1959 - Do you Remember!

Photos taken from the pages of the Ocala Star Banner, March 1st, 1959

Ocala Jr. High Superlatives ...

Best Looking - Jan Davis, Mickey Summers, Sandra Norman and Fletcher Gibson ...

Most Dependable - Elaine Harrell and Doug Moore

Most Intellectual - Linda Roche and Walton Senterfitt

Most likely to Succeed - Kathy Johnston and Pete Nealing

Most Athletic - Sully Sullivan and Ann West

Wittiest - Perry Anderson and Sharon Gates

Biggest Flirts - Jimmy Harrison and Gloria Fugate

Best Personalities - Phillip Arnold and Meta Jane Thomas

Most likely to Blog about this in the future - Brian Voge (not shown)

A walk down Memory Lane!

Here are some news clippings from October 1962 Ocala Star Banner ...

How expensive was it to eat out back then, look at this ad from Morrison's ... Looks like 2 people could eat out, have dessert, and include the tip for under $2 ...

After that, you could take a carload of your friends to the movies for $1.20, add another 50 cents for popcorn and you are still under $2.00 again. Of course gas was a consideration. We used to drive to Belleview and take advantage of the continual gas price wars and buy 10 gallons for $1.80 (of course everyone would chip in).

We didn't have a large selection of TV programs to watch, so TV wasn't really a big part of our lives back then. We were too busy buying 75 cent hamburgers (with fries) at the Big "D" ... another 15 cents got you a coke ...

Things were a bit more economical back then!

New Photos Posted thanks to Rayne Summers

A whole lot of new photos are on the Slideshow thanks to Rayne! ... Check them out ... download any you like!

This photo was fantastic ... Phillip Arnold and I (Brian Voge) worked there as bus boys ... We were actually too young to work at the time, so the owner paid us under the table ... It wasn't called the Hillside Restaurant then, it was the Silver Slipper (or something like that) ... other than picking blueberries while visiting my Uncle and Aunt at Ft. Dix New Jersey during the summer between 6th and 7th Grade, and a bit part in a Coca-Cola Safety film in Jr. High (that's why a bunch of our classmates have Social Security numbers issued from Detroit), working at this restaurant was my first paying job ... I sucked at it of course ... never could balance a tray of dirty dishes over my head like they wanted ... Phillip and I got in trouble with the owner when he found out that we were eating one or two steaks for our "Free Meal" every day, and leaving with a huge milkshake sized cup of ice cream every evening. I forgot what Phillip did to get us both fired (it was him, not me), but we were told to never return. The one disgusting thing I remember about this restaurant was we recycled used dinner rolls ... if we put out a basket of dinner rolls and the customers didn't eat them, we were told to return the rolls to the bread warmer. However, if the customer had taken a bite, but the rolls still looked clean (no gravy or cigarette butts in them) we threw them into a special box and every few days they would make bread pudding out of them. It was years before I ever brought myself to eat bread pudding at a restaurant (I still look at it very suspiciously).