"SO MANY FRAGMENTS OF THE SPIRIT HAVE
I SCATTERED IN THESE STREETS...."
.........Khalil Gibran
***************************
Robert, CHS '51, said in a Memorial Day
piece..."Our classmates are
scattered---to the four corners
of the earth."
Gene said awhile back---"We don't know
how many of us 51'ers are left..."
I wrote a story recently about
"Draggin' Main, 2015---"
and remembered those times after games,
or on weekends and Sunday afternoons,
when
You'd see kids draggin' Main bumper-to-
bumper...or standing in front of
Standridge Drug, or comin' out of a movie,
or parked at a drive-in, somewhere like at
Seventh and Thornton!
I didn't mention those cold winter nights when
Levi and I forsook our studies, drove
downtown. parked on Main in front of Anthony's,
and walked across those cold, almost-shrinking
red bricks---to a warm movie at the Lyceum,
our favorite theater!
There was not much dragging going on---those
freezing nights.
Ah, our world----Hotel Clovis, Busy Bee, Coney
Island Cafe, Woolworth's, Barry Hardware,
Lyceum Theater, Sunshine Theater, State,
Silver Grill, and old CHS standing above it all---
as if watching over her young 'uns...
and then there were the Red Bricks....
Yes, the '51ers have scattered and are gone...
Many never to return...or drag Main again...
in their old hometown, or
pass over the red bricks one more time.
**********
BY MIL
6/08/15
I SCATTERED IN THESE STREETS...."
.........Khalil Gibran
***************************
Robert, CHS '51, said in a Memorial Day
piece..."Our classmates are
scattered---to the four corners
of the earth."
Gene said awhile back---"We don't know
how many of us 51'ers are left..."
I wrote a story recently about
"Draggin' Main, 2015---"
and remembered those times after games,
or on weekends and Sunday afternoons,
when
You'd see kids draggin' Main bumper-to-
bumper...or standing in front of
Standridge Drug, or comin' out of a movie,
or parked at a drive-in, somewhere like at
Seventh and Thornton!
I didn't mention those cold winter nights when
Levi and I forsook our studies, drove
downtown. parked on Main in front of Anthony's,
and walked across those cold, almost-shrinking
red bricks---to a warm movie at the Lyceum,
our favorite theater!
There was not much dragging going on---those
freezing nights.
Ah, our world----Hotel Clovis, Busy Bee, Coney
Island Cafe, Woolworth's, Barry Hardware,
Lyceum Theater, Sunshine Theater, State,
Silver Grill, and old CHS standing above it all---
as if watching over her young 'uns...
and then there were the Red Bricks....
Yes, the '51ers have scattered and are gone...
Many never to return...or drag Main again...
in their old hometown, or
pass over the red bricks one more time.
**********
BY MIL
6/08/15
Drag main street one more time. Our brick main street is quite unique. But when we were "dragging main" it was just Main St. Thanks Mil for the reminders.
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