Name: Michael M Kratz ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 9:38 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1971
City & State: Vegas
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Message: Now that I google'd everything that was said on this page today. I now know more about a certain charlie, a certain city in Japan, a dan, steetcars and superman then I need to know. To bad they didn't have the internet back in High School, sure beats all those books we had to read.

Name: BRUCE HANSON ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 9:35 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1959
City & State: CATHLAMET WA
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Message: DAN NELSON DIRECTOR OF ATTENDANCE HHS. 50'S (MOVIE EXTRA) OPERATION PACIFIC 1951 JOHN WAYNE WARNER BROTHERS MOVIE TIMES ARE WHEN HE IS ON THE SCREEN.

Name: Jorge Llaves ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 8:04 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1980
City & State: PVE CA.
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Message: So what is all this talk about be kind to your dog and all those poor old people 85 years old? I am now 86 and could still beat all of you at lagging pennies back behind the gym. SSo before you give me that one way ride to my reserved property at Green Hills you better clean up your language or I will send you to Mr.Nelson who will suspend you for a week or until you gain some respect for us "MATURING CITIZENS"
Hey John Boy: enjoyed the letter from your Mom but I never did ring the neck of a chicken but always used my Boy Scout hatchet to seperate the head. We lived in Lomita like you and ate so many chickens during the depression years there must still be some bones in your back yard.
Love you all--Rodney Dangerfield--(sp?)

Name: BRUCE HANSON ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 6:10 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1959
City & State: CATHLAMET .WA
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Message: I JUST HAD A MR DAN NELSON SIGHTING OPERATION PACIFIC WB 1951. DAN SHOWS UP BEHIND THE NUN AT 7:47 NICE LONG CLOSE-UP PICKING UP KID AT 8:32 AND HELPING PHIL CAREY OUT OF THE DUKE'S CABIN AT 146:20.

Name: Ed Carey ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 3:50 pm - HHS Time
City & State: Temecula, Ca.
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Message: John, awesome web site. Especially enjoyed the then and now pictures, 60's slang and the memorials. Ed Carey, Simi High School, class of 63

Name: James Armour ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 2:28 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1970
City & State: Atlanta, GA
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Message: Wow! All this turmoil! Just like a real family, huh? Feels like old Hawthorne to me :). Peace out

Name: keith jones ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 2:03 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1976
City & State: kona, hi
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Message: wow, nice to see someone get chewed out besides me.

Name: Armand Vaquer ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 12:41 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1972
City & State: Tarzana, CA
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Message: All's well. Apology accepted. I am under the weather with a lovely summer cold, so I am a bit irritable and coughing up "greasy, grimey gopher guts." I consider the matter closed.

Name: Britt Stonebraker ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 11:46 am - HHS Time
Nickname at HHS: Dorkus
Class: 1978
City & State: San Marcos CA
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Message: Hey John I am glad you are running this page you've done a great job with it! I never get offended if I get chewed out, We all appreciate all the hard work you put into this site! Like water off a ducks back I say! Yesterday is gone and today is new
PS, the shootout was @ western surplus in hawthorne
PPS, I ducked all but one yearbook pic, and I ain't telling!

Name: Michael M Kratz ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 10:18 am - HHS Time
Who's your favorite DJ: Wolfman
Class: 1971
City & State: Vegas
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Message: My friend Armand...get mad, get over it, life is too short. Stop and smell the roses, this is all silliness. I get disrespected all the time, I get mad, but I'm over it in a few hour's and I never hold a grudge. I go back to work the next day like nothing ever happened. See you at the reunion.

Name: Ernie Nixon ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 10:11 am - HHS Time
Class: 1963
City & State: Bakersfield Ca.
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Message: Just attended Paul Mackie's retirement party Thur. Another lucky Cougar gets to hang it up. I didn't think to ask him if he's coming Aug. 25. I'm going to do my best to be there, see you all then.

Name: Michael M Kratz ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 8:28 am - HHS Time
Favorite Movie: Wolfman
Class: 1971
City & State: Veags
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Message: Does anyone remember the camara, a top the Hawthorne water tower. And did it catch anyone cultivating pot in their backyard, a top their tool shed? Hum... I wonder who's backyard that could of been. Now that's bringing it back to Hawthorne.

Name: Armand Vaquer ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Aug 5, 2007, 5:04 am - HHS Time
Class: 1972
City & State: Tarzana, CA
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Message: Jeepers, John. I was kidding you!

Name: Armand Vaquer ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Aug 4, 2007, 10:10 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1972
City & State: Tarzana, CA
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Message: Okay, John. We'll remember that the next time someone (or you) brings up some obscure theater in Westchester or some eatery in Culver City.

Name: Britt Stonebraker ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Aug 4, 2007, 8:55 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1978
City & State: San Marcos CA
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Message: I like the subject! its part of our history, let it roll John!

Name: Armand Vaquer ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Aug 4, 2007, 5:56 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1972
City & State: Tarzana, CA
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Message: Hi, Debbie. Uh, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but my memory is fine (most of the time, except for those CRS moments). The robbery at Mel's is what I was referring to and the subsequent shoot-out with the SLA in South Central L.A. (Compton Ave.), not the Western Surplus shoot-out in Hawthorne with the Manson Gang. Donald DeFreeze and other S.L.A. members were killed in the shoot-out roughly a few days or so after Mel's. The Hearsts (and everyone else) knew Patty was in town and thought she was in the house that went up in flames. But she was elsewhere in L.A. with Bill & Emily Harris. BONK! You lose!

Name: Karen Fuller ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Aug 4, 2007, 4:34 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Fuller
Class: 1964
Change the name of your city: 100degreesagain,CA
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Message: i have my very first COUGAR SITING to report! Mr. Dean Karels (HHS'65) showed up in my town of Sonora yesterday morning. he was on his way to visit family. i saw him in his cougarTown Tee shirt in Wal-Mart. if my digital camera had not been broken, i could have included a photo with this note. it was fun! i hope this is not my last COUGAR siting that i get to report. i hope to be travelling in a motorhome around the country--leaving here (forever) the end of August.

Name: Debbie ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Aug 4, 2007, 1:29 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Miles
Class: 1977
City & State: Del Aire, CA
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Message: Armand, I guess this is proof that the 70's are a haze to many people or time flies when you're having fun! The holdup in Hawthorne (when they were trying to get guns to break Charles Manson out) was Aug 21, 1971. Patty Hearst and the SLA went into Mel's Sporting Goods to rob it on May 16, 1974. Hope this refreshes your timeline memory! 8D

Name: Armand Vaquer ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Aug 4, 2007, 5:56 am - HHS Time
Class: 1972
City & State: Tarzana, CA
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Message: If memory serves, the SLA shootout was only within days of the robbery at Mel's Sporting Goods. I watched the shootout live as well. I remember the house catching fire due to tear gas cannisters and the place burnt to the ground. Several charred bodies were found and I remember the Hearsts being on pins & needles wondering if one of them was Patty. The only comparable event was the North Hollywood shootout back in 1990s. I watched that one live as well and listened to the police calls on my scanner. A couple of weeks later, I went to the Del Taco nearby the Bank of America there and saw many bullet holes on their walls.

Name: Elizabeth Aleccia ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Aug 3, 2007, 11:03 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1969
City & State: Redondo Beach, CA
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Message: John, I read your mother's letter to my 87 year old mom. She remembers those days too. It's a great letter Mrs. Baker. Thank you so much for sharing it. My grandmother had chickens in her backyard and an old wringer washer machine too. How times have changed. FYI, Boots, the owner of The Mermaid in Hermosa Beach died last week. He was 85 years old. He owned much of the beach front property from Good Stuff to The Mermaid and up Pier Ave halfway to Hermosa Avenue. The owner of Scotty's passed away as well and I heard the Sea Sprite is for sale. Hermosa Beach is in for a major change. I'm going to go down there Sunday for the last beach concert of the season. There will be fireworks and the sound of The Doors. I'll take a camera to capture what will be known as "old Hermosa Beach" in a few years. They say change is good, but.... I'd kinda like to be on your grandma's farm with the chickens and the clothes hanging on a line.

Name: Laura and Dave ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Aug 3, 2007, 8:17 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Geele/Wang
Class: 1975
City & State: San Pedro, CA
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Message: We just got the 57 Chevy out of the shop and it runs great -- still needs the pretty stuff done, like paint and upholstery -- but we are considering driving it to Hawthorne on the 25th . . . anything happening there that day?! We hear there might be good burgers in town somewhere . . .and perhaps a riotous gathering of rowdy folk.

Name: Jeff Mann ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Aug 3, 2007, 7:34 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1975
City & State: newhall, ca
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Message: Well Helter Skelter.....I googled the two and now I need to go back to the top of the slide............

Name: jeff mann ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Aug 3, 2007, 7:22 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1975
City & State: newhall, ca
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Message: I thought that the SLA robbed Western Surplus, and then the Sheriffs shot up the house they were hold up in.......She went on to "Live like a Refugee".........