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Comments: Very good Dale. Now they get harder For round two.
Comments: David....it's coming to me....wasn't that a Beatles song?
Comments: David, Is it "turn my face to the wall" ?
Comments: Jada, Karen and I left in 5th grade and went to TL Marsalis for 5th thru 7th, and then on to Zumwalt! I remember the pool near JNB....I always remember the water being a murky green!
Comments: Who wants to play, Can anyone finish the words to this song? Here I stand head in hand ___ __ ____ __ ___ ____
Comments: I loved the stories of championships won on a ballfield in Oak Cliff long ago. I didn't exactly have the same competition experience as you guys did. I remember going to the park pool at Clara Oliver in the summer (also got my Duck badge there) and lining up for the swim competitions each time. We would dive in the deep end, swim the length of the pool, turn and swim back. Each race had the same outcome...I lost. There was one girl who was really good and won everytime. One day I wasn't going to race but at the last minute, I ran up to join in just as they blew the start whistle. I tripped, spun around and fell into the pool just as the others had dived in. When they made their way back to the finish line, I pretended I was racing back just ahead of them and put my arm on the finish wall just ahead of "the champ". I looked at the coach and he didn't say a word but just grinned. To this day, she still thinks I beat her. It was a great moment.
Comments: JWT, no need to be embarrassed, I always ran, ran, and ran! Ada Ann, I think you are right about going to school at Cedar Crest, because they were finishing the school. Did you live on Narbo, which was around the corner from Dugald? I also remember you transferring later. My memory of Lisbon swimming pool is not the best. I sat on an asp and I will never forget it  I know all my older cousins played ball there. Dale, I just went to the store and they had canned irregular pears. Yep, I thought of you when I read the label. Wow! this wind has caused quite a few fires!!
Comments: Toni, as I started my statement...If I remember...I think...but I was correct that you and Karen met at Bryan? I apologize about your hair color...because most of us were toe head white (I thought I always remembered you as a red head)...except Adrianne...she had the blackest hair I had ever seen...so you started in 2nd...I left in the 4th...Ada came in the 4th...but I remember Ada at the little city run pool on the same land as Bryan...much like the one that Jack described at Lisbon...Ada's mother and Mike Malone's (Zumwalt) Dad ran the park and I thought I remembered Ada from there...playing checkers horse shoes and softball. I have a picture from the 4th grade class before we moved to the farm down on Ledbetter...I'll see if I can find it and share. Don L. yes I owe a picture...will try tonight and send to SNL so you can make fun of me again...LOL Tillery, I didn't mean to embarrass you...I was as young and stupid as you...since I couldn't hit a curve ball I chose not to try and even play baseball...so I had no idea that the bases had any other meaning...is there something about a pitcher I should know?
Comments: Jack, Thanks for sharing the memorable story. As a C of C child I was not allowed to swim at Glendale pool (mixed bathing you know) but could go to Lisbon Park. Earned my "Duck" award there. Don't ask. Watched Fernwood Baptist play lots of baseball right on that field. The O. C. Jets practiced there and when we messed up, coach would make us take a lap around that horse apple tree for punishment.... er I mean to build up our endurance. I'm with Sandy... this brings back way too many sentimental memories. Great time to be a kid.
Comments: SNL I used to walk almost the same trek as you described. I stayed on Denley to the corner of Adelaide and Denley. I never realized that we lived so close to each other back then. I guess you can learn something new every day. I can also see the baseball field, the horse apple tree and the mulberry tree. We used to throw the ripe mulberries at each other too. They made an almost irremovable stain when they splattered on cloths. Toni, you are so right, we deserve a little time to ourselves after the three weddings in six month marathon.
Comments: Sandy McM, speaking of Miller...was it a brand new school when we went there? Do I remember correctly that we had classes at Cedar Crest Baptist Church before Miller was finished?
Comments: Toni, in what grade did you leave JNBryan? I transferred there from WBMiller in the 4th grade.
Comments: JWT/Joyce.....happy, happy anniversary...you guys really deserve a special day having lived through 3 weddings last year! The sharpest tack in the box beat me to the "funny" about the lip balm! The visual on that one boggles the mind!!! JD, you need some of what Dale has been taking because your memory is playing tricks on you  . I went to John Neely Bryan in the second grade, at the tender age of 6, and I was "toe-headed" or "cotton-headed".....almost white it was so blonde! My dreadful 2nd grade experience caused my hair to fall out and grow back a brownish auburn. Only my hairdresser knew for sure the auburn red transformation which took place somewhere around the 20th reunion! JD, I think that's what you were thinking about...remember we spent quite a few hours together with Shortcake and Sue Ash on Saturday at the hotel enjoying those frosty adult beverages. Happy Jack, I think I just answered your inquiry....I was 6 and Karen had been 7 for two months when we met....and the rest is history....thank goodness  .
Comments: Jack, you old nostalgic dog!! I closed my eyes & I could see Lisbon & the playground & baseball diamond as clear as a bell. I remember walking home all the way down Denley to Kingsley, right turn on Kingsley & then left on Kildare. I specifically remember the Tether Ball pole (I loved to play) and the old horse apple tree. We used to pick them up and throw them at each other!! Now I think I'm gonna cry . . . !
Comments: Many thanks to my SOC family for the comments, regarding our anniv. I think we will settle for a quiet dinner. I would have to get guidance from DWF about what to do with the lip balm. We might enjoy looking at the stars on the ceiling. JD I am blushing from the comments from you and Sandy McM about baseball.  I always thought the object of baseball was to run the bases. No one ever told me there was another meaning to the terms(LOL). |
I remember the fun we had in the summer. The Glendale pool was steppin' in high cotton compared to that little pool at JNB
My dad passed away in Feb. 1960, and that summer, Karen and I saw a man sitting on a beach towel inside the pool area....he looked just like my dad....we were really shocked by that experience....took us about a week before we'd go back.... but we couldn't miss out on all the adorable life guards| < Previous 15 | Next 15 > |
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