Hawthorne Feedback

Name: Jim Dally ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 11:47 pm - HHS Time

Class: 1963
City & State: Carson, CA
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Message: Oh, the corner of Manchester & Market! Just to the right of the building in the picture was Barker Bros furniture store. My late brother worked there perhaps around the time this photo was taken and I worked there in the mid sixties as a "Helper." The manager, Mr. Shanes was a great guy, very fair and his assistant mgr Steve Badinock was a cool guy with a red & white '57 Chevy. I helped unload the truck deliveries when they came and did other 'general' work there. With my employee discount I bought my folks a Kelvinator refrigerator with a bottom freezer. This unit was one of the first that had the 'thin walls' we take for granted nowadays. You know, that frig was still working when us 'kids' sold the homestead after my folks passing over 30 years later! American Motors built it along with the A/C systems in their Rambler cars for those of you not knowing such things. Then in the early '70's I got a job at the Sears store also in Inglewood as a "Fixture Man" because it paid more than a salesman. I was hired in October to set up for the Christmas Season that was coming up. Some things were kept on the roof where I could watch the big jets on final approach to LAX and in the summer of 1972 made my first flight on a Continental 747 to Hawaii. From the roof I could see the same type of plane & before going would yearn to be on one. It had THREE lounges; 2 in coach and the one upstairs which is where I was when the Captain pointed out the Big Island barely visible out the left side windows.

Name: Wayne Dickey ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 2:38 pm - HHS Time

Class: 1969
City & State: La Palma, Ca
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Message: Keith! Your mother bought you a bra and no pantyhose? (Go figure) LOL. Just couldn't pass that one up. Jimmy Fredricks, good to here from you. Yes I still play my accordian at Cougar events, swap meets, and at Christmas time. Kids from our kindergarden class, include Barbara Johnson, Betty K, Barbara Q, Dave Smith(deceased) and others I can't remember. See you at the reunion. Bring what memories you have left.

Name: Jim Frederick (FEDERICO) ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 12:24 pm - HHS Time

Class: 1969
City & State: west Hills ca ,Hanalei Hi,
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Message: ....Hi all ... How cooool to see and read other Cougars comments ! And Wayne Dickie !! mmm mmm ! Yes i remember the bare foot thing ! Try going down some of Hawthorne's or Hermosa beach finest hills ! on scate boards with clay wheels !Bare foot that we made in wood shop ! And my mother yell out the door on our way to the beach ...." Jimmy! put on your flip flops ! "Go ahead's or what ever we called then.....And yes our class (69) did have the Beach Boys play at our prom ! it was called good vibrations ! . When i tell people and they don't buy it .... out comes the 69 year book ! full page photo of the "Boys" and the prom ! Oh ! and to remember Wayne and his brother Tom playing their accordions !! I think Wayne, Tom and few others go all the way back to kindergarten at Eucalyptus school ! What Hammms ! Ha .... Looking forward to seeing ya all at Redondo this year ! Later and Mahalo , Aloha ! Were off to Hanalei Kauai ! Jim Frederick (Federico)

Name: Michael M Kratz ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 12:09 pm - HHS Time

Class: 1971
City & State: Vegas
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Message: There are mileage signs in my community too, but I already know how to get out of dodge! lol

Name: Jerry Miles ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 11:47 am - HHS Time

Class: 1966
City & State: Folsom CA
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Message: What I find very interesting about the 1940 picture and something I know carried on until at least the 1960?s was the mileage signs showing the distance to nearby communities. They seemed to me that they would be very useful to travelers especially in areas when one city merges with another. But they seem to have went the way of the Dodo Bird.

Name: Mike Effler ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 11:08 am - HHS Time

Class: 1967
City & State: El Segundo, CA
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Message: A proud update on a past Cougar athlete. Brother and '65 grad, Skip Effler and his 1970 San Fernando Valley State College NCAA Champion Baseball Team were inducted into the Cal State Northridge Hall of Fame yesterday. It was inspiring to see 25 old farts treat each other with love, respect, and brotherhood after these past 39 years. It was really cool to witness...... Way to go bro !

Name: Jessie Koehn ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 10:33 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Corral
Class: 1974
City & State: Los Angeles, CA
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Message: So the main thing I noticed about the recent photo that is posted, is the fact that there are no cars in the photo, people are actually walking and waiting for the bus! And David, I hate to tell you this...but most high schools are just as you described what Hawthorne High is like now. Very, very unfortunate.

Name: David McConnell ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 8:32 am - HHS Time

Class: 1969
City & State: costa mesa, california
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Message: Hello fellow Cougars! For those of you that don't know,our own Hawthorne High school has turned into a PRISON! I went there on business and talked with a few people including the priciple. He gave me a special pass to roam around the school to see what it looked like now. Boy was i in for a shock! I counted EIGHT security officers and a couple of Hawthore p.d. The lockers were all torn out (because of problems with drugs and guns i was told) and who knows where our "time capsule" is??? The old senior square was completely wiped out and there were fences even between the classroom buildings. There were many other problems too, but I left the campus that day pretty "bummed out", to say the least. I'm glad I went to Hawthorne when I did!

Name: Tammy H ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 8:15 am - HHS Time
City & State: Laguna Niguel, CA
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Message: I don't know if the Gillilands owned a business, maybe someone on this board remembers them.

Name: Tammy H ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 7:00 am - HHS Time
City & State: Laguna Niguel, CA
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Message: I was amazed to see the new shopping center on Imperial and Crenshaw. There is a new Burlington Coat Factory, CVS Pharmasy(?) and other stores. I can't believe they tore down the Imperial Theatre, but I guess we have to make way for progress. I remember going to Smith's Food King (used to be Food Giant) years ago. One of our tenants was an old man who never bathed and once a month when he got his welfare check, would go shopping at Smith's. One of the young men that worked there told me that he's put in free bars of soap in his bag as a "hint" for better hygiene. Speaking of Smith's Food King, who remembers the boycott when child actor Kirk Calloway got bonked on the head by a security guard after he mouthed off at him?

Name: Tammy Hill ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 6:44 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Hill
Class: 1980
City & State: Laguna Niguel, CA
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Message: OK, I may have asked this a few years ago and will ask this again. This has really been bugging me since last night and I don't know why I just remembered it. Does anyone here remember the Gilliland family that lived on 116th Street in Holly Park of Hawthorne? There was the boy Charlie and he had a sister that owned a brown horse. She used to ride it onto our street off of Van Ness Ave frequently, and then ride it towards Crenshaw/Imperial shopping center where Thrify Mart was. I always wondered where she boarded her horse. I remember there was a K-Mart on Imperial and Western (up on Rosecrans Hill) and when I was very young I remember seeing a "farm" in the back of the store (this would be to the west of the KMart building). I saw cows and horses. So I was hoping someone on this board would remember the Gilliland girl and her horse and if she kept her horse at this farm?

Name: Jim Dally ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Mar 2, 2009, 1:27 am - HHS Time

Class: 1963
City & State: Carson, CA
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Message: Enjoyed seeing the picture of the J.C. Penney's in Inglewood. My HHS Graduation suit was purchased there along with many other items over the years. Since the La Brea entrance was lower than the Market Street side THIS Penney's had an elevator and management was often watching WHO would be riding in it. Yep, roudy kids were told to take the stairs! I noticed the '61 Buick on Manchester has only THREE "Port-holes" on its fender. There has been controversy that Buicks have always had FOUR 'portholes' on each side because they had V8's. Hey, a picture is worth 1,000 words, right? of course, the late model Buicks are V6's so, three portholes per side are right on! But in 1961 what were they thinking?

Name: Bonnie S. ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Mar 1, 2009, 4:26 pm - HHS Time

Maiden: McCoy
Class: 1978
City & State: Irvine, CA
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Message: My thoughts and prayers are with Lillian Calix's family and friends. I'm deeply saddened to hear she recently passed away. I didn't know her well, but she always had a smile on her face. I remember she won the title of Christmas Queen our Junior year. May she rest in peace...

Name: Sharon Branigan ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Mar 1, 2009, 2:39 pm - HHS Time

Maiden: Bierman
Class: 1976
City & State: San Clemente, CA
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Message: I was the Student Council's chairman of the HHS car rally held in 1975 (my junior year.) I can clearly remember driving around the PV hills in my 1971 Pinto, mapping and timing the route, but I can't remember where the rally ended... probably at HHS? I CAN remember where the rally ended in the 1976 race because I won that one with co-pilot Jodi Swain. A total fluke; we were just goofing around and were shocked to find that we won - it ended in a parking lot at Redondo Beach. Most details escape me, although I clearly remember Jodi yanking the door handle off the inside passenger door of my car... OOPS... thank you for asking Tom; the memories are fading a bit after all these years... good grey-matter exercise!

Name: Tom Nadal ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Mar 1, 2009, 7:50 am - HHS Time

Class: 1977
City & State: The OC
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Message: I'd like to know who out there organized our HHS version of the Amazing Race, the Saturday morning Car Rally. I remember driving all around the South Bay in search of clues to the next destination, never quite understanding how the winner was determined, but having fun burning $1.50 in gas with my buddy. Could you imagine any school having an event like this today? There would probably be issues with the high price of gas, carbon footprint, and all types of signatures for assumption of risk and waiver of liability. Oh, those were the days!

Name: Paul Wieber ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Feb 28, 2009, 3:29 pm - HHS Time

Class: 1969
City & State: Meadview, Az
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Message: Responding to a question by Tom Nadal. Yes it is true that the Beach Boys played for the Class of 1969's prom. It was held at the Beverly Hilton and believe it or not, they were late. Mike Love walked out in a white Jesuit attire, addressed the faculty, the curtain went up and I remember dancing for about 2 hours, it was great. Thank you Beach Boys for a very memorable evening!

Name: Susan King ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Feb 28, 2009, 1:54 pm - HHS Time

Maiden: Bierman
Class: 1974
City & State: Thousand Oaks, CA
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Message: Cougar Sighting! Don't want any challenges from you Baker - it may be a little staged but it's always a delight to visit with Janny Wanny Chicken Fanny Blomsterberg! We celebrated daughter Lori's birthday at Disneyland and checked in with Jan while there. Wish he didn't have to work, he could have played the day away with us! It was a blast - happy memories. And it's NOT possible that I am the mother of a 29 year old. Sigh....

Name: Karen Sullivan ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Feb 28, 2009, 8:54 am - HHS Time

Maiden: Harrison
Class: 1971
City & State: Maanhattan Beach,CA
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Message: Hi, if anyone knows the whereabouts of Roberta (Robyn) Cobb Gobert ('70) please let me know, and by the way, Roberta, hope that your birthday was great. We used to work together in Credit/Service Control @ JCPenney in Hawthorne, way back in the late 70's/early 80's. Would love to get back in touch.

Name: Armand Vaquer ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Feb 28, 2009, 8:29 am - HHS Time

Class: 1972
City & State: Tarzana, Karloffornia
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Message: I think I still have several copies of THE COUGAR with the Beach Boys prom article. Hmmm, maybe I should offer them at eBay...

Name: Dan Shulstad ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Feb 27, 2009, 8:20 pm - HHS Time

Class: 1976
City & State: beyond the orange curtain
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Message: Ahh, Chaneys.. My mom worked at Chaneys, her first job in California after moving from North Dakota, my aunt Edith worked at Chaneys, Jimmi Vollrath worked at Chaneys (her deep, hoarse voice scared and facinated me as a young 'un). They left the Chaneys beautiful tile entry along the side walk long after Chaneys was gone... Good times

Name: Tom Nadal ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Feb 27, 2009, 3:28 pm - HHS Time

Class: 1977
City & State: The OC
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Message: I was on You Tube checking out a few Beach Boys videos and started thinking about my HHS days. Is it true they performed at a class prom? What year was it and where was it at? Has anyone been to the Beach Boy monument by the airport? It's tucked away, but kind of a cool tribute.

Name: Jerry Miles ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Feb 27, 2009, 2:06 pm - HHS Time

Class: 1966
City & State: Fair Oaks, CA
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Message: Hello everybody. I just wanted to let you know I just produced another video and linked it to Cougartown called Inglewood of Yore. It contains most of the pictures JB has been sharing on Cougartown plus some others you might not have seen yet. I also included some of the classic oldies but goodies. I know this last batch of pictures has given me many wonderful reminders of the great times we all had growing up in Hawthorne. I just can?t seem to remember where I bought my first bra but it was probably Penney?s or Chaney?s. But maybe it was Lyon?s or Shaw?s. I think I got my first jock at one of them (JB, can I say jock on CT?) Anyway for all of you who were wondering, all the latest pictures were provided by the Inglewood Public Library.

Name: Marilyn Ross ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Feb 27, 2009, 1:12 pm - HHS Time

Maiden: Wisham
Class: 1956
City & State: Garden Grove, CA
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Message: You can find all these great pictures of Inglewood on the Inglewood Library web page. They do have a picture of the Centinella park plunge where I went as a child in the late 40's and early 50's.

Name: Debbie Miles ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Feb 27, 2009, 12:59 pm - HHS Time

Maiden: Miles
Class: 1977
City & State: Del Aire, CA
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Message: I have another question did the car hit the guys in the crosswalk, or was it a near miss? My dad made those iron letters that spell out JC Penney. I think the correct term is forged, but somehow my dad forged letters doesn't sound quite right!

Name: Petey Smith ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Feb 27, 2009, 11:48 am - HHS Time

Class: 1972
City & State: Salem, Oregon
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Message: Happy Birthday Big Kell. Have a DAY Le Woof.

Name: Jill Jaynes ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Feb 27, 2009, 11:01 am - HHS Time

Maiden: McFarlane
Class: 1977
City & State: Mission Viejo, CA 92692
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Message: I really like that picture of JC Penney, and while I don't remember that Penney's, oddly enough I remember the Gas Co. I've got a trivia question about that photo though. On the right side of the picture, there are two highway signs, what was the 42? My guess is either Manchester Ave or Lincoln Avenue? Does anyone have any idea? Does anyone care. Also, the highway sign next to it, would that be 107 or Hawthorne Blvd? Okay, I've got too much time on my hands.