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May 06, 2008

What did YOU do in high school?

You know, remember when I went to a meeting or two of a women's group? Well, I haven't gone back and I really should take my name of the email list but I don't because I keep thinking that maybe  I will go again sometime as I did like the women involved.  But I'm just not good at, mmmm, I don't know....directed activities I guess.  Don't forget I was a Brownie drop-out. 

Anyway, I had to laugh.....the theme of the next meeting is to bring an example or talk about things you liked to do in high school, such as Girl Scouts, a craft or 4-H.

Good thing I'm not going....I'd have to bring antique glass, some pot and a Van Halen record....

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I don't think I even know anyone who did 4-H or girl scouts or a craft in high school. I want to meet these women!

What I remember most distinctly from High School in New Jersey, was walking the 3 miles to the local music shop "The Melody Haven", in Closter every Saturday morning to get the latest 45s. They got a shipment once a week on Friday. Crafts, 4-H, Girl Scouts??? Geez, even in the sixties those things weren't on our radar screens.
As we walked, we would fervently hope that one of those cool guys from the Catholic High School [I went to public] would drive by and pick us up.

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  • Getting ready for the evening...
    My friend Eileen says that the reason I've been so obsessed with drive-in movie theaters is because my parents never took me to one as a kid. She's probably right. She usually is. Reportedly my older sisters went to the drive-in but I have no memory of it. The first time I remember going to the drive-in theater was with Eileen and I think it was the summer before college. I remember eating dried apricots and some kind of warm pop while watching a bad movie with a Cheap Trick song on the soundtrack..... My friend Alice and I were in grad school together in the late 80's outside Detroit. We ended up photographing drive-in movie theaters throughout the midwest as well as brief trips to various other spots. We always said we were going to write a book but we never did. I just dug out the slides I have though and man, there were some great drive-ins!!! It's been twenty years so of course many of these are gone I'd love to hear from anyone if they have drive-in anecdotes or know if any of these are still around. I took some of the photos, Alice took some---I'll do the Lennon/McCartney things and just list us both on all of them. She can always switch the order of names after I die.

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