Free Breakfast at Denny's Tomorrow (Tuesday)

Thanks for the headsup, CC!

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Linda, Andrea and Deanna's Trip to Italy

Looks like ya'll had a BLAST - thanks for the update, Andrea... Ciao!!


Bonjourno, Cathy:

Keep up the great job you do with the BHS '67 Newsletter! Thank you so much.

I've attached a photo of Linda (Peterson) Everett, me, and Deanna (Lloyd) Jennings which was taken during our recent trip to Rome, Italy! It's taken outside Il Latini in Firenze (Florence), where we traveled by train for the day, and which we understand is Rachel Ray's favorite restaurant. We had a great time. We reminisced, laughed a whole lot, cried, and laughed some more. Our hotel was on the Piazza della Rotunda, and overlooked the Pantheon. We saw everything we could in the short time we were there (Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, St. Peter's Cathedral, Cistine Chapel, Piazza Navona to name a few in Rome, and in Firenze, we saw The David).

Linda has been to Rome before and was a wonderful tour guide. Her daughter, Lacey, accompanied us too. She'd "scout" ahead for restaurants, sometimes carried our packages, and in general, was a great 4th member of our little group. We had fabulous food, walked our legs off every day, and had numerous adventures that we'll always remember. It was truly the trip of a lifetime for me, and I surely hope to go back again, as I loved Rome!

And Linda and Deanna, if you're reading this, "Uh huh."

Ciao, Bella! And thanks again, Cathy, for all your efforts on the newsletter.

Andrea Moxness


Deanna Lloyd Jennings


Linda Peterson Everett

6 More Weeks of Winter says Good Ol' Punxsutawney Phil!

BURRRRR!!!


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Teri Troxel McClain lives in Punxsutawney and here's her update - thanks Teri!

Hi Cathy

Happy Ground Hog Day!! I am waiting for Phil, the world-famous Weather Prognosticating Groundhog, to come out of his tree stump and tell us what he sees. The way I understand it is, if Phil sees his shadow, he gets scared and goes back in to hide. Then we have six more weeks of winter. No shadow, spring is here. Lots of people in town for the activities. As of 6:14 am I have not heard if Phil has seen his shadow yet. We have two fronts coming thru with some snow. It's warm today about 37 out but cold and snowny weather on the way. The low around 6 degrees. How's sunny California? I help my daughter with her antique shop DIXIE DEAN. We have primitive and salvage pieces. We have been working to get ready for this week. I am excited, The Steelers, Pittsburgs Football team, won the Super Bowl. GO STEELERS!! It was a great game.

God Bless You.

Teri

Lockheed's Skunk Works

XP-80 'Shooting Star'


In 1943, Lockheed's Burbank operation began development of a new jet for the U.S. Army Air Corps in secret. The development team adopted the name "Skunk Works" and the following year, Lockheed's XP-80 Shooting Star, the first American jet fighter, flew for the first time. The plane was built in complete secrecy by the Skunk Works and in 1947, it set a new world air speed record at 623.8 mph.

Today, Advanced Development Programs (a.k.a. The Skunk Works) continues in the California desert city of Palmdale.

SR-71 'Blackbird'


The Polecat high-altitude, long-endurance UAV was built and flown in secret


Morphing hunter-killer UAV would combine endurance and speed



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And who knows what other Lockheed secrets are brewing...?

Burbank's Time Capsule

Hey, here is an interesting website/blog for lovers of local LA history: The Daily Mirror, Larry Harnisch Reflects on Los Angeles History.

Today's post on Burbank tells of a time capsule that was hidden away 50 years ago in the then new Magnolia Blvd bridge and is supposed to be opened Thursday, February 5, 2009.

The little 1959 capsule contains 35-mm film of local buildings along with the prediction that Burbank would be served by monorail transit and atomic power by 2009!

Hawaii Sunshine Chronicles

Hey Cathy,

Some of us are nervous when we write to you because you, more than anyone, embrace the First Amendment by publishing our every thoughts. This time, however, I’d be happy if you sent everyone to pay a visit to http://www.sunshinechronicles.wordpress.com so they can see what I’m up to.

Thanks.
Don Ray (formerly Ripley, believe it or not)
BHS-‘67

Some Fun Stuff!

Well, a funny thing happened last night. Someone sent me a message asking about the youtube video I posted of Cathy Nicholls Coyle on the Dating Game as they were doing a radio spoof on it. Come to find out, the radio station was right here in Sonoma where I live - small world! So today after work, I went over there and Cathy called in and we had a fun time talking about the adventure of going on the Dating Game. Thanks Cathy, you did great!!! Maybe next week Ron Panich or anyone else who was on the Dating Game would like to call in to the radio show??


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And here's an email from Kent Barcus - thanks for the walk down memory lane!

OLDER THAN DIRT

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'

'It was a place called 'at home,' I explained. 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.

My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 5. It was, of course, black and white,

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 4. It was an old black Dodge.

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper,of which he got to keep 2 cents.
He had to get up at 6AM every morning. On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with water because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt but those me memories are the best part of my life.

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And finally, a few fun video clips!

Fast Swing (2006)


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Swing Dancing to Bill Haley and the Comets (1956)

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The Jitterbug (1945)

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Lindy Hop (1941)

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And I have to throw this in... my cousin Joan Leslie who turned 18 while filming this movie The Sky's the Limit with Fred Astair (1943)

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