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Subject: Dances Author: Brina ('75) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 07:52:38 09/21/02 Sat Getting back to a topic we barely got into: Does anyone remember the dances held at the gym at Prospect Street School? (I'm terrible with streets, the school I mean is the one with the big fire escape on the outside, up at the top of the hill, I went there for part of Jr. High) My memory of dances starts there, with bands like Sybil (which had the Elmendorf brothers and I believe the McElroy brothers in it, Russ Nelson too...). What do you all remember? I think we started going to dances there when I was in 6th or 7th grade, but there were definitely older kids there to make it "cool." The bands played a lot of Santana, Rolling Stones...I'm just curious what you guys remember. Thanks for the answers on Tim Cahill; even if he didn't go to our school, I'm proud that guy is a Vermonter. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Dances Author: tim [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:42:29 09/21/02 Sat I vaguely remember an incident at a dance at Prospect Street. It involved several kids and a jar of grain alcohol that was passed around. I couldn't tell you who was playing that night, what year it was, or even if I was one of the kids who got busted. Zane Snelling may have been one of the officers on duty that night. When I think about it, it really is amazing how little I remember about this time in my life. Perhaps this explains my 13 year old son a little better, his one syllable grunts and seeming disinterest in anything beyond the here and now. Thanks Brina, this helps me put things in perspective.

[> Subject: Re: Dances Author: Brina [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:07:39 09/21/02 Sat That's pretty interesting, Tim, about your son! Mine is 12 1/2 and thinks hearing about our growing-up years is a hoot. But then, we're big on story-telling in our family, so maybe he's just used to it and knows he'd better listen up! I have vivid memories of being that age and of being a teenager, but then there are whole parts of high school that are kind of a wash...for me, though, being a musician, I can tap into that musical memory and so as a result I have lots of scenes in my head from things like dances, our chorus rehearsals and concerts and exchange concert trips, other performances I did, All State Orchestra, things like that...and I'll give you just one: the Stones' "Brown Sugar" being played something like three times in one dance, and I danced it with Stan Richards and then two other guys who are now nameless and faceless! I must've been all of 13. I remember standing against the bleachers waiting for boys to ask us to dance, and I remember older kids were drinking, smoking, etc. Also those days were such that we were allowed to walk to and from the dances, just us girls, late at night even, at age 13. Sure doesn't happen like that here in Minneapolis in the year 2002!!!