Senior Moments
Memories of Old
El Paso
Some of our Favorite Things in 1959
Lighting our Horseshoe and the "B" on Mt. Franklin
Painting it!
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Ascarate Lake and Park
Ashley's outdoor dining
AFS and our Swedish Exchange Student--Irina Schaub
B-52s and B-47s taking off over Hillside and Hughey Schools
Bassett Center
Beaumont bus
Bermuda grass
Biggs Air Force Base
Billy the Kid’s Restaurant
Black Jack & Clove chewing gum
Bordertown, Fiesta and Trail drive-in movies
(with the super screen of the bull and jet plane in the desert)
Burges High track, baseball and football teams
Burges in Bloom--and our Queen Diana Craft
(and our AFS exchange student, Irina, went barefoot to it)
California Street
Cloudcroft
Chelmont Shopping Center
(and the dancing waters)
Cielo Vista Mall
Cherry Cokes & "Suicides"
Clock Drive Inn (Dyer street)
"Colonel Corny"
Color t.v. and NBC peacock
Coney Island hotdogs
Copia Street
Churches
Daffyfuddlebug
Del Norte, Fiesta and drive-in movies
Drag racing on Edgemere Blvd
(It was 1/4 mi from one corner of Burges to the other)
Downtown library
Downtown news stands
Edgemere Avenue
El Paso Del Norte
Elmer’s
Elvis
El Paso Natural Gas building downtown
(and the weather forecast flame on top)
Fedmart
Fort Bliss
Fins on cars--big ones
Franklin Mountains
Freeway Bowling Lanes
Gunning and Casteel Drug Store
Hamburger Inn
Harvey comics at Gunning and Casteel
Hein's Restaurant (Chelmont)
Hollebeke's riding stable
"Hoofbeats"
Hotel Dieu Hospital
Hueco Tanks Picnics
Hughey and Hillside Schools
International Trolley Car
Jacalitas
Judd Milton jazz radio on KHOO, Friday eve 10:30
Jim Luna, King Tuna
Juarez
KELP
KHOO
KROD
KTSM
Kern Place
Kress's downtown
L & A and Capri downtown theaters
La Posta
Loretto Academy
Leo's Restaurants
Lucky Boy hamburgers
Luminarias at Christmas
Mayor Raymond Telles
McKelligon Canyon
Mighty Mouse
Minute Market on Trowbridge
Montana Drive
Nike missiles near Hughey School
North Loop Drive
Oasis Drive-In on Montana
Old Mesilla
Plane Crash soon after Burges opened (behind the school)
Pershing Theater
Plaza Park (and the alligator park)
Plaza Theater
Populars Department Store
Poodle Skirts, crinolines, and angora collars
Penny Loafers
Providence Hospital
Radford School
Ramada Inn and our Senior Breakfast
Red Rooster Drive-in
Referee Campos
Refineries and their Smell
Rock and gravel alleys
Round House at the railroad yard
Sandhills
Sandstorms
Scenic Drive
(including the exit off Scenic Drive onto the steep hill on Arizona
Street)
Segregated buses, and going to town on the bus
Smeltertown (ASARCO)
Smitty's on Montana
Spudnuts
Standard Oil refinery
THE STAR ON THE MOUNTAIN
State Theater
Steve Crosno's rock 'n' roll show (KELP AM)
"Suds"
Sun Kings baseball
Sun Carnival Sun Queen Linda Irby Hart
Suicides and Cherry Phosphates
Southwestern General Hospital
Ted Bender
Texas Western College
Texaco refinery Christmas lights
Tramway
Trowbridge Street &
Timberwolf Drive
Upper Valley & Lower Valley
Valley Theater
VFW building in Mc Kelligon Canyon
Vinegaroons, Roaches and Black Widow Spiders
Whitehouse Department Store
White Sands National Park
YMCA on Montana
Ysleta
Zaragoza Road
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