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This page is about growing up in the '60's and '70's in Greenville - the years we attended Greenville
Schools - the years we ruled the
world!
It's intended to jog memories - make you smile, make you laugh, make
you think or
maybe even make you cry.
We
start with a timeline of the things that were going on during our
high school years:
Then we add the sounds, the music of those years. Do you
remember singing and dancing or just cruising to these songs?
Next, we add our own recollections, our memories of GHS and
Greenville.
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MEMORIES OF GREENVILLE |
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Cruisin' Broadway for babes & boys
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Maid-Rites & the Wall-O-Gum (which is still growing)
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Mr. Kludy & his cannon
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Flag Rush - a great local tradition that lost it's way and died |
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Little Kings & the Little King Open at Rick Macci's
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The greatest winter sport ever, throwing snow balls at cars |
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Ink & Dink |
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Dances in the Park Pavilion (that no longer exists) |
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Fireworks at Harmon Field |
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CPO Jackets |
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When girls would still be seen in curlers & scarves |
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Going to McGreevey's (Broadway & 3rd St.) for a Cherry Coke |
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Having a choice of flicks at the State or Wayne Theater |
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The free kiddie show at the State Theater on Wednesday afternoons during the summer
- you got a ticket
from numerous businesses around town |
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The band 'Sunny Good Street' playing at lots of school-sponsored
dances |
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Dunn's Hobby Shop with it's giant slot car track |
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Sledding down Memorial Hill |
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Toilet-papering Mr. (Mousie) Morrison's home - he always said it
was "Beautiful!" |
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Buying 45's at Murphy's for 69 cents - and albums for just a few
bucks |
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Murphy's, the Boston Store, Fourman's and Barr's all had a
basement |
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Santa, his sleigh and reindeer on Fourman's each Christmas |
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A giant REAL Christmas tree on the circle each year |
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The Hasty Tasty (now the Colony) |
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Mabel's Toy Fair |
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The elevator at the Palace with it's own operator |
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The Hamburger Shop that had Frosties way before Wendy's even
existed |
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Snell's Diner |
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McVay's Sporting Goods |
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Driving all the way out to the 'country' to go to Frisch's and
going over the speed bumps - Sherry Baker Echeman
I remember this well
(my mom was a carhop here when she was in high school), but does
anyone remember what this place was called when we were in high
school? It was a pizza/ sub place if I remember correctly.
The twins might remember a kitten incident here one night.
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Ferd's A&W Rootbeer Stand where everyone hung out. The old
fashion car-hop place with real glass mugs!!! I flipped enough
hamburgers in my lifetime and made those good old fashion Chili
Dogs. I was so sick of food in those days, maybe I should go
back to those times. Was a lot skinnier then - Connie Cool
Swartz |
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The Park in the Summer - it seemed like everyone was
there, day and evening. You were either at the pool, or
'up top' watching everyone at the pool, or between the pool and
the Round House. In the evenings, add the softball field
and everyone saw everybody! Drive through the Park now
during the summer and it's a ghost town outside of the 'new'
pool. |
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The Park in the Winter - Skating on the big
ponds in the park - scores of people, nice fires to keep you
warm, plenty of room for hockey games and casual skating, lit up
at night - a wonderful thing for our town that died when the
ducks took over the park! The fact that this doesn't still
exist is a shame for Greenville... |
Lastly, we can reflect on our time and how things in the world have
changed.
Someone
sent the list below a while ago. I've added some of my own thoughts.
I agree with it and relate to it for the most part - and I long for the
'good old days' of the '60s & '70s. I think this country has gotten
way too politically correct, litigious, protective and intolerant of
everything - actions, speech, etc.
And our world
has also become 'tech crazy'. The cell phone, PC, game system or
IPOD that didn't exist during our youth and that you bought yesterday will
be obsolete tomorrow.
Am I becoming
a geez (I'm beginning to get that AARP crap in the mail), or is life
happening just a tad too fast? Do some things in the youth culture
seem out of control? Our kids and grandkids say NO. And
regardless - nothing will stop it!
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MEMORIES OF OUR TIME |
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After we were
born, our cribs were covered with bright colored
lead-based paints with side rails we could stick our heads
through. |
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We had no
childproof devices on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets. |
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When
we
rode our bikes and skateboards without helmets, and no one died. |
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We
would ride and even stand in cars with no seat belts or air bags. |
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We felt safe hitchhiking and
picking up hitchhikers. |
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We drank water from the garden hose and NOT
from a bottle purchased from a store. Did God intend for us to buy
water?! NOT!! |
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We shared one soft drink with four friends,
from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. |
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We drank pop from
ice-cold 16oz glass bottles. Did anything taste better on a
hot summer day than Coke or Mountain Dew from a glass bottle? |
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We ate cupcakes, bread and butter; ate
endless amounts of candy and drank pop with sugar in it, but few of us
were overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! |
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We would leave home in the morning
and play all day, as long as we were back home when the
streetlights came on. |
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No one was able to reach us all day if we
were out-and-about because there were no CELL PHONES! And we were OK
and came home safe and sound. |
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We did not have Playstations, Gameboys,
Nintendo's or X-Boxes, but we always found something fun to do. |
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We
had 3 TV channels
- no video
tapes or DVD's - and we always found something to watch. And if not,
we actually read! |
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Again. we had no cell
phones - and the world didn't end if someone couldn't reach us RIGHT THIS
FREAKING MINUTE! |
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We had no personal
computers, Internet or chat rooms, but were always in touch with our
friends that mattered. |
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And we had lots of
friends and when they weren't home we went out and found them. |
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We fell out of trees, got cuts, broke bones
and chipped teeth, and there were no
lawsuits. |
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We
got paddled in school and were probably better for it - without
litigation. |
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We made up games with sticks and ate green
apples and although we
were told it
would happen, we did not put out any eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever. |
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We played army and Cowboys &
Indians with lots of toy guns and few of us grew up to be serial killers. |
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Halloween
was actually cool! When we went out for Treat-or-Treat it was
actually at night - when it was DARK - AND SPOOKY! Our parents
weren't right there on the sidewalk wearing sunglasses while we approached
houses in suffocating parkas over our costumes...and we didn't have to
have our loot x-rayed. |
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We soaped windows, not
keyed cars. |
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AIDS was a diet candy. |
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A Metal Head was
someone into Sabbath or Zepellin - not someone with 2 dozen piercings in
their face. |
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Little League had tryouts and not everyone
always made the team. Most of us who didn't
make the team
learned to deal with disappointment (as did our parents)- and we
turned out just fine. Imagine that!
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The idea of
parents backing us up and suing the establishment if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually
sided with the law! |
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We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL! |
And our generation produced some of the best
risk-takers, problem solvers, artists and inventors ever!
If you'd
like to add to either of these list, press this button
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