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Name: Clark Millman ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Oct 13, 2010, 10:49 am - HHS Time
Class: 1976
City & State: Manhattan Beach, CA

Message: Amazimg! I finally found the Wizard of Oz back in Kansas and got some brains so I realized a Hawthorne boy does not belong in the Midwest and hotfooted it home. Immediately had a Cougar sighting on return...Had breakfast at Good Stuff in Hermosa and met Antonio VBillegas ('99). My timing was good though because fellow Cougar Pauline (Potisha ) Jeffers '74 left Wichita at the same time.
Welcome home Clark and thanks for the sighting
Name: Larry And Loretta Cuiper ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Oct 13, 2010, 10:48 am - HHS Time
Class: 1960
City & State: Hawthorne, Ca

Message: John, Pat might be right!! For a very short period of a time there was a show on the grounds of the mall, it was close to El Segundo Blvd. Was in there one time in the 70's, but like I said it was there a very short time. ALWAYS A COUG....LOVE YA
Name: Pat Underwood ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Oct 13, 2010, 8:09 am - HHS Time
Class: 1963
City & State: Klamath Falls, Oregon

Message: The last movie I saw at the Plaza was “The Godfather” and the most seen at the Plaza was “Forbidden Planet”.
Hey Pat, May be wrong but thought the Plaza was closed by 1972.
Name: Jim Frederick ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Oct 13, 2010, 6:38 am - HHS Time
Class: 1969
City & State: West Hills Ca/Santo Borracho A

Message: Andy Devine .. He is from Kingman Az, and they have "Andy Devine" Day and a parade. Also a street named after him . Someone wanted to change the name of the street and the town folk said No No No. In regard to "Invaders from Mars" ... I really thought it was a cool flick but whats always bugged me was seeing the zippers on the back of those Martians LOL. But their leader was cool he was the dude in the class ball. The last flick i remeber @ the Plazza was "The three stooges go to Mars"! But one of my all time favs was "War of the worlds" and Godzilla! CLASSIC!
Name: Karen Kuehl ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 9:42 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Graham
Class: 1959
City & State: Vista, CA

Message: Hey Judy Wudy, Buster Brown's dog was named Tige. I did a radio commercial for Buster Brown Shoes in the mid 80s. I did the voice for Buster. "Hi, I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe." Woof Woof. "That's my dog Tige, he lives there too."
I thought it was Ruff Ruff.
Name: George Johnson ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 5:38 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1962
City & State: Palm Desert, Ca

Message: Hey, Bob; As I remember, the story goes, when Andy Devine was a young kid, he was running with a stick of some kind in his mouth. You gyessed it, he fell down face forward and jammed the stick into and down his throat, almsot killing him. When he heeled, after a long rehab, he was left with the raspy voice, he was lucky he could talk at all Jorge
Name: Sharon Branigan ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 5:23 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Bierman
Class: 1976
City & State: San Clemente, CA

Message: Well Bobby you crashed the dictionary.com website... but you knew that would happen, didn't you? LOL!!!
Name: Armand Vaquer ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 4:42 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1972
City & State: Tarzana, Karloffornia

Message: One movie I saw at an early age was "The Angry Red Planet." I believe I saw it at the Rio Theater on Western & Imperial (I called it the Southside Theater in an earlier post, but that was on Vermont and Imperial). Scary movie with the rat/spider and the giant amoeba.
Name: Bob Jensen ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 1:09 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1971
City & State: Los Angeles
No E-mail
Message: Oh Judy, what ever you do, don’t go to Urban dictionary.com and look the word up. Perhaps it is in 60's Slang.
Name: Jim Magrini ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 12:51 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1976
City & State: Littleton, CO

Message: Cougar sighting!! I spoke to Jeanette Nimrichter from the class of 79 at a Parent Teacher conference meeting last night. She has a freshman while I have a senior at our local high school. Cougars are everywhere!!
Yes they are Jim, thanks for the sighting.
Name: Peter Nelson ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 12:38 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1957
City & State: Corona Ca.

Message: Message; Back in 1955 I saw this movie at the plaza theater in 3-D revenge of the creature, Clint Eastwood had his first screen role as a lab technician, Clint played Rowdy Yates on the t.v show Rawhide , from 1959 t0 1966, at the end of each show they would say Head-em up move them out. Rifle-man Chuck Connors played baseball for the chicago cubs also for the cubs minor league team the los angels angels in 1952. Gene Autry was my favorite cowboy, gene was the first singer to have a million seller record called that silver haired daddy of mine. Robert Mitchum appeared in a number of Hopalong Cassidy films before he became a big movie star. Actress Rita Hayworth under the stage name of Rita Cansino appeared in B-westerns with Tex Ritter. Some of my favorite cowboy movie stars were Bob Steele, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard Johnny Mack Brown. Best western that i saw was Shane with Alan Ladd at the plaza theater in 1953, at the end of the movie Shane Shane come back. Pete Nelson class of 1957
Name: Judy D ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 11:37 am - HHS Time
Class: 1964
No E-mail
Message: Midnight that cat...." NIIICE! "Wasn't Andy's show sponsored by Buster Brown Shoes?? The kid that lived in a shoe with his dog, Raggs??
The dog's name was Tige, who lived in a shoe, Raggs was Crusader Rabbit's sidekick.
Name: Noreen Culley ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 11:00 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Crotty
Class: 1972
City & State: Westchester, CA

Message: As you've already read, there is a multi-class reunion in the works for the classes of 70-73. I have sent emails about the reunion to the class of 72. If you did not receive it, check your spam/junk folder. If it's not there, email me and I will send you the info.
Thanks Noreen, Can you send me the information? I need to add it to the reunions page.
Name: Judy D ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 10:07 am - HHS Time
Class: 1964
No E-mail
Message: Bobby...this isn't the answer to the quiz...but it'll jog your memory.. "Plunk your Magic Twanger, Froggy". and don't go to an ugly place with it either.
How about Tige and Midnight?
Name: Bob Jensen ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 7:45 am - HHS Time
Class: 1971
City & State: Los Angeles 64

Message: Andy Devine was a sidekick to WB but Andy had his own sidekick – Froggy the Gremlin. I remember my eye doctor had Froggy glued to one of his machines. Does anyone know the story of why Andy’s voice was so gruff?

Actually Andy Devine only did a few episodes. Before Andy did "Andy's Gang" it was the Buster Brown Show with Smilin' Ed McConnell who started it all on radio.
Name: Sharon Macdonald ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Oct 12, 2010, 6:45 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Badger
Class: 1963
City & State: Bruceville, TX

Message: When I was living in the San Diego area in the late 60's one of the drive-ins ran B-movie horror flicks back-to-back until late into the night. My favorites - the one where giant rabbits terrorized Arizona (Night of the Lepus, I think) and The Navy vs the Night Monsters (may not have the title correct but it was a lot like The Thing. Seems like a lot of people and animals were getting irradiated and enlarged and/or changed back in those days. Then there was one that pre-dated the shower scene in Psycho where some evil hypnotist was manipulating minds and there was a scene in the shower that really scared me. I believe that the House on Haunted Hill is based in a book The Haunting of Hill House which is one of the scariest books I have ever read. I am sure some of the movie buffs out there will be able to figure out the real names of these movies:)
Name: Keith D. Jones ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Oct 11, 2010, 5:45 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1976
City & State: Las Vegas

Message: Can someone tell me the name and location of Kip Long's restaurant in El Segundo.
Kips restaurant is called "Kips" (restaurant I guess). It's on Main St. north of Grand on the west side.
Name: Catherine Robuck ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Oct 11, 2010, 4:20 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1971
City & State: San Pedro CA

Message: Hawthorne is where my heart full of memories remain. Eucalyptus Elementary, Hawthorne Intermediate, Hawthorne High, SCROC and El Camino College. My friend Peggy came to visit today and led me to peek at this site. Not much into computers, my attention got caught here. In my fondest memories, What about the Drop-In at Hawthorne Memorial center? Those dances were so much fun and many friendships were made through the Love of Live music and dance. In speaking Love, Gary Wesche, says it all in best boyfriend.
Hi Catherine, glad you found us. Yes the Drop Ins at the Center were great fun. Actually the Gunga Din dances and after-game dances at Eucalyptus park were fun for my generation. Sorry I can't find your picture under class of 71, Robuck.
Name: Steve Hutchins ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Oct 11, 2010, 4:08 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1959
City & State: St. George, Utah

Message: RE: "Invaders from Mars." The "invaders" were portrayed by members of the UCLA football team. If you looked closely you could see the zippers in the back of their costumes. I'm talking about the original 1953 version, not the later remake. I got the information from one of the Popular Science/Popular Mechanics-type magazines.
Name: Sharon Leach ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Oct 11, 2010, 12:14 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Moore
Class: 1966
City & State: Long Beach, CA

Message: How about Man with the Atom Brain. I could not have been more than five or six years old, but it scared the heck out of me. Even at that young age I could recognize that someone who had huge stitches across his forehead had to be one of the creatures. What was wrong with those people on the screen, why didn't they run when they saw that?
Name: Barbara Duran ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Oct 11, 2010, 10:33 am - HHS Time
Class: 1972
City & State: el segundo, ca

Message: My spookiest movies were Tales of Terror and House of Wax. Both with Vincent Price. I don't think I could watch, even today.
Name: John Baker ~~~~~~~~~~ Mon-Oct 11, 2010, 8:14 am - HHS Time
Class: 1962
City & State: Lomita

Message: Some sad news for the Class of 1962. Mike Graves passed away on October 7th 2010. A Memorial Service will be held at Forest Lawn, West Covina at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, October 16, 2010. Mike was a good friend at HHS and will be missed by me and many of his classmates. Our sincerest condolences to Linda and the rest of the Graves family.
Name: Ricki Farrell ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Oct 8, 2010, 8:39 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: valencia
Class: 1961
City & State: tucson, AZ

Message: In the movie "Invaders from Mars", didn't everything get squared away and then at the end the little kid went to the window and saw the spaceship land again? I think that was what made the movie so disturbing. Has anyone mentioned "Jingles"---Andy Devine, sidekick to Wild Bill Hickock---Guy Madison?
Name: Lee Ann Nixon ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Oct 8, 2010, 5:03 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Nixon
Class: 1964
City & State: Vancouver, WA

Message: The Beast With Five Fingers. That one scared me to death. Well, maybe not to death, but it was definitely a bone-chilling movie, to me. Funny how horror movies have changed over the years.
Name: Steve Bunch ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Oct 8, 2010, 4:24 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1971
City & State: Alta Loma, Ca

Message: The movie Paco's talking about was "Invaders From Mars". The Martians drilled a little hole in the back of their victims neck and implanted some kind of device that turned them zombie like. The thing that freaked me out about that movie was the scar that I noticed on my dad's neck, it looked just like the ones in the movie. After worrying that my dad was possessed, he assured me he just had a cyst removed. Hopefully he was telling me the truth, but it might explain our differences once I became a teenager!
Name: Gary Bickers ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Oct 8, 2010, 3:51 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1963
City & State: pve cal
No E-mail
Message: Howard, "Invasion from Mars." It was so cool because people would walk out on a sand dune and get sucked down. They did a new version last year and it was not good. Howard, I am not on Bill Schultz email and I understand he is doing something for Ty Goodman in December. Could you give me details?
Name: El Rojo ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Oct 8, 2010, 3:13 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1960
City & State: Kuna, ID

Message: To follow my forgotten brain, Sharon McDonald I believe those BBQ sandwichs were called Mighty Fines. There was nothing like a Mighty Fine and a tamale & chili for less than half a buck. Then go over to the popcorn stand for a bag of popcorn for a nickel or dime, whatever it was. Ah them good ole days. MAY THE COUGAR BE WITH YOU! Jake N Jude
Not sure but I think the popcorn vending was gone in 61 Russ.
Name: El Rojo ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Oct 8, 2010, 2:48 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1960
City & State: Kuna, ID

Message: Paco I remember that movie. My wife said it was one that scared the pee waddin out of her. And as far as the old western stuff, Sharon I think the movie with the Duke and the DOG was named Hondo. Also how about Hombre with Paul Newman and a really early TV fare called Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen. He had a double barrel in a holster if I remember right. The Tingler also brings back a real incident to us. We were watching the movie at a drive in, where else and in a real scary part I felt something on my arm and I had my arm around Jude. There was somethng like a centipede, which looked alot like the thing in the movie, crawling on it. I yelled like hell as I threw my arm back and the night was never the same. We looked through that old Ford back to front, under the seats etc. and never found what it was. But that was the end of it for me. I couldn't even eat my popcorn or drink my our coke after that. Might be funny but it's the truth. I looked through that car the next day and still never found anything. Way to go COUG FOOTBALLERS. BITCHIN!! MAY THE COUGAR BE WITH YOU. Jake N Jude
Name: Jack Dicus ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Oct 8, 2010, 1:20 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1968
City & State: Miramar Beach, Florida

Message: Paco! One of my early favs...Invasion of the Body Snatchers! Now there was a real B movie!

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