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Emails From Our Friends... |
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"Celebrating the joys of youth at the Original Hangout, Gulf Shores, Alabama" |
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In Aug. 1960, I meet my current husband . My name was Betty Jean Tubbs and his Benjamin Thomas Fussell. We danced on that sandy dance floor with the Gulf breeze blowing through the room. Saying is once you get that sand in your shoes you are forever a beach lover. We are looking forward to the reunion. Thomas& Betty Fussell |
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I wish I could be there but I’ll be just returning from a flight with AA landing at JFK. Great idea and great website. As I’m sure you know Pam Southworth will have as many as possible from the class of 70 there. I hope none of that Mobile crowd shows up and wants to fight. Ha! What a great place to grow up. My cousin Hugh Mosley was more of a regular than me cause he could stay up half the night and still do farm work the next day. I just couldn’t do that but I came when I could. Hugh had a 56 Chevy coupe, a reddish orange color that he used to loop through there in; it had a 3 speed on the floor and was really neat. I had a 47 Ford sedan with a 327 conversion engine in it. Other than that it was original. It was sky blue with black seats and a pure white headliner. That thing was built like a tank! One Saturday night I spent at the hang out I remember for that entire evening I had 7 little fender benders of one sort or another the final one on the way home from dropping Hugh off at his house I came to just in time to wipe out Rusty Drake’s mail box. I had one of those suicide turning knobs on the steering wheel that was really a bad idea. Somehow Rusty figured out it was me that did it but for some reason he elected not to kill me or some other lesser punishment either. I did have to come back and fix it though. I also remember Wilson Hancock’s pink jeep and all those Sunday afternoons cruising the hangout. You probably know that Hugh died of cancer in his early 40s I expect it was. Have a great time! Those hot summer nights were exciting that’s for sure. Jerry Melton, Roar Lions! Class of 70! |
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It has been a real pleasure, and a treat for me to work with a lot of old friends, and a lot of OLD friends in helping to make the Hangout Reunion something that we can all look forward to. As we grow, we’ll probably try different formats, venues, and entertainment, until you tell us we’ve hit the magic formula. The opportunity to work with old Hangout denizens who I never met before, since the Hangout spanned more than one mini-generation, has been a wonderful experience for me. And catching up with friends from “my days,” (the mid and late-sixties) has been wonderful! Thank you for your support of the Hangout Reunion, and be sure to spread the word!
David Spivey |