DAY 165 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH

GOOD MORNING, CLASS OF '64

This week begins with a morning temperature of 24°, and we're expected to climb all the way to 30°, today. The rest of the week looks much the same in our neck of the woods. For Tuesday and Wednesday, snowflakes are pictured on the desktop weather forecast. Last week's warmer temperatures were just a teaser. Winter isn't finished with us, yet. 

Would we have still been in basketball season in those long ago February days, in the valley? Do you remember "Tygarts Valley Bulldogs, Fight, Fight, Fight!" Every game was a big event. The bleachers would be full. The band would be playing, and the crowd would be cheering the team to victory. 

Do you remember the bulldog mascot that gave us all such pride to wear? What happened to that bulldog?

 When did he become a menacing beast with fierce fangs for teeth? 

When did the spiked collar appear on his neck? 

 How long has his tongue hung from his mouth like a crazed animal ready to devour it's prey, to lap up all flesh from the bone until there's nothing left - but bone.

When did evil creep into his eyes with a crimped angry brow half hiding them? 

Where has our tough, but amiable bulldog gone? A quick search found only a couple that might be a loose comparison in appearance to the bulldogs from the fifties and early sixties, at TVHS. One is clipart, and the other belongs to a basketball program in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

CLIPART

CEDAR RAPIDS BASKETBALL

As a last resort, take matters into your own hands and learn to draw your own.

Bobby Rydell - Wild One

(an older Bobby Rydell singing Wild One)
MALT SHOP MEMORIES

Bobby Rydell "The Wild One"  PBS

Released in 1960 and charted at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, 

number ten on the R&B chart

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb

 

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

 Clint Eastwood