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Jerry Arbaugh 64
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 Posted - 03/18/2006 : 18:05:55
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I have been reading all the goodies here and boy "o " boy does it bring back memories of rainelle and all the school mates.There is so much I forgot and reading this sure brings it all back wish we could re-live those years.Reading about the teachers also. I visited Mrs mayard.while I was there in sept 2001.I was looking at the year books and saw Mrs Simpson the lunch room cook she lived beside me then in the company houses and could that woman cook.I used to work with there in the school lunch room, if I remember right a lot of us did.Yes Mrs Utterback I remember when the two towns split.Jerry Arbaugh
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ML2006
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 18:15:43
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Jerry: I have been trying to think of Mrs. Simpson's name since this board started. That woman could COOK and she made sure there was plenty on our trays. I know she would put a little extra on the boy's trays. Do you remember those hot rolls, scalloped potatoes, macaroni & cheese, spaghetti? There were no tater-tots, chicken-on-a-stick, in our lunch room, were there? and those mashed potatoes...bye...have to cook dinner now  |
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Dale Tincher 64
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 18:42:13
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Jerry and Marilyn, those were good meals and some nice people! If I remember, right, however, the meals cost a quarter each. My mom could pack a pretty good lunch so it was usually a tough decision which way to go - pack the lunch or spend the big bucks. The milk cartons stick out in my mind for some reason. I enjoyed the scalloped potatoes also.
My daughters used to ask for lunch money for school and I would flip them a quarter. They didn't think it was funny, but I always enjoyed it. Dale
Dale Tincher - Class of 64
919-272-8052
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Connard Estep 53
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 20:30:53
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Originally posted by Dale Tincher 64
Jerry and Marilyn, those were good meals and some nice people! If I remember, right, however, the meals cost a quarter each. My mom could pack a pretty good lunch so it was usually a tough decision which way to go - pack the lunch or spend the big bucks. The milk cartons stick out in my mind for some reason. I enjoyed the scalloped potatoes also.
My daughters used to ask for lunch money for school and I would flip them a quarter. They didn't think it was funny, but I always enjoyed it. Dale
Dale Tincher - Class of 64
919-272-8052
dale.tincher@rainellereunion.com
Dale the last hot lunch i bought in East Rainelle grade cost .... Hold on 12 cents Showing my age huh.. |
Edited by - Connard Estep 53 on 03/18/2006 20:31:35 |
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ML2006
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256 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 21:34:08
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| Dale: I almost mentioned the milk cartons in my post about the food but did not...i laughed when I saw your post about them...mind reader I just wonder why we remember those milk cartons??? |
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ML2006
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256 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 21:35:36
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| How is it possible that teachers can remember all their former students and their names?? Ok, teachers, tell us... |
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Patty Cox Osborne 67
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 21:46:28
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I am enjoying this soooooooo much...but... I do have one question.
How do you remember who much lunch cost??? I can't remember how much something was 1 year ago much less 40+! I can remember going over to the Pioneer Hotel and having lunch (after I was an upper classman and could leave the campus) but I couldn't begin to tell you how much a bowl of chili and a coke was back then!!!
This is terrific---Keep 'em coming!
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ML2006
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256 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 22:03:58
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| Patty: the older guys will have to verify this but I think we don't remember those prices etc. YET because we aren't old enough - I've been told that when one gets OLDERR the long term memory comes back quite clearly...yeahhhhh we aren't quite old enough Patty (i think...) |
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Dale Tincher 64
USA
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Posted - 03/19/2006 : 20:12:57
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Patty and Marilyn, just ask me, Connard and any of the old guys if you need to know any prices. Cokes were 10 or 15 cents, depending upon where you got them. Chili was 15 to 20 cents.
We can go on and on with stories like our dads and grandpa's used to such as, "do you remember the time..." We can remember our first bike and car in great detail, including whether the car had the inexpensive 2 or more costly 4-ply tires, etc. One of my favorite cartoons is of an old gray-beard spider lounging in a rest-home web. He asks the others on the web, "did I ever tell you about the time I was sitting on my web and a fly flew right into my mouth?" All the other spiders nodded, sighed and said in unison, "yeah, about a million times." We can tell stories - just wait until the reunion and see. Unfortunately, we sometimes can't remember who we told them to and how many times. And, don't ask us where we parked our car of the name of someone we met five minutes ago.
I was thinking recently about how a bunch of us from Rainelle used to drive to Beckley College each day to college. J.D. Shaver, Terry Clower, Jackie Yearego, Hilton Tincher and I would make the trek. Our lunch spot was the Beckley Burger Boy. Hamburgers were 15 cents, cokes were a dime and french fries were 15 cents. What a meal. It was amazing to get food so fast (they coined it fast-food) and so tasty (so we thought.) Nutrition wasn't a consideration then. My brother, Donnie, later went to Vietnam (as many Rangers did and I did later) and left me his Corvette to drive to college for a year (between Beckley & WV State). Donnie and several Rangers had gotten high-paying jobs at the paper mill in Covington. I worked there a couple summers. It was hard work and confirmed that college was a good way to go. It was great when Donnie got back home -- other than having to give back the Corvette.
Remember the Corvette? What an exciting car. My cousin Kerry Tincher usually had a great one. Guys, remember the drag races we shouldn't have gotten into?
Remember when so many Rangers went to Ohio or Detroit to work and came back on vacation in their new cars and told us they were a "foreman"? I don't remember anyone coming back announcing they were a laborer. That's OK.
I talked with Steve Pack a couple weeks ago (a result of this board) and we reminisced about when he had a horrible car wreck after high schoool. As you know, Rainelle was small and every happening made the local news scene. All of our Beckley College crew and many people from Rainelle drove to the hospital and gave blood. Thankfully, Steve pulled through. Steve and I laughed that it was a miracle that he did well after getting blood from so many crazy characters.
See there, Marilyn and Patty. We, old men, can remember the 50's and 60's and tell stories as long as you will listen. I just wish my recall was that good when I try to remember where I left my favorite eyeglasses and the four pair of K-mart back-ups.
Dale Tincher - Class of 64
919-272-8052
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Kenneth Napier 52
USA
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Posted - 03/20/2006 : 15:50:38
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| Well, Patty & Marilyn, it's reassuring you recognize your elders' ability to remember. You kids are not that young anymore either. But this website and thinking about another reunion causes me to think more about some of the by-gone days. Perhaps one reason we remember is because back-then there was not as much going on, and life was a bit more simple. It was nothing short of traumatic when pop prices went up 40%: a 1 cent medical school tax raised the price from 5 to 6 cents, and anything over a nickle was eligible for 1 cent sales tax. Some of the people may still remember when new cars for Boley Chevrolet came in by box car and were off-loaded at the Middletown siding. New cars were driven to the show room and covered until the unveiling day: very exciting time. Likewise, the circus train off-loaded there and the animals paraded down to the circus grounds behind Gray's Service Station. All of the truck traffic on Rt 60 must have enjoyed getting behind the circus - or the Friday nite pre-game parade from East Rainelle to Rainelle. The slow-down gave the trucks a chance to cool their brakes that were often smoking as they got off Sewell Mt. WWII produced a lot of lasting memories but a couple of my favorites was the war bond drive that brought in several soldiers for a firing demonstration over at the old football field/cow pasture/golf course. It brought in a big crowd and those who bought a war bond got to ride in a jeep - and if you waited til most people left the kids were able to get their thrill ride (there weren't many other convertibles in Rainelle back then). As I recall, Monte Harouff was the first Rainelle pilot to buzz the town in a Navy fighter. After the war we even had a semi-pro football team in Rainelle. It didn't last but they got to play on the new football field and we no longer had to have all the games on Friday afternoon. Older folks tend to ramble and I've done enough of that, so I'll sit back and enjoy some others' memories. |
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ML2006
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Posted - 03/20/2006 : 21:42:53
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| Kenneth: Please ramble on some more...ramble, ramble...that was so enjoyable as each of us have different memories and input. I think I will print out these memories and bind them together for my son to have. I don't find it sad to read the memories posts or to think back, I find it relaxing and peaceful. Let's hear more! |
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Norma Walker Zopp 45
USA
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Posted - 03/20/2006 : 21:46:13
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I was wondering when someone would come forth and admit that they remembered the golf course was once referred to as the "cow pasture!" Too, no one has mentioned the swimming pool which was by Brown's Boarding House. I believe it cost a nickel for the afternoon. Anyone know when the pool was closed?
This "going down memory lane" is wonderful...while I'm the oldest [in years only] member to date, the memories of each generation reflect the depth of our appreciation for the privilege of growing up in Rainelle. We had the best of all worlds. Keep those memories coming! |
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Dale Tincher 64
USA
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Posted - 03/21/2006 : 00:43:01
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Thank you, Kenneth and Norma! We love hearing this history. Some of the most wonderful people I have known are from Rainelle and so many of them grew up in the 30's and 40's. As Marilyn said, we are anxious to learn this history and what Rainelle life was like in the earlier years. I regret not asking my father and grandfather more questions. I quiz my uncle Junior every time I get to visit with him. He is happy to oblige me with wonderful stories. (By the way, uncle Junior is 81-years-young and beat me badly bowling last fall and loves telling everyone about it.) Gerry Mitchell is working so hard on this site. He is anxious, as are many of us, to collect and record an online museum that contains memories of life in Rainelle. The more I hear from Rangers on the board, the more I realize that we do not want to lose this history and the memories of the personalities and the stories like the Boley Chevrolet cars being unloaded on train tracks, Navy fighters, the circus, the golf course/cow pasture, the work ethic, sharing, etc. As Marilyn said, ramble on - we love it! Dale
Dale Tincher - Class of 64
919-272-8052
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Evelyn Utterback Drake 56
USA
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Posted - 03/21/2006 : 12:33:00
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The Rainelle golf course was a memory by the time we came to Rainelle in 1946 but you could tell what it had been. Was it closed because of WW II? That old swimming pool (also closed) would be outlawed as a hazard today, we thought it was fun to walk around it, looking at all the goldfish. We knew better than to fall in!!
Norma, in talking with my sister, Elda, we remember the white high school but it was replaced shortly after we moved to Rainelle but in our memory all the land behind the school was wooded, no ball fields, just a swim set/sliding board. Is that right?
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Kenneth Napier 52
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Posted - 03/23/2006 : 17:43:01
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Evelyn, the first golf course didn't come until after you arrived in Rainelle. In the early days Meadow River Lbr Co gave their employees a fringe benefit by providing a cow pasture for them so the kids could have fresh milk. When store-bought milk became available folks quit keeping the cows and the ground became a football field until 1947 or so.
Another thing we used to have that is long gone was the Railway Express Agency. REA and Greyhound were the UPS and FEDEX of that time. About this time of year you could go in the REA office - or the post office - and hear the baby chicks coming in. As I recall, they were in boxes of 25. Also, Greyhound's stop was at the Pioneer Cafe/Golf Station before it was moved to the old hospital bldg in East Rainelle.
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ML2006
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Posted - 03/23/2006 : 21:42:21
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| Dale: Did you have a round-top lunch box with a cowboy (?) design on it?? |
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