Our Grade School Years: The Beginning Of The Beginning
The good old days...when crew cuts and ponytails ruled, when we collected "razor-blade free" candy at Halloween, when our birthday was the biggest event of the year, and when our whole lives lay before us. We counted the days until summer vacation when we could go swimming at the lake, play "hide-and-seek", catch lightening bugs and try to "pin the tail on the donkey" while blindfolded at neighborhood parties.
But perhaps our most important activity of all was the formation of friendships with classmates that would endure a lifetime. These were wondrous days of innocence, the beginning of our path to adulthood when our whole lives lay before us. We hope you, too, recall these times with similarly positive reflections.
And, as a "Lucky Strike Extra", below is a photo from Frank Eberling's
personal archive of Joe Rich's 12th(?) birthday party, a.k.a.,
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (well, sort of).