Painted Post High School - Poster Yearbook (Painted Post, NY)

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is the head Pharmacist, that's swell. I was afraid that he might be a coke slinger. Proceeding from the drug store, I see the District Attorney's officeg and look at the name on the door! George Robinson, Mr. D.A. The people around here tell me that he has made every one of his cases a conviction. He must be a tough man to come up against. Remember how he could argue. I hear that he is Working on a tough case now, called the Pink Pansy Case. Someone stole all of Caroline Knapp's rare pink pansies from her flower bed. That ought to be worth a ten-year sentence in the big-house, hadn't it, Mr. D. A.? Look out for that big trailer truck! It nearly ran over you! Say the name on that truck looks familiar. The sign on it says, The Tucker, Blen- cowe, and Harris Trucking Co. I always suspected that those three would get together and make up a good business organization. Rumors are going around that Charles, Howard and Eathel have a contract to carry all the produce for the LeValley Chemical Works. There's a new kind of shop down the street. lt's a shoe shop, but it sells a different kind of shoes than most of us wear. The proprietor. Fred Casterline, caters only to short people. I-Ie sells the Casterline Elevator Shoe. The secret of success, Fred tells me is that you have to be in the same predicament as your customers. A tall person won't succeed in the elevator shoe business. Yes, you too, can be tall when you go out with that six-foot girly don't wear stilts, wear Casterline's Elevator Shoes. Down the street farther, I stopped in to see a concert being presented by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. It was notable that everybody in it had brown hair except the people who lived in our town, Senior Class, '47. There were three people: Georgia Dode Cross, Ruth Red Tillman, and Dick Goldilocks Conoverinsky. Dode Cross was blowing her trom- bone so hard that her golden tresses were blowing about from the excess air coming out of her ears. Redhead Number two is Ruth Tillman, and her tinkling flute. It seems that Clancy runs the drug store in between the times when Red is out on concert tours. Our third red-head is Goldilocks Con- over, the added the insky to go with his position, for he is the conductor of this orchestral. Yes, we see him on the podium with his flaming locks. He is a long hair, now, and he almost looks the part. Well, about this time, I decided I would visit the residential section of town. I walked about three blocks ,when I suddenly saw a beautiful house, with a large fence around it and a sign stating, Riverside Rambler's Rest . There was a line of men who seemed eager to get into the place. Inside were the five Riverside Beauties: Margaret Cook, Beverly Abbott, Pat House, and Helen and Eleanor Durkin. You would think that they were the Five Magnets from the way the men were attracted to the house. You know, there's something queer over that way. Look at the big building in back of that small house. Ah! There's a sign over the door. The Andrew's and Reed Soap Works. I can plainly see that Dolores and Sally haven't forgotten some of their old chemistry. tFor you non-chem students, that's what they loved to make when they were in Chemistry! I had heard of the Andreed Soap Products, but I never thought they would be doing that. From all this walking I'm getting hungry. I believe I'll go into that small grocery store and get something to eat. There's the storekeeper and it's Caroline Knapp. Caroline tells me that for a hobby, she now raises flowers. Recently she had some rare pansies stolen from her garden, and she said that the District Attorney was working on the case. Say, I almost forgot that I was here for something to eat. There's some good-looking cookies over there Cno, not that kindl that I think I'll buy. Notice the label on them, packaged by the Smith and Cutler Baking Co. Could that be Wilma and Betty? Well, even if they did make them, the cookies are pretty good. When I was in the store, I happened to notice a very nice bungalow across the street and I asked Caroline whose it was. She said that Florence Miller lived there. Suddenly it dawned on me who that was. It was Florence Cross who had been married to Tom Miller.

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of 2, they now do O. He's applied for service in the Chinese theater now, probably to hunt up some old buddies . Write and tell me how Foo is when you get there, Charlie . There's a large plant there on the other side of the street. And there's a sign on the side of the plant+David Owen Wilkinson, General Manager. Wait, here he comes now, and does he look hen-peckedl What a home life he must have, but l believe l have the reason. lt isn't his wife, the former Ruth Breen, but the maid, Alice Potter, for the domestic servant problem has extended even into that far distant future. He sure hates to lose that wonder- ful maid. Besides, she's beautiful. The Wilkinson twins are now attending school, and Ruth helps them with their typing homework. She's some teacher, believe me! Every once in a while, when Ruth gets the urge, she goes out and takes some pictures for the newspapers, and usually wins nation-wide acclaim for her efforts. ' Now we come to the Grand Theater, and up there in the lights in big letters is the name, Sherry Flanders alias Mrs. Rock-Bottom, wife of the millionaire of the same name. Lately, she has been voted the Broadway en- chantress of the year, after her splendid performance in the revised edition of the hilarious comedy, The Hilarious Hoolihansf' There's an interesting sign, Square Dancing, Tonite and Every Nite. Cedric Stewart and Charles Phelps went in together to form a corporation to promote the furthering of square dancing. From a small start at Cooper's, they now lease Madison Square Garden for the express purpose of having Square Dances there. Chuck Phelps is the man who handles the adver- tising end of the deal and Cedric is in charge of business matters. Lately I hear that square dancing is being thought of as the Great National Past- time. Congratulations, boys. l Ever hear of Gil Dodds, the Galloping Parson? Well, we now have Willard Morse, the Galloping Ghost to take his place. As all great athletes have an inspiration, so does Willard: guess who?MBetty Waibel. He com- petes only in the long distance events, and he has broken nearly every record ever made on a race track. At the Olympic Games, he was voted the outstanding man on the track and was given a gold medal to prove it to all doubters. Lloyd Cisco, who lives in our town, has revolutionized the whole system of farming at his experimental station, up near Lindley. His new crops, produced with a wonder vitamin, have caused him to become famous throughout the country. He has been invited to lecture at all the agricultural colleges throughout the country, and has even been offered a position as consultant for the government agricultural service. Well, look here! After winning that All-American forward slot for three years in a row, Tom Kennedy turned pro and played for the Rochester Royals for a few years. Look what he is doing now, though. He has a sign up saying, Kennedy's Southside Gym, Come in fat and go out slim. Remember the trip that the Seniors take each year? Well, when they arrived in Washington, lack Hogue and Ted Wittig were both taken as contestants on a quiz program. lNeither won the sixty-four dollar question, incidentallyj At that time two big radio magnates were listening: one, the head of Gillette Red Blades, and the other, the President of the American Tobacco Company. As a result of that broadcast, both boys gained new jobs. lack is now head sports announcer for Gillette Red Blades, broadcast- ing all major sports events. Ted took a position away from E. E. Spoone of Lexington, Kentucky. You guessed it! He now is a tobacco auctioneer, living under the alias of T. W. Williams of Southern City, Alabama. Both of them make their summer homes here in Senior City. lust seeing all of these Seniors who have made good makes me wish for a drink. Guess l'll go over to that drug store and get me a coke. Ye Gads, look! Bonbrake Drug Stores, lnc., You name it, we have it. l was afraid that working at Quigley's Drug Store would cause him to do some drastic thing in regard to his future. Whoops! Pardon me! l see Bud

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I had been noticing quite a few signs advertising the best boarding house in town. Finally I came to that superlative structure and who do you suppose was running it? Why Phyllis Lake and Rosalind Carey, of course. Believe me, they have the best home-cooked meals in town. My wanderings have brought me back to the main street now, and I see some different shops, now. First of all, I noticed a quaint sign, Downy Rest, lnnerspring Mattresses proprietor, Patty Ann Hassenplug. I went in and talked to Pat for a little while, and I noticed that she seemed excited. Finally she asked me if I had seen the latest issue of Better Houses and Plots, and I told her that I hadn't. She was excited because the girl she roomed with had written an article about neat and clean housekeeping. Make a guess who it was. Why our own Velma Cole, of course! Flash! The Pink Pansy Bandit the D. A. was hunting has just been found. He turned out to be none other than lack Smith. It seems he went berserk trying to finish that Senior Will and Prophecy on time. He never quite recovered and was always playing practical jokes on Caroline and other people. Another of the new stores I saw, was the Elite Dress Shop. I went in there and saw to my surprise, Lois Iohnson and Shirley Keach. Vifhen they feel like it, they sell their creations to the big department stores in New York City. Mostly, however, they save their stunning creations for their old classmates to wear. The girls had one queer hat there that I noticed, and I asked them what it was for. They said that it had an installed pocket to carry a leash, which the wives could snap onto their husbands, to keep them from running away. Two doors down the street, I saw the sign, Elocution Lessons inquire within. So, I inquired within, Cbeing a trusting soull and I found Barbara Gaiss. She plans shortly to begin a series of discussions about the country on the subject Learn to read. You too, can be happy. If this tour is a success Barbara plans to go on a world-wide speaking tour. Finally, I came to the circus that was in town, and it was there that I gained the biggest surprise of the entire trip. There was Charmaine Claxton, leading the parade in her drum majorette costume. It was really worth a second look, tool After the parade, I asked her how she happened to join the circus. Then she told me Cin strictest confidencel that she had promised to marry two men back home. She couldn't marry two men because that would be bigamy, so she decided to run away. The beautiful and skilled bareback rider in the circus was Audrey Hi--yo Crumm. 'I-ler love of horses and different men caused her to become a performer in the circus, because of its constantly shifting location. In the circuses, they no longer have Lucky Teeter, they now have Skillful Baird. He specializes in the wrecking of old station wagons. He comes roaring off a ramp twenty feet high, sticks out his arms on each side of the car, flies along a bit and then hits the ground. Then the car blows up, catapaults him out of the seat for a distance of about two thousand feet and th-en he comes floating down on a parachute. Quite an act, eh? Coming out of this circus, I looked across the street and saw a store that bought and sold music. Out in front ,is the sign- Piano Lessons with the slogan, You bring them in, we'1l teach them no matter what the cost to