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Post by penneme on May 2, 2006 8:15:36 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the red school jackets? Does Bayside still have them? My brothers and I all had one and I think they are still floating around my mom's place.
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Post by gatorgosse on May 2, 2006 10:56:37 GMT -5
I still have mine that I got back in 1979 or 80. Funny thing how it doesn't fit me anymore though... seems to have shrunk... hmmm.
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on May 2, 2006 12:11:09 GMT -5
I found my soccer jacket for the BSS Red Devils....nice looking crest on the chest. And my wind breaker (red) for wrestling. Funny that I kept them - nostalgia...I guess I had to as I didn't have a mom or dad to have them keep it in some basement closet. It's not a thing air force people did - keep a lot of stuff because of all the moves. No clutter in our house....if there was a move, plenty of purging, so stuff would be lost. Like my Black Cat gum collection (inserts) that mom threw out. And all those baseball and hockey cards she tossed when we were leaving Kingston for North Bay. Ugh! I'd be rich. Glad I had a few stashed in my locked toy box in the basement, with my first Playboy. Still have it, too. And I've got a few Willie Mays cards, plus all of my Yvan Cournoyer (Montreal Canadiens speedster and my favourite NHL player). He was called the Roadrunner and wore No. 12 (hence my moniker). We could start a BSS museum...donate old clothes and artifacts for the 35th reunion. Just an idea! Like people do in the entrance area of the Royal Canadian Legion halls.
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Post by gatorgosse on May 2, 2006 12:30:20 GMT -5
Great thought Jules. Besides the classic red jacket I also still have a Bayside baseball cap, cross country t-shirt and singlet and my "piece de resistance", my warm up suit from our senior basketball team. Our team had these designed and we paid for them ourselves... complete with names on the back... very cool back then.
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on May 2, 2006 17:34:12 GMT -5
Brian has a BSS baseball hat?! I didn't know we had them back then...maybe an idea for a selling items as souvenirs at the 35th reunion in 2007...BSS hats, golf shirts, beer mugs, coffee cups (I'd love to have a cup at the office - I use my Nova Scotia Moosehead mug bought in Dartmouth at the beer store there for the yummy brown suds enjoyed by Bluenosers). My 1991 beer mug is cracked, so can't use to sip on the golden nectar from Holland or Germany. School athletes all seem to get warm-ups for themselves today in varsity sports...the school provides the jersey and shorts/socks, whereas, the participant pays for the warm-ups which they keep. Does your warm-up still fit, Brian? Did your jacket have a crest for basketball? Do you have T-shirt from your house intramural days? Your wife didn't toss out your BSS memorbilia?
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Post by gatorgosse on May 3, 2006 8:14:02 GMT -5
Jules, when I get some free time I will go on search and rescue and see what other treasures I have. I know I have a BSS "milk" mug (we weren't allowed to sell beer mugs) and I have ticket stubs from some of the school dances. When I was on student council I went to all the dances... great fun. As for the ball caps, I remember when Mr. Meeks got them. He only got a small amount and he told everyone that got one not to lose them or give them away. Mine is very well worn and beaten up, but... hey Phil, I still have it!
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Post by fleeter on May 3, 2006 9:25:50 GMT -5
Wow Gator...you've still got the warm up suit. I remember us raising some funds to help with the costs for those. Mine said Casper on the back....I had it for the longest time too. At the time those warm ups were "state of the art" and nobody had white ones like us either.
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Post by Wanda Fry (Goodall) on May 3, 2006 19:13:59 GMT -5
Someone keeping their first playboy mag is HILARIOUS!!! thanks for sharing that. Now how did you explain that one to the movers?LMAO!!!!!
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on May 4, 2006 12:12:29 GMT -5
Thankfully, I didn't have to hide the Playboy under the mattress in the bedroom (like you see in movies - remember the classic scene in Porky's and the teen bringing out his measuring stick, with his Playboy tucked under the bed's mattress?). My dad built me a "toy box" with a combo lock on it so I could put my treasured baseball and hockey cards and other keepables away from four sisters. I still have that box, currently being used to store darkroom and photography gear - who'd look in it down the basement during a B&E. I've since painted it brown, from the old military green that my late father scrounged from the CE section on the base in Kingston and painted it after building (also using scrounged wood off the base). The playmate back then was natural and had staples in her belly button...not like the editions out on the magazine stand today. Cigarette ads were the norm. So thanks for the laughter at my youth recollection, Wanda. Memories....not unlike Happy Days, eh! Too bad I didn't put that magazine in a wrap to keep it perfect....could make good coin off it now. Like the baseball and hockey cards my mother threw out....
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Post by Wanda Fry (Goodall) on May 4, 2006 16:10:53 GMT -5
Those are great memories Jules. I just haven't heard of anyone keeping their "first" ;D playboy book.
I will have to remember not to throw stuff b/c I am one of those people who tend to get rid of stuff if not used in 6 months or so.
I didn't keep anything with Bayside on it although I did have a coat and a ring. The ring I lost in my travels along the way and I have no idea what happened to the coat.
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Post by penneme on May 4, 2006 17:25:22 GMT -5
I have a old year book at my Mom's in NS. When I was home last year I took a quick glance at it.. OMG some of us (me included) look so different. I can honesty say I dont think my brothers have kept their *first* playboy mag, but then again who knows... Some of things we thought were junk are now with big bucks.. Remember those metal lunch pails? the novelty ones are worth big bucks to collectors now.
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on May 4, 2006 17:29:27 GMT -5
Speaking of school rings....I ended up buying mine years after I'd been to the school....like in 1992, the year after the 20th anny celebrations. Bought it in Timmins while covering an event at Ecole Secondaire Theriault, the catholic French high school. Jostens was selling school rings (fitting I suppose) to that crop of graduating students, and I asked the salesman if I could get my BSS ring after not getting one back in 1978. He said yes, I placed an order. Got the BSS crest, my soccer number, a soccer ball, but they goofed and gave me a law degree (symbol) where the Red Devil was supposed to go....I didn't ask for a refund...hey, BSS gave me a law degree don't ya know.....was that Hawkes' law class I passed!? But it cost me more than $200 compared to what I'd have paid (or our dad) back in the fall of '77, for that spring's grad in June '78. So I wear my ring proudly, even if I ordered it at a French high school in northern Ontario.
And I've still got the jacket, wind breaker, golf shirts, Bay T-shirt (Barracudas)....might not fit my frame anymore compared to my 112-pound weight back in high school.
But the memories......
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Post by Heather Myles (Fonger) on May 17, 2006 22:47:47 GMT -5
I still have my red winter bayside jacket and my school ring. Sadly the jacket doesn't fit anymore (must have shrunk in the wash!) but I still wear my ring from time to time.
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Post by lanceanator on May 29, 2006 5:41:31 GMT -5
WOW... ALL I HAVE ARE MEMORIES AND A YEAR BOOK... CHEERS LANCE
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Post by Chris Thom on May 29, 2006 23:13:58 GMT -5
WOW... ALL I HAVE ARE MEMORIES AND A YEAR BOOK... CHEERS LANCE LMAO sheesh all I have is my grad pic (which I can't even find) and the only memories I have are the few that are jogged out of this old grey matter by all the posts on here (just wish there were more people from my era on here having flashbacks , otherwise I might just have to start saying I graduated in 74-78 LOL) Later Chris
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