2020.05.21 THROW BACK THURSDAY - LUCKY US TO GROW UP IN THE 50'S plus Class News
THROW BACK THURSDAY - LUCKY US TO GROW UP IN THE 50'S plus Class News
Life as it was our senior year at LRCHS. Bill Harmon
1955 was 65 years ago!
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Class News
Herb Wright just finished his first round of chemo. 4 more to go for now. He and Duke look pretty comfortable to me!!!
Can anyone help George Clark (’57) with this?
Looks like no one knows about Buddy Tackett. I do know they held him back 2 years so he should have been a class of 56. He told me that he always felt bad about not having a High School diploma ,so when they closed LRCHS he went straight to College.
GBC
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Responses from last week’s TBT with pictures of 5th and Main:
Thanks for the pictures of 5th and Main in LR. I spent numerous hours there waiting for the West 7th Street bus. The shop on the NW corner was National Shirt Shop. The shirts looked good until they were washed but were kind of flimsy after that.
The store west of National Shirt Shop was Capitol Hat where the buses actually stopped. They had all kinds and shapes of hats but also sold pistols and rifles. I bought a pistol from them to do some target practice on tin cans. The snack bar in the drugstore on the SE corner made the best cherry cokes in town. THEM WAS THE DAYS!
Willis Callaway
Brings back memories...Baker Shoe Store, etc...The same guy was always my (and my mother's) salesman for YEARS !! And I THINK that was the National SHIRT Shop on the northwest corner of 5th and Main...though I could be wrong (I was one time).
Betty Chandler
Marylou, Help me with my memory, wasn’t GMAC in the Boyle Bldg. across the street from the Donaghy Bldg. facing 7th & Main Streets.? If not, what was name of the building across from the Donaghy
Bldg.?
Linda McGrew
This is really embarrassing, Linda. For the life of me I can’t remember the name of that building and I was there with you, but it definitely wasn’t the Boyle Building. Actually I was thinking they called it the GMAC building. I remember having to go to Mr. Clark, our “boss” each time we needed a pencil!!!! My how times have changed! LOL Hopefully someone else can give us the name of that building. I think there is an aerial walkway now between the Donaghey building and that building.
ML
I remember 5th & Main vividly (but not the current picture with trees, etc.) The store you mentioned being located on the corner was National Shirt Shop. I also remember Pierpoli’s Liberty Sandwich Shop. Their sandwiches were unique and fantastic; much like Shack BarBQ (although they weren’t BarBQ). 5th & Main was to Little Rock what the Town or Court House Squares were to small towns….the center or hub of town in our day etc. Thanks for the Memories………………
Jimmy Martin
Downtown LR is unrecognizable from the way I remember it, Mary Lou. My mother used to buy hats at that hat shop.... Ida something?
Mary Martin Bentley, Jimmy Martin’s “Little” sister! Mary is so faithful to the news from our Class! You lucked out on your sister, Jimmy!
I think it was National Shirt Shop. They are still in business at the Branson Outlets I think.
Barbara May
National Shirt Shop was the name; stock was heavy on the chintzy/tacky/"flashy" style. Had much appeal to me in the 8th and 9th grades.
Alvin “Storie” Mooser
(Gosh, I can think of so many clever lines to respond to this . . . but I’ll resist!)
And Remember that katty korner from Baker's Shoes on the Northeast corner of Fifth & Main was Lane's Drug Store and next door and upstairs was Dorothy Donaldson's Dance Studio.
Behind Lane's Drug Store was KLRA Radio, a very small building, maybe 4 stories and my Dad's Insurance office was on the 2nd or third floor. Also in that building was Stephens Inc., Witt and Jack Stephens investment office, very small and just beginning. Look at it now and the largest bond dealership outside of NYC.
I remember many days going downtown and then going to my Dad's office... there was an elevator that was operated by a human, Johnny, was the operator. I think he had cerebral palsy and was so sweet.. He loved my Mom and always told her how pretty and smartly dressed she was, and she was.
And yes, just down the street on Main going North on the corner from Lane's Drug Store was Franke's.
Jan Nix
P.S. to the above – In case some of you don’t know this, Jan Nix probably has the best and clearest memory of EVERYTHING that went on throughout our years growing up in LR, even though she didn’t even make it to LR until the 6th Grade. So if you said or did anything around her that you wish you could forget, I’M SORRY FOR YOU!!! LOL
All good stories and history, ML. Did Jo Lynn Hill own Baker’s Show Store? (AH, NOT QUITE, RONNIE! LOL BUT HER FATHER’S DID SELL SHOE’S SOMEWHERE DOWNTOWN. I USED TO KNOW! MAYBE AT JUDY STOUT’S PARENTS SHOE STORE, TEENS TO TOTS, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT???? I’M SURE JO LYNN WILL GIVE US THE ANSWER.)
Dianne’s (Ronnie’s wife) daughter in East TN has been in ICU for a week, treated for pneumonia, and now they have found a hole in her lung. I am waiting on urology surgery and Kelly (Ronnie’s son) is needing some surgery. Di is building us a new handicapped home. Hi to Igor and you!
Ronnie Smith
(I'm sure Ronnie holds the unfortunate lead in number of surgeries! He sent them all to me one time and it covered two pages.)
HAVE A GOOD WEEK!
ML
I'm sending this email to some in other Classes because I know they will enjoy Bill's link.