Iowa Falls High School Class of 1969
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Iowa Falls High School Class of 1969
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We understand that not everyone might feel comfortable writing an article, or even a short bio on themselves. But, everyone can answer a short question. We have posted some questions below, for which we really want to know the answers. Email your answer to WEBMASTER. We will post all of the answers we receive and hopefully some new questions.
1) What the heck was "Radio Show"? The annual says some of us participated in it...but WE DON'T remember...."
Read An Article About The Radio Show
2) What was the NAME of that tiny store across the street from the high school where hundreds of us must have gone at lunchtime?
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The name of the little store across the street was The Pantry. -
Linda Bakas Baker
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The Pantry was a candy store
long before the people that owned it began to serve lunches for HS students.
If you lived in that general vicinity when you were in elementary school you
would remember it as a place to go when you saved up a quarter and wanted to
be able to select any number of types of candy. With a quarter you could
walk away with a pretty nice sized bag of candy which could include red
licorice dollars, foil covered chocolate coins, wax miniature pop bottles
with sweet liquid inside, dozens of sugar dots attached to paper rolls and
the "crème de la crème", malted milk balls. Have I missed any types
anybody??? - Steve Wikert
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The Pantry was owned by an old couple, the Haupts. Essentially, they turned their garage into a candy store. Steve, my favorite was the red licorice dollars and I had forgotten that until I saw your paragraph. To this day, red licorice is my comfort food when I’m stressed. My grandma, Wilma Lentz, took me to the Haupts to deliver meals when they were older (could they have been any older than they were behind the counter??)) and I recall thinking I couldn’t believe these dear wizened geriatrics were the candy dealers of IF. Remember how we used to cram in there to escape the cold of winter, plumes of breath floating upwards as we ate Twinkies while crammed against our friends’ woolen coats? No wonder I have a weight problem! I would have died before I left my kids eat like that. Jim Harper wore cute plaid slacks because I had the most horrid teeth in town and kept his father busy every Friday of my high school career. When they tore down the Pantry, I felt as if an icon was wiped from the earth, a true travesty. - Linda Rieks Mercer
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3) Was our class trip REALLY to the Eldora Training School???
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And, oh my god, yes, our
senior class trip was to Eldora. Now a days, kids go to Europe.
Our 6th
grade patrol (street walking guards) trip at North grade school was to the
Shrine Circus in Des Moines. That was WAY better!! -
Linda Bakas Baker
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Yes, our Senior Class Trip really was to the Training School in Eldora-- they took some of us (perhaps those on the edge of juvenile delinquency?) to the high security wing, where the boys were locked in little rooms with just a little window in the door -- just big enough that they could see us walk by and talk to us. Very creepy place. Our 9th grade trip to the state capitol was better than this trip! - Lilli (Southerly) Lanser |
4) Does anyone have any pictures/memorabilia related to the Iowa Falls Dental Parade? Linda Pierce (Goodenberger) hopes to write an article about the "strictly Iowa Falls" tradition of Dental Parade. Email your memories to Linda
5) Do you remember exactly where you were when you learned John F. Kennedy had been shot?
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I was in Mrs. Flowers math class when Kennedy was shot. -
Linda Bakas Baker
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Jim Harper, Gary
Mills, and I just had an email string on this very subject last month.
I was sitting in Mr. Herke’s class by Robert Knott and the south window.
I was wearing my favorite plaid skirt and white blouse. I cried.
Linda Rieks Mercer
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I was in class at Bradford School along with my only other classmate, Marietta Knoll. Mrs. Surls announced it to the classroom, which consisted of 5th through 8th grade. Marietta and I never spoke during those days at Bradford for what ever reason, but today we are good friends and she has even traveled to Florida and spent a couple of weeks at our home visiting, boating and site seeing. I truly look forward to her next visit. Thurston Lamberson |
6) What childhood memories do you have of the Met Theatre in IF?
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I moved to Iowa Falls the
summer before 3rd grade. It seems like it cost 35 cents to see a movie
and I would go with a friend almost every Saturday afternoon. I loved
the movies Haley Mills was in. Pollyanna was one of my favorites!
I also remember always having one eye toward the ceiling in the Met because
every once in a while you'd see a BAT flying by! -
Linda Goodenberger Pierce
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I do remember going to the Met.
Several memories are particularly strong. On Christmas all the
merchants would put on a free Christmas show on a Saturday and just about
every kid in Hardin County must have showed up. I remember when the show
was over Santa handed out large bags of Christmas candy, fruit, and small
toys to each person who attended. The one irritating thing I remember is
that they rolled the credits of all the sponsoring merchants while they
played this insipid holiday song (Sleigh bell together with
you...giddy-up, giddy-up...)over and over and over while the noise level
of the kids rose and rose to an ear deafening pitch waiting for them to
finally play the movie. If they had played the song any longer I swear to
God we could have started a riot. Didn't the merchants realize that none
of the children watching it could have given a rip about who sponsored it,
and there wasn't an adult within a block that would have stepped inside
the theater with that level of noise. ----When I was older I remember the
Met as the first place I kissed a girl (as an adolescence) and later
graduating to the balcony where everyone "made out." (I do not
believe I ever did this with any class of 69 girl as I recall). -
Steve
Wikert
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7) Does anybody remember the "Bicycle Rodeo"??? It seems like it was held somewhere on the far west side of town and that there were speed races for different age groups and obstacle courses, etc. Anyone else remember more specifics?
8) Does anybody remember as clearly as I do, how much our class loved Miss Grant in 6th grade at North Stoddard Elementary School? I remember that we gave her 4 or 5 "fruit basket upsets" that year? Where we all brought fruit and arranged for someone in the school to get her from the room for a few minutes. We all got our fruit and when she came in we all yelled "fruit basket upset" and rolled fruit down the isle toward her. Does anybody know who instigated or initiated all these and arranged them?? Steve Wikert
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