Memories

...Fassnight Park......Grant Beach Park.....Doling Park.....Fairgrounds......City Hall Drugstore.....Heers.....5&10 stores (Newberrys, Grants, Woolworths)......riding the bus...... Cruisin' the drive-ins...Fishers Hi-Boy....Taylors....Sky Ranch...More?

Do you have memories you would like to share about School, "life in the fifties", Springfield, or  past re-unions?

Send them to me or post them on the message board.

Dot Best Vestal.....

"One thing I remember is when the disc jockey (I think his name was Bob Dodson) was at one of the drive-ins on South Glenstone behind Fisher's Hi-Boy.  We could call in and request songs and have them played for someone else.  That radio program helped me with my shorthand.  If I was home, I wrote all the words to the songs in shorthand.  Turned in a lot of homework and got credit for it. Ha.

An excerpt from an email I received from  Sandra Clayton Ohler

......................"Do you recall when they used to raid the local teenage hang-outs (Mueller’s, Red Barn, etc.) and the newspaper placed a black line across the eyes of the people? (Sunday morning papers were very interesting because you could tell usually identify most of the people.) That was one of the memories that hadn’t been mentioned and also has anyone mentioned the can-cans and hoop skirts we girls wore?"...............

Does anyone remember listening to WLAC in Nashville at night during the fifties?...click on the picture to go to a webpage story of the station.

For a story on the new improvements at Central High School click here

Some of the landmark buildings in Springfield...

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               Heers          Landers Theater