2019.11.14 Throw Back Thursday MORE ON MOOSER'S "CAR" TBT plus Class News
In case you missed last week's TBT, it was a picture of the Central parking lot on the 14th Street side. Here are some of the responses. Too good not to pass along.
Gee Mary Lou, those of us who lived in Cammack Village, had to catch the City bus transfer at Third and Victory, and walk two blocks from 12th street. George Clark ('57)
It does bring back memories! I had (underline the word HAD) a ’55 Ford Hardtop. I used to pick up Walt Winters and one morning when were just about to school, a car came flying out of a cross street and t-boned us on the driver’s side. Walt was in the passenger seat drinking a glass of milk and the impact was so hard it knocked his door open and Walt flew out and landed on his Assphalt. I think I remember him saying he picked glass or something out of his butt for a while. You’ll have to ask Walt about his recollections. Anyway my car was totaled and I had to buy another one. Jim Norsworthy
This is Jim with our car, a 1954 Ford. It was cream color with a salmon pink top! Frank Plegge took this picture of Jim in the parking lot kind of on the back of Central. Mary Martin (Jimmy's sister) (Picture attached)
Actually our’s was the two door 1955 Chevy Bel Air; circled in green. It was coffee brown with a cream colored top V8 powerglide! I don’t know whose the Ford was but Tommy Thomas’s 1956 black Bel Air was just behind mine (hard to see in this pic). Joe Crow
Hi Mary Lou, The parking lot picture, behind the red circled car it looks as if that car is: what some called "the canary", an old yellow kaiser with a black cloth faux leather roof over the metal which I drove to and from LRCH in 1956. John Moses
CLASS NEWS
Still getting imuno therapy with "keytruda" every 3rd week, had 4th "pet scan" last week and get a report from oncologist re ongoing shrinkage of "inoperable tumors" Nov. 12th from oncologist per review of "pet scans".
Enjoyed lunch with Joe Crow and his wife in Virginia while they were in transit between Little Rock and their place in western Mass.
I enjoy reading your tbt's and wondering what you will share next.
John Moses (Richmond, VA)
WHOOPS, You missed me again, or do you have me on the death list.
7 Nov 38 --
DIXON M. DREHER
My birthday was November 6. Please add to the November list. My recovery from 2nd Revision same hip is coming along. I’ve come a long way from July 15th.
Bettie FRANKLIN Nutter
Igor and I visited Sandra McEwen in Asst Living where she is staying until she's up and about after a 3-way break of her ankle. She says that she's on a walker now and moving some. She enjoyed a visit from Mary Jo Bryant and Bogie and her daughter drove down from Memphis and spent the day with Sandra and her daughter, Shannon. Our '56 friends are just the best!
I forgot a few weeks ago to post that Jo Lynn Hill's husband, John Van Wert, has received a pacemaker and is doing well. Jo Lynn and John have been married so long and we happily see them so often that we forget that John didn't actually graduate with us!!!
Hope I haven't forgotten anything. Probably have. If I can remember it again by next Thursday, you'll know about it too!
OH, ONE MORE THING: '56 GIRLS, DON'T FORGET OUR CHRISTMAS POTLUCK AT MARY LOU BILLINGSLEY'S, 55 ABERDEEN DRIVE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 12:30P. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!
ML