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12/17/19 09:42 PM #9804    

 

Larry York

Thanks for the update. Steve's folks had a 57  T bird we used ride around in high school. Charlie or one iron and I all most blow up the chemistry labs.  The lab was on the second floor and we had to throw an experiment that caught on fire out the window. 


12/18/19 12:29 AM #9805    

 

Bennie Schielack

Beau . . . . . instead of "lemon cookies", try lemon Oreo's . . . . . 


12/20/19 03:41 PM #9806    

William Donald Ansley

May the Yuletide Joy and the true spirit of Christmas abide with each and everyone of you during this holiday season.


12/20/19 07:54 PM #9807    

 

Teddie Jordan

Thank you Bill, and Merry Christmas to you and yours! Always good to hear from you! 
 
And I always thought that Steve Jones was in our class, but he is not listed among our classmates. He was a character and a real comedian. His wife in later years was an antique dealer, as is my sister Kay, and she got to know and enjoy him at the various antique sale venues around our country on the circuit, including Atlanta and Round Top!

OK, I just checked and Steve is listed in the WHS '65 class website! After my family moved out west  on 43rd in '58, Steve and I, and Gary Mosley, and Scotty,  and Beau, and Wendy and others rode the school bus to Black and Waltrip!

 


12/21/19 05:41 AM #9808    

Lynn Bledsoe (Berry)

Merry Christmas to all and thanks to everyone who posted on the message forum. Throughout the year y'all have brought back so many wonderful memories of days at Waltrip.

12/23/19 08:50 AM #9809    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

    Merry Christmas kids !    Yeah, I know we're not kids anymore, but when we were, we were kids! ! !  Ok, anyone make sense of that gets an A in the course.  Speaking of an A in the course,  I got a gnu "electrical bananya, cause saffrons wild about moi"....oh my,  how many tymes have I tgold youse that a mind is a terrible think?   So you see what I have to put up with 25//8 dontchew!  

    HELLO? HELLO? KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK, CAN YOU STIILL HEAR ME?   My dang cat jumped up on the destk and banged into my coffee cup whilst I was trying to sip some, and spilled it all over the key board.  Yall still there?  (gotter cleaned up I hope)  Ok, since it looks like I'm still typing, I'll go with, "yes you can still see/hear me!

    Hey Lynn in Hearne, how youse?   Speaking of Steve Jones, I remember his house, or his moms house on 43rd, about 3 houses from the corner of Costa Rica and 43rd.    Remember it was the modern house with the  vaulted ceilings and glass in the front gable.   I do remember the T-boid his mom had, now can anyone tell me what color it was?    Yeah, me neither!   Cream color maybe?   I never got to ride in it, only dreamed of it.  I did get to ride in Gary Marberrys blue 58 corvette, the stuff dreams are made of.

    I saw someone 25 or 49 years ago,  that told me they saw steve at the TOP OF THE MARK restaurant in downtown houston. Wasnt that a  round restaurant at the top of one of the buildings downtown?   I havent been downtown Houston in a hunnert years and a day, so I forget what it looked like.   Any way they saw Steve doing a stand up comedian act there one year.  From what was said, it didnt go well.  Steve asked for the crowd to give him a situation, and someone said    "go home".    Tough crowd!  And a pox upon the toerag that hollared that! ! !      Not many comedians make it in that line of work, but  I do hope he had at least one good show in his life.    I thought steve was an easy going nice guy, so that's the way I shall remember him.

     Accordian to CHIMACS (Chappell Hill intergalactically mete or logical and cornpone society) weather station, the temp hit 32 this fyne morning.  We had as low as 23 this week!  Is it me, or is it memorex?   Nah, idjit, doesnt the cold  seem colder nowdays?   Does to me!   Although I remember a few winters, back in them good old days, of knocking knees, chatterin teeth and shivering bods not to mention being downright cold, and the onliest (east texas for only) heat we had was those natural gas space heaters.  I'm surprised there were'nt more reports of house fires and or carbon monoxide deaths, not that I knew what that meant back then, but now I wonder.

     I've seen in lots of mail order catalogs, weighted blankets!  Some as heavy as 15 pounds!   Well I never! ! !    You want a weighted blanket, just get a cat or dog.  The weight of one of those goes up conversely with, if they are laying on you, or if you want them to move so you can make the bed, ie a 10 pound cat asleep on you weighs 100 pounds when you try to move her off of you.  An 80 pound dog weighs as much as a truck, so there aint no chance of getting out f rom under one O them creatures aka "heavy blankets".

    Got bacon frahin in the pan this morn, aint nothin fyner than the smell of bacon and coffee wafting about ye olde homestead now is there!  Been speaking of the cold, and I'm sitting at the desk, still wearing my flannel PJs...well, my desk is not wearing them, I am, so just throw that bit O visual nonsense out of your brains.  Hmmm, that's kinda hard to do now that I've planted it there.  Well anyway, I'm looking stealthaly ninjaly, in my  PJs, and a sweatshirt, and my heavy socks and shearling lined houseshoes, and my neck scarf and my M-65 issue field jacket and carhartt beanie but with no mittens.  that's right, youse cant type with mittens on, hmmm, wasnt there a song,    "raindrops and kittens all snug in their mittens..."

     Did I mention bacon frying?   Got an early christmas presnent, an Electrical Skillet!  A big one too.  My old one sort of wore out, the teflon was worn off.  They just dont make things to last anymore, I've only had it for about 35 years.  The new one is ceramic nonstick, which is better.   If I had to choose just one item to take from the kitchen to a smaller place, it would be the electrical skillet, the Kuerig coffee pot, and the pressure cooker.  I know I said one thing, what I meant was the other one thing, three things.

    Well, guess I'd better check on the bacon and get another cup o joe, so I will say auf vedersein, sayonara, so long and "happy trails to you,  until we meet again"....

Keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."

Your frien and resident ninjacompoop,  old weird Harold Cephus R silly buggers esq 


12/23/19 08:00 PM #9810    

 

Teddie Jordan

 

Merry Christmas to you and Diane, Beaucephus, and to all of our beloved ''64er's"!

The top of the Mark Club building fronted on Montrose south of '59 and N. of  Hermann Park! Francine and I entertained customers there several times in the '70's and '80's. It had a nice vibe and a good view of the nighttime Houston skyline. 

Speaking of views, we held our no.1 daughter Lisa's wedding reception in 1997 at the Petroleum Club on the 45th floor of the Exxon building. My dad worked for Humble Oil, which morphed into Exxon, for 36 years before his retirement in '62. They had his retirement luncheon at the PC, so it had special meaning to our family. The Saturday morning of the April wedding day was rainy and cloudy. I had to take some table center pieces down there that morning and the view was about 10 feet max. That night when we got there from the church the skies  had cleared out and the view was crystal clear in every direction, probably one of one or two nights a year it was that clear. Our guests were just giddy with the incredible views. You could see 30-50 miles in all directions and could see the lights of Galveston. Daddy had passed away in '65, but I always gave him and the Lord credit for arranging that phenomenal weather change from above.  

We were all blessed beyond measure to have grown up and lived in the ideal place and time that we did classmates! And to be raised by what unquestionably was America's Greatest Ever, generation!


12/23/19 11:47 PM #9811    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     And a very Merry Christmas to you TJ and Fran and Linda and all our waltrip friends...been an honor and privilege to know you and grow up with you.  Yup, a very special time and place that will live forever...


12/24/19 08:02 AM #9812    

 

Johnny Sheffield

A very merry Christmas and happy new year to all

My waltrip classmates. I wish each and everyone of you

And your families good health for 2020. 

Look forward to seeing you all at our next

Spring fling. Gods blessings on you and your families  

Johnny

 


12/30/19 07:45 PM #9813    

 

Scotty Croom

have been in houston and georgetown for holidays ..returned home today..met relative of sharon's neighbor at hedwick village..what a surprise,he is our age,grew up in old spring branch,graduated there and worked p[/t at tradewinds skating rink...was skate matcher and great skater..reminised old time in oak forest area...happy new year to all...geaux tigers......


12/31/19 08:02 AM #9814    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     HEY SCOTTY...I thought I saw your car drive by...you bring a banjo on your knee widja didja? 

        GOOOOOOOOOD MORNIN CHAPPELL HILLLLLLL....!!!!!  And all the ships ah see.  Hoo boy it's been cold up heah in the chalps.  Anytime the mercury dips below 70,  that's a snow day for me for shure.   How bout them tahgers, LSU of course.  Ya gotta love that coach, he's what a  coach should look like and sound like.  Bronco Nagurski,   Ray Nitschke, Clint Eastwood,  you know what I'm talkin about !    

     The little woman is in Houston this morn, hepin her parents with stuff, she actually spent the night last and one before.  They sure are lucky to have such a hepful daughter.   Tha Izz started crying at 4:25 this morn, and when the Izz crys, you've got about 2 minutes to get up get dressed and out the door, cause she's gotta go, and when a girls gotta go, a girls gotta go.

      I havent moved  and gotten dressed that fast since the last time I heard Revellie and th DI hollar, "all right you ladies, GET OUTTA THEM RACKS",  of course that was after he threw a couple of trash cans down the center aisle.  NOW,  those were the good ol days.  Back then, they were the bad ol days.  But, made a man outta many a boy!

       Sip.....Aaaahhhh, what phyne coffee I do make.   Got some new coffee from somewhere, called MILITARY GRADE COFFEE COMPANY.  Touts "double duty caffiene", got a picture of a handgrenade on the front.  Now that's my kind of coffee.   Hmmmm, lets see, I have "JET FUEL"  and  "JACKHAMMER" from a local coffee company up heah in Washington county,  Independence coffee company.  I think I'll mix the three and see what we get.    "Uh chet, a mushroom cloud was seen rising from the Chappell Hill area, HAZ MAT TEAM on the way, so folks stay outta that area...."

     Diane did not drink coffee when we got married and for about the first 15 years of that institution.  I think it started around the time HISD when to a paperless environment, wink wink wink.   She'd never had so much paper work before.  Same with Ma Bell.  We went paperless, and man did the paper mount high, and I was a lineman, not an office worker.  All brought to you by the  "Peter Principle"  people at full speed ahead.

     Today is NEW YEARS EVE ! ! !  Dang I'm good aint I ! !   I cant remember the last NEW YEARS EVE party I went to, or if I ever went to one.  Oh, I do remember some in particular, out at my Uncle Buddys, with the "Wild Bunch" in attendance.  My dad and his brothers and a few iron worker friends of theirs havin a tea party and quiltin bee of course. 

      They would light up the night with the loudest fireworks you could buy and augment that with gunfire and dynamite.  PTSD city for sure if you werent use to that sort of celebratory celebratin.  Two of my uncles had class C firearms liscenses, which meant they could possess and shoot full automatic weapons and dynamite stuff like tree stumps etc.   Sounded like "rolling thunder"!    But I digress!   Those guys were two fisted drinkers and two fisted everything else, "lead or follow, but get the hell out of the way"....

     I also cant remember the last time I actually saw the old year go out and the new year come in.   Sometimes the old "lumbar"  singing auld lang syne, would keep me up past midnight, but certainly not Guy.

    Anyone make any New Years revolutions?    I never have and dont intend to start now.  I just try to do the things I'm suppose to do, and not do the things I'm not suppose to do, all year long. Sometimes I'm good and sometimes not so good, but always trying to improve.

   Ok, guess I'll sing off for now, but I'll be back!    Keep the sun at your six, "and ride boldly ride..."

Your frien and resident farcracker,  Cephus R Me esq 


12/31/19 11:25 AM #9815    

 

Scotty Croom

beau,we also passed duson yesterday...in order to reach htown before dark,we just drive straight thru..have  to stop sometime...getting shower head fixed,replace lites and reseat commode at hedwick village..try showering w/semi cold ,dribble water ...not a guys dream wash ..lol...happy new year to all...past year flew by..also know many of us celebrate a diamond birthday ..where have time gone...


12/31/19 01:46 PM #9816    

 

Johnny Sheffield

 

Like to wish all my waltrip classmates a very 

Happy new year and  may 2020 bring you all good health.

Will be celebrating tonight in giddings Texas at the silos , 

Dancing to the old band the triumphs .

Happy new year to all and see you this spring  

Johnny

 

 

 


01/03/20 08:33 AM #9817    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     YES, HAPPY GNU YEAR....WOOHOOOOO, me that's who!    Hey Scotty, is the Four Roses Cafe and Four Roses General Store, and Four Roses Car Wash still in Duson?   That was sometime in 72 when I first went through there.   There was a French lady from France, Paris to be perzact, that owned all that stuff, plus she was the chef also too.  Fixed us a mess of fried shrimp without batter.  Never had it's equal since. 

    I was visiting a friend that lived in Duson at the time.   That boy coulda been "Lawrence of Arabia", he did so many things, except he was more of a Johnny from Texas.   That boy was a "boomer", a cassanova, the original    "Wanderer",  a latter day adventurer.   He never got out of Junior High before he got itchy feet.  Worked on the railroad,  Joined the Army, sent to Germany, quit the army, and they had to let him go because he had a heart murmur. Should never have been allowed to join in the first place, but as I recall, all was fair game for a  "recruiter".  In fact, he was not suppose to live past his 21st birthday.

    Johnny and his family belonged to, or sort of belonged to Oak Forest Baptist Church right there at the corner of Rosslyn and 43rd.  They had a revival one summer and they invited me to come along. Having never been to a Baptist revival, I went along.    

        Got saved that weekend, even though I didnt know what that meant at the time. I just followed everyone else down the aisle to the stage, actually I was pushed and pulled down that "saving aisle".  You know who the "savers" were?   None other than a young Freddy Gage and Jimmy Swaggert, both decked out in Gold lame' suites.  Yessir, I was saved by the best.  

   I couldnt tell you how many times Johnny was married.  Isnt there a limit, 6 or 7 times, then not allowed to marry again?     Probably reached the limit before he was 30.  At the time I was visiting him, he was the Milkman and Sheriff of Duson at the same time, or whatever parish that duson was in.  He was also a police officer in the Spring Valley police force till he got shot, had to retire and all before 40 or so.  But that never slowed him down.

    He once showed up at my apartment dressed in a real, black and silver Bullfighters outfit,  topped off with a huge matching sombrero.   Seems he'd just come from Mexico and was excited and wanted to share his riches with me, his compadre, and a 6 AM too.      Had two suitcases with him, one of them "clinked" and the other seemed to move on it's own.   The one that clinked was full of tequila and the one that moved had two boa constrictors in it.   I didnt own a gun at that point, cause if I did I would have shot him and the snakes and drnak the tequila before the gendarmes came to get me.

       Later on, a few years down the line, he and Cajun wife number ?  brought us a Duroc Piglet.  Said I could keep it as a pet and then when it was full grown, I'd have about 1500 pounds of ham and bacon and pork belly...in oak forest! ! !     Time and distance and substance, money,  meant nothing to him.  Once saw him charm a cottonmouth snake with his left hand, then reach around and grab the snake behind the head with his right hand.  Onliest (east texas for only) way I'd grab a snake is with a 12 gauge.

     Once he came over in a green 62 or 63 MG or Jag, said he picked it up in Kansas after a bus load of nuns or priests ran a stopsign and broadsided his other car whatever in the heck that was.  He had a crosley or Henry J at one time.  We were going down 43rd right at mangum before the RR tracks when he turned it over on it's side.  How I know we were on it's side was the road was sliding past my window.    We jumped out and turned it right side up and whoosh, off we  went on our appointed rounds. This was all before seat belts.   How we mangaged  to survive all his shenanagans I'll never know.

    ALL the ladies, girls, females seemed to gravitate to him, and I mean ALL.  If any resisted, I thought he'd met his match, but then a little time passed and there they would be, walking arm in arm, all lovey dovey.   He could sweet talk any female living or dead out of just about anything. Never met his like, his kind,  I guess sort of a con-man, "The great imposter".  Dont know where he is today if He's still alive. He would be in his late 70s or early 80s by now.  Looking back I'm so glad I did not succumb to his con man charm, I'd probably be in prison and he'd still be wanderin free as a bird. 

   I also had a long distance relationship with a telephone operator in Duson.  She'd call me up after midnight on a no cost trunk, no long distance bill, we'd talk for hours.  I never got to meet her!   Dont know just what we talked about, i was anything but a sweet talker. If I'd been Johnny, she'd a found away to squeeze through the phone lines to be with him. 

    Now how did I get off on all that stuff?   Well, HAPPY GNU YEAR to all youse youtes.  Hey Johnny, sounds like you had a great time planned for the gnu year.  Wish I felt up to doing stuff like that.  Just got too old too fast.  Of course I partied hardy back in the day, guess I'm all partied out, too pooped to pop so to speak. 

     Time to deplane boss...keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."

Your frien and resident recollecter, Cephus T Magillicutty Allen Badillion Trahern esq

     


01/03/20 09:46 PM #9818    

 

Teddie Jordan

Cephus, was that J.Dollen's?


01/04/20 06:43 AM #9819    

 

Beverly Hengst (Allen)

Today is the one year anniversary of our dear Jackie’s passing.  It is still hard to believe she is gone.  I know I speak for everyone when I say she is one of a kind and sorely missed.  She is probably busy planning a reunion of all reunions for us, when we can all meet again.  Until then, we will cherish the many wonderful memories of her and others that have gone before us.  Rest in peace dear Jackie.


01/05/20 11:00 AM #9820    

 

Robert Derrick

Hope everyone started the New Year ---- the New Year of The Mad Dog 2020.         


01/05/20 01:25 PM #9821    

 

Teddie Jordan

Thanks Robert, I'm getting old and hadn't thought of that connection. We had some fun poker games with ol' Mad Dog didn't we?

Twenty twenty is destined to be a good year!


01/05/20 06:38 PM #9822    

 

Robert Derrick

Ahhhh. Yes we did. And it's still under $4.00 at many gas stations.


01/05/20 09:14 PM #9823    

 

Teddie Jordan

A truly special wine for those Connoisseur's with an educated pallette and a discriminating taste for really fine select wines!


01/11/20 07:43 AM #9824    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Winos, the lot of youse, just winos.  "LIEUTENANT DA-UN?  LOOK LIEUTENANT DA-UN, AH GOT NEW EARS".  Yup, got brang gnu HAs.  These are so sensitive, now I can heah a needle in a haystack, or is that a pin drop?   Well no matter, whichever comes first.   These HAs are so sensitive I can hear the stars tinkle...er twinkle.  Cant have em on in the kitchen whilst cooking or cleaning and banging pots and pans around, and plates.   Doc Magoo says my brain will get use to them, well, I dont have to worry since ah dont have one, and anyway,   s not my brain ahm concerned with, it's mah eahs.

    Oh, almost forgot...GOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING CHAPPELL HILLLLLLLL, and all the sets of tea.  Did jall get that storm last night?  Of course you did, duh.      If you were in the lower 48 then you got it.   We got it for sure here, not a long storm, nor seemingly loud and violent storm, just a sneaky storm.   I thought I prepared for it, but au contraire mon ami.  It took everything off the deck and smashed it all to smithereens.   I looked up smithereens in the table of weights and measurments and couldnt find it.

    Gonna have to rent a diving bell or wet suit to retrieve what went in the pool.   Hmmmm, seems like I've done this before.   Folks like me  never learn dewey.   And of course he is one of the hewey and louie brothers. I've allus  been behind in the "learning curb" but never ahead of the curb, I generally just run headlong into the curb,  I believe it's called "Trouble with the curb".    Anyway, just waiting for daylight to  commence the recovery effort. 

     Some of the furniture is about 5 or 6 years old, so I guess it's time to get gnu stuff.  Solid concrete should do the trick.  One of the tables it flipped over and smashed was a 6ft long one with tile square top, bout 14 of them, which during the storm multiplied to a zillion pieces of tile.   It's a pretty heavy table, so I thought it would be safe, think again bub!   The storm also turned over a 400 pound BBQ pit like it was nothing.  Gonna have to get the tractor to upright that bad boy.

     I'm seriously looking at moving to a penthouse in downtown Houston with no balcones or windows.  Wonder if I could rent a room in Fort Knox?   Where is Fort Knox?  Kansas? Idaho?  No, they have potatoes there!   Oh well, say laverne laverne ! ! !  

    Hey TJ and Robert, I went to Krogers yesterday and asked the wine guy if he had any Mad Dog 2020, and he didnt know what I was talking about.  He showed a bottle of 795.00 wine to me with a name I couldnt pronouce, so I said no thank you.   Why would anyone pay that kind of money for a bottle of grape juice gone bad????   Not me mon ami!

    Didjou know that at one time there were about 700 or so, give or take, Irish whiskey distilleries in Ireland?  That was all before prohibition!    Now there are just two, and those are old name new startups.  Prohibition killed the Irish whiskey market.   Seems bootleggers were brewing moonshine aka rotgut and passing it off as Irish whiskey.  Folks didnt like it so when prohibition was over, folks wouldnt buy any Irish whiskey. I dont recollect in all my years as a whiskey can of sewers that I've ever had any Irish Whiskey.  Maybe I'll go to specs today and buy a bottle.    

    Ok, gotta turn in my keyboard, the little woman is leaving me to go to H town till Monday or so, so I've gotta get her ready to go.   I do get kinda lonesome up here on the mountain, so if any of youse youtes find yourself with no place to go, here is as good of no place as any place.  Yall can share my bottle of Irish whishkey and our supply of grapes gone bad, plus we can shoot pool or play shuffle board, or just sit at the bar and drink....oh, first I've got to clean up the mess ol Isaiah left behind.  

    Keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."

your frien and resident storm chaser...Cephus O'wanninski esq 


01/11/20 07:09 PM #9825    

 

Scotty Croom

since i left georgetown, my mother has had problems w/legs...decided to move to assisted living facility...at 96,she is tired  and leaves it up to god now...keep her in your prayers..


01/12/20 11:03 AM #9826    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hey Scotty,  prayers for your mom and you and Sharon for sure. 

       Also too, Diane saw on channel 13 news this morning about the military flyover for the Texans and Chiefs today at Arrowhead stadium.   One of the pilots is a 2007 WALTRIP GRADUATE, and after that went on to the Naval Academy. 

     SHE  will be piloting an FA-18 Hornet,  and alongside her will be several other FA-18s one of which will be piloted by her husband.   I didnt get her name, and my efforts to find out who she was, was fruitless.  So if anyone knows who she is, I'd appreciate the info.

    There are approximately 100 or so men and women on earth that can take off and land on an AIRCRAFT CARRIER.  The aforementioned woman is one of them.    So, not an easy job, eh what !  Just wish I knew her name.

    And to all of that I'll say,  "WAY TO GO WALTRIP GRADUATE" ! ! ! ! ! ! !   WOW AND DOUBLE WOW ! ! !

 


01/12/20 02:14 PM #9827    

 

Teddie Jordan

Scotty, thoughts and prayers for your dear mom and all of your family. 


01/12/20 09:46 PM #9828    

 

Bennie Schielack

2007 Waltrip grad Lt. Aubrey Thompson "KBAR" Bennett is a naval aviator in the US Navy. She & her husband have been chosen for the Navy flyover for the Texans/Chiefs game this Sunday in Kansas City. She flies the F/A-18F Super Hornet. This will be the 1st ever husband/wife flyover in US history! Congrats Lt. Bennett! We are all thankful for your service! #RamNation #WaltripHighSchool


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