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night Country Jamboree out of the draft helped the post We retired and moved to the
programming took over the York’s Dairy Bar lights on for secondary education machine. midwest! It has been a great
programming that included service... here’s your numbered move to be near our daughters
live local C&W artists from popsicle stick and don’t forget The cost of a 1st class postage and their families! Love it!!
our own community. Pet rocks, your headlights are still on to stamp was a dime. A quart of Never thought the midwest
Rubik’s cubes, mood rings were avoid a dead battery at the end Houlton Farms Dairy milk would be where we would
the hot items for a Christmas of the day. Pass those pancake was .46 cents. Bread by loaf retire. But one really never
stocking. The boys had long batter onion rings from the set you back .33 cents. Anyone thinks about it until we get
hair, the girl’s short skirts and window tray please and boy, this have those vienna sausages with older! It was the right move
remember the black 8 ball pizza burger sure is tasty. Should mayonnaise in their bag lunch for us!! Blessings to you class
that you asked important life have ordered a couple. Or let’s for school or the potato field? of ‘75. Hope this finds you
questions? The answers floating climb Drakes Hill for the view, Wonder what the one donut healthy and living the life!
in dark colored ink that appears some mini golf and a tasty red flavor of the day from Sadie’s
on the bottom when you turned hot dog or ice cream treat if still Bakery cost in 1975 or the Class of 1976
them over. hungry in Houlton Maine. expense for a bag of hot out Karen Daniels Fitzpatrick
of the fryer delicacies? Do you PO Box 945
The Paul Simon album of the Anyone know when Fitz’s remember Blanche Cyr guiding Houlton, ME 04730
year was “Still Crazy After All Beverage went out of you and your family to a table
These Years”. Well, are you? production from the bottling at the Mediterranean Room (207) 532-9065
Don’t you feel most days like plant on the Old Woodstock at Ivey’s Motel & Restaurant irishaye@hotmail.com
you just got out of Houlton Road? Remember White Rock when it was on the Bangor Road
High School not that long ago? cream or black raspberry soda in with the aqua blue outdoor From Cathy Jo
Would you want to go back and our harvest lunches? Tahiti Treat swimming pool? Growing up in (Cowperthwaite) Moreau:
what would you do different the from Canada Dry? Bubble Up? Houlton ME back in 1975 and My husband Danny retired in
second time around? Or what The tangy tart Fresca too that before, don’t let the memories June 2018 as Janitor at Houlton
do you miss about graduating tasted super until we all learned fade classmates. High School. He loved working
and leaving the black and white laboratory rats developed for a great team of teachers, and
class colors alma mater? I bet cancer from the stuff. Better The USA and Soviet Union all the school kids.
it is not detention and weren’t stick to Coke, Pepsi, Moxie or link up in space (July 15) in
senior privileges a hoot? No Mountain Dew. the Apollo and Soyuz linkage. Class of 1977
running in the halls hollers A woman heads up the country Marie Fitzpatrick Carmichael
Mr. Scott. Who you like the In 1975, NBC’s proud full color as our ally in England, named PO Box 673
other teachers you had just peacock displayed “Saturday Margaret Thatcher. VCR tapes Houlton, ME 04730
never quite dared call them by Night Live” and George Carlin appear on the market and (207) 532-7522
their first names even as adults. was on the first tube installment. VHS takes the lead over Sony’s
I can see Mrs. Harriet Dunn We won’t talk about the seven Betamax. The Apple 1 prototype kmcar@ainop.com
teaching in room 32, Mrs Betty dirty words you can’t say on appears on the scene too. The Class of 1978
Stone out near shop and home radio or television without Boston Red Sox World Series
economics. And remember how the FCC stepping in, though, games are listened to on potato Andrea Kingsbury Jenkins
cold the end of corridor A or B to black out the broadcast. field and spud house radios as (207) 532-1544
classrooms were because heat Unfortunately three of them they lose 4-3 in the series with majenkins@gwi.net
just never really made it that far. now seem pretty tame. WHOU the Cincinnati Reds.
had a Harry Nilson album in Class of 1978 News!
Showing at the Borderland the archives with one record cut Hope the trip back into time We had our 40th Class
Drive In was Jaws, One Flew crossed with “X”’s using a nail creates other fond memories Reunion at the Meduxnekeag
Over The Cuckoo’s Nest during to make sure no one dropped of your experience at Houlton Ramblers Snow Club in
summer’s buck night. Please the record player needle on that High School. Will try to Littleton on September 8, 2018.
don’t forget to replace your controversial song.. Star Star by highlight the smaller, earlier Approximately 40 classmates
silver speaker on the stand or the Rolling Stones was a no no schools around Houlton plus others attended. What
before you tuned in the new too. ME too in future newsletter a super fun time we had and
wireless radio sound, do you installments. The teachers, really missed all of those who
recall bird size mosquitoes? For the 5th straight year, “All In the facilities near our intown could not make it! David
From the swamp next door on The Family” was TV’s top show neighborhoods that were Rairdon outdid himself in
the north road by the ticket in 1975. Gerald Ford was living attended by the majority of the cooking and various other
booth that would eat you alive in the White House, Nelson us who grew up in Aroostook departments! Rick Wotton,
from the entry through the Rockefeller a heartbeat away County’s oldest town. Bowdoin Phil Perfitt, and Wendell Uber
window crack gap. Heading into from the Presidency. The USA Street I had experience with as a Harvey were true fire masters
the snack shack with the bright has 215,973,199 souls. Houlton country bus riding student. But and kept those of us who
yellow lights, the killer tension Maine’s population was 8111 Central and Lambert too and preferred the great outdoors
double entry door spring to get folks in 1970. Now it’s closer to if you have memories to share, toasty warm all evening! Have
one of those tasty snacks. That 6000 but outside communities please please send them my way to say Ruth Duffy certainly
made you lick your lips, dig have taken up some of that to turn them into print for the travelled the farthest coming
for money because they kept population slack. Ricker College next alumni new edition! from Seattle! Thanks for the
parading around the big silver was still graduating students -Submitted by Andy Mooers effort, Ruth! It was so much
screen before the double feature and did not shut its door for fun to visit with you and your
up front of all those car rows good until 1978. Like lots of Submitted by Rachel Weston posse! We also got to see Craig
parked on the rows of humps. colleges, going to school to stay Lincoln: Lorom and meet his bride,

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