Name: Cathy ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Aug 2, 2007, 7:38 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Martin
City & State: Lakewood,CA
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Message: Sadly I am writing to inform former friends and classmates of my sister, Maureen Martin HHS Class of 1980, that she passed away Tuesday, July 31st at 12:36 pm. She had battled cancer for the last three years. Services will be at St. Peter Chanel Church, 12001 E. 214th St. Hawaiian Gardens, CA on Saturday August 4th at 11:00 AM.

Name: Sharon MacDonald ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Aug 2, 2007, 7:01 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Badger
Class: 1963
City & State: Bruceville, Texas
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Message: I will be in San Diego at a business meeting Aug 19 to 23. Then will head up to Anaheim to visit the mouse Aug 23 to 25. Last stop will be in Hawthorne on the 25th for Cruise Night before flying home from LAX on Sunday. See you all at Foster's!

Name: Alan Nelson ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Aug 2, 2007, 5:30 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1973
City & State: Parker, AZ
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Message: I stumbled across this (CarsWeDrove.htm) cool site about the cars of the '50s and '60s. Except for the lack of HHS in it, I'd swear it was a Cougartown Production. It's relative to what Cougartown started out to be. The "Early Sixties". Although I was just a little kid in this era, I remember watching with awe from the back seat of my Dad's '55 Buick Special, all the rods and cruisers going round and round through the parking lot. Enjoy!

Name: Mike Crnkovich ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Aug 2, 2007, 4:20 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1975
City & State: Torrance, CA
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Message: So sorry to read that Tom Fragale has passed. Tom, Leroy Frye and I grew up on the same block and were "certified" Alter Boys from St. Joe's. The memories of Tom and the whole block of friends on 134 St. growing up will last a lifetime. I know Tom lived a full life, condolences to The Fragale family and Tom's friends.

Name: John Crotty ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Aug 2, 2007, 1:14 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1969
City & State: Hermosa Beach
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Message: Excuse me JB, I know this is probably not the place to address this issue, but if you wouldn't mind....I have received many calls from fellow Cougars regarding the well being of my twin daughters. Many of you know they attend the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. They are both fine and in fact, left this morning for the Grand Cayman Islands having finished the summer classes yesterday. By the grace of God, Brandi had been on that freeway bridge one hour before the collapse, as she decided to go home early (whew!!!). Mandy was at work 10 minutes away....Thank you all for your calls and for those of you who haven't yet, I wanted to allay your fears here...Thanks again.

Name: Bob Stevenson ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Aug 2, 2007, 1:11 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1963
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Message: Looking for Dave Green. If anyone knows him, let him know I am looking for him. Thanks, Bob

Name: Wayne Dickey ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Aug 1, 2007, 7:33 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1969
City & State: La Palma, Ca
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Message: Speaking of the old movie theaters, when I was working in Fullerton, a group of people got together and took up a petition and had it signed by people to restore the old Fox theater in 2004. They got enough signatures and proceeded to remodel it and have old movies featured every week or so. That can be done in Inglewood, but it would take some effort. Just my 2 cents!

Name: Jerry Miles ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Aug 1, 2007, 6:29 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1966
City & State: Fair Oaks, CA
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Message: JB, I?m so glad you finally obtained a copy of my sister, Debbie Miles? good picture. That would be the one with the mustache. It looks so much more like her than her graduation picture you have been using.

Name: Debbie ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Aug 1, 2007, 2:05 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Miles
Class: 1977
City & State: Del Aire, CA
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Message: I can remember one of the Westchester theatres that had a cry room. My strongest memory of the Imperial was when they were no longer a first run theatre and my mom would take us to the oldie horror movies for fifty cents! Never did get to see "House of Wax". We used to watch Seymour and Elvira on KHJ (now KCAL), too.

Name: Keith D Jones ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Aug 1, 2007, 11:21 am - HHS Time
Class: 1976
City & State: Kona, HI
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Message: I remember the crying room with my girlfriend. I have to admit that is one of the best ideas in a theater I ever heard of. No crying going on, but still a great room.

Name: ed carpenter ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Aug 1, 2007, 9:15 am - HHS Time
Class: 1963
City & State: auburn,ca
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Message: Tim ,Bob and Mike Bryant aren't Carls sons they are his brother Wayne Bryant's class of 64 I think. Wayne is the coach of the Sacramento Capitals and was just pictured on the front page of the Sacramento Bee sports page along with a very nice story about him, it also talked about him attending HHS.

Name: jessie ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Aug 1, 2007, 8:45 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Corral
Class: 1974
City & State: los angeles, CA
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Message: My dad worked at the Fox for almost 30 years...the balcony was great. The theater is still there, but in a shambles. It breaks my heart to drive by it. So I haven't for years. I really wish the city would do something wonderful with it. I think it's one of the few old theaters left around town.

Name: Linda Dill ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Aug 1, 2007, 8:38 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Sutton
Class: 1967
City & State: Redondo Beach, CA
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Message: Jerry Miles has a new video. "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. Don't miss it. For those of us born in the late '40s - early '50s, it is a "fast" history of the times we lived. I'm proud to say that Jerry was inspired by our recent reunion audio CD.

Name: Tim Helble ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 7:11 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1973
City & State: Columbia, MD
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Message: Hi all - I haven't posted anything in years, but I still check out the feedback page once in a while. I had a Cougar sighting of sorts back here in Washington D.C. - I was getting off the bus last Friday at the Silver Spring Metro Station and saw this banner for the Legg Mason Tennis Tournament attached to the fence. As I recall, the Bryan brothers - Bob and Mike - are sons of Carl Bryan (1966). They won the doubles event last year's tournament, so that's why they're holding the championship cup. I understand they are on quite a tear lately - they've won something like three tournaments in a row. In addition to being good students and leaders, all the Bryans were pretty good athletes - Mary Allice (1970) was in GSA and John (1973) was on the tennis team. Carl was at HHS before my time, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was on the tennis team plus some other sports too.

Name: Glenn Crist ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 6:28 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1964
City & State: Sonoma, Calif.
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Message: O.K., here I go with my big ideas again. We all bemoan the loss of Senior Square [I didn't visit it as a frosh or as a senior (although now after numerous invites from AARP, I suddenly feel the urge)]. If "they" could sell bricks to pay for the BB memorial, why couldn't we sell other bricks in the wall (or the square) to rebuild "hallowed ground." Any excess could pay for beautification projects, trees, study nooks, movies at Nyman Hall. Any other seniors want to join me?

Name: Jerry Miles ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 6:05 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1966
City & State: Fair Oaks, CA
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Message: No cry rooms in any of the Inglewood theaters, Paco. I guess they only allowed happy babies. The only two that I remember in the area was Westchester and the Imperial.

Name: Paco ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 5:42 pm - HHS Time
Phone: OS6-2378
Class: 1961
City & State: Lake Forest
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Message: Didn't the Inglewood Fox have a crying room? I know they had a balcony. Butch Morris had a cousin, Roxie, boy did we have a time up there..

Name: Don Collins ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 4:33 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1976
City & State: Murrieta, Ca.
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Message: Clark, let me 2nd John's comments and thank you for your thoughts about the Imperial. As a York School alum, the Collins' spent alot of time at that theatre & the Crenshaw stores. I remember a coin operated, rifle shooting gallery game that rocked! Might have been at Woolworth's or one of the other "Five & Dime" stores.

Name: Jody Weller ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 3:10 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Halberg
Class: 1959
City & State: Long Beach
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Message: The very first job I had was at the Imperial Theater. It allowed me to buy my first car (a 46 ford) and insurance. I thought it was big money at 75 cents an hour. Yes it had a crying room in the back under the loge section. We called it "the makeout room". There was more of that than crying babies. I also worked at the Ritz Theater in Inglewood, they were owned by the same person. When my sister and I were little our Mom worked at J.C. Penneys in Inglewood. We would ride the bus to Inglewood, meet Mom for a couple dollars and then hit the Fox or United Artist, across the street. Kids couldn't do that in this day and age. Hope the Reunion for class of 77 is doing better than last reported, Bob is really looking forward to it.

Name: Tom Embry ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 1:47 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1959
City & State: Frontenac, Mo
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Message: There was a crying room at the Imperial. It was the first one I ever saw. We used to think it was great fun to sneak into the crying room (the ushers didn't -- they would make us leave it). The first movie I remember seeing there was 'The Man From Planet X' in 1951.

Name: Paco ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 12:37 pm - HHS Time
For a good time call: OS6-2378
Class: 1961
City & State: Lake Forest
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Message: Andrea, check out Paco's Pics. For a picture of the Beach Boys Memorial.

Name: jessie ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 11:00 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Corral
Class: 1974
City & State: Los Angeles, CA
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Message: Does anyone remember "Kiddie Shows" at the Fox in Inglewood? They use to have them during the summer when the kids were out of school. Charms suckers, dots, jujubes, milk duds, abba zabbas, big hunks...I loved them all!

Name: Gary Bickers ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 10:11 am - HHS Time
Class: 1963
City & State: pve cal
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Message: The crying room was at the Paradise in Westchester. I never remember it being used but it was there for the 10-12 years my family went. Snickers Bars were $0.15 across the street at the Savon Drug Store. Watching HONDO with a Snickers in a place with no crying kids, what could be better.

Name: Julie Blunt ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 9:38 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Leeper
City & State: Murrieta, CA
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Message: Hi Class of 1987 Cougars!Great news! We were able to add a few more tables to our event, which means reunion tickets are still available. We just wanted to remind you the pre-sale for tickets must be received by August 15th in order to avoid the additional charge at the door. Please remember, the room capacity and ticket sales are still limited, so we encourage advance ticket purchase...if we run out of tickets you will sure miss a great time! If you get your tickets in advance, you will be provided with a HHS Class of 1987 reunion souvenir and your admission to the pre-reunion mixer which includes hors d'oeuvre and cocktails will be included in the ticket price. Saturday, August 25th is the night, and the times details will be posted next Wednesday at www.hawthornecougars87reunion.com! We have had an incredible response and everyone is looking forward to catching up! Hope to see all of you there.

Name: Barney McArdle ~~~~~~~~~~ Tue-Jul 31, 2007, 7:59 am - HHS Time
Class: 1958
City & State: San Antonio, Texas
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Message: Hi All, for those of you who may not know yet, Al (Allen) Wolf, Class of 1959 died last night (7/30/2007 @ about 10am) at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance. Al had brain tumors and Lung Cancer. Al has two daughter's now living in Portland (Debbi and Shirley). Al married Donna Haston just after High School. For those of us who knew Al well, we will miss him. I do not know any more details yet but if you want any information, please let me know and I will try and find out. Do not yet know funeral details.