Mardi Gonyea (Nicklin)

Bill you are so right about the dust/dirt devils. I remember one time when I was driving into Roswell and I was about 15 miles out North. I drove into a "mud-out." It was a combination of terrentil rains and high winds which made visibility zero. The solid brown mud was all you could see with the wind shield wipers on the highest speed. We crept along at a snails pace for 45 min. before gettng into town. It let up eventually but I passed trees that had been uprooted laying sideway and plenty of dubrees. It was scary because with no visibility I couldn't even see enough of the road to pull over. I had no idea if there was anyone behind me or in front of me. I didn't know if I would get hit from behind or if I would plow into the back of someone in front of me.

I remember in the mid 50's, I want to say. Roswell had a flood so bad they sent the big military trucks around to evacuate people. We lived down close to Cahoon park and most of it was under water and rising when the trucks came around. We stayed and just "rode it out." My Grandmother, who lived in our home, was confined to the bed and my mother knew she was scared about being evacuated and how they would do it. Thankfully, we were okay.

At one time I lived on the corner of KY and 12th.....812 No. Kentucky. Our home was directly across from the ________river, (can't remember the name) but it was mostly dry. One particular big rain, the thing filled clear to the drop and was touching the bridge. We were praying hard that the rains would let up because our basement was on the verge of being flooded....whew, it did stop but it was a really close call.

Yes, there were def. some weather memories in Roswell for me, for sure. Luv N Hugs

R. E. Herky Veatch

That was in 1956 and the river name is the Hondo.

I lived on the hill, on North Kansas about 8 blocks from NMMI, other than the rain, we were high and dry. I remember seeing all the turcks and we eventually drove by the Blossom Shop and it was still under water.

Funny what you can remember.

Deborah Pike

Hi Guys,

I remember the dust storms that would come up  all of a sudden and it would be almost night!  I think the worst thing about it was that we girls had to wear dresses and when it blew, the sand and little rocks it carries sure hurt our legs!  That was the worst.

I also remember when we would go downstairs at Goddard after lunch the building would have dirt all over everything. I had Bio II right after lunch and Mrs. Eachs's classroom would have dissecting trays full of sand. Fetal pigs are bad enough by themselves but try to take the dirt off that paraffin in the tray. 

Still wish I could do it all again!

Debbie

Mardi Gonyea (Nicklin)

Yep exactly right Herky...thanks for helping my memory out...ha!! It could use a lot of help. They say to keep it active and you won't lose it but they don't say anything about losing your mind...ha!!

Always so good to see people recalling and sharing their stories. I love that. Luv N Hugs

Bill Leggett

R.E. HERKY, 

If you lived south of College Blvd it was 

   North Spring River, that ran thru Cahoon park that caused the most damage  

Hondo River was south of 2^Nd Street about SIX ( 6) Blk 

Gilbert "Butch" Colbert

That is correct.  I lived not too far from the Hondo river and spent time playing in it as a child.  I once watched a wall of water coming down the river from rain to the west of town.  As far as I can remember, the Hondo never flooded but it sure was full at times.

The Spring river, however, did overflow the banks at times and must have been quite a nuisance to people.

MaryLou Wilson

I lived at 706 S Lea across the street from The Blossom Shop. The Hondo was the bane of my parents’  existance. We were constantly told the stories of the children who drowned in the Honda by flooding from up river. A school friend live on Lea one block on the other side ofthe Hondo. We had to have parental supervision to walk to each others’ house. 

Bill Leggett

The Hondo River did over flow a few times. Then I remember that they made anyone able an was on (I will call assistance $$$ income from the County) In the fall before raining season they had them cleaning the river  bed.

Deborah Pike

Your posts reminded me that when I was first married (1969), we lived on South Penn in some apartments and our back porch was on the edge of the Hondo. I remember watching the water rise and get to just the top of the bank but luckiy it stopped. 

Fun times.

Debbie

William Samuel "Bill" Sloan

I admit I looked up the year. In 1953 my family moved from North Delaware to the new homes on Davidson Drive. The Hondo runs in between the back yards of Davidson Drive and Rancho Road. One of the floods was the next year 1954. I remember my dad putting sand bags around the back door and our street filled with a foot of water as we drove to the Dan Carpenter's home on the east side (Orchard). When we returned home a couple of days later we did not have any damage. I was too young to understand the "What if's" of the situation. However, the Hondo was an absolute great play ground when it was dry. Usually when the river started to run with water it started with a small flow - just enough for us to try and construct sand dams and see how long they held. I look back on those play times and some other stunts I pulled in my hometown and wonder how I ever made it alive to graduate from RHS!
 

Bill Leggett

R. E. Herky Veatch

Bill, once again you got the details in order, thank you.

I heard on the news about the explosion in at Walker. Terrible that those men were injured. I hope they will be okay.

Herky

Deborah Pike

Bill,

 Thanks for the news reports. I'm glad that no one was killed. 

Do you remember back in 1959 (I think) when one of the b-52s crashed at Walker Air Base and it destroyed the runway they usually used for those round trip flights to the Russian border "just in case." so they started to use a runway that had the jets go right over our house. (Excuse the run-on sentence. I write just like I talk!)

Debbie

Bill Leggett

Karen McCarty (Fink)

Bill Leggett

Thanks Rex Booth RHS 62

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Some humorous old timers living there say it’s a fact that “Pie Town is exactly 3.14 miles from the middle of nowhere." Pi (π) for the mathematical-minded ones out there.

They claim "you ain’t gone to heaven" unless you’ve eaten their popular “New Mexican Apple Pie”, which includes the state's famed green chile and is scented with piñon. 

Click below. Your mouth will be waterin' and be galdurn-glad you did!!

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Mardi Gonyea (Nicklin)

Oh WOW that's priceless, Bill. Dagwood was the first comic strip I would read in the Sunday comics. Relaxing with a cup of coffee and enjoying the Sunday paper, what memories!!

Priceless also, Pie Town, NM!! So many crazy towns I've been to also come to town....names like, Weed, NM, Slapout, OK, Foreplay, CO, Hays, KS, Beaver, OK, Nowhere, CO, Nothing, AZ, Greasy Corner, AR, Neutral, KS, Hooker, OK, also a Hooker, SD, Jot Em Down, TX and one more, W.

Is life great or what!! Luv N Hugs

Bill Leggett

Mardi don't for Weed, CA, or the town called Hell, 

Bill Leggett

1960 Slang Words

In the early 60's, as today, the young people had a different lingo and it, as today, drove our parents nuts. These are a few of the slang words that were used in the sixties. The keyword here is "used" as some of these words came from an earlier era.

Also, notice that "Dope" slang has, for the most part, been omitted from this list. There are plenty of Dope slang web pages out there. If that's what you're looking for, go to Google.com and type in Drug Slang.

If you have any slang to add, please let me know and I'll add the word if I think it applies. I get lots and lots of slang words from all over the world, but only about 5% are added.....

• A Gas -A lot of fun.
• All show and no go - Referenced to a car that had all the pretty chrome goodies, but wouldn't get out of its own way.
• Ape -Used with "Go", "Gone" or "Went". To explode or go completely irate. Example: "When my parents saw my report card, they went ape.
• Bad -Awesome
• Badass - A tough guy. A guy you really don't want to mess with.
  Bag -To Steal. Example: Who bagged my towel? ; also see Score
  Also; "What's your bag" meaning what's your problem or where are you coming from. 
• Ball -To party, as in Little Richards "Good Golly Miss Molly, Sho Like To Ball". 
  Beat Feet -Leave the scene in a hurry.
• Bench Racing -When a few of guys are sitting down (on a bench, maybe) talking about how fast a certain person's car is, or discussing who could beat who in a drag race.
• Birth Control Seats -Bucket Seats
• Bitchin (See also Twitchin') - Good, Exciting, Awesome.
• Blast - A Great Time. Example: "We had a blast at the Prom".
• Blew the doors off - Easily beat the other car in a race.
• Blitzed - Drunk
• Blown - A car engine that has a blower (supercharger) installed. Goes between the intake manifold and the carburetors/injectors. The blower made it go faster, which was always good.
• Blue Flamer - Take a B.A. ( also in the slang section ) and add a big fart...then ignite it with a match..
  Bogart - To "hog" something.
• Bone Yard - Auto wrecking yard; Junk yard.
• Boogie - See Cut Out
• Book - Leave the area.
• Bookin' - Going real fast, usually in a car.
• Boss - A great or cool thing. Example: "The Beach Boys new record is really boss".
• Bread - Money
• Brew (Brewski) - Beer
• Brody - Also, Brody Out; To skid in a half circle with the brakes locked up.
  Brody Knob - See "Suicide Knob"
• Buddha Head - Someone of Asian descent. (Pre-Political Correctness)
• Bug, To - To irritate or bother
• Bug out - Leave the premises
• Bummed out - Depressed
• Bummer, What a - How depressing
• Burn Rubber - To accelerate hard spinning the tires, making noise, and billows of smoke come from the rear of the vehicle.
• Candyass - A real wimp or an uncool thing.
• Cat - A guy.
• Channeled - A car body that has been lowered with respect to it's frame, leaving the suspension as it is.
• Cherry - Pristine, Totally Clean. Example: "That rod is cherry"!
  Chick - A girl or a woman.
• Chicken, To play - Two cars race toward each other; the first to pull to the side is the chicken (coward)
  Chinese Fire Drill - Stop at a Red Light. Everyone on the Driver's side would run around and get in on the Passenger's side. Everyone on the Passenger's side would run around and get in on the Driver's side.
• Choice - Really cool or bitchin. Example: "That girl with the tight sweater is really choice."
  Choose Off - To pick a fight or a race; as in, "John is going to choose-off Bob in a race for pinks". Or, "Ralph chose-off Bertha after school and she kicked his butt."
• Chop - To cut down verbally.
• Example: "Man, you're so ugly, you gotta slip up on a glass to get a drink of water." (Now that was a "chop".)
• Chopped - A section is cut out horizontally through the roof pillars of a car to lower the roof.
• Chrome Dome - A bald guy.
• Church Key - Before poptops, a Beer or Soda can was opened with one of these.
• Circus Wagon - A car, usually lowered, with an outlandish paint job, but in lousy shape, mechanically.
• "Climb it, Tarzan" - An act of defiance. Said while giving someone "the bird".
• Cool - Nice.
• Cool Head - Nice Guy
• Cooties - Someone who wasn't cool had them. No one ever saw them, but you knew who had them.
  Cop a Feel - Touch a girls "parts", sometimes pretending it was an accident
• Copasetic - Very good; all right, as in no problems. Example: Everything is copasetic.
  Crash - Go to bed; go to sleep.
• Crop Duster - A car with loud glasspacks.
• Cruising - Driving up and down the same street looking for races, girls, guys, etc.
• Cut Out - To leave without ceremony. As in, "Bob, this party is a drag. I'm gonna cut out."
• Cut Outs - additions to the exhaust system that would let you open the exhaust pipe in front of the muffler to let the engine breathe easier, thus adding horsepower and a whole lot of noise.
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• Daddy-O - Actually a 50's term for Man.
• Daddy's Car - A car that was very conservative looking; that might be owned by your parents.
• Dagoed - To lower a car in the front. (See Rake)
• Decked - A term used to indicate that the trunk handle had been removed, the holes filled, sanded smooth and primed. (See Nosed)
  Decked Out - Dressed up.
• Deuce - A 1932 Ford. As in, "She's my Little Deuce Coupe, you don't know what I got".
• Dibs - Most always used with "Got". Example: I "got dibs" on that Coke bottle. Meaning you owned that Coke bottle.
  Dig - Do you understand?
• Dip Stick, What a - An Idiot
• Ditz - An Idiot
  Don't Flip Your Wig - See "Don't have a Cow".
• Don't have a Cow - Used when someone was "going ape" or perhaps being a "spaz."
  Example: So I took your book by mistake, don't have a cow about it.
  Don't Sweat It - Don't worry about it; stop bothering me
  Dork - See Dip Stick
• Drag - To race another car a short distance (sometimes one block, sometimes two or three blocks) from a standing start at a stoplight when the light turned green. The term originally comes from the phrase "main drag", a combination of "main" or main street in town, and "drag" which referred to a car that was lowered in the back and dragged the ground if it hit a bump while racing or was just so low that it touched the ground if the street was not perfectly level.
  A Drag - Someone or something that's boring or un-enlightening.
• Drawing Designs - Usually some guy looking a girl over REAL good. Example: Ron was really drawing designs on Carolyn at the party last night.
• Duck Butt, Duck Tail or DA - A way of combing your hair in the back. Instead of combing your hair straight down in the back, you would comb both sides in towards the middle and then, with the end of the comb, part it down the middle.
• Dude - In the 60's, a dude was a geek or a panty waist.
• Easy - Another way of saying Goodbye. Example: "Easy, Man!!".
  Also a girl who was a sure thing, sexually. Example: That girl Bob took out last night was "Easy".
• Fab - Great, fantastic, fabulous.
• Far Out - Excellent, cool.
• Fink - A tattle tale. Example: You're such a fink. Why do you always tell mom everything I do?
• Five Finger Discount - Anything obtained by theft.
• Five-Oh-Two - Drunk Driving (502 was the State penal code number for the drunk driving infraction at that time)
• Flake - A useless person.
• Flake Off - Get outta here.
• Flat Top - A very short hair cut, usually cut extra close on top.
• Flat Top with Fenders - A flat top with long sides.
• Flee the Scene - See Bug Out
• Flip Flops - Thongs (that went on your feet)
• Flower Child - A Hippie
• Fox - An outstanding looking girl or woman.
• Freak Out - Temporary loss of control due to an unpleasant event.
• Funky - Neat, Cool; also gone bad. Example: I think that milk is funky.
• Fuzz - The Police
• Get or Lay Rubber - To leave some rubber on the street while accelerating in a vehicle. A term used usually with first, second, third, or fourth gear.
  Example: "Bob's 49 Ford is pretty fast. He can get second gear rubber."
• Gimme some skin - Shake hands
• Ginchy - Form of this word made famous by Ed Kookie Byrnes in the song, "Kookie, Kookie, lend me you comb". (Baby, you're the Ginchiest!"
• Go All The Way - Have sex with.
• Going Steady - If you were "Going Steady", you were dating only one special person.
• Golden - See Cherry.
  Gone - Cool, groovy, neat, neato; said of a person, as in He's a real gone cat. Or you could say, I'm gone over him. (wowed, infatuated, totally sold on).
• Gnarly -  Originally a difficult or large wave (He wiped out on a gnarly wave),later anything big or difficult (The Chemistry test was gnarly.), then later an expletive of approval (That custom paint job is gnarly!)
  Greaser - A guy that used too much grease in his hair. Usually "LB Butch Wax" or "Pomade"
• Gremmy(sp) - A rookie surfer.
• Groovy - Nice, "Cool" or Neat. Used commonly among hippies in the 60's.
• Groady (grow'- tee) - A shortened version of grotesque. When we went to wash the car (by hand at the park) we wore our grotees. Also, someone's dorm room if it was "trashed" out would be called grotey.
• Glasspacks - Mufflers that are packed with fiberglass to muffle the sound. They came in different lengths. The shorter the glasspacks, the louder the car.
• Gutt Waddin' - Any type of cheap fast food, to fill you up and take the hunger away. Example:"I'm going to Skippys to get some Gut Waddin."
  Hacked - Angry, disgusted, mad, ticked off, etc. Sometimes used in reference to parents. "My Old Man is really hacked at me about my grades...."
  Hairy - Large; out of control. Example: "Check out the hairy slicks on that Chevy.
• Hangin' - Awesome, Cool. 
• Hangin' a B.A. - A car full of guys pulls up to another car (usually full of girls) and one of the guys pulls down his pants, bends over, and sticks his "bare ass" out the window.
  Hang Loose - Relax; Take it easy.
• Haulin (Ass) - See Bookin'
• Hauls Ass - A car that really moves.
  Example: "Since Ron put the new engine in his car, it really hauls ass!"
• Heat - The Cops
• Heavy - Deep, Cool, Chaotic, Sad, Controversial
• Hep - With it. A person who understands the situation.
• Hip - Very good,cool.
• Hodad - A non-surfer, usually someone who just hangs around the beach.
• Hook - Steal
• Hopped Up - See Souped Up
• Hunk - What a girl would call a good looking gu
• Ivy Leaguers - A type of men's pants with no pleats, made of polished cotton, and with a buckle in the back.
• Jacked Up - To Raise the front end of a car. Done to transfer weight to the rear wheels for drag racing or just to make your car look cool.
  Jam - To leave the area, (See "Cut Out")
  Example: "Hey John, this party is going to get busted. I'm going to jam!"
  Jazzed - Elated, Excited; "This is going to be a great reunion. I'm really jazzed about going."
• Jelly Roll - Another way of combing your hair. You comb it up and forward on both sides and bring it together in the middle of the forehead.
• Jinx, You Owe Me A Coke!! - When two people said the same thing at the same time, one would slug the other on the shoulder and say these 6 little words.
  I don't think anyone ever paid up.
• Jump Bad - Looking for a fight - acting tough. As in "I think Jim was drunk last night, he tried to jump bad with everybody!"
• Keen or Keen-o - Someone or something that was Cool.
  Kibosh - To quickly put a stop to; Put the Kibosh on
• Kings X - To proclaim a truce or time out
  Kipe - To steal.
• Kissee - A cross between kiss-ass and sissy.
  Kiss up - The proverbial "Teachers Pet". This person who would do anything to please the teacher.
  Knocked Up - Pregnant
• Kybo - The bathroom. Stood for Keep Your Bowels Open.
• Later - Goodbye; See you later
• Lay A Patch/Strip - To accelerate leaving a strip or patch of rubber behind on the road. 
• Lay it on me - Speak your piece.
• Lay some scratch - To burn rubber in a vehicle. Example: That car is so powerful it can get second gear scratch.
• Lead Sled - Lead was used prior to Bondo to fill in the holes and to do body work. A lead sled was a car that had extensive body fill work done with lead.
• Light'em Up - See Burn rubber
• Lip Flappin' - Talking about things of little importance.
• Loaded - Intoxicate
• Make Out - Usually a kissing session in a parked car at a Drive In or other secluded place.
  "Meanwhile Back At The Ranch" - Used when someone who was telling a story would ramble off to another subject. So, the term was used by the listener to get the storyteller back on track. The term itself was no doubt linked to "the Western," which was TV's dominant genre in the late 50s and early 60s. Bonanza, Have Gun Will Travel, Rawhide, The Virginian and many more shows. 
  Meat - As in, "Hey Meat"; A jocks term for "Guy" or "Man"
  Melvin - See Wedgie; Example: "Jimmy the Fink was smarting off to Billy, so I sneaked up behind him and gave him a Melvin."
  Mirror Warmer - Usually, a piece of pastel blue or pink cashmere that was attached to elastic and was placed around the perimeter of your inside rear view mirror. It was usually your girl friends idea.
  Moon - To drop your pants, bend over, and show your bare butt. (See "Hangin a B.A.")
• Moons (Baby Moons) - Chrome hubcaps that were smooth and domed. They fit the inner part of the wheel, leaving room for beauty rings.
• Neat (Neato) - Nice; Sharp
• Nifty - Meaning "Cool" but usually said by someone who wasn't.
• Old Lady - Your Mother.
• Old Man - Your Father.
• On the Make - Usually after a break up of steadies, a guy or girl who was "on the make" was looking very hard for a new mate.
  Also, someone who's looking for another someone, sexually.
• Outta Sight - Fantastic, Awesome. Example: Hey Kathleen, that tie dyed top your wearing is "outta sight".
• Pad - Someone's house. Example: There wasn't much to do so we all hung out at John's pad, drank Cokes and listened to records.
• Padiddle - A word "called" by someone that has just seen a car with one headlight. The caller then receives a kiss from the person of their choice.
  Padunkle - Same as a Padiddle only it refers to a car with one taillight.
• Pants - An activity where usually two or more boys physically remove the pants from another boy so as to cause him embarrassment in a group setting.
• Panty Waist - A mama's boy or a geek.
• Paper Shaker - Pom Pom Girl
• Passion Pit - Drive-in Theater
• Peel Out - (See Lay A Patch/Strip)
• Peepers - Glasses
• Peggers - A type of men's pants, very similar to today's dockers, but with a cuff.
• PG - Pregnant
• Pig - Cop
• Pig Out - Over eat
• Pin - To look hard at someone. Example: Hey Bob, That guy over there is really pinning you.
• Pound - If someone was going to beat up someone else you said he was going to "pound" the other person. For an example, Joe caught Jim with the hubcaps that he stole from Joe's '50 Merc last night. He'll probably pound him after school. 
• Primo - First class.
• PV - Palos Verdes. A great place to make out. (Also stood for Pregnant Valley)
• Race for Pinks - Also race for pink slips. Meaning two people race and the winner gets the others car.
• Rags - Clothes
• Rap - Talk
• Rat Fink - (See Fink)
• Raunchy - Raw, Rank, Disgusting
  Real Gone Cat - Someone who marches to his own drummer. Example: The Fonz is a real gone cat.
• Right On - I agree; I concur
• Righteous - Extremely fine, beautiful. For us guys it was generally used when talking about the most important areas of our lives; cars and women.
  Ripped Off -To have something stolen, or to have stolen something
• Rule - As in, "Hodads Rule"; To take ownership of
• Sad - An expression of disapproval. Example: "That cat is really sad."
• Scarf - To eat very fast. Example:"I'm going to scarf this hot dog".
  Scheming - When someone is really interested in the opposite sex. Example: "Jim is really scheming on Jill"
• Score -To obtain something valuable or necessary; (Let's go score some pizza.); Also to go all the way with a girl.
  Scratch - Money
• Screwed, Got - Cheated out of something
• Screwed up - Made a mistake; messed up in the head; intoxicated
• Sectioned - A section is cut out horizontally through the body of a car to give it a lower sleeker look.
• Sex Pot - A sexy or seductive woman.
• Shades - Sunglasses
• Shag Ass - Let's get out of here. Example: "Let's shag ass before the cops get here."
• Shake it, Don't Break it! - Said to a girl who had an awesome wiggle in her walk.
• Shine It On - Don't give it much thought; just forget about it.
• Shined Me/Them On - Ignored me/them, or their comments.
• Short - Car.
• Shotgun - A place of honor in the front seat of a car nearest the door. Usually reserved for the coolest guy in the group besides the driver of the car. If there is a doubt, before entering the car someone will call shotgun and then everyone will argue as to who actually will ride shotgun.
• Skag - An ugly girl.
• Skank - See Skag
• Skanky - Gross, Disgusting
• Skirt - Girl
• Skuzz - Lowdown; undesirable
• Skuzz Bucket - An ugly car
• Slug Bug - This when you saw a VW beetle on the road. Saying "Slug Bug" before anyone else gave you the right to hit or slug the person next to you
• Slut - A promiscuous girl
• So Fine - Another cool or bitchin' thing. "That girl in my science class is so fine".
  Used in a variety of early rock and roll songs usually as follows:
  "She's so fine, she makes me want to blow my mind".
• So Tuff - See So Fine
• Smokem' - "Let's see you burn rubber"
• Snowing Down South, It's -Said to a girl when her slip was showing.
• Solid - Something that is ok or all right.
• Sosh - Meaning a person who is stuck-up, snooty, and thinks they are better than everyone else.
  Example: "That girl wearing those fuzzy bobby-sox is a real sosh!"
   (Now, in the 90's, we know of course, that fuzzy bobby-sox DO indicate superiority.)
• So Tough -See Tough
• Souped Up -A car that's had the engine modified to go fast. Example: "Bob really souped up his car. It did the quarter in 14.5 seconds!"
• Spaz - Used as a put down, or to describe someone who was acting retarded.
  Split - See Cut Out
• Sponge - One big need. Everything you get comes from those around you. AKA; bum. Also practiced by those who are so stingy as not to spend their own money. Someone who is always borrowing money or is always broke. A spongy person
• Square - Someone who was not "Cool". Example: "Jerry's so square, all he does is his homework, watch TV, and he doesn't even like Elvis!"
• Stacked - Being well endowed, "Upstairs" Example: "Wow, that girl is really stacked!!"
• Steady - Boyfriend or Girlfriend
• Stoked (as in I'm stoked) - Excited
• Stone - A car that's pretty slow.
• Stoned - Intoxicated
• Stood Up - When a guy (or girl) didn't show up for a date
• Stuck Up - Conceited
• Stud - See Hunk
• Submarine Races - A place at the beach or PV, where you would park facing the ocean and wait for the Submarines to start racing. Of course they wouldn't show up, but while you were waiting, you'd make out....for hours until the insides of your lips were raw.
  Swampwater - Half A&W Root Beer and half Orange Drink
• Swapping Spit - Those passionate, "get down and really into it", French Kisses.
  Swordfish Fights - See Submarine Races
  Swear to Buddha - I guess we thought it was less irreverant than saying "I swear to God."
  Sweat Hog - A fat chick.
• Teach - A Teacher
• "The A" - The A&W Drive In
• "The Bird" - The Finger.
• "The Digs" - The Drags
• "The Hill" - Institute Hill
• "The Most" - Something that is the best or the greatest (Superbitchin')
• "The Man" - Police
• Think Fast - It usually was used to tell you to get ready because someone was tossing you something.
• Thongs - In the 60's, thongs were something you wore on your feet.
• Threads - Clothes
• Tough or Tuff - Neat, cherry, great, bitchin'. - as in "Wow, she's really a tuff chic!"
  Trollin' - Cruising around looking for girls. As in "Let's go trollin' for some chicks."
• Truckin - Get going 
• Twitchin' - The word used instead of Bitchin', around your parents.
• Wedgees - A shoe style. The sole and heel were one piece and on the same plane.
• Wedgie - When someone pulls your underwear up from the back and it ends up in the crack all on it's own. Now they call it a thong and wear them on purpose.
• Wet Willie - A trick played when someone wets their finger and puts it in your ear.
  What's Your Bag, Man? - What's your problem; where are you coming from?
• Wicked - Term of Admiration.
• Wiggin' out - Going crazy
• Wipe(d) out - Originally, to fall off a wave while surfing, later to crash one's vehicle and severely damage it (He wiped his coupe out at the drags.), then later a term for extreme fatigue (I'm wiped out, I'm gonna crash.)
  Wiz, Take a - Urinate
• Woody - An erection

Zits - Pimples

Diana May Codling (Reed)

Mardi, you missed Blue Ball and Intercourse....both in PA!

Bill Leggett

Diana,

Diana May Codling (Reed)

It always surprises me how mant Amish live in that area.  But with no electric in the homes, you gotta do something!

Bill Leggett

This is listed in VETERANS TRIBUTE at the top 

The new VA burials and memorials page simplifies the process

I have looked this information over, and will be filling out the required information for myself and wife. All you have to do is fill out the forms. A lot of information is required. I.E. like some of old timers that had a issued Military ID number before they changed over to your SSN number.

Just open the page and you will see a list of everything you didn't think of, as I know that I am going to request some information.
 

The new VA burials and memorials page simplifies the process of using your burial benefits and memorial items. On this page, you can apply for your burial benefits, plan a burial, and find other resources. These resources can help you with things like replacing medals, awards, and other decorations. Visit this page today and apply for the burial benefits you’ve earned.

James A "Jim" White

On this Father's Day, I post this picture of KEITH BURKE from a picture his daughter posted on Facebook. Please pardon the theft, Keith, but we think it is a classic and salute you and all fathers on this day. 

For others wondering where Kathy and I are, currently in North Carolina. Yes, we did swim at the beach where the teenage girl lost her leg 2 weeks ago to a shark. Yes, we did see the wild horses, called Banker horses, living on the outer banks (Nicholas Sparks territory). Yes, we are where the 914 lb. Blue Marlin was caught yesterday in the fishing tournament. The heaviest to that point was 589 lbs.

In the next two weeks, Kathy and I will be pulling the 5th-Wheel into Durham, NC, Charlottesville, VA, Hershey, PA then Gayles Ferry, CT. Anyone live near those places? BOYCE McFARLAND is now in South Carolina but headed to Calgary, Canada soon. MARY HUSEMOLLER has not told me in ages where she is or what she is doing. I hope you do not mind me calling you out, Mary. MARIANNE COONS McCULLOUGH is still in Roswell and DOREEN WILLIAMS is still in Albuquerque. DORIS FLOOD BURTON moved to Nebraska, HERKY VEACH has been found in SE Houston and MILDRED ANDREWS FORD is quiet, as always (like she is hiding out). Classmates, please let us know where you are and what your doing or where you are going. We really would like to know.

Jim (flunky), Kathy (saint), Kevin (Lt. Col. USAF), Brad (Exec. Chef), Lyndee (Opera Singer)

Karen McCarty (Fink)