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Date Posted: 00:30:21 06/04/10 Fri
Author: Donna Ray '51
Subject: Al Green's Drive In

Do any of you remember that a Tech graduate was writing a book about drive-ins and was going to include Al Green's? Has he finished it? What is his name?

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[> Re: Al Green's Drive In -- Glenn Holle, 21:46:13 06/04/10 Fri

Donna, Have a wonderful visit with your family in England. I suppose Clayton is home taking care of the horses and farm. If you have internet access, check out
http://www.algreensdrivein.com/

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[> Re: Al Green's Drive In -- Donna Ray '51, 09:40:04 06/05/10 Sat

HiGlenn,

Yes, having a good time with our daughter and family. I have been babysitting our 10-year-old grandson while his parents went off to the south of France! Due home any minute now. They live in the village of Lower Benefield - now try to find that! Not much here at all, but tomorrow is a church fete, just up the road from us, so will be going to that. Came over on QM2.

As for Al Green's, you will have to help me. It seems Clayton and I went there after the prom with a group and I should think you and your date were part of it, as Henry Birk, Bill Dankert, Bill Newbold, and dates were too. Do you remember? Otherwise, I was never at Al Green's. I did go into the site you gave, and read all the messages. Very interesting. It's funny how neighborhood-grouped we all were. I grew up on Dorman St., just two streets west of Tech, and that where I "hung" out - and there wasn't much of that: Freund's Drug Store was the place. I remember the "older" boys (were they 17, 18, 19) coming into the drug store in their uniformas. But mostly I just played and had a good time. Homework from Tech was not included in this! (I don't care if you do keep pointing out that I made Honor Roll -it had to be a mistake!).

Glenn, do you remember, or can you look it up, whether there were co-valedictorians when we graduated, because I was at Tech last October and it seems there was a plaque up on the second floor of the Arsenal (a thousand steps up!) that said so, --Clayton and Nancy Foxworthy. Clayton wants to know and I won't be back in Indianapolis until next October and you have ways to find out things

Now, did you say the guy had finished his book about Al Green's or not? I will have to go back to your message to see.

Yes, Clayton is left at home tending to horses and getting hay hauled in - a very important job. Luckily we have a grandson and a daughter who help (she has two horses).

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[> [> Re: Al Green's Drive In -- Warren Byerly '56, 15:36:55 06/05/10 Sat

Was Al Green's where you could see the free movies? I seem to remember that we hung out down the road at another drive-in. Was it Laughner's? Was a good place to pick up a drag race for Post Road.

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[> Re: Al Green's Drive In -- Glenn Holle, 10:34:14 06/06/10 Sun

Nancy V Foxworthy GRAFT, top academic girl
died lung cancer, luekemia, 31 Mar 2001.
Edward B Landreth, top academic boy
died stroke, 13 Sep 2001.
Clayton E Ray, 3rd academically in Class of 1951
still kicking (you know him)
Neither of them surpassed Clayton's accomplishments in higher education and beyond... can't think of any class graduate that did.
The Valedictory Address, "Just Around the Corner", was delivered by a newcomer to the Class of 1951, Boyd L McCullough... also deceased 15 June 1994.
We have friends in Devizes, Wiltshire. If you are anywhere near the "henge" countryside, keep your eyes and ears open for the new crop circles or as the Brits call them "Corn Circles". Have a great time with your family... that is what life is all about.

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[> Re: Al Green's Drive In -- Glenn Holle, 12:04:27 06/06/10 Sun

Lower Benefield, town in the East Midlands, East Northhamptonshire on the A427 with post office in Petersburgh, Cambridgeshire... a long way from prime "Corn Circle" country, but worth the drive if for no other reason than to visit Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral.

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[> Re: Al Green's Drive In -- Donna Ray '51, 13:20:23 06/06/10 Sun

Thanks Glenn,

I will have to see that plaque in the Arsenal next time in Indy.

Yes, Clayton did alright and he gives credit to the Tech teachers (several really outstanding) and to Harvard.
I think I remember Boyd - was he in our homeroom? A nice boy. Your friends live west of London and I think about 120 miles from my daughter's. Will ask her about "henge" countryside, but seems too far for us. Went to a "fete" today and a church three houses from us - a really nice thing and about as English as you can get. Even met the "Lord of the Manor" on whose grounds it was.

You didn't answer whether we all went to Al Green's after the prom? And who was your date?

And Warren, I do not know whether Al Green's had movies; I really don't know a thing about the place except I think we went there after the prom, and I've driven past it in the past.

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[> [> Al Green's Drive In -- Sarah, 16:15:22 06/11/10 Fri

If I may step in here for a moment...yes, Al Greens did have free movies....

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[> Re: Al Green's Drive In -- Glenn Holle, 19:52:33 06/06/10 Sun

I was in love with a Warren Central HS girl then, so did not go out with "the gang" that evening.
Al Green's did show free, very old movies on the drive-in screen. I still went there after returning to Indy in 1973 for the oversized pork tenderloin sandwiches... hmm good.

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[> [> Re: Al Green's Drive In -- Randall K. (Randy) Wilson (1970), 07:15:12 06/07/10 Mon

My older brother once described the Tenderloin at Al Green's as being, "as wide as the steering wheel of his car". :-)

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