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I surely do not like saying this but this just might be the last newsletter that we send out.
Due to my e mail server putting me down I have only a very few of the e
mail addresses that were on file.
So with only a few people able to see the newsletter it is doubtful
that we will have anything to write about.
So as much as I dislike this I just do not know what to do.
Thanks For All The Help With This
Gail Woodward
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THE
WEST ENDER
OUR MAILING LIST NOW NUMBBERS
1622 WITH THE ADDITIONN OF QUITE A FEW
THERRELL HIGH SCHOOL READERS LAST MONTH.
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HAPPY VALENTINES
Notice of the death of Gary Conger Brown High class of 1955
Gary died Jan.7th, he also attennded Ragsdale school, Oakland City Methodist Church.
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Lamartine Garr Brown High 1957.
Lamartine G. Peevy |
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 Lamartine G. Peevy February 12, 1940 - January 12, 2009
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I know that we have readers who were from
College Park and E#ast Point, here is a notice for George Guess who
attended Hapeville High school and also lived in East Point
This is in case there may be readers that grew up in the Hapeville/East Point area.
George Dallas Guess passed away on October 7, 2008 at the age of 75. Dallas grew up in Hapeville and graduated from Hapeville High School in the early 1950's, when school went to only 11 grades. He retired from the Bell System in 1987 and moved to Cleveland, GA. In 2003, he and his wife, Carol, moved to Pensacola, Fl.
He is survived by his wife, daughters Patty Hall and Charlotte
Burke and son Mike. A Memorial Mass was celebrated by Father Thad
Rudd at St. Paul The Apostle Catholic Church in Cleveland, Ga., on December 6, 2008. His ashes are interred at Barrancas National Cemetery on Pensacola Naval Air Station.
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TERRELL,
Burton BURTON LEROY TERRELL Burton Leroy Terrell passed away January
24, 2009 after a year-long battle with cancer. Mr Terrell graduated
from Joseph E. Brown High School in 1950 and the Georgia Institute of
Technology in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering
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A special Message from Marilyn
Let's all Keep Richard Fair (Brown 1956) in our thoughts and prayers as he recovers from a severe heart attack last month.
John Cooper Brown High 1957 sent his picture of Mrs. Walls J.C.Harris 4th. grade class --1949
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Row 5: Jack Donehoo : Bobby Tidwell : Mrs. Walls : Unknown : Bill Reynolds
Row 4: Bill Wynn : Alan Dean : James McCollum : Bobby Murphy : Bill Clonts
Row 3: Unknown : _ Johnson : Lewis (Steve?) Martin : John Cooper : Sammy Calloway : Unknown : Unknown : Jack Rudasill
Row 2: Tony Hunt : Tommy Clark : Joyce Byrd : Margaret Camp : Carol Wilson : Unknown : Unknown : Unknown
Row 1: Carolyn Lord : Unknown : Myrna Wiggins : Unknown
A new friend Roger Hensley sentt his reflections of growing up in two different areas of Atlanta.
I was born at Crawford Long in 1943. Our family lived on Georgia
Avenue next door to Capitol Ave Baptist Church. Our hose sat on the
spot currently ocupied by a parking lot just across from the main gate
to Turner Field. My grandfather managed the old Empire Movie Theater
which was where Turner Field is now. The Georgia Ave area had
everything to be self-contained. Austin's Market, also at the site of
Turner Field, seemed like the largest grocery store in the world at the
time. French's Ice Cream was there along with a barber shops, a
hardware store and a cafe.Georgia Ave, Washington St & Pryor St
were lined with Victorian style houses though many had seen better
days. A back alley ran behind the houses for garbage service and
deliveries.
A few years later we moved to Church St in NW Atlanta. It ran between Bankhead Highway and Baker Rd.
Next we moved to 1663 North Ave in Grove Park. I attended Lena H Cox Elementary. I spent every
available hour at the Grove Park Gym often getting a whipping for coming home late!
Our
neighborhood movie theater was the Grove where admission was 10 cents
and the movies were only a few years old when shown there. Every
Saturday night they had a late show - usually "Frankenstein",
"Wolfman", "Dracula" or the "Mummy". The show usually ended around
midnight or later. Many a time I ran home as fast as my legs would
carry me imagining that the Wolfman was close behind!
On Sundays as
a treat we would usually go to the Glass House Restaurant at the Heart
Of Atlanta Motel, Sprayberry's Cafeteria on Peachtree near the Fox or
to the Pickrick.For hot dogs we preferred the Yellow Jacket to the
Varsity. We also liked Joe Cottons.
As a seventh grader I was a
Patrol Boy. A group of us used to ride the bus downtown on Saturday
mornings to the movies, usually the Paramount. We especially liked the
"magic store" across from the Paramount.
When the Southeastern Fair
was in town, my friends and I would ride the bus there and spend the
entire day and into the night there. Our parents never feared for our
safety! Disney World or Six Flags cannot hold a candle to the joys and
mysteries of the Fair! What do they have to equal the freak
show and all the other side shows not to mention the rides?
This months old radio show
takes us back to tthe times when we would gather around the old Philco
and listen to the Inner Sanctum Mysteries and the "squeeking
Door".
click here Island of Death Go back In Time.
Hello,
my name is Donna Pruitt Kimball, I never lived in West End or for that
matter anywhere but the area of 2nd. Ave-Flatt Shoals and Glenwood area
until I finished High School. But I am married a man who was born
and raised in Sylvan Hills and I always enjoy reading the newsletter
that he receives.
But the reason for my
letter is that I like to reflect on the areas where I grew up and
entertained myself. I remember there was a little tiny grocery store on
Flat Shoals operated by a Mr. Puckett, I can picture him right now
selling us all the penny candy from his candy counter, I think also of
swimming at Glenwood Springs and that cold water that wAs so
comfortable in July and August,also swimming at Misty Waters and
staying around to watch the older kids dancing, We used to walk to the
Gresham Park Pharmacy for ice cream treats as well as cherry Cokes,
lime Cokes, and cherry Coke floats.
I
enjoy your newsletter very much and look forward to seeing it each
month and hope some more peoplle from my old "stomping grounds would
write in because I do forward this newsletter.
Thank You Sooooo!! Much.
Donna
I guess maybe this photo will bring back a lot of memories.
Does anyone remember the "Hang Out" at Panama City Beach ?
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Shirley Stone sent this picture of an "old flame" taken at the "Hang Out".
BARBARA MCwHORTER (CARSON) 3RD. GRADE 1944
From right to left Top row Lamar Cagle Leon Woodbury
Billy Cocklan Clifford Bonds Jerry
Upshaw Jimmy Jones Alfred Randle Robert Dobby
Adran Bonner Next
row Wayman cobbler Jerome Williams Harry
Tissue Bonnie Oneadian Joyce Quaterbaum
Kenneth Millnes Billy Howard Charles
Bridges Front row Barbara
McWhorter(me) Sandra Hickman Bertha
Jones Jeannette Malson Peggy
Campbell Jean DeRamous Marian Carter June
Moss The picture was Miss Leaper 3rd grade May 11,
1945.
I would like to reply to Dian Heard Cole,
who was
talking about the alley behind her house. We too had an Alley
behind our house on S. Gordon St., but it was no longer being used by
the garbage trucks. My mother lived in our house when she was growing
up and my dad kept the alley behind our house cleaned up all the time
and we too had a little Gold Fish Pond in our back yard that my
grandfather made when my mother was little and it also had a smaller
pond next to it for the tadpoles. We would have to get into the
pond every year and pull the plug to drain the water and then clean the
pond out.
My girls would
get the Sears catalog and mark the toys that they wanted Santa to bring
them. I would have to say to them that we needed to take the
catalog to Santa and show him the items that they did not want, because
there were very few item that they did not mark.
You are right
Dian about the dime store across from Clyatt's Drug Store and there was
also a little Grocery store at the corner across from the Baptist
Church. Use to go in there with a friend and get Ice Cream.
Does anyone
remember the Krystal downtown Atlanta, near the Lowe's
Theater? Krystal's sure don't taste like they did then.
We went to
Gordon St. Presbyterian Church and the Pastor then was Rev.
Griggs. We all sang in the choir. I have three sisters,
Carolyn, myself (Ann), Marie and then Gloria Waddell who was the
youngest. Those were the days. We also went to J C Harris
and the to Brown High School. I graduated with the class of
'63.
My e-mail is [Email Address Removed]
I went through school being called by my first name Beverly
and then after graduation started going by my middle name Ann.
Happy New Year to All
To Rev. Richard P. Williams,
I too, was a member of Cascade Baptist Church. I have pics
of my Grandfather and Father being baptized there. I can remember
walking up the steps to my Sunday school class, especially,when they
stated on the radio that Marilyn Monroe had died. Why does that stick
in my head?
There are great memories of that church and the pastor Rev.George
Hulsey and his daughter Cheryl, who was in my Sunday school class.
I remember a prayer we always said at the end of Sunday school: "May
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in
thy sight, Amen." I still pray that prayer today!
Rev. Willaims thanks for those memories.
Jan Whelchel Richardson
1391 Lockwood Drive
Atlanta, Georgia 30011 [My old address in good old SW Atlanta.]
My cousin always forwards the West Ender to me when she receives it. I enjoy it so!
I grew up in Southwest Atlanta in a family of 5 children and 6
cousins that lived next door on Derry Ave. We grew up as one big family
and most of us attended Brown High School. The Bakers: (David, Mike,
Jerry Marie (me), Ruth, and Pat. The Hords: Sue, Hap, Steve,
Kathy, Kim & Shelly.
I graduated in 1965 and would love to hear from some of the
people in my class and in the old neighborhood. I would also like
to find out about some of the teachers that taught at Brown during
the early and mid 60's, Mrs Coker, especially, was such a sweet
lady. It was so much fun to learn French in her class.
We had a wonderful, carefree youth. We were happy, safe and,
even though we did not have much as far as material "things", we never
knew it. We played outside all day and rode our bikes from morning to
night all over the surrounding neighborhoods without a care. We had
good solid home lives, where mothers were mostly at home. We went to
church, knew right from wrong and there was no question that going
to school and getting an education was our biggest responsibility.
There were very few dropouts in those days.
I spent a lot of Saturdays at the Gordon Theater with my friends,
seeing the same movie over & over all day long if it was a good
one. Back then, as a Catholic family, we could only see movies that
were OK'd by the church. The printed list hung in our pantry and no one
went to the show until the list was checked.
Bandstand was our after school special program once we got a tiny
little black & white TV. The screen was probably no bigger than 8"
or 9".
I remember Miss Georgia milk shakes, Joe Cotton's, the Wren's Nest, the Varsity, all the wonderful experiences of West End.
We walked everywhere we went. I'd meet one of my best friends half
way from her house to mine and we would walk back to one of our houses
gabbing all the way about the newest record or boys.
Thanks for letting me share. Reading the West Ender always brings back such great memories.
Jerry Marie Baker Rawlins
Dolores Neely sent in her E.L.Connally Kimfrtgarden picture. May 1945
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E. L. CONNALLY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Kindergarten – May 24, 1945
1st row
3rd row
Gale
Cauley Lindsey
Smith
Unknown
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David Berkhan
Linda
Seagraves
Anthony Price
Dan
Honea
Bobby Hardwick
Grant
Card
Don Hoover
Barbara
Gresham Robert
Brown
Millie
Holland
Christine Forrest
Unknown
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Wayne Yarbrough
David
Stovall
Jan Lambert
2nd row
4th row
Connie Smith
Ann Robinson
Harry
Stephens
Jack Johnson
Buddy Brown
Dolores Banda
Sara
Patrick
Michael Patron
George
Snead
Dick Carlson
Billy
Davis
Bill McGonigal
George Costner
Larry Quarterbaum
Diane
Clay
Unknown ??
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