavy Equipment at the Peterson mine and they load the ore out of the stockpile onto a conveyer belt that screens, shakes, and separates the fine stuff from the coarse. They are then deposited into 2 separate new stockpiles. When 900 ton of fines has been processed they truck it to Thomaston where it is weighed again and loaded into RR cars. The coarse rocky stuff remains at the site. The buildings are pretty much intact at the Peterson mine and 2 of them are used by Bessemer Electric to rebuild electric motors and Briggs and Stratton to test Snowblowers and Generators. Generally a small scale operation as far as number of people employed though. The guy that rebuilds the motors also loads and separates the iron ore. Briggs and Stratton employed 9 or 10 last winter but has relocated to a larger building at the site. BJ67
67.4.155.103
Wednesday October 04, 2006
04:14 PM
I'm so glad BJ '67 wrote in about the Peterson Mine. I had no idea that any of the ore mines were still active. Someone asked me last week if they were, and I said no. Sure wish I could remember who asked me that. I'll have to clear up my misunderstanding of the situation. Do any of the mines give tours? I told that woman no, but if there are any tours that I didn't know of, I might as well square things with her on that at the same time. Susan '66
208.68.25.175
Tuesday October 03, 2006
04:12 PM
I attended the ceremony for the 80th anniversary of the Pabst Mine disaster, with my Mother Marian Turunen(who will be 86 in November. My Mom was almost 6 when the men were trapped. Her Father, William Peterson, worked at the Pabst Mine. She remembers waiting in the dining room of their home on the corner of Tamarack, and Hazel Street, for her Father to come home from work. When he did come home, it was to get a fresh set of clothes, and a new pail, and back to the mine he went. My Grandfather was one of the rescuers, and received a gold medal with the name "Pete" on it because that was his nickname. One of the relatives received this medal after the my Grandparents were deceased. A woman came up to my Mom at the ceremony, and gave her a big kiss and said because of her Father, the woman's Father had been saved. My Mom started to cry, but she had a wonderful time remembering the past. Thanks to John Cain, Gary Harrington, The Finnish American singers, all the clergy who attended. It was an afternoon, I'll always remember! CTurunen '60
24.247.47.118
Sunday October 01, 2006
05:17 AM
Mike S. 71 Yes there still is high grade iron ore in the area and also in the stockpiles left at the mine sites. I drive truck for Smiley's Excavating occasionally and they have had an ongoing contract for hauling ore from the Peterson mine site in Bessemer. It is first screened there and we haul the fines to Thomaston,where it is loaded on RR cars and shipped to Indiana. Poquette Trucking used to truck it to lower Michigan but with the rising costs of fuel they decided to ship it by rail the last few years. I understand some of it's uses are for pigments and dyes. They haul out about 900 ton every other week during the summer months. BJ67
12.218.3.236
Saturday September 30, 2006
07:13 AM
I knew Gaspar Curik, one of the miners trapped and rescued from the Pabst mine. I delivered the Daily Planet to him on Jackson Road, he was elderly and quiet . His son, Wally, told me that his father was very traumatized by the ordeal. The Planet recently reported that Gogebic County will have a mine inspector again. My uncle Reino (Suma) Laine held that office for at least ten years in the 60s & 70s. I remember seeing the statistics for deaths & injuries in the Gogebic mines. Mining was and is still a very dangerous occupation and many reading this have first hand experience with someone hurt or killed in the Gogebic mines. The ores of Gogebic still hold high grade iron and other precious metals. Future generations will try to balance the economic value of getting at them with the ecological challenges that mining brings along. Mike S '71
63.227.165.238
Friday September 29, 2006
10:44 AM
I don't know if it is open to the general public yet, but there is an interesting display about the mine disaster at the Memorial Building Heritage Center. I got to see it in 2005 when I was in Ironwood. One of the ladies working there allowed me to look around since my cousin is involved in the project. Unfortunately I didn't get to see him. Loretta '68
170.20.96.116
Friday September 29, 2006
12:47 AM
Since none of us were alive in 1926 we don't have any actual memories of it but September 29th is the 80th anniversary of the rescue the 43 miners trapped for five days in the Pabst Mine disaster. The mine was owned by the Oliver Mining Company then but I had wondered how it got it's name Pabst and found out it was owned by the Pabst Brewery when it began in the 1880's. Jacob Best founded the Empire Brewery and his son Phillip Best changed it to the Best Brewery. Phillip Best's daughter Maria married Frederick Pabst and Pabst bought half interest in the brewery. It soon was renamed the Pabst Brewery. Pabst was also a mining speculator and became the president of the Pabst Mining Company with his brother-in-law Charles Best Jr as vice president and tresurer and started the Pabst mine in Ironwood. The secretary and general agent of the company who was sent to Ironwood to operate the mine was Major Henry Baetz. Baetz was a Civil War hero who fought at Chancellorsville and was wounded at Gettysburg. He became Treasurer of the State of Wisconsin, Secretary of the State Board of Immigration and Head Librarian of the City of Milwaukee in his impressive career and then went to work for Best and then Pabst. John O '72.
63.227.165.238
Thursday September 14, 2006
02:08 PM
Paula, Those were great! I'd add a metaphor here about how great they were, but my mind is't as nimble as the kid's. Thanks for the day brightener. Loretta
64.12.116.199
Thursday September 14, 2006
02:02 PM
Just got this emailed to me from a friend. It brought back memories of English classes at LLW! :) Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners..... 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. 7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine. 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30. 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. 13 The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River. 18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. 19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,this plan just might work. 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools. 25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells,as if she were a garbage truck backing up ******* Paula '73 *******
170.20.96.116
Wednesday September 13, 2006
10:28 PM
Songs about dreams: In Dreams-Roy Orbison/All I Have To Do Is Dream-The Everly Brothers/Young Dreams-Elvis Presley/I'll See You In My Dreams-Louis Armstrong/Street of Dreams-Frank Sinatra/I'll Buy That Dream-Helen Forrest/Dream-Bob Dylan/The Dream Song-Joan Baez/If There Were No Dreams-Neil Diamond/River of Dreams-Billy Joel/Daydream Believer-The Monkkes/I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night-The Electric Prunes/Never Had A Dream Come True-Stevie Wonder/Dream Weaver-Gary Wright/Sweet Dreams-Eurythmics/These Dreams-Heart/Your Wildest Dreams-The Moody Blues/King of Dreams-Deep Purple/Sweet Dreams-Cristy Lane/Dirty Dreams-Alice Cooper/These Dreams-Robbie Williams/Childhood Dreams-Nelly Furtado/Dreamin' of You-Selena/Dream Lover-Mariah Carey/Dreams-The Allman Brothers Band/Dreams-Fleetwood Mac/Dreams-Van Halen/Only in Dreams-Weezer/In My Dreams-David Crosby/Perfect Dreams-KD Lang/Sweet Dreams-Patsy Cline/Boulevard of Broken Dreams-Green Day. John O '72
67.4.178.122
Monday September 11, 2006
06:06 PM
So, Loretta, as one highly intelligent and emotionally sensitive person to another, let's try John O's recommendation and not eat spicy food too late at night. See if that helps. As for me, now I'll probably start dreaming about John's analytic dream converter and how it'll keep running even after I turn it off and unplug it. At least when it blew the fuse for John it stopped. Susan '66
208.68.25.175
Monday September 11, 2006
10:23 AM
208.68.25.175
Monday September 11, 2006
10:23 AM
Don't know where the summer went, but I just looked at the Class of 1971 35 year reunion pictures. They are great and appreciate the photographers work (Cindy, Ed and Swede) Hopefully it will encourage all the classmates to attend the 40th. It was great fun and wish it could have gone on and on. So much to talk about and not enough time. Linda Pisani "71
170.20.96.116
Friday September 08, 2006
09:37 PM
Loretta & Susan, I fed both of your dream information into my analytic dream converter and it blew a fuse so all I can suggest is stop eating spicy food before bedtime. John O '72.
63.227.165.238
Friday September 08, 2006
06:12 PM
It's funny we should have the same dreams, Susan, because when I first started reading your postings on the L.L. Wright site, I remember thinking that you seemed like someone I could really relate to. The dreams could be interpreted that we feel we don't have the control we would like over our lives, or that we are highly intelligent and emotionally sensitive people. Let's go with the second option. :) Loretta
67.4.173.10
Friday September 08, 2006
06:02 PM
It's nice to know I'm not alone with having crazy dreams. I've had the same telephone and car dreams as Loretta. In the phone dream, sometimes the phone is a dial phone and the holes are too shallow so my finger slips out, or if it is a push-button phone the numbers are in a random order and I can't find each one quickly enough in the time allotted by the system. It is almost always an emergency call and I wake up really frantic. In the car dream I'm unable to stop the car and wind up weaving all over the road and spinning around before coasting to a stop. I always wake up when I stop. I have other technology dreams in which I'm working on a computer with a monitor about the size of a big-screen TV and the program I'm running switches over to movies and I can't turn it off or switch back to computer-mode because the image has enlarged so much that the "x" in the upper right corner of the monitor has disappeared. For some reason, I'm always a little frightened by that dream. Let's try to analyze that one. Susan '66
63.227.165.238
Wednesday September 06, 2006
10:11 PM
I already talk to myself. At about the same time that I would have that dream I also had one where I was driving a car, and the brakes would never work right. I would have to press on the brake pedal really hard and for a long time to get the car to stop. I was a mess!:) Loretta
170.20.96.116
Wednesday September 06, 2006
07:44 PM
Loretta, Somebody could have fun trying to psychoanalyze that dream. Since it was a frequent dream but you no longer have it you must have resolved whatever issue it represented. Did it represent that you were losing touch with someone and that subconciously bothered you? Were you holding back from a contact that needed to be made? Did you want to tell someone something but were holding back out of fear that it would hurt their feelings or put them on the offensive and create a wall between you? Did the mechanical difficulties encountered represent mechanical difficulites going on at the time in your own body as in a health issue you were going through? Did the inability to dial simply represent an unwillingness or fear of adapting to or accepting new technology? Whatever it was the issue must have resolved itself for the recurring dreams to cease. Maybe since you've drudged it back up out of your subconcious you'll have the dream tonight. But will be able to dial and get the call through. And on the other end of that call will be...you. John O '72.
63.227.165.238
Wednesday September 06, 2006
07:01 PM
I used to have a recurring nightmare about using a pay phone with a rotary dial. I would need to reach someone for an important call, and every time I would try to make the call I could never get the phone to work. Mostly my finger would slip out of the hole and I'd have to start dialing over again, or I would dial one of the digits of the number wrong and again my call would mess up. This would happen over and over again. Thank God I haven't had that dream for a long time. I know it doesn't sound like it would be that much of a nightmare, but I would get so frustrated in that stupid dream. Loretta '68
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Wednesday September 06, 2006
05:05 PM
I've got a slimline rotary phone from the 1970's that I hung on to and can use for backup if a newer phone breaks. The thing about it is the quality of it's manufacture. I think it's a Bell product, well made, good clear and loud recieving and speaking volume. It seemed like a cheap phone back in it's day and now it seems like a quality antique relic but better manufactured than today's phones. John O '72.
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Monday September 04, 2006
07:27 PM
Speaking of rotary phones, we still have one at the cottage and my 10 yr. old nephew asked "How do you use this?"JR'67
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Sunday September 03, 2006
11:24 AM
Speaking of phones- with a rotary phone, 4 people in the house-and NO call waiting- a kitchen timer was my mom's best friend. She would time both my sister's and my phone calls. We would have like a 10 or 15 minute time limit. When the buzzer would go off she'd be right there with THE LOOK that meant time to get off. Well, we thought we'd outsmnart her by changing the time she set. We thought wrong. She had a 2nd timer with her. Not a good idea to try and fool mother. She needed the phone to be free at frequent intervals because she worked for the Dept. of Social Services and was ON CALL all the time to do emergency child removal from homes or rescue abused spouses from their abusers. But, try and explain that to 2 teenage girls. We are on our normal yo-yo ride of weather again. Last Thursday we had a high of 67 and rain. Today we are looking at almost 90 and should be that way for the next 2-3 days. The nights cool off very nicely- down into the low 40s. Wonderful sleeping weather with the window wide open. Got in the hot tub last last after we came home from the sprint car races at midnight. Will be doing the same again tonight. Our Chopper Shop sponsors one sprint car,1 Late Model car and one street stock car. I've gotten real good at scraping mud off the cars after they're done packing the dirt track after it's been watered down before the race. Our trees are just starting to turn. Cooler night will hasten that process and then the raking will begin. Betsy "73
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Sunday September 03, 2006
07:04 AM
Regarding Loretta's comments, it is true that many old buildings are not saved. In Wakefield, I see, a former Wakefield grad (Marvin Suomi) is donating millions of dollars to redo their Community Building, which has been in disrepair for decades. What a great building that was with a pool, theatre, library, meeting rooms, etc. Lots of Mine tax money in the old days as indicated by Ironwood's Memorial Building and LL Wright H.S. to name a couple of buildings. J. 65.
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Saturday September 02, 2006
04:50 AM
Hamilton Club article is misleading! They may have had a fire in 1968 but the Hamilton Club was still going strong in 1970 and was a popular hangout for awhile after that. BJ67
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Friday September 01, 2006
10:25 PM
The high school I went to (St. Ambrose) is no more, the church I got married in (St. Michael's) is gone, and now the Hamilton Club where I met my husband has been demolished. Feeling a little old this evening. Loretta '68
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Friday September 01, 2006
08:58 PM
The Hamilton Club was so named because the town of Montreal which was founded by the Oglebay-Norton Mining Company was originally named Hamilton when the first mine opened there in 1885. The club was built at a cost of $65,000 and opened in 1918. Besides a bowling alley and barbershop it also had a library, soda fountain, stage and pool tables. Oddly, the fire that gutted the structure in 1968 happened on the 50th anniversary of the day the club opened in 1918. John O '72.
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Friday September 01, 2006
08:00 PM
Just were talking about the Hamilton Club, the 18 year old joint as we knew it, and the fun we all had there in the 60s. Check out the Globe article. It is no more. Sad. J. 65. http://ironwooddailyglobe.com/0825hami.htm
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Thursday August 31, 2006
10:01 PM
Even though the car will be given away through a drawing at the end of the year, I don't know if the kids get the smaller prizes automatically or if those will be drawn for every six weeks. Loretta
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Thursday August 31, 2006
09:16 PM
Speaking of times changing - whatever happened to doing something just for the honor of it? When Campbell County High School, here in Gillette, approached a local car dealership about making a donation to be given to students as an attendance incentive, he offered a 2007 Pontiac G6 to them. It has a CD player, i-Pod adapter, automatic windows and locks and traction assist. In addition to the car, other prizes will be give away every six weeks at CCHS to students who have had perfect attendance during the previous month and a half. These have been donated by local businesses. To be eligible for the car, the students can miss eight classes at the most and have four or less tardies. They'll have to hope they are healthy all year. Some of the students interviewed don't think the incentives will help. We shall see. Loretta '68
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Wednesday August 30, 2006
05:09 AM
Yesterday on Colby Street in Bessemer,behind City Hall I see this 10 or 11 year old girl having problems steering her bicycle as I approached from behind in my car. As I passed I can see her steering one handed and dialing her cell phone with her other hand while wobbling on the sidewalk. How times have changed!!! BJ67
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Tuesday August 29, 2006
10:21 AM
I remember when you rented your phones back in the day and paid the "rent" as part of your phone bill. Ma Bell eventually got out of the rental business and you had to buy them from the company (this was before you could go to any Radio Shack store at the mall and buy your own phone). My wife and I had a yellow wall-mounted "Princess" phone (I believe we paid $5 for it after renting it for a few years) with a rotary dial that we took with us thru many a move. I believe the last time we used it was when we moved to Central Wisconsin back in '79. A couple years back I bought a refurbished "Lucy" phone from the '50's over the internet that is rewired for today's phone jacks but still has the cloth covered cord. My daughter and granddaughter don't like to use it 'cause it's "too hard to dial" since you have to wait for the dial to return after each number...Jim S '71
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Monday August 28, 2006
02:21 PM
I'm not sure, but I believe the phone was from the 1940's. Loretta
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Monday August 28, 2006
10:27 AM
Up untl about five years ago, my Aunt Mary Harvey in Wakefield still had her rotary phone with the cloth covered cord. We had hoped to get it from her when she finally had to change phones, but I guess the guy from the telephone company took it. It was a blast from the past to see it when we would visit. Aunt Mary turned 95 on July 15th and still insists on living alone. Loretta '68
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Sunday August 27, 2006
05:13 PM
I've heard of two instances in the past year where teenagers have told their grandma that they didn't know how to use her phone. Both grandmothers(in different cities)happen to still have rotary dial phones and the teenagers didn't know how to make a call on one. MC'71
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Sunday August 27, 2006
03:51 PM
I was just talking with my kids about the change in telephone communication since the Vietnam era. They are used to their cell phones and can't believe that the phone system used to be what I tell them. All the good, bad and funny stories of the party lines. And then the good old prank calls of yesterday. "Is your refrigerator running?" Yes.... "Well go and catch it!" I remember call a restaurant on Cloverland Drive. "Is your restaurant located on US 2?" Yes... "Well you better move it cause there's a semi headed your way!" Good old days. I remember moving into my first apartment out here in New Hampshire. The phone company came right in and wired the phone. And the ultimate luxury was to have a phone extension next to the bed. Man, living like royalty! .....Ed '71
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Friday August 25, 2006
06:52 PM
I read with interest in the Daily Globe of 8/21/06 that Lake Superior Magazine is doing a story on the still unsolved 1890 Hurley axe murder of Lottie Morgan. Of course in those early days there was no forensic crimefighting tools but they did recover the assumed murder weapon and also had a suspect. I've read conflicting stories of the murder over the years that in one she was found floating in the Montreal with a hatchet in her head and in others that she was bludgeoned with an axe or chopped in the head with an axe. Some stories call her Lotta Morgan but that came from the character of the Edna Ferber novel "Come And Get It." Ferber wrote that story while staying at the Burton House Hotel in Hurley and incorporated the name Lottie Morgan into her story as the saloon singer. The real Lottie Morgan was a saloon singer and actress among other occupations but that apparently was her stage name. Her real name allegedly was Laura Whittlesay. She was last seen alive leaving the J.L. Sullivan Saloon on Silver Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues on the evening of April 10, 1890. According to the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern of April 11, 1890 she left Sullivan's Saloon about 11 pm and headed out the back door into the Alley. Her body was found in the alley behind Ives' Saloon next door with a large gash above her right eye. At her side was an unfired pistol with bullets in each chamber. She had diamond rings on her fingers and other jewelery as well as cash on her so robbery was ruled out. The axe believed to be the murder weapon was found in a nearby shed. I had read somewhere else that she had also been shot and a bloody coat belonging to a guy named Terry Day who also went by the name of Terry Riley was found but he was not convicted of the crime and I don't know if he even went to trial for it. It's a 116 year old cold case file. John O '72.
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Friday August 18, 2006
05:03 PM
True words, Dave ' Many thanks to the people who have gotten it all together for our class of 71, particularly, Cindy, Linda, and Dave, Pat and Beth. CN.
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Friday August 18, 2006
12:41 PM
Okay you guys, Enough of this prez talk for now. I only provide a place for the committee to meet and handle the registration. The other folks who serve on the committee deserve the most credit for making things fly. Thanks again for another great reunion. If all of us who attended could each get one more classmate to attend, what a great time we'd have. Swede
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Thursday August 17, 2006
10:30 PM
To paraphrase our nation's declaration of independence. We hold these truths to be self evident. When in the course of human events, the people at the 35th reunion of their high school classmates have the inalienable right to pick new leaders, particularly when they are well deserving, and are to be elected by a loud yeehaw and 3 cheers. A quorum of people can do what they want, (as in a jury). Anyway, it seemed like a good idea at the time, and still does. Carl, 71
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Thursday August 17, 2006
06:09 AM
How's about Great Exhausted Ruler? JM'68
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Tuesday August 15, 2006
05:44 PM
Some alternate titles: Czar, Chancellor, Grand Vizier, Sultan, Premier, Secretary General, Chief Magistrate, Regent, Prime Minister, Shogun, CEO, Godfather, Toastmaster General, Big Kahuna, Grand Exhultant Puuba...
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Tuesday August 15, 2006
04:44 PM
Nicely said Ed
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Monday August 14, 2006
07:15 PM
As far as class officers are concerned, they weren't very well represented at the reunion. Waiko was the only one there, so he had the honors of cutting the cake. ... If Swede isn't legally able to be President, he surely should be some kind of honorary Prez. He (and the other committee members) did so much to prepare everything and then he just goes around making sure everyone is enjoying themselves. The guys got a President size heart, if nothing else. Thanks again Swede. ..Ed '71
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Monday August 14, 2006
05:45 PM
Carl's post below raises several questions. Isn't being a senior class president a lifelong position like a Supreme Court appointment? And since Waiko was vice president, in the event that the president was unable to perform his duties or chose to relenquish them, wouldn't that automatically elevate Waiko to the position of president? And since there are 170 living members of the LLW class of '71 and only slighty more than 50 were in attendance at the 35th reunion how can the election of a new president be considered unanimous? Also, since that was a joint reunion of LLW and Ironwood Catholic, would Swede be considered the new president of the combined classes of 1971? And finally, what about the reports of missing reunion presidential ballots being found in Florida? John O '72.
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Friday August 11, 2006
06:02 PM
oops, forgot to sign in for previous. Carl 71 PS, at our reunion we elected Swede (unanimously) as our new president and I think that we may have elected Waiko to something too.
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Friday August 11, 2006
05:57 PM
I have a true fish story to tell. My brother Ray ,his wife Linda and I did a long canoe portage to a wilderness lake in the McCormack tract , north of Michigamme. Gorgeous country, nobody there, but it was sunny and fishing wasn't good. Ray hooked a little perch , perhaps 6" long and he let it run around a little, near the surface. All of a sudden, out of the depths came this thing, huge, with wide open jaws, swallowing the smaller fish, only a couple feet from our seats in the canoe, which all three of us almost jumped out of. I had only a trout net that was half the size of what turned out to be a 38" tiger muskie. After fighting it for a while, Ray got it close enough that ,as I tried to heft it into the canoe, the muskie let go of the perch, the perch got loose, free of the hook and fell back in the water as the muskie fell into the canoe and became dinner. Pike and muskie can be vicious. We grew up knowing the tragic story of what happened to Toivo Lietalainen down at Gile Flowage. Lesson learned. If you're a guy and you're going to skinny dip in a good fishing lake ,the backstroke may be the way to go eh?
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Thursday August 10, 2006
10:38 PM
My wife saw a cougar just south of Clam Lake, Wisconsin in July 1998. Golden brown, she first thought it was a deer until it turned and she saw the big hook tail. There's a website that has good cougar info: http://www.miwildlife.org/ Clearly the most dangerous predator living in the UP. A majestic animal that has survived against the odds. Michigan DNR will still not acknowledge that native cougars live in both peninsulas. Mike S '71
170.20.96.116
Thursday August 10, 2006
09:22 PM
I never saw a cougar in the UP but I saw one here in the desert once. It was just as you described and like you it was that tail that really caught my attention. And when you had your first of the two sightings you probably said to yourself like I did, WTF is that?! Or something to that effect. This one that I saw was crossing the road ahead of me as I was driving and it wasn't in a fast run but kind of a trot going maybe 7-8 mph so I got a good look. John O '72.
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Wednesday August 09, 2006
01:38 PM
Speaking of Cougars in the U.P., I personally saw one between Crystal Falls and Iron River , on U.S 2 at 4:15 a.m. on my way to Escanaba in 1986 (and reported it to the DNR Office)and another Cougar on 9/8/2004 at 10:30 a.m. about 6 miles south of Marenisco on my way home. In both cases the big cat was shiny golden brown and the long tail was clearly visible and I know my heart SKIPPED a few beats in each case. They also say a BLACK Cougar has been sighted several times around Wakefield and that it has been videotaped(I've never seen the tape). Dan Finco, 3 years ago on opening day of deer season in Erwin Twp. was greeted by 2 deer in HIGH GEAR running in front of the knoll he was posting on, within a minute he looked over one hilltop away and spotted a big cougar which then slipped away behind the hill. On CAT watch...RM '67
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Tuesday August 08, 2006
09:24 PM
You know, even though the wolverine is Michigan's state animal and the badger is Wisconsin's I've never seen either in the wild that I can remember. So with all the badgers, bears, woverines, tiger mouth muskies, deer flys and black flys on land water and air how about another ferocious creature. The Eastern Cougar. Hundreds of sightings have been reported in the last few decades across Michigan's two peninsulas, Wisconsin and Minnesota. John O '72.
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Tuesday August 08, 2006
11:35 AM
Dont'forget the infamous badger.
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Monday August 07, 2006
09:21 PM
The biting black fly and the wolverine are two creatures who are indeed tough by land and air but how about the water wolf? The Jaws of the north. Two creatures of the deep who prowl the shallow. The Musky: world record 69 lbs 11 oz, 63" caught in 1949 in the Chippewa Flowage near Hayward. The Tiger Musky, hybrid cousin of the musky: world record 51 lbs 3 oz, 54" caught in 1919 in the Lake Vieux Desert near Eagle River. Monsters of those size are elusive to the most experiened of anglers and the chances of getting bit by a musky of tiger musky while swimming are about the same as being struck by lightning but there have been many reported cases of people getting bit by their canine-like teeth with the worst cases requiring 80 stiches. Almost all bites to humans have occured while the victims were dangling their feet or arms into the water and the fish didn't distinquish it as a human but something that was smaller than them. John O '72.
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Monday August 07, 2006
07:26 PM
Being dangerously close to boring everyone to tears regarding the fish fly topic, I had resisted the desire to object to the assertion of a deer fly being meaner than a fish fly. However, while mowing today (on a rider) in Wakefield wearing shorts and no shirt, one fish fly tortured me for 30 minutes before I stopped to find a fly swatter. This is the only way to stop these speedy demons (unlike being able to swat a horse or deer fly with one's hand.) Anyway, I have now decided that it is a toss up between the fish fly and the wolverine for the toughest animal in the northwoods. J. 65.
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Friday August 04, 2006
03:06 PM
I get tremendous satisfaction killing deerflys,horseflys, blackflys and noseeums after they've taken a chunk of flesh. Fish flys are too fast and I just end up slapping myself, which does nothing for my sense of justice. Mike S '71
170.20.96.116
Thursday August 03, 2006
05:57 PM
The biting black flies and horse flies are nasty but the king of the biting fly is the deer fly. From the Chrysops sub family of Chrysopsinae there are 63 known varieties in North America. The university of Minnesota identifies the 11 most common found in Minnesota as Cincicornis, Vittatus, Striatus, Carbonaris, Indus, Sackeni, Frigida, Excitans, Aestuans, Relictus and Furcatus. John O '72.
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Tuesday August 01, 2006
09:29 PM
Thanks for the memories, Tina. I remember you as a little kid with bangs, your dad's cute smile, your mom's pleasant voice, your sister Marie describing her summer job among the rich and face-lifted of New York City. Karen '62
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Tuesday July 25, 2006
05:34 AM
It's Tues morning and I'm in West Toledo. Plan to be home tonite. I'll take care of that when I get back.
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Sunday July 23, 2006
10:21 AM
I can hardly wait for Ed to get back from vacation so he can clean up these porn site submissions. Hope you're having a great vacation Ed, but hurry back. Susan '66
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Thursday July 13, 2006
01:48 PM
Hey there, Beth S '71. Have a wonderful time at your class reunion on the 22nd! Linda P(Bidgood), don't drink too many Coors! Your Elder Classmate Tina T '69 Nice visiting with you, Joe B. Ed, your trip to Ironwood sounds like a hoot! A Yooper traveling west in a Pathfinder. How cool is that! I won't get a chance to visit, Ed, I'm on vacation and heading to Isle Royale. :)
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Friday July 07, 2006
02:40 PM
Hi Karen Murto(inventor of "Bugles") Love those things. My Dad passed away, 4 years ago, and my Mom is in Skyview Nursing Home. She has all her marbles, and can recall anything. She had a special visitor this week, your brother, Marty. He came into town from Montana and went to visit Pat Krznarich(who also is at Skyview). What a great surprise! I got a chance to see your sister, Linda. Love her book store in Menominee. My son, Brian lives in Menominee, with his wife, Angela, and son Wyatt. Yes, the Norrie Gang was sure great! I remember you reading encyclopedia, one summer! I was so impressed! I loved your house. You had the first toaster on the block, so look out! We all hung out there! Bunny and Bobby Brody, Donna and Bob Peterson, the Vizankos, Jim, Lanny, and Gayle Anderson, the Sopkos, and of course me. Your dog, Trixie was the best! A white boxer! How unusual was that! I will never forget going to your Mom's farm in Paynesville. Good times. I love this website! Thanks Ed! :) Your old neighbor Tina 69
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Thursday July 06, 2006
04:46 PM
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Thursday July 06, 2006
12:51 PM
Geben mir bitte eine Brotchenbsw
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Thursday July 06, 2006
12:25 PM
Geben mir bitte eine Brotchenvwb
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Thursday July 06, 2006
08:30 AM
Ein Schloss, Ein Wurst, Ein Kopf !vbs
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Saturday July 01, 2006
07:38 PM
Had a question about the Bonnie School but accidently put it under the "Post It" page. Anyone out there attend that school? Great architecture on that old school - it is overgrown but still there. J. 65.
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Thursday June 22, 2006
11:56 PM
As I recall Marty was a Cub Karen. He was also the starting Q.B. for Norrie as a fifth grader. Yes thats right folks. Coach Pavlovich had him bring them up to the line as a 5th grader! Quite a feat really!
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Thursday June 22, 2006
09:44 PM
Hi to Tina Turunen Carlson from Karen Murto '62. I remember you, your mom, your dad, and your big sister Marie, just a short walk down Ash Street. I hope your house still looks like it did when you lived there. Ours was "updated." Not a good thing. I spent a lot of time at Little League games too. I never watch baseball anymore. My husband watches enough for both of us. (Red Sox)
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Wednesday June 21, 2006
05:01 PM
Well, Ms. L., since you two met there, you and your Hamilton Club squeeze should chance sneaking in there this summer to relive the moment. Be careful of the stairs and entrance floor, and bring a camera. Once you get to the back door (furnace room) off the dance floor downstairs you can exit there as that barracade is off too. Actually you could enter that way but going down the stairs seems a key part of this experience. If you get arrested for tresspassing (slim chance) please do not blame me - ha. J. 65.
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Tuesday June 20, 2006
10:28 AM
I met my husband at the Hamilton Club. It wasn't really love at first sight (too dark in there to see anyone cleary - ha,ha.) Loretta
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Monday June 19, 2006
07:51 PM
Loretta, how could anyone forget that line!! I want to go see "Over the Hedge" too. That's the only kind of movie my Mom will go see anymore, Disney animation or any other kind of animation if it's rated PG. For all other movies, I usually end up going alone. As for the Hamilton Club, I remember getting drunk there during the summer of '71, after I graduated from High School in Mesa, AZ. I spent the summer with my step-sister in Ironwood and worked for the Bridgeman's Dairy Store all summer. I spent more than one Friday and Saturday night out at the club. Audrey '71 MHS
65.100.82.105
Sunday June 18, 2006
07:21 PM
Went to see the movie, "Over the Hedge", with my son James. Because of his learning disabilities he still likes children's movies. To tell you the truth, I enjoy a lot of them myself. Anyway, I think I was the only person in the theater who got the reference to the movie, "A Streetcar Named Desire." This cat falls in love with a skunk and when he thinks he may lose her, he yells out the name Stella like Marlon Brando did in A Steetcar Named Desire. I thought it was pretty funny, but no one else laughed. There weren't that many people in the theater, and I think I was probably one of the oldest ones there. That movie was made in 1951. Anyone out there remember Marlon Brando and that famous line? Loretta
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Saturday June 17, 2006
07:26 PM
Actually, the only stuff left other than the bar at the Hamilton Club, were some broken furniture and the cash register. You did get the vibes, however, of hundreds of kids from the range who are in their fifties or sixties now, or not with us anymore. Standing out front is an experience also as you remember going out to cool off.
65.100.82.105
Saturday June 17, 2006
11:27 AM
The big old moose head over the stairway - is it still there? Loretta
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Saturday June 17, 2006
07:00 AM
Many of the sixties grads remember the Hamilton Club in Montreal. Great bands, big crowds, cute girls, 18 year old age for beer, no such thing as DWI, limited numbers of fights, etc. The Montreal Club was built in the 20s or 30s (beautiful brick structure with marbel statues) for the employees of the Montreal Mine complete with a bowling alley, etc. When the mine closed the Hamilton was bought privately and hence became an 18 year old joint. The interior burned in the late sixties ending a great place to go. Anyway, the building is still there with a sign out front explaining the history, and I was actually in there the other day. What a strange feeling. It is dangerous after the fire and sealed off, but the barriers have been removed by snoopers like me and one can go down what is left of the stairs and stand on the dance floor or belly up to the old bar. Brings back hot fun weekend nights. Lots of social turmoil but fine times. Seemed like yesterday....... J. 65.
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Friday June 16, 2006
04:19 PM
Yes, I posted something at the bottom of this page. Just one year, played on the Indians.
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Friday June 16, 2006
01:23 PM
Sounds like a great idea. I forgot to mention Lynn Wasley. Forgive, me Lynn! Did you play any Little League, Ed? Tina C :)
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Thursday June 15, 2006
04:45 PM
Tina, scan it and send it in and I'll put it in the Picture Box. I'm sure others would like to see it. ..Ed
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Thursday June 15, 2006
03:51 PM
Joanne Semo, Jean Oja, Mary Jean Mazzon, and Chris Hautala. I found an old picture of the gang! Remember the blue/gold Norrie Indian shirts? I still have mine! Anyone else out there? We beat the woman's team one year, with Mrs. Palmer on the team. :) CT'69
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Thursday June 15, 2006
04:08 AM
Hey Tina How could you forget me???? LOL It was great to play for someone like your Dad. He was a great coach and a great man. We did have alot of great times playing softball and also hanging out at Azzy's playing ping pong. Do ya remember???? Jo 69
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Tuesday June 13, 2006
03:49 PM
Hi Greta! My father in law, John Carlson was the umpire. My Dad, Bill Turunen was the coach of the Norrie Indians. Didn't we have fun? We were really good, if I may say so myself. :) Tina
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Tuesday June 13, 2006
09:20 AM
Bruce, Thanks for the note. I'm heading out after the 4th for a long weekend. I'm planning on skiing the glacier and enjoying the microbrews. I will see some of the Butler boys formerly from Bzmr; Brian is in the radio biz in Washington & Harry lives near Milwaukee. I'll take some pics of skiing in July. My sister (IHS '66) and I skied there in August about 25 years ago, how time flies. Mike S '71
24.247.47.118
Sunday June 11, 2006
09:19 PM
Mike S.71 Just got back from Mt Hood and really enjoyed the scenery! Will post pictures later on the frapper site. Even though the Timberline Lodge is historically neat I preferred the Mt Hood Inn 6 miles down the hill. Room 129 had a birdseye view of Hood! The Huckleberry Inn was great for eating but we drove to Sandy and Gresham for evening meals. All in all it was a great trip. The 52 mile drive to Portland is very scenic also. BJ67
65.31.165.217
Friday June 09, 2006
09:00 PM
Tina - Didn't your dad umpire the girls softball games? Being the catcher for Newport I spent a lot of time at the plate. When you were pitching for Norrie I believe Luanne Tjernlund was pitching for Newport. I don't remember who played what, but some of our players were Dolly Anderson, Bonnie Jobe, Roberta Moon, Clarice Carlson, Lenore Nelson, Sue McHugh (?), Kathy Champion (?) - my memory fades. Greta '70
170.20.96.116
Friday June 09, 2006
07:01 PM
Christine, since your dad had the keys to every room in LLW you were probably like me and grew up in the building. My dad had a big roll of keys and I would go there with him on weekends when he had paperwork to do. By age five I probably knew every square inch of that building. John O '72.
65.174.35.215
Thursday June 08, 2006
04:01 PM
Hello! My Dad, William Turunen(LLW Custodian for 30 years), and John Krznarich went to Wausau, WI so Ironwood, come become part of the Little League Program. My Dad coached the "Cubs". I remember as a little girl going to the games, and the year end picnic with all the players. In the mid 1960's my Dad, and others started the Junior Miss Softball League. Being his daughter and the pitcher was hard for me, but we had a blast. Carolyn Kolson was on 1st base, Chris Hautala was on 2nd, Paulette Negrini, Lynn Bloshenko, Linda Murto, Sharon Swanson, Paula Reyns, were a few girls that come to my mind. By the way, my Dad played for the St. Louis Cardinals, in the 1940's. He always told us that he'd love to go back to Springfield. Wish we would have gone because we lost him in 2002. :) Christine (Turunen) Carlson '69
67.136.154.51
Thursday June 08, 2006
01:17 PM
Fifty years ago this summer the Ironwood Little League was born. Opening day saw Bruce Hedstrom on the mound for the Tigers with side-armer Jim Kangas ready for mop up. The Cubs started Elwood LeGault, The Yankees unfurled Moose Mackinen, and the Braves put either Bill Toijala or Tom Stevrak on the mound. The site was Randa Field and a few weeks later the field by Mt.Zion was refurbished and the games were moved there. The field was a bit undersized with 175' down the lines for a homer and 180' to dead center. A natural spring behind the field quaffed the thirst of many a player and fan between innings. I wonder if that natural spring still exists. D.H.
65.43.122.227
Wednesday June 07, 2006
08:02 PM
To J. 65, on 5/31 you mentioned that Eddie Kerranen 64' played on the Yankees in Little League and was a terror to opposing batters. Well it brings back one of my fondest memories of growing up in Ironwood. I was on that Yankees team and Eddie was not our #1 hurler..it was Harold Karvonen. I remember that team going 16-0 and being referred to as the greatest Little League team of all time. We beat the Cubs during the regular season...Harold & Eddie were knocked out of the mound & I took over and pitched us to a victory. Unfortunately, we lost to the Cubs again in the playoffs...our only loss.. I remember we all cried our eyes out. As far as Eddie... there were many pitches that were thrown behind the batters back. He was exciting. GM 65'
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Wednesday June 07, 2006
12:35 PM
Thanks for the memories of the 1960 Roosevelt team-as one on the floor,the noise was really deafening. The coach was Harold Torro -Brown was the JV coach GS '63
24.247.47.14
Monday June 05, 2006
09:31 PM
Roosevelt Viking JV cheerleaders in 67 were Georgia Champion, Teresa Vizanko, Barbara Haanpaa, Cheryl Stella, Darla Lahti, Marsha Erickson, Sharon Walkonen and Ginger Kivi. Fun times! gk '71
170.20.96.116
Monday June 05, 2006
07:42 PM
Do not stay in room #237.
64.211.101.4
Monday June 05, 2006
09:48 AM
Bruce, Let us know how your visit to Mt Hood was...I'm going out just after the 4th to ski for a couple days. I heard the Mt manager interviewed last week on NPR and they've gotten over 600 inches of snow this year. They expect to ski well past Labor Day this year. Mike S '71
67.136.155.8
Saturday June 03, 2006
12:26 PM
The noise from the balcony is what I remember about Roosevelt also. The 1960 freshman team was undefeated under Coach Brown and had tremendous height with Rusty Glynn, Dale Mattson, Gary Sandell, as well as Harold Karvonen and Ron Niksich who came up from the eighth grade. This quintet probably averaged 6-2 which is pretty tall for a freshman team.
67.22.254.164
Saturday June 03, 2006
08:19 AM
I think the loudest game I ever heard at Roosevelt was when the 9th grade beat the LLW freshman team. That would have been the Class of '70 in their freshman year. The best of all the town schools against the 9th grade Roosevelt kids. Still, as loud as the crowd was, whenever a free throw was being taken everyone would go quiet. You could hear a pin drop until the shot went in, or missed. Robert Olson went 11 for 11 at the free throw line that game. Ole would dribble a few times and the crowd would go still, complete silence. The shot is up. You would hear Mr. Torro whisper, "Good one Bob". Then block your ears, cause the screaming shouting and whistling was intense. I don't think they won the game when they played at LLW gym though. Probably weren't used to the big court. ..Ed
67.22.254.164
Saturday June 03, 2006
08:02 AM
'66-'67 Roosevelt Vikings JV team starting 5 was. Kevin O'Neill - Center, Tom Balyeat and Buster Spets - forwards. Randy Hovey and I played guard positions. The thing that really stood out at Roosevelt games was the crowd noise. I remember playing Ashland at home. Kevin gets the tip, over to Hovey, passed to me, and I let fly with a shot that would have been a three pointer, had the rule been in effect back then. Swish. I tell you, I actually remember getting scared by the roar of the kids packing in that little gym. It was deafening. We would have had a better team than we did if Mr. Torro hadn't swiped our 2 best players Larry Passint and Jeff Aho, and had them play on the 9th grade team. Maybe Ginger can tell us who the cheerleaders were for the JV team. One thing I remember about the Erwin Township school gym was, that it was smaller than ours. The 3 circles overlapped and kinda reminded me of the Olympic circles. ..Ed
67.136.153.58
Friday June 02, 2006
10:38 PM
Be sure to bring a good pair of sunglasses and a good supply of sunscreen. The sun is warm during the day especially as it reflects off the snow. Nights will be crisp so dress in layers. Have a good cup of coffee in the a.m. at the Timberline Lodge from "The Shining" fame. Mountains tend to create their own weather but the surrounding area is closely related to high desert. We just returned from a two week trip and Pendleton hit a record high of 97 degrees while we were there. Good waterproof boots and a rain slick might come in handy also. Have fun!
170.20.96.116
Friday June 02, 2006
09:43 PM
46º and light rain right now. Their website offers continual weather updates and forecasts 24 hours a day at: http://www.timberlinelodge.com/conditions/conditions.shtml
24.247.47.5
Friday June 02, 2006
08:45 PM
Can anyone out there tell me more about Mt. Hood, Oregon and what to expect in weather there next week? Briggs & Stratton is flying me out there Monday for a week to test one of Simplicity's new snow blowers. The Timberline Resort stays open for skiing 345 days a year and closes for a couple of weeks in September for cleaning. I'm trying to decide what to pack as far as work and casual clothes. BJ67
170.20.96.116
Friday June 02, 2006
07:27 PM
I attended at that Roosevelt-Erwin game during the 1966-67 season. We took a student bus there from Roosevelt. Roosevelt won of course. Roosevelt would play Erwin, Ramsey, Bessemer, Hurley, Ironwood on their schedule maybe Wakefield and I think even Ashland once. In the 1920's Erwin Township had four small schools Bonnie School, Central School, East End School and Van buskirk School. They closed them down and named K.P. Silberg School after the Superintendent of the Erwin township school District Karl P. Silberg. John O '72.
24.247.47.5
Friday June 02, 2006
06:41 PM
Ed, You are right about Erwin still having a basketball team in 1967. Just talked to Butch Saari and 67 is the final year for the K. P. Silberg school. I remember riding the bus during my 5th grade year to watch them play in the Puritan school. We were a rich township at one time with the Newport mine being in Bonnie location. They would pay total tuition for any Erwin students going to Gogebic for 2 years. BJ67
209.112.190.75
Friday June 02, 2006
06:20 PM
I lived in Yale Location but attended kindergarten at Washington School in Bessemer and then attended 1st grade at Barber School in Yale (must have been 1959/60). Then the school closed and I went to Washington School again for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and part of 5th grade. Then half way through the school year my mom moved us to Ironwood and I attended Sleight School thru grade 6. I attended Central school for grade 7 and 8. I attended LLW my freshman and sophomore year. My mom and new stepdad moved to Hurley in 69 so I attended J.E. Murphy H.S. for my junior year. Then they decided to move to Arizona during the summer of 1970 so I graduated from Mesa High School, Mesa, AZ in 1971. My fondest memories were at LLW, my mom worked in the bookkeeping department, my brother performed in a lot of musicals and I hung out with the older kids....cool for a freshman!! I still have nightmares of getting lost in the hallways of LLW. Audrey (Erickson) Bishop '71 (almost)!
67.22.254.164
Friday June 02, 2006
06:42 AM
Bruce, I remember playing on the Roosevelt 8th grade basketball team, playing against Butch Saari and the Erwin Township boys, in 1967. Was Erwin township part of the same consolidation, that the following year, sent the Roosevelt 9th graders to LLW? ..Ed
24.247.47.5
Friday June 02, 2006
04:54 AM
Erwin Township basketball teams nickname were the Indians. We had royal blue uniforms with satin like warmup jackets. My 7th & 8th grade years we played Ramsay, Mercer, St Mary's in Hurley, St. Anthony's in Pence, St. Sebastian in Bessemer, and St. Ambrose. Mr Pozega was our 7th & 8th grade teacher, our coach, and also drove us to the games in the school station (pre-SUV) era station wagon/mini-bus. I think the K.P. Silberg school closed 2 years later in 1965. Great memories, great school, excellent hot lunch program!!! BJ67
67.136.154.179
Thursday June 01, 2006
09:18 PM
Have that beer at the NASC. Right next to Randa field.D.H.
69.179.41.159
Thursday June 01, 2006
07:14 PM
Regarding Junior High Teams, what was the name of the Erwin School team (assuming they had one)? When did that school close? Did kid go to grade 8 there in later years? Sad that all of these schools closed around Ironwood. Same with those in other towns such as Yale, Puritan, Anvil, Ramsey, Oma, Verona, Pence, Iron Belt, Saxon, Gile, Montreal, Thomaston, others?..... P.T.
24.213.6.224
Thursday June 01, 2006
03:15 PM
The Randa Field was was named after "Jake" Randa who was a good athlete and professional level bowler form Ironwood. I'll pass this on to John O. when he is on a "research rampage" and BUY HIM A BEER when he gets back to Ironwood ! RM ' 67
67.136.139.148
Wednesday May 31, 2006
07:32 PM
It was Randa. Miranda would be for someone sitting in the back of a squad car before Tousignat or Ed Niemi take you to the big house on McLeod Ave next to the fire station.D.H.
67.136.139.148
Wednesday May 31, 2006
07:22 PM
Eddie Keranen was the Little League version of Ryne Duren. Both played for the Yankees,both had a hard time seeing or finding the dish, and both pitchers threw fastballs that looked like aspirins. Take this as a compliment Ed. D.H.
69.179.41.159
Wednesday May 31, 2006
06:46 PM
Speaking of baseball, saw a note on one of these sites from Eddie Kerranen, 64. Ed pitched for LLW and had a fastball that folks seldom saw from a H.S. kid. If control was lacking in a game with Eddie, batters were terrified. Hope he is feeling better. J. 65.
65.100.82.105
Wednesday May 31, 2006
01:02 PM
Was the full name for Randa Field, Miranda Field? That name seems to stick in my mind.
204.39.95.9
Wednesday May 31, 2006
11:20 AM
Monarch Field was by the drive-in. Gorilla Field was on Balsam Street (now Al Wright Blvd.) across the street from the Lake Superior District Power Company substation, next to the caves. A very good long ball hitter could put one into the caves beyond right field or hit the ore stock in left field. The ore stock was taken down in the mid to late 50's to level Balsam Street as it crossed the caves. Spruce '62
170.252.248.194
Wednesday May 31, 2006
11:11 AM
The name of that field was Monarch Field. It was located about where K-mart is now. jm72
134.84.107.175
Wednesday May 31, 2006
08:43 AM
What was the name of the field, near the Drive-In? Played Babe Ruth baseball there. Gorilla field? I can't believe I can't remember that field. I played there! Oh well, must be old age but I don't feel that old. DL '75
65.31.165.217
Tuesday May 30, 2006
09:13 PM
Ed: In the 60's, the Little Leage Field was located approximately where the college parking lot now is, and you entered off of Jackson road. I think the road was even graveled back then. They didn't start building GCC until maybe late '68/'69 or so. I used to ride my bike over to the field to watch games every week. Harvested quite a few splinters from those old bleachers. My brother John might have played the same time you did - he was a pitcher for a couple of seasons. I think it was his last season that the Ironwood All-Stars played in a tournament in either Iron Mountain or Crystal Falls. Ouch - that hurts some brain cells remembering that one. So, do any of you girls remember playing in the softball league? I remember the league started the year I was in 6th grade. Newport used to practice on a field up near Rigoni's as well as at the school. I think our first pair of coaches were Bill Lynch and Ken Tjernlund. Another year we had Marty Fregario and Jim Tregembo. All the games were played at Randa Field. The umpires were high school girls. I remember one was my cousin Gail Swanbeck and another was Azzie (Diane) Armata, who later became my sister-in-law. Greta '70
67.22.254.164
Tuesday May 30, 2006
05:35 PM
I think the hardest part of playing that year was that I didn't know the others on my team. I was just the township kid who pedaled 5 miles into town to play. Larry Passint and Jeff Aho also made the cut that year from Roosevelt. Larry played for the Cubs and Jeff for the Dodgers. Another question for you. Was the field near the college?? I remember tryouts and practices at Randa field (Hiawatha was raised up on the hill that year) but the games were at another field. I seem to remember not having to pedal so far those days. Maybe on Jackson Road????? ..Ed
67.22.254.164
Tuesday May 30, 2006
05:26 PM
I remember playing 1 year of Little League Baseball. All that comes to mind tho is that I played on the Indians, wore number 13, and struck out a lot. Our star player was Mark Carlson and also Timmy Vizanko did a right good job also. I don't remember any of the other players or even the coaches. Wait, was there a Mr. Bulinski that coached LL?? ..Ed '71
