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Talking about football reminded Grady of the time when he was a freshman at OU and of an observance called Freshman Night. I remember one night at school especially well. All the freshmen football players would put on their red caps with a UV on them and they carried paddles. We called our- selves the Vengeance squad. After school had been going on three or four weeks, a yell would go up: 'All fresh- men outl' All the freshmen would come outside in whatever they happened to be wearing at the time, and form a big snake line that would lead them all over campus. They stopped doing this quite a while back, because when the snake line would go through a drug store or someplace like that, after about a thousand would go through, there wouldn't be anything left on the shelves! Has he noticed any differences in students through the years? '4Sure, Ithink the students nowadays are the best. They participate in more activities on campus. They are a lot more serious now. They study more than students used to. Back then if you studied a lot they called you a bookworm. I guess students have a lot more to worry about now, there's the population explosion, high prices, and maybe a food shortage. Mostly they seem to worry about getting a job when they get out of school. Grady said with a sly smile, Students now are not any 2 ,rg if ,ws ww bigger troublemakers like some people say. All students get a little bit reckless in the spring time! Grady plans to stay in Norman in his retirement--a good place for a man with memories of students, the campus corner and Sooner football.Q .-gz' -'fy v ,f-'Z L SAMPLING SOME BUBBLEGUM is G,E. Mobley, better known as the owner of Grady's Grocery--now a legend. I-ll Z.: rf- , . QL- ml -V ,-,.vwg : d, -,,, h . . '? z:e:'r,. ,Q A .NJ , .. S is . 4' 7 i' J 'Si-5 --H -5 55451. f r
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66 by Stan Tacker Well, I didn't try to get rich, I just wanted to make a living, said G.E. Mobley, a long time Norman merchant. i'l've been in business in Norman since 1955 in the same location on campus corner. Most OU students probably wouldn't recognize the name G.E. Mobley, because they have known him for years as Gradyg the same Grady who owned and operated Grady's Grocery at 323 White Street on Campus Corner. Grady retired and sold his store this year, after almost 20 years in Norman. Grady explained that business was getting slow at that location because all of the fraternity and sorority houses moved to the more southern parts of campus. Back when all the houses were in my location, we used to have three people working behind the counter all the time and used two cash registers. My wife passed away, you know, about three months ago, and I couldn't do without her. I'm 70 years old, soon to be 71. She did all the bookkeeping. After we were married I sent her to college and she took bookkeeping and accounting and she was an expert on it. Boy, the way it is now, l couldn't keep up with it. You know, a little man in the grocery business practically has to have a full-time bookkeeper, and they're high, very high. The books are complicated, very complicated. They fgovernmenti add more to it every year? Grady leaned back in his easy chair and said with a laugh, 'Tm older than the state of Oklahoma. I was born about 20 miles east of Ardmore in Indian Territory in 1904. I was captain of the high school football team in Ard- moreg as a matter of fact when I was there, we only lost one game in two years. Grady came to school at OU in 1924 where he was a member of the freshman football team. I-Ie probably remains as one of the biggest OU football fans, to this day. What was the best year for Sooner football? 'Ll think this year's team is the best ever. This team and the 1956 team are a lot alike. They were both great. I remember...
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