Reminiscing...

Russell and I just returned from Mass at a church where we both attended as kids. I attended the Catholic school that was part of this parish 'graduating' from eighth grade in the spring of '69. We ran into a girl I had gone through school with and we stood in the Alabama heat (yesterday it was 97 degrees!) and reminisced about going to that school in the sixties. I mentioned we are restoring a '65 Imperial (among many other makes/models) and she immediately remembered a lady whose daughter was in our class. She asked me if I remembered when the lady bought her new '67 (creamy yellow with black top) Imperial and brought her daughter to school in it? I replied that I did because I was lucky enough to carpool with that girl and ride in that awesome Imperial! My dad drove a Ford LTD so I was always thrilled to ride in that Imperial!!!!!!!!!!

As I was standing there in the parking lot looking at the empty parking stalls facing the school cafeteria, I could 'see' all the different sixties cars that used to pull up and park there dropping us kids off for school or picking us up at 3:00 PM. What a nostalgic trip that was? Oh to step into a time machine and be able go back to any one of those days back in the sixties when I was a kid and cars were real and not these playtoys we call cars nowadays! I'd pay a pretty penny for that opportunity!