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Do you remember.............

Created on: 09/26/10 01:02 PM Views: 4859 Replies: 1
Do you remember.............
Posted Sunday, September 26, 2010 08:02 AM

This is open to all classmates, what do you remember about high school lunctimes, where you went for lunch, what you did excetra? 

Feel free to post any memories;

Hmm, Jays at Friendly

Taco Bell, Battleground

Yum Yum

Ham's on Friendly

A few that come to mind.

Ken Sharpe

 
Do you remember.............
Posted Friday, November 2, 2012 02:20 PM

Random urban legends and memories about Grimsley in 1980:
*Mr. Green was teaching history and sat on the sill of his open window. He accidentally tumbled out into the bushes. *Billy adds that once Petey stepped in his trash can too.

*Mr. Saunders had his "Ginsu Knife" in Algebra glass. His yardstick. He would slap it on your desk if you started to fall asleep.

*You could tell who drove the muscle cars at Grimsley...they would always take up two spaces by parking diagonally, so no one would "ding" their doors!

*It was always a relief to have a science class because that was the only building on campus with AIR CONDITIONING!

*I had Mr. Ramos for Math one semester. But he taught using an overhead projector with all the LIGHTS OFF!  So I think I must have fallen asleep many a hot afternoon!

*The Ham's Restaurant on Friendly was a Grimsley hangout. This year the restaurant had to close after 75 years...

*A popular drink to get in high school was an "Orange Ade" at McFall's Drug Store near Ham's.

*The night before a Page/Grimsley football game some Page guys broke into the stadium to burn a giant "P" in the field. But cops chased them off before they could ignite the gas. Still, the gas killed the grass anyway, so there was a big brown "P" at game time.

*Randy Barlow was in the Marine JROTC and they sold bags of "Charms Blow Pops" all year as a fundraiser. A couple times a week I would buy a bag from him and re-sell them individually for a <small> profit during my classes.

*After the big musical at Grimsley, we had a cast party at Dana Luper's. Somehow it turned into a mega-house-party with 500 people!...including the Page soccer team. Cars were parked for blocks in every direction. Cops showed up...but I think they were only directing traffic! Several people got thrown in the pool. The next day, we saw Tony Luper picking up cans on the lawn using big leaf bags.

*The night before our Sophomore year drama production of "Of Mice and Men", Dale Johnson and Brad Wheeler went to House of Pizza on Battleground. Dale sat on the pinball machine. The glass broke, cutting his butt really badly. The next day he had to perform with a rear end full of stitches!

**We performed "Of Mice and Men" as a matinee for visiting Kiser kids. In one scene, Dale was supposed to grab a mouse from "Lenny", played by Tony Luper ('78), and throw it away. But when Dale threw the rubber mouse off stage, it hit a flat wall and bounced back on stage. The kids roared with laughter.

*I remember riding "Bus 152" home each day. Back then the drivers were our fellow students! The buses would go down Campus Drive by Kiser to wait at the stoplight to turn on Benjamin. Sometimes our driver would play "bumper cars" with the bus in front of us. He would let the bus roll down and ram into the bumper of the other bus...over and over.

*Speaking of Bus 152, during 10th grade I only missed the bus ONE morning. Ironically, that one morning was the time it was involved in a bad crash. My mom had to drive me to school and as we approached Friendly at Elam, near Wesley Long, I saw a bus nearly tipped over on the church lawn. A driver of an eastbound car on Friendly was blinded by the morning sun and T-boned the bus. As we drove past, I saw Raymond Tucker ('78), Anita Pratto and everyone else from my neighborhood sitting on the church lawn, and the front wheel of the bus was bent off.

*Do you realize that the entire "Disco Era" came and went while we were in high school! The kids where I teach today dress up for "70s Day" during homecoming spirit week. Regardless of their impression of that era, back at the time, most of my high school friends didn't listen to disco songs but rock.  (It's kinda depressing that our music is now called "Classic Rock").

*Personally, I thought our graduation at the Greensboro Coliseum was lame. It was a hot day. And to save time, Mr. Glenn just kept reading the names regardless of who was crossing the stage at the time. Things got all out of sync. When he finished calling out the last name, there were still about 100 seniors waiting to cross the stage to get their diploma in silence.  

*On "Senior Skip Day" many of us went up to Belews Creek. Some daring guys were diving off the bridge...until the Sheriff came and ran us off.

*One year some vandals from Page slashed tires and broke windows on dozens of Grimsley school buses, causing thousands of dollars in damage. Other years the Grimsley sign at the end of Campus Drive got painted with "Page!", and once it was even cut in half by a chain saw!

*The movie "Animal House" with John Belushi's "food fight!" came out our senior year. Ken and some other guys staged their own food fight and trashed the McDonalds near the Janus Theater.

*In the summer of 1977 we waited in long lines outside the Janus to see Star Wars.  Some people saw it over and over.  There were also Saturday midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Janus Wings on Tate Street.  People would dress up at characters or bring toast, rice, water and such to throw at points in the movie. 

*In May of 1980, Lee Spencer, Ronald Tucker, Dale Johnson and I skipped class so that we could be the very first ones to see "The Empire Strikes Back"! But my brother Eric ('78) ruined the story for me! He worked at the Terrace and wore a "Chewbacca" costume that day. As we were waiting in line he shouted, "Luke gets his hand cut off" and "Darth Vadar is his father!" Everyone waiting in line groaned! I have never forgiven him for that!

 
Edited 05/05/21 12:33 PM