11/25/05 - NNHS Newsletter - You've Lost That Loving Feeling

"There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know.
It's caused by the absence of you."

- Ashleigh Brilliant

        Hope all had a great  Thanksgiving       and all have a great HOLIDAY SEASON  also  TYPHOONs  FOREVER....

al farber  class of 6 4...


   Thanks so much, Al!  I always love your illustrated notes! 

   Thanks so much, Fred!  I'll post these links where they belong soon - really!

I really enjoyed the images of the keepsake booklets we received in elementary school that   Craig (Fred) Eubank supplied.  (I always knew him as Craig!)  A mouse got into the box in the attic where I kept all that stuff, and I was only able to save a few things. 

Craig, wasn't the top row left Billy MacDowell?  My memory has faded so much.....but I do remember that he and I used to laugh about silly things so much it made my stomach hurt.  Bottom row is me,    Sue Miller (Dearnley - '64 - of VA), and    Linda Long ('64). 

   WOW - thanks, Sheila!  I added this to the Briarfield School page:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/our-schools.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/briarfield.html

The Thanksgiving Day Newsletter sure brought me great joy seeing    Elizabeth Breeden ('61) of VA has accepted an invitation to join us on this website. She was one outstanding Lady TYPHOON athlete. Her older brother,    P. A. Breeden ('56) was an outstanding TYPHOON Basketball player. Her brother, Granville Breeden enlisted in the United States Marine Corps after NNHS and I remember when he returned from Recruit Training at Parris Island, SC. He came to the Rec Swimming Pool on his first leave, and I was working that day. I hardly recognized him as he had grown stronger and taller. A couple of years later we had a nice "mini-reunion" off Roosevelt Roads, PR when I was serving in USS BOXER (LPH-4) and Granville was among the embarked Marines from Camp LeJeune, NC participating in amphibious warfare training on Vieques Island, PR while on Caribbean Sea patrol. We passed the time away talking about TYPHOON days in the warm breezes of the Caribbean Sea resting on the Forecastle of the BOXER.
 

   Thanks, Joe!  What a great story!  I remember P. A.     He was King of the Senior Class of 1956 - along with Queen    Judy Leggette (Isn't she beautiful?!?)  I did not recall Granville, however.  And I can't seem to find him now, either....

I enjoyed reading the account of the news of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy by   Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA that reached those serving in USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) in the Pacific Ocean and reaction of the people in Taiwan following the tragedy. May I nominate Jerry for the Famous Sailors page on your website, please. I am sure he can find a photo in his Navy uniform to furnish you a copy to meet your rigid, unbending, un-yielding requirements for that section of your website. Not that you are being "Bratty" or anything like that...just enforcing standards.

   I knew that would not be lost on you, Adonis!

   And no, of course I would never be bratty!    Everyone knows what a Sweetie-Pie I am.  But Rules are RULES - even if I did make them up myself! 

   Even more important than an image, I need Jerry's birth date, birth place, and other occupations for that page.  Oh, Jer-ry.......

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-sailors.html

   Thanks, Joe!

P. S. I love those Thanksgiving hymns...

   Thank you, Jean!

Carol,

Here are some pictures I promised to send. The Colonial Hotel and my father’s restaurant, the Colony Restaurant, are shown. You can see in the pictures shipyard workers on their lunch hour lined up waiting to get served. One of the pictures also shows a little bit of one of the Shipyard Apartment Buildings.

I am also sending a picture of my father’s first restaurant, the Sanitary Lunch. The picture dates back to the early forties before he expanded into the shoe repair shop next door. My father bought the space and doubled the size of the restaurant. When I was growing up a Mr. Carter and his wife ran another shoe repair shop next door to the restaurant where the Chicago Meat Market had been. (At least I think I remember his name was Mr. Carter.) If you look closely, you can see the trolley tracks on Washington Avenue. I remember riding the trolley down 28^th street when I was very young, probably a preschooler. At that time the Greyhound Bus Station was located on the northeast corner of Washington Avenue and 28^th across from where we later went to Antine’s.  And it seems to me that there was a park on that corner by the bus station, with a fountain in it. Later Grant's Five and Dime store located in that spot while the bus station moved to West Avenue and 26^th street. Does anyone else remember a park by the bus station at the corner of Washington Avenue and 28^th Street?

   I don't remember it, as I think it was long gone by the time we moved to the Peninsula in January of 1954, but I believe you are referring to Washington Park.     Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA, bless his heart, located several images of it, and we have them posted on the Downtown  page:
 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-C-G.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/downtown.html

I have lots more pictures to send and lots more to tell about, so I’ll continue on another day. All my good wishes and thanks to the visitors and writers to this site who share their memories of our youth and our hometown. When I look at the “NOW” pictures that are posted on the site, the cold, sterile look of the “NOW”  buildings is such a contrast to the “THEN” buildings with their architecture that gave warmth and a distinctive personality to downtown.

   You've just given me the opportunity to wax sentimental over my favorite section of the website.  When I first returned to the Peninsula in October of 2000 after an absence of many years, I simply could not reconcile so many places as they presented themselves with anything I could remember.  When      Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA joined us early in 2003 and began creating the THEN and NOW images, it was invaluable to me in reorienting myself.  As sad as it makes me to see what has happened in the last 40 years, I very deeply appreciate the time and work Dave invested in offering these pictures to us.  Thank you again, David! 

Take care, Carol.
 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-C-G.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/colonial-hotel.html - brand new page

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/colony-restaurant.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-S-Z.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/sanitary-restaurant.html

   Thanks so much, Aretie!

This is great. I have to thank    Sandy (Ray - '61 - of VA) for letting me know about it. Great. 

Liz Breeden

   We're glad you're enjoying it all, Liz!  Thanks for telling us!