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WHENEVER I FEEL LIKE IT 

 Issue Date: August 12, 2008

 

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO OUR HOMETOWN HOT ROD KING?
   
TM was recently contacted by Andy Southard, Jr., OHS class of  '51 (whose father, Andrew, Sr., was on the Oceanside School Board for 32 years ending with his passing in 1968). Andy, Jr. became widely known in and around our little town in his late teens and early 20s for his incredible work pinstriping intricate designs on hot rods and custom cars. He then went on to central California from where his reputation for pinstriping and his photography spread nationally throughout hot rodding and custom car circles. After being managing editor of Rod & Custom magazine, and contributing photos and articles to that and a number of other hot rodding and custom car magazines, in the 1990s, Andy authored and published five books featuring photos of these magnificent cars and related stories (all of which are now out of print after runs of up to 12 years, and used copies sell online for around  $100).


One of Andys' early books
   
    

Click here to view the wonderful photos of Oceanside in the 1950s that Andy, now living in Salinas, California, contributed to 1960sailors.net for all of us to enjoy.
   


  JACK IS BACK!

    
LI Newsday reported that our own Jack Beaulieu won first place in the 26.2-mile men's hand-crank wheelchair competition with a time of 1 hour, 34 minutes and 10 seconds.his first time in the Long Island Marathon held on Sunday, May 3, 2004.  Several of his competitors were as much as 21 years younger than Jack. 

After losing both of his legs in a construction accident shortly after our 40-year reunion in 2000, Jack trained rigorously for the last 18 months so he could inspire other amputees to race.  Newsday quoted Jack as follows: "It's no longer difficult for me. It's difficult only if you don't fill your life with productive endeavors."  Way to go, Jack! 
  

  

Jack Beaulieu at our   reunion in 2000   

Apparently, Jack competed again in July 2004 in Alaska, according to the accompanying online report of an Anchorage TV station about Jack and another old-timer wheelchair racer found for us by Rick Von Brook.




IS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS MONTH?

THE GREAT                

     

IS NOW WELL INTO ITS 60s           

Click here for a special birthday greeting to all of us,              
a list of known classmates' birthdays and               

a brief history of the world as we have known it.              
(If your birthday is this month, and your name is not listed on the                         
class birthday card, complete and submit the Feedback form now.) 
                         


    


 
     

Do you remember the Sailor's Handbook?

In the late 1950s, the Sailor's Handbook was given to every OHS student at the beginning of the school year. It contained mostly school rules but has a lot of interesting historical information in it and, thanks to classmate, Marta Watts, we have obtained access to all three editions that were distributed while we were in high school.  There is stuff from the Handbook now all over the "Our School" page (including the floor plan of our high school building as it was when we were there) and on the "Sports Page" (sample cheers used in the late 1950s).

And a special page was added containing IAQs (infrequently asked questions) created by classmate, Ed Chilton, from information about our school found in these three editions of the Handbook.  Some of them will surprise you, and many should make you laugh.
                



 
       

 
Our new and improved Rock 'n' Roll Radio pages
With added photos, history and sound clips with
voices of the top 3 NY DJs of the 1950s,
Alan Freed, Murray "the K," and
one and only 
"Ace from Outer Space"
"not the duplicator,
not the imitator, not the impersonator, 
but the
ORIGinator"

           
       JOCKO!! 
 And learn the meaning and origin
of  the word, "
googamooga."

FEEDBACK FORM FINALLY FUNCTIONAL         

     
     CLASSMATES, REGISTER NOW 
 

Use the Feedback form to register for our Class Directory and to keep me up-to-date on your latest e-mail and "snail mail" addresses, telephone and FAX nos.  This will assure that you receive notification of our next class reunion.  Use it also to provide your commentary on what this website means to you and any other matters you would like to comment upon.
        


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Howie's nostalgic reunion speeches over the last 25+ years now feature AUDIO!!   
1980 1990 2000 2005

If you haven't taken a tour of "Our Little Town" yet, go there. You'll find lots of 1950s Oceanside history obtained from, among other sources, the 1957-'60 pages of , old photos and photos of present day Oceanside, too.  

             
   Peter's Clam Bar, circa 1950  
   

CHECK OUT THE OLD PHOTOS of our town triangle, the Rainbow Diner,
Nathan's Roadside Rest, C&J Bowling, Peter's Clam Bar, Carvel, churches and synagogues,
Oil City, Bristol Motors, South Nassau Communities Hospital and more at
Our Little Town                    


AND YOU CAN REVISIT
THE ORIGINAL
NATHAN'S ROADSIDE REST!
OUR LITTLE TOWN'S MOST FAMOUS LANDMARK

    

on our  IMPROVED ROADSIDE REST page 

that has been substantially "beefed up" (all beef, of course); that is, it

has grown larger, more complete and more interesting with "new"   

pictures and added history.  (Even the song has gotten cooler!)      

           And

   Interviews with Morty Shor, 81-year old son of
Leon Shor,
Roadside Rest co-founder,
and 82-year old Murray (son of Nathan) Handwerker,      
the man who brought to Oceanside in 1959.      

                                          (FYI, this panel is supposed to be the color of sauerkraut.)             

 

      
According to a remarkably accurate report by
:
        
"The huge building with picnic-style tables became a destination: to go after high-school football games, after a day at the beach, to celebrate when you first got your drivers' license, or just to people-watch and meet kids from other towns.

       


CLASS OF 1960 "IMMORTALIZED"
AT 
NATHAN'S OCEANSIDE

Substantially all of the contents of our Roadside Rest page, in a beautifully framed, printed edition was presented June 28, 2003, on behalf of our class together with the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, who then declared June to be " Month in Oceanside, New York." Our tribute is now hanging permanently in the Oceanside, "immortalizing" the Class of 1960 in our little town. Click here for details and photos, here for Nathan's Famous letter of acknowledgement of our award, or here for the Chamber's Newsletter covering the event.  (Our class is mentioned four times in the article.)
      

          
PHOTOS OF
THE 1960 ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE

(Click on the thumbnail image to the right to view photos) 

     

This Site

Now Featuring

After 48 Years!

   

Selected LIVE RECORDINGS made onstage at OHS, March 15, 1958, featuring the OHS orchestra and the voices of our classmates, in

available courtesy of our popular teacher, musical

director and conductor, Allan Segal.

   

The audio quality is not the best, But the memories are real. and they are SPECTACULAR!! Thanks, Allan
(Click here for an update on Allan Segal.)
  


      

Visit the page honoring
the memory of my personal favorite teacher, 
jr. high music teacher, Ed Taylor  


  

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Don' t forget the
ATTACK ON
  OUR HOMELAND

 

       
   
Click on one of the photos at left for our special page about the tragedy.     

         
REmemBEring September 11th
one year later 
with the words of a 14-year old  Oceanside high school  freshman, 
Denise Huertas, Class of 2006

   
"I learned that life can change in a heartbeat."

    
Click here for a report of the
memorial ceremony held in Oceanside,
September 11, 2002

                       


Very rare group photos of all of us as
the OJHS Graduating Class of 1957 

Our Guys Our Girls

NOW ENLARGED 2.5 X the size of the Originals!!


         
READ ALL ABOUT THE
1959 COUNTY                
CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALL GAME                

                             SAILORS 71, BALDWIN 70
                           (IN NAIL-BITING OVERTIME !)
       
            
                  AS TOLD ON THE PAGES OF
                                      WITH LOTS OF OTHER OHS SPORTS STUFF
                      
FROM OUR TIME
   

   

AND SPEAKING OF SPORTS,
REMEMBER THIS?

Were you a baseball fan when you were a kid? How about a trip back to the ballpark in the days the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn (and you could still pronounce all the players' names) -- a trip to Yankee Stadium for game seven of the 1955 World Series, October 4, 1955, when the beloved Brooklyn Bums finally beat the Bronx Bombers, as reported the next day in the and the ? (Click on the Dodgers' logo at left.)

 

WHAT A MEMORY!! 

  

        
      

CHUCK BERRY HONORED

In December 2000, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts gave Chuck Berry, one our generation's heroes, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon an entertainer in the USA.  
    
(Click on the figure at left for a report and the Class of 1960's tribute to Berry for this achievement.)


    

 Remember our
FABULOUS 40-year
class reunion,
July 29th, 2000 

Click here, and take a few moments to read our detailed REUNION REPORT and to view 224 photos on 13 pages of this website.  


      

Check out our own
American Bandstand Page  
See if it isn't the
best Bandstand page on the web!

August 5th, 2007, marked 50 years since Dick Clark first brought "American Bandstand" and our favorite musical performers into our Oceanside living rooms every day from Philadelphia and made national celebrities out of regular kids like us.


 

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