1. Still no update on a 30th reunion. However there has been some rumblings about a Fall Pub Crawl on Main Street. The Summer Crawl had an attendance of 3 class members so maybe this one we can have a stretch goal of 4 people. Watch your email.
2. How about the economy? Yes gas prices are low and heating the house wont be that expensive this Winter. I paid $4.39 a gallon for home heating oil in August when I wanted a full tank in case the oil supply dried up and that has bitten me square in the arse. Also I have invested very aggresively in the stock market in hopes of retiring to a spread on Oyster Harbors. Now, since the last week of May I am down about 100 large. I am looking at listings on General Patton Drive and Fresh Holes Road for my "golden years" on the Cape.
3. The WB TV Network is filming a reality show at Barnstable High. You can watch the epsiodes on line at this link: http://www.thewb.com/shows/high-drama/
Too bad they didnt do this when we were in school with the cast of characters in our group.
Too bad they didnt do this when we were in school with the cast of characters in our group.
4. Attached is a receipt and pic sent in from a visit to Baxters Fish and Chips. 2 Clam Rolls, 4 Cokes, 1 Lobster Roll and 1 Cup of Clam Chowder comes out to $87.11. Plus we threw in a $1 tip for the hottie at the cash register. Once you get past the sticker shock the food is exquisite. It is a meal you should only have once a year to keep it special and to keep you out of personal bankruptcy. Also the bathrooms at Baxters on a scale of 1 roll = Poor to 5 rolls = Excellent only rate a 1/2 a roll. Your best bet is to finish your meal and drive over to British Beer Company where their rest room rates a full 5 rolls of excellence. Gringos and the 19th Hole are two places that come in a 1/4 roll and Jacks Lounge doesnt even rate...you are better off using the woods out back.
5. Here is a story that was recently related to the website from 30 years ago:
----It was the Fall of 1978. I got paid every Friday in cash from a place in Hyannis for a part time job. Usually I left campus at Noon and picked up my envelope so I could get a head start on Friday night. This particular Friday I was just lazy and didnt do it. I had to hit the gym that afternoon to make up a few PE classes I was behind on. When I came back to my locker the $10 in my pocket was gonzo. On a normal Friday my whole paycheck would have been in there. Immediately I approached the 3 or 4 BHS gym teachers sitting in the glass office they had with a clear view of the lockers. Of course they saw nothing and blamed me for not using a padlock. Did those teachers take my money? Could be they needed it for Happy Hour at The Velvet Hammer. However my loss could have been much worse and it was the only time I got ripped off in 4 years at Barnstable. Hopefully the person who took that money is doing some hard time in a Mass prison and finds himself on the business end of a shiv or shank!!
Thanks for submitting that story and keep them coming......Good Times!
6. Here are some items from the Barnstable Patriot as each week they print something from 30 years ago....:
1978
The Landing, a nightspot on Ocean Street that let its seasonal license inadvertently lapse this year, came under heavy fire from neighbors at a hearing on reinstatement. Forty persons from the waterfront area told tales of noise, litter, garbage, beer bottles, vandalism, and indiscriminate parking.
1978
The Barnstable High School girls basketball coach will now get the same pay as the boys coach. On recommendation of School Supt. Edward J. Tynan, and after a grievance filed in behalf of the girls coach Pat Lopes, she will get the same pay as Richard Segura -- $1,892. She had been paid $1,042.
1978
"Shep," the three-year-old 100-pound police dog suspended for a week because he bit two policemen during a melee at the Swamp Fox Lounge, has been reinstated on the Barnstable force.
1978
Part of the largest drug haul on Cape was made behind a Hyannis motel, as law enforcement officers promised more arrests stemming from the $10 million seizure. Ten tons of marijuana were found between a warehouse on Route 132 and also in a refrigerator truck parked at the Sheraton Regal Inn.
1978
Another fast food operation may come into the Downtown Hyannis area. A Wendy's Hamburger recently went up at the Airport rotary, A Sambo's pancake place is planned next door and a Cooke's hamburger-seafood restaurant about a mile up Rte. 132. Now an Arthur Treacher's is a possibility at the corners of North and Winter Streets, on the old O'Neil property that was the home of the prominent family that sprang from mid-18th century beginnings to form an Irish colony in Hyannis.
5. Here is a story that was recently related to the website from 30 years ago:
----It was the Fall of 1978. I got paid every Friday in cash from a place in Hyannis for a part time job. Usually I left campus at Noon and picked up my envelope so I could get a head start on Friday night. This particular Friday I was just lazy and didnt do it. I had to hit the gym that afternoon to make up a few PE classes I was behind on. When I came back to my locker the $10 in my pocket was gonzo. On a normal Friday my whole paycheck would have been in there. Immediately I approached the 3 or 4 BHS gym teachers sitting in the glass office they had with a clear view of the lockers. Of course they saw nothing and blamed me for not using a padlock. Did those teachers take my money? Could be they needed it for Happy Hour at The Velvet Hammer. However my loss could have been much worse and it was the only time I got ripped off in 4 years at Barnstable. Hopefully the person who took that money is doing some hard time in a Mass prison and finds himself on the business end of a shiv or shank!!
Thanks for submitting that story and keep them coming......Good Times!
6. Here are some items from the Barnstable Patriot as each week they print something from 30 years ago....:
1978
The Landing, a nightspot on Ocean Street that let its seasonal license inadvertently lapse this year, came under heavy fire from neighbors at a hearing on reinstatement. Forty persons from the waterfront area told tales of noise, litter, garbage, beer bottles, vandalism, and indiscriminate parking.
1978
The Barnstable High School girls basketball coach will now get the same pay as the boys coach. On recommendation of School Supt. Edward J. Tynan, and after a grievance filed in behalf of the girls coach Pat Lopes, she will get the same pay as Richard Segura -- $1,892. She had been paid $1,042.
1978
"Shep," the three-year-old 100-pound police dog suspended for a week because he bit two policemen during a melee at the Swamp Fox Lounge, has been reinstated on the Barnstable force.
1978
Part of the largest drug haul on Cape was made behind a Hyannis motel, as law enforcement officers promised more arrests stemming from the $10 million seizure. Ten tons of marijuana were found between a warehouse on Route 132 and also in a refrigerator truck parked at the Sheraton Regal Inn.
1978
Another fast food operation may come into the Downtown Hyannis area. A Wendy's Hamburger recently went up at the Airport rotary, A Sambo's pancake place is planned next door and a Cooke's hamburger-seafood restaurant about a mile up Rte. 132. Now an Arthur Treacher's is a possibility at the corners of North and Winter Streets, on the old O'Neil property that was the home of the prominent family that sprang from mid-18th century beginnings to form an Irish colony in Hyannis.
