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Remember the good old days !

Memories of Old.   Updated 2-10-06  This page will take a few minutes to download please be patient.

Elbert Company Store , looks like thirties or forties

Remember hanging around here ? I remember buying things here.

Gary # 10 Outside of the Church Mid fifties

The fifties were a great time. Check out those dresses and the cars , I would love to have that 53 Merc.Is that Eddie Y. In the middle.?

Barbara Dawson Cassell from Welch On the right and her sister Nancy Dawson

Her basement in her house in Md. is a replica of the TicTock grill in Welch. She calls it TicTock Two and has furnished it with a lot of memorabilia from the High School days at Welch and Gary .

# 9 Mountain reunion several years ago

BG and Frank Piasano , we ran into each other there . We had not seen each other since we were kids. We grew up together. We shared a lot of memories.

Thorpe Cemetery

I have several family graves here both Mercs and Garay

Buddy French at Big Rock Dec. 2005

Forty + years ago Buddy French and friends found Big Rock on the mountain top behind Gary above the water tank. They established a camp ground there,many kids from Gary camped there over the years. Buddy went back there in Dec. 2005 with his son and daughter and after some difficulty they were able to climb to the top of the mountain and found Big Rock.

Buddy French and friends called the place Camp Randy

Forty years later Buddy returned with his daughter Terasa and son Tim to Camp Randy on top of the mountain near Big Rock. December 2005.



Got any stories and photos like Buddy`s that you would like to post here ?