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Old Town Indians!!!


Now the PC Old Town Coyotes....


Class of 210
I was ranked # 76
Not bad for a burn out who never took homework home.
My time was mine, not a bunch of people who never left academia since kindergarten.
Yes, they did class rankings.
The Horror......


Final parting shot to high school and schitt that dont count for the rest of your life. IMO.....
I wore a Bolo tie.
Whats worse.
A cheap clip on like a buncha schmucks wore or a bolo tie???
LOL!!!

Graduation present....
American Tourister suitcase just like the gorrila tried to stove the fugg up in the commercial.
Moved out 2 weeks after high school.
Worked on a state survey crew on road projects.
Good money.
Joined the Army in may 83.

My advice to graduates.
High school got ya to a certain point.

Welcome to the rest of your life.
Yep.....thats about it for advice...

Other than

Get a suitcase and see the planet, you might even set off sniffer wands at airport security on your way to your 3rd tour in korea. Only if you kept your shot shell reloading components in it years before.
LOL!!!

184 in my class. No clue where I ranked.

My advice and what I told my son : high school is a good place to realize it's almost the easiest thing you'll do. Life gets much more complicated. Learn how to handle stress now - doesn't just get easier. He joined the Army right away. I didn't until I was 25.

My grad gift was a pair of Tony Llama boots.

I was 19 when i joined in may 83
20 when i shipped in july 83
Retired sept 1 2008.
Never had a groid for a CIC.
Bill Clinton was close enough to one though....


Anyone else have a 39 yr old Bolo tie or suitcase story???

Feel free to share.

Slumlord is kinda wanting to look at bolo ties for church.

So the more pics of em the better.

Detail on mine in the pic aint that great.
Cow skull, cactus, some red plastic jewel, lasso rope border.


LOL!!!

1969 for me. I viewed high school like I have viewed all time periods and places in my life: here you are, do your best and gain from it what you can. Came away with a lot of knowledge and skills that have benefited me throughout life.

I learned how to razor sharpen knives on a Arkansas stone and refinish gunstocks in woodshop.
Thanks Mr Mace!!!
In metal shop I turned a sweet brass chamber pipe on the lathe.
That involved some math.
Mr Peterson was a dick...
He hated me after I beat him in a pull up contest in front of the class 1 day.
Schmuck........ you shoulda never opened your piehole....
LOL!!!

Nice! because of Renes thread and Slummys love of the bolo tie I have sent a pic to honor them both, I wore my best bolo just for Slumlord at a fundraiser awhile back!

We varnished the chit out of Birch gunstocks too ; ]

Class of 62, JFK. I have boots older than most of you.

Not interested in boots.
Pics of bolo ties.
39 yrs old or better.
Lol!!!

Oddly enough, the class I've used the most since high school is typing. It was a requirement for graduation.

Geometry and proving problems using theorems helps me organize thoughts and think through problems. (mixed results blaming me, not the teacher)

Kaywoodie probably got ones from the spanish american war!!!

Lol!!!

WORMS
Width over range mils squared.

Only math i needed .
Adjusting and shifting motar and artillery fire.
Helpful if you know mil width of your fingers and fist at 1000m.
Practice practice practice

Other than that back in the day.
Write a check .
Always round up to next highest dollar in your register.
Fugg that balancing schitt back then.

Lol!!!

Gunner500
Bolo tie!!!
Lol!!!
The button down collar shirt brings it all together!!!

1966
Graduation present? who knows....too long ago.
Bolo ties long gone.
Never went back....not even for the 50th reunion.

Thanks Renegade, that right there is for my friend and Bolo Tie aficionado Slumlord!

This year was going to be my 50th year HS reunion, 1970 . . . it still is, just won't be a gathering .

151 in my senior class. I was #15. Went off to college and graduated in Dec '74. Learned more about working and how to actually do a job the first 4 years out of college than I could ever have learned in HS OR college. Worked for 43 years before hanging up the work clothes Dec 30, 2017. It was fun (really) but I was done.

Grandpa's bolo

Mine.

You're a half dozen years my senior, but your American Tourister reference brought a smile. Brother and I sported each a brandy-new model around the time you were a HS senior on our way to a few years of living in Japan. Old man was DoD contracted egghead bringing F-16/AWACS/Navy E-2 Hawkeye/missile/ECM and I'm sure many other weapons systems/toys and technology primarily to the JASDF (Japan Air Self-Defense Force) on behalf of the USAF/goobermint but also some navy stuff. He was NOT military but as a department head and one of the go-to guys of what was known as the C3I (Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence) division was apparently considered the civilian equivalent of a full bird colonel.

When we returned stateside he was gifted some really neat and personal stuff by a number of JASDF brass. During our stay we enjoyed base (Army, Navy/AF/other) /embassy/state dept. privileges and let me say that just the flashing of those embassy/state department IDs saved our bacon on a number of occasions including several where our young American partners in crime of corporate parentage were hauled off to the Japanese equivalent of the hoosegow by Tokyo's finest. I assure you they were humorless lot too, and not ever easily talked out of a properly deserved perp CRS (cuffing, roughing and stuffing)

Brother and I brought back those AT cases a few years later, heads hung in shame following our expulsion from one of the most prestigious international American schools in the world...OK so there wasn't really any shame but there was enough leftover from my folks to pretend a little rubbed off on us... Anyway, I can still see every detail on those cases. Hard-sided plastic or polymer, sort of wood-grained/tiger striped pattern in a combo weird brown/tan/orange color. Chrome type trim where clamshell sides met when closed. Mechanical lockable latches on either side of the handle that pivoted from 12 o'clock (unlocked) to 3 o'clock (locked).

Anyway, thanks for the memory jog and your service, you hillbilly ex-Maineiac you... Mr. Flair share my invite yet?

Cool Stuff Slim Jim!