Last day at the old Paschal
• • • Memories ever in our hearts remain • • • Into Newer Structure in Fall Paschal, Having Schooled Many, Folds Its Pennant and Moves On By Elston Brooks They'll go into desk-bare classrooms Friday morning, walk out with report cards, someone will lock the doors and that'll be all of Paschal High School in the 1000 block of W. Cannon. The Building becomes Technical High School in … [Read more...]
Carlson’s
Bill Frost with Arthur, Charlie, and the Meyersons
Here is a picture taken in Dallas at Mort's Mom's "Mother of the Year" award luncheon. This was one of the last pictures I (Bill Frost) have of Charlie Hillard before he was killed in the plane crash in Fl. … [Read more...]
The Parkaire Drive-In
Scotty and Doug
Gotta' tell you another track tale: Scotty and Doug were our quick guys. At a meet we were running at Farrington Field one sunny day (seems like most of our meets were in rain), Scotty was running in a sprint heat and was way out in front when he started screaming to Coach McCauley "I can't see, I can't see Coach!" Coach yelled back "Open your eyes Scotty; open your eyes!" Scotty had tensed up so … [Read more...]
Bobby Kinney and Mike Tripp
This is a photo lifted from our annual of Bobby Kinney and me (Mike Tripp) running low hurdles. (Note: Bobby's good form vs. mine going over the hurdle.) Coach McCauley noted that Bobby and I took two extra steps between hurdles and he advised us that we were losing time because of it. He'd already taught us to get low over the hurdles in order to get back down on the track quicker. As you can … [Read more...]
from Kay Blackburn Tolksdorf
all right, which of you guys threw the pennies? I remember a few times that chandelier did sway ...or was it my imagination! I remember at the new school, during modern dance class the boys would throw pennies over the partition! I did love hearing stardust played over the intercom, it's still a favorite of mine ...every time I hear it I think of PHS... - Kay Tolksdorf … [Read more...]
from Gail Brown Milner
I remember sometimes Mr. Wyatt would play Stardust on the intercom instead of the ringing the last bell of the day.... pep rallies at the old high school -- and trying to make the chandeliers sway with the sound of the student body yelling .... going back over to look at the old building when it was empty after we moved to the new PHS. We would look in the windows and be sad remembering all … [Read more...]
from Beverly Jones Spencer
I remember: .......how wide the stairs were at the "old PHS" (before we moved to Forest Park). ....... how those same stairs were hollowed out from so many kids going up & down them over the years. ....... open windows in the whole building----long before A/C in schools. .......study hall with Miss Mixon (until I got out & got scheduled into 2 PE classes (unheard of these days!) … [Read more...]