Rex Weddle's younger brother, Forrest and other volunteers spent Saturday, August 22 cleaning up the Paseo letters on the entrance hill. Next another group will be adding new whitewash to restore the letters.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
PASEO letters
Rex Weddle's younger brother, Forrest and other volunteers spent Saturday, August 22 cleaning up the Paseo letters on the entrance hill. Next another group will be adding new whitewash to restore the letters.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Another music site to note
Be sure to check out the following site on the internet.
It has music jukeboxes with the top 20 hits for all years from 1941 through 1999 and it's free and easy to go to. Just click on the year(on the right side of the page) and you will automatically load up the jukebox for that year.
http://upchucky.com/Home.html
It has music jukeboxes with the top 20 hits for all years from 1941 through 1999 and it's free and easy to go to. Just click on the year(on the right side of the page) and you will automatically load up the jukebox for that year.
http://upchucky.com/Home.html
tiger
I remember playing touch football on the median on Paseo Avenue. We also would play baseball there. Doug Carlander
Monday, August 17, 2009
A note from Sharon Reeves Robertson
Hi Claudine,
I loved your reply to Frank's entry on the blog - you are so right on so many fronts. I am just jealous that your memory is so good. Like you, I remember the independence we had as kids but can't recall many specifics. The one thing we always looked forward to was Halloween. We would leave home before dark and collect treats (all kinds, even homemade ones, heaven forbid) and walk for blocks around until well after dark. Those things just don't happen now - parents bring their kids in cars and check and recheck all the treats before allowing them to eat. I can't remember my Dad returning from the Navy in 1945, but do remember living with relatives while he was gone. We also did not have a car until the late 40's - took public bus and/or streetcar everywhere. We used to stand down at a bus stop on the Paseo (42nd?) on Sunday morning waiting for a bus to go to church and hoping that a church member would see us and pick us up - many times one did. It was definitely a much more trusting time and I am so thankful to have lived it.
When is your raft trip?? Good luck and have a great time. SHARON R.
I loved your reply to Frank's entry on the blog - you are so right on so many fronts. I am just jealous that your memory is so good. Like you, I remember the independence we had as kids but can't recall many specifics. The one thing we always looked forward to was Halloween. We would leave home before dark and collect treats (all kinds, even homemade ones, heaven forbid) and walk for blocks around until well after dark. Those things just don't happen now - parents bring their kids in cars and check and recheck all the treats before allowing them to eat. I can't remember my Dad returning from the Navy in 1945, but do remember living with relatives while he was gone. We also did not have a car until the late 40's - took public bus and/or streetcar everywhere. We used to stand down at a bus stop on the Paseo (42nd?) on Sunday morning waiting for a bus to go to church and hoping that a church member would see us and pick us up - many times one did. It was definitely a much more trusting time and I am so thankful to have lived it.
When is your raft trip?? Good luck and have a great time. SHARON R.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Another note about how to add a note to the blog
Claudine sent me a note this weekend which I will add here:
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Hi Bob,
Rex asked me the other day why more people were not participating in the blog. I said I believed several never received/read/understood the original messages about the blog and that I believe you guys don't realize how dumb many of us are. I say this while staring at my IBM Selectric Typewriter which I may now be able to give up, but which up until about a year and one half ago was my highest technological achievement.
I think a lot of us are challenged beyond simple e-mail and most do not want to admit it--I am the exception. So, the instructions have to be written for a super novice, and just tell them to send their comments to you and you will take care of it all. I am not even sure most can find the blog. I would not be able to but for John put it on a g-mail bookmark, so all I have to do is click there. I have only about 5 bookmarks.
I honestly do not know if more people want to participate, but my feeling is yes. So, keeping total ignorance at the forefront of your mind in any message you may send, you may want to iterate the way to access the blog, including info re bookmarks if it is more universal than gmail. And the tell them once more that you will post.
I think sharing these memories is a very special experience. We ended up being a pretty close class. I again will say that the lack of participation is in my mind the inability to do so easily. And , I am one of the very few uninhibited about displaying my ignorance.
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I realize that many of you have a problem dealing with your computer. For those of you who read this blog, the simple answer is to send an email to me which I will add to the blog. Just send it to this email address - rhpflanz@gmail.com
Anything else I say here won't be read by anyone who does not have access to the internet, so it would be pointless. If you know of anyone who might like to know what the rest of us are saying or doing but don't log onto the internet, please let them know that we want to hear from them and will respond by letter, or email or by way of this blog. And let them know what we've had to say here. Thanks.
Keep those cards and letters and emails coming in. We all want to share.
Bob
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Hi Bob,
Rex asked me the other day why more people were not participating in the blog. I said I believed several never received/read/understood the original messages about the blog and that I believe you guys don't realize how dumb many of us are. I say this while staring at my IBM Selectric Typewriter which I may now be able to give up, but which up until about a year and one half ago was my highest technological achievement.
I think a lot of us are challenged beyond simple e-mail and most do not want to admit it--I am the exception. So, the instructions have to be written for a super novice, and just tell them to send their comments to you and you will take care of it all. I am not even sure most can find the blog. I would not be able to but for John put it on a g-mail bookmark, so all I have to do is click there. I have only about 5 bookmarks.
I honestly do not know if more people want to participate, but my feeling is yes. So, keeping total ignorance at the forefront of your mind in any message you may send, you may want to iterate the way to access the blog, including info re bookmarks if it is more universal than gmail. And the tell them once more that you will post.
I think sharing these memories is a very special experience. We ended up being a pretty close class. I again will say that the lack of participation is in my mind the inability to do so easily. And , I am one of the very few uninhibited about displaying my ignorance.
-----
I realize that many of you have a problem dealing with your computer. For those of you who read this blog, the simple answer is to send an email to me which I will add to the blog. Just send it to this email address - rhpflanz@gmail.com
Anything else I say here won't be read by anyone who does not have access to the internet, so it would be pointless. If you know of anyone who might like to know what the rest of us are saying or doing but don't log onto the internet, please let them know that we want to hear from them and will respond by letter, or email or by way of this blog. And let them know what we've had to say here. Thanks.
Keep those cards and letters and emails coming in. We all want to share.
Bob
Correspondence between Bob Pflanz & Jay Salmon
Dear Jay (John),
Do you remember us playing touch football in the grass just outside of your home beside Paseo boulevard? I was trying to remember who all used to play. I remember the time when Richard Copaken got knocked out or almost while we were playing. It seems like it must have been you and me and John Bruce?, Charles Moske?, Richard. I'm not clear of who all we had there. I do remember playing poker in your basement rec room but again I'm not sure who all we had playing. I remember your dad worked for the post office, didn't he? And you worked in the summer at Corn Products? Do you remember the float trip after graduation? It's been a long long time, but those times were really special. I don't remember too many bad guys or too many great problems that we couldn't solve. A pleasant memory trip to take.
Just thinking of you. Have a nice day.
Your friend from long ago.
Bob
Bob--as you've no doubt surmised, i'm a lousy email correspondent. seems to me our football games had a movable cast of characters. i do remember the time Copaken got knocked silly and we drug him woozily home. another time Gary Smith ('58, the starting fullback) joined us and we were all afraid to touch him. particularly memorable for me was the time several us were playing touch but things got a bit heated so we switched to tackle and i broke my nose (the first time; #3 was last thanksgiving at my home when i proved conclusively that our stone fireplace is harder even than my head). i also remember playing poker in my folks basement as well as the other memories you brought up. re the float trip, do you remember that Downs caught a fish and we blew it up by sticking a cherry bomb in his gills (must have seemed like a good idea at the time!). also i remember being in the boat with Kunz, ducking under a branch in some fairly fast water, and
looking back to see Don's feet go over the stern as he reached up to break off the branch but didn't get the job done.
as you say, good times. hope all is`well with you. Elaine's in the hospital right now with her 2nd bout of chemo for hodgkin's disease. happily it's very curable but the chemo is likely to take 6 months and is a real bear with lots of nasty side effects.
cheers
jay
Do you remember us playing touch football in the grass just outside of your home beside Paseo boulevard? I was trying to remember who all used to play. I remember the time when Richard Copaken got knocked out or almost while we were playing. It seems like it must have been you and me and John Bruce?, Charles Moske?, Richard. I'm not clear of who all we had there. I do remember playing poker in your basement rec room but again I'm not sure who all we had playing. I remember your dad worked for the post office, didn't he? And you worked in the summer at Corn Products? Do you remember the float trip after graduation? It's been a long long time, but those times were really special. I don't remember too many bad guys or too many great problems that we couldn't solve. A pleasant memory trip to take.
Just thinking of you. Have a nice day.
Your friend from long ago.
Bob
Bob--as you've no doubt surmised, i'm a lousy email correspondent. seems to me our football games had a movable cast of characters. i do remember the time Copaken got knocked silly and we drug him woozily home. another time Gary Smith ('58, the starting fullback) joined us and we were all afraid to touch him. particularly memorable for me was the time several us were playing touch but things got a bit heated so we switched to tackle and i broke my nose (the first time; #3 was last thanksgiving at my home when i proved conclusively that our stone fireplace is harder even than my head). i also remember playing poker in my folks basement as well as the other memories you brought up. re the float trip, do you remember that Downs caught a fish and we blew it up by sticking a cherry bomb in his gills (must have seemed like a good idea at the time!). also i remember being in the boat with Kunz, ducking under a branch in some fairly fast water, and
looking back to see Don's feet go over the stern as he reached up to break off the branch but didn't get the job done.
as you say, good times. hope all is`well with you. Elaine's in the hospital right now with her 2nd bout of chemo for hodgkin's disease. happily it's very curable but the chemo is likely to take 6 months and is a real bear with lots of nasty side effects.
cheers
jay
A note from Claudine to Harriet Benson
Hi Harriet and classmates.
Mr Lindwall, our chemistry teacher, was considered one of the best in the nation, or so Janey Long tells me. She says when she applied in college for chemistry and they found out she had had Mr. Lindwall in high school they automatically gave her credit for first year college chemistry and moved her right along to second year chemistry. I would guess you had a class from him? I did and remember it well although I went no further in Chemistry.
Ms Minckemeyer is of course the all time champ. I learned nothing in first year algebra having Coach Oliver as a teacher, and he knew little or nothing. Ms. Minckemeyer, the most often mentioned teacher in the memory book, made it all seem so simple, so very simple. Someone at the reunion, Lloyd Williams? told me that at his college you could not take advanced algebra course number one in college if you had successfully completed Ms. Minckemeyer's class in advanced Algebra.
Janey also told me that our High School was considered in the top 10% in the nation for either SAT scores or some other fairly rigorous testing device. Who know this, but from the accomplishments of all of our classmates I guess we should not be surprised?
I remember only once going away for a game. Our Basketball team was in the state running and we took a busload to St. Louis to watch them compete. This was either our sophomore or junior year--I think sophomore.
I read the book review re 1959. Quite a watershed. And, I'm not sure its been better since.
Few of our Mother's drove as I recall. Our first car was a 1948 and was not used to haul kids around. We took the bus/streetcar everywhere--or walked. My Mom, an RN, did not learn to drive till they moved to the suburbs in 1959 and took the Woodland bus to Research Hospital at 21st and Holmes (Charlotte?) each night to work the 11:00 to 7:00 shift. And then she would take the Woodland bus back home stopping frequently at some wonderful bakeries/deli's on 31st street to buy fresh doughnuts for breakfast.
So glad you made it the long distance to the reunion. As we say in the Mid west do not be a stranger, and please let us hear from you often
Claudine
Mr Lindwall, our chemistry teacher, was considered one of the best in the nation, or so Janey Long tells me. She says when she applied in college for chemistry and they found out she had had Mr. Lindwall in high school they automatically gave her credit for first year college chemistry and moved her right along to second year chemistry. I would guess you had a class from him? I did and remember it well although I went no further in Chemistry.
Ms Minckemeyer is of course the all time champ. I learned nothing in first year algebra having Coach Oliver as a teacher, and he knew little or nothing. Ms. Minckemeyer, the most often mentioned teacher in the memory book, made it all seem so simple, so very simple. Someone at the reunion, Lloyd Williams? told me that at his college you could not take advanced algebra course number one in college if you had successfully completed Ms. Minckemeyer's class in advanced Algebra.
Janey also told me that our High School was considered in the top 10% in the nation for either SAT scores or some other fairly rigorous testing device. Who know this, but from the accomplishments of all of our classmates I guess we should not be surprised?
I remember only once going away for a game. Our Basketball team was in the state running and we took a busload to St. Louis to watch them compete. This was either our sophomore or junior year--I think sophomore.
I read the book review re 1959. Quite a watershed. And, I'm not sure its been better since.
Few of our Mother's drove as I recall. Our first car was a 1948 and was not used to haul kids around. We took the bus/streetcar everywhere--or walked. My Mom, an RN, did not learn to drive till they moved to the suburbs in 1959 and took the Woodland bus to Research Hospital at 21st and Holmes (Charlotte?) each night to work the 11:00 to 7:00 shift. And then she would take the Woodland bus back home stopping frequently at some wonderful bakeries/deli's on 31st street to buy fresh doughnuts for breakfast.
So glad you made it the long distance to the reunion. As we say in the Mid west do not be a stranger, and please let us hear from you often
Claudine
Sharon Reeves Robertson to Claudine
Hi,
You are welcome to forward "my reply to your reply" - Bob can surely figure out a way to add it to the blog.
Since I have never been much of an outdoors person (my idea of camping is the Holiday Inn - or better!), I can't say I envy you going on the raft trip. I can certainly identify with your dilema - too bad they haven't figured out a way to dehydrate wine so that you only have to add water (sounds "yucky")! After the last time I visited my grandbaby (20 months old), she was going through their recycling bin and pulled out a beer bottle and said, "DaDa" - then pulled out a soda can and said, "Mommy" and then pulled out a wine bottle and said, "MawMaw" - what does that say about how she remembers me???
Take care and have a great trip.
SHARON R.
You are welcome to forward "my reply to your reply" - Bob can surely figure out a way to add it to the blog.
Since I have never been much of an outdoors person (my idea of camping is the Holiday Inn - or better!), I can't say I envy you going on the raft trip. I can certainly identify with your dilema - too bad they haven't figured out a way to dehydrate wine so that you only have to add water (sounds "yucky")! After the last time I visited my grandbaby (20 months old), she was going through their recycling bin and pulled out a beer bottle and said, "DaDa" - then pulled out a soda can and said, "Mommy" and then pulled out a wine bottle and said, "MawMaw" - what does that say about how she remembers me???
Take care and have a great trip.
SHARON R.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Check out this video when you get a chance
Press One for English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A note from Claudine
Hi Robert and classmates.
I went to the 10:15 AM matinee this morning to see The Hurt Locker.
It is an excellent movie, and I do not like very many movies. Says a lot about speciality and dangerous soldiering and what it is like without taking sides on the larger issue.
If it is not playing in your town, sign up for the movie on Net Flick's "when it becomes available" list or whatever they call it.
There are some who are unable to deal with buttered popcorn and diet coke at 10:00 AM, but I am not among them.
Claudine
I went to the 10:15 AM matinee this morning to see The Hurt Locker.
It is an excellent movie, and I do not like very many movies. Says a lot about speciality and dangerous soldiering and what it is like without taking sides on the larger issue.
If it is not playing in your town, sign up for the movie on Net Flick's "when it becomes available" list or whatever they call it.
There are some who are unable to deal with buttered popcorn and diet coke at 10:00 AM, but I am not among them.
Claudine
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Who was the science teacher?
I've lost my yearbook. His name was Charles something, was in his late 20's/early 30's, and his most socially bizarre trait was the ability to develop globs of spittle while talking, which would would migrate to the corners of his mouth. After a few minutes of lecture, he began to look a little rabid. Too bad, as he was really a pretty nice guy.
Pictures from Tom Conkright
Tom and Jan Conkright just returned from a mission trip to Costa Rica. Their major activity was at a new church (Casa de Bendicion) in a very poor neighborhood near Puntarenas on the Pacific coast. To view the pictures of this area and the people check out this site:
http://picasaweb.google.com/tomdconk/CostaRica?feat=email#
http://picasaweb.google.com/tomdconk/CostaRica?feat=email#
Theaters in Kansas City
The Sun Theater was at 7106 Prospect from 1941-1958
The Southtown Theater was at 57th and Troost from 1940-1955
The Mary Lou Theater was at 5915 Prospect from 1937 to 1958
The Linda Theater was at 5002 Prospect from 1937-1951
......became the Bijou from 1951-1959
The Oak Park Theater was at 3935 Prospect from 1925-1958
The Pic Theater was at 3551 Prospect from 1936-1950
The Linwood Theater was at 3036 Prospect from 1930-1964
The Isis Theater was at 3102 Troost from 1918-1970
The Rockhill Theater was at 4608 Troost from 1928-1964
The Plaza Theater was at 4702 Wyandotte from 1929-1999
All these theaters and more are listed at this site: http://www.scribd.com/doc/18067272/Kansas-City-movie-theatres-and-driveins
It shows all the theaters and drive-ins in the Kansas City area over the years
The Southtown Theater was at 57th and Troost from 1940-1955
The Mary Lou Theater was at 5915 Prospect from 1937 to 1958
The Linda Theater was at 5002 Prospect from 1937-1951
......became the Bijou from 1951-1959
The Oak Park Theater was at 3935 Prospect from 1925-1958
The Pic Theater was at 3551 Prospect from 1936-1950
The Linwood Theater was at 3036 Prospect from 1930-1964
The Isis Theater was at 3102 Troost from 1918-1970
The Rockhill Theater was at 4608 Troost from 1928-1964
The Plaza Theater was at 4702 Wyandotte from 1929-1999
All these theaters and more are listed at this site: http://www.scribd.com/doc/18067272/Kansas-City-movie-theatres-and-driveins
It shows all the theaters and drive-ins in the Kansas City area over the years
Monday, August 10, 2009
A Note From Frank Stathopoulos
Is it not amazing that we all remain close after all these years. I believe that we grew up at the right time in life. I wish i could go back to the 63rd st. drive in theater.
Friday, August 7, 2009
John Bruce 1969
I asked John if we could publish this picture. He replied:
Sure, I have no shame. That picture was taken while we were touring the Northeast Command for the USO. We were inside the arctic circle most of the time, and that particular picture was taken at a Coast Guard station about 300 miles from the North Pole, in December of 1969. They helicoptered us out and back from Thule, I think.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
We're on Paseo Alliance
Hi Robert -
I'll put a note on the Reunions page of our www.paseohighschool.org website.
Be sure to send further information when you get a date-range and final date
pinned down.
By coincidence we just published photos of the Senior Class and Faculty from
the 1959 Paseon. If your class is like ours, there will be some members of
the class who have lost their yearbooks and appreciate being able to see
their classmates as they were in 1959.
You can get to that page by going to
http://paseohighschool.org/paseohighschool/Paseon%20Yearbooks.htm and
clicking on the picture of the 1959 Paseon cover in the second row.
Roy Busdiecker
Paseo '57
I'll put a note on the Reunions page of our www.paseohighschool.org website.
Be sure to send further information when you get a date-range and final date
pinned down.
By coincidence we just published photos of the Senior Class and Faculty from
the 1959 Paseon. If your class is like ours, there will be some members of
the class who have lost their yearbooks and appreciate being able to see
their classmates as they were in 1959.
You can get to that page by going to
http://paseohighschool.org/paseohighschool/Paseon%20Yearbooks.htm and
clicking on the picture of the 1959 Paseon cover in the second row.
Roy Busdiecker
Paseo '57
Sunday, August 2, 2009
A Note From Larry Cameron
Ed Rowe and I attended Benton grade school, 30th and Benton. It was a huge 3 story grade school complete with an indoor gymnasium and an indoor swimming pool. The playground was at least twice the size of Francis Willard.
Hey Ed, are you sure about the picture show at 55th & Prospect? You talked about the Milgram's at 35th and Prospect and wondered if you were alluding to the picture theater between 35th Terr and 36th on the east side of Prospect. That was the PIC. How about the old Central Theater, 31st & College. Saturday mornings, admission was 10 cents. That got you 3 westerns, 4 cartoons, the serial and of course the news reel. Then there was the Linwood theater in the 3000 block of Prospect on the west side almost next door to Katz. At Katz, gum was a nickel a pack or 3 for a dime.
Does anyone remember the name of the picture show at 59th and Prospect? Clue...... It had the same name as a song recorded by Ricky Nelson.
Anyone know what the longest streetcar run in Kansas City was? It started at 55th & Parallel (KCK) and turned around at Swope Park. The conductor would stop periodically and change the roll around sign designating the current run. When it came down Main Street it veered west at 43rd behind the businesses and could run 45 mph until 47th where it turned back east across Main Street.
By the way, Prospect and Troost never had streetcars, they were trolley buses. Wasn't Keyes Stadium at 51st & Swope Parkway? Remember Blenders Restaurant at 52nd & Prospect? And also Las Palmas mexican reataurant at 45th & Prospect. Roy & Ray's at 45th & Main? One thing is for sure, the absolute best hamburger I ever ate was Max's Big M. That and a chocolate shake was a meal!
Larry Cameron
Hey Ed, are you sure about the picture show at 55th & Prospect? You talked about the Milgram's at 35th and Prospect and wondered if you were alluding to the picture theater between 35th Terr and 36th on the east side of Prospect. That was the PIC. How about the old Central Theater, 31st & College. Saturday mornings, admission was 10 cents. That got you 3 westerns, 4 cartoons, the serial and of course the news reel. Then there was the Linwood theater in the 3000 block of Prospect on the west side almost next door to Katz. At Katz, gum was a nickel a pack or 3 for a dime.
Does anyone remember the name of the picture show at 59th and Prospect? Clue...... It had the same name as a song recorded by Ricky Nelson.
Anyone know what the longest streetcar run in Kansas City was? It started at 55th & Parallel (KCK) and turned around at Swope Park. The conductor would stop periodically and change the roll around sign designating the current run. When it came down Main Street it veered west at 43rd behind the businesses and could run 45 mph until 47th where it turned back east across Main Street.
By the way, Prospect and Troost never had streetcars, they were trolley buses. Wasn't Keyes Stadium at 51st & Swope Parkway? Remember Blenders Restaurant at 52nd & Prospect? And also Las Palmas mexican reataurant at 45th & Prospect. Roy & Ray's at 45th & Main? One thing is for sure, the absolute best hamburger I ever ate was Max's Big M. That and a chocolate shake was a meal!
Larry Cameron
Saturday, August 1, 2009
A Note From Claudine
Ed
Thanks for putting the lunch together and thanks to all of you for making time to attend.
I had a great time and wish I could do it more often. I hope all of you continue the tradition.
In fact I had such a fun time I got to the car Rental four minutes before being charged another day's rental.
Thanks again and see you in a few months I hope.
Claudine
Thanks for putting the lunch together and thanks to all of you for making time to attend.
I had a great time and wish I could do it more often. I hope all of you continue the tradition.
In fact I had such a fun time I got to the car Rental four minutes before being charged another day's rental.
Thanks again and see you in a few months I hope.
Claudine
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