Adventures in Literature, Part 1

An Evening in Paris

This is the stage decoration for the Junior-Senior Prom in 1956. Those are mannequins, not students, and the stage is at the Ross Avenue Elementary Cafetorium.

Save the Last Dance for Me

DeMolay Dance

The Safety Patrol!

Almost Summer, for the Last Time

First Methodist Church

Almost Summer Yet Again

Almost Summer Again

Almost Summer

The Senior Play

Science Fair Winners

And the Winners Are . . . .

Senate Resolution

Remember when I posted the article about the senior trip and mentioned the resolution passed by the senate while we were in the chamber? I said I couldn't find my copy of the resolution. Well, I found it. Note the signature of the President of the Senate. John Black is married to Kay Ramsey.

Cedar Chest

These little cedar chests were give away by Henderson's Electric. Unfortunately it's impossible to read the inscription in the photo. Does anybody still have one of these?

Joe Tom Haney

If you want to read the long article that goes with this photo (it's pretty interesting), click here. Mr. Haney will be 80 on August 19. If you want to send a card, here's the last known address:
2342 briargate, bryan, tx., 77802.

Beth Bounds Parker

Beth Parker, left, and Mary Lane peel potatoes in the make-believe village of Anatevka, the setting for Fiddler on The Roof, previewed for persons who attended the Thursday night program and dinner at Tehuacana.

The Mexia Theater

Raymond Explains the Art of the Whip to Rodney

Rodney Allbright on the left, Raymond Thomas on the left. Imagine the panic this scene would cause on a school campus today. Both guys wearing pistols, and one of them with a bullwhip. Raymond was cool. Not even Clint Eastwood ever wore his pistol slung that low.

Neil DeZelle

From Dana Moss: "Here is a picture of Neil and me, made when we were about 12 and 14. He lived on Main about 2 houses down from Ross. The picture is looking back toward town. We had been to the fair in Waco and won a paper boy paper throwing contest in front of several thousand people. Neil won first place and got the bicycle and I won third and got the football."

Kendrick & Horn

Remember the Kendrick & Horn menu? (If you don't, click here.) I should have remembered to post this picture with the menu.

Ride 'em, Cowgirl!

Sandra Romain on horseback. Now we know who Lee Marvin copied when he won that Oscar for Cat Ballou.

A Couple of Guys

Raymond Thomas and Joe Owens.

Five Cool Cats

From left to right: Joy Bates' kid brother, Joy Bates, Sandra Romain, Jan Grice, Ina Cooper.

St. Mary's Catholic Church

A somewhat better photo (and more recent) than the previous one of St. Mary's.

Sounds like a Hot Meeting to Me

Dos Amigos

Roy Moore and Fred Williams

West Main, Early 1900s

This is on west Main, looking east. You can see railroad crossing sign, and the fire station in the distance in the middle of the picture. A little closer is the Eubanks Hardware building. (Click on the pic to enlarge it.)

Christmas in July

Boy Scouts, 1951

Back row, left to right: Lynn Hammer, Jerry Hathaway, Jerry Matthews.
Front row, left to right: David Winningham, Lloyd Fowler.

Top 20, July 1959

We'd graduated. Some of us were working summer jobs, waiting to go off to college in the fall. Some of us had probably gotten married. Some of us had jobs that we'd hold for a long time afterward. So what were we listening to on the radio? Here's Billboard's top 20 for July 1959. How many do you remember?

1. Lonely Boy - Paul Anka
2. The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
3. Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson
4. Personality - Lloyd Price
5. Tiger - Fabian
6. Lipstick on Your Collar - Connie Francis
7. My Heart is an Open Book - Carl Dobkins, Jr.
8. Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
9. Tallahassee Lassie - Freddie Cannon
10. Bobby Sox to Stockings - Frankie Avalon
11. A Boy withiut a Girl - Frankie Avalon
12. I Only Have Eyes for You - Flamingos
13. 40 Miles of Bad Road - Duane Eddy
14. Big Hunk o' Love - Elvis Presley
15. Frankie - Connie Francis
16. There Goes my Baby - Drifters
17. Along Came Jones - Coasters
18. M.T.A. - Kingston Trio
19. Just a Little too Much - Ricky Nelson
20. Lavender Blue - Sammy Turner

First Presbyterian Church

Suzanne Hayter and Friend

Tennis Champs

Our Big-Time Senior Trip

Senior Gift

The Blackcat Staff

Class Will

Girls Honored

The Student Council

Unforgettable?

Coaches

Scholarship Students

Co-Captains and the Coach

Senior Class Officers

The "New" Gym

Miss Minnie (and a couple of others)

Royalty, Indeed

Another Sweetheart, 1957