Jordan High School
Did the movie Grease capture Rydell High School as Jordan High School? Yes it did! Miss Louise Randall (Home Economics), Who taught us all we needed to know about sex….”Don’t do it”. [continue reading]
View ArticleOuthouses the Porto-Potties of the Past
When I tried to tell Delaney the two seaters were one for an adult and one for a small child so they wouldn't fall in....as she listened, I could tell I was digging myself deeper and deeper. I found...
View ArticleJans Glory Days, Growing up in Columbus in the Fifties
Sandra Waldrop Doolittle's daughter Jan Dolittle Page sit's in for her mom, says growing up in the 50's wasn't for Sissies. Delightful and entertaining recounting her Glory Days. [continue reading]
View ArticleDaddy Changing Times
Then Daddy, Momma and I would sit on the screen porch until it was time to watch television. My married sisters would clean their kitchens then sit on their porches until their radio programs came on....
View ArticleJordan High Number One
First Daddy waited until the policemen drove up and then with caution he pulled the driver and the attendant out of the wrecked ambulance then he went to the back and there was a woman laying inside....
View ArticleHistoric Columbus Part 1
Historic Columbus - I was born and raised in Columbus and lived there until I left the city in my youth to work but always returned home to Historic Columbus [continue reading]
View ArticleHistoric Columbus – Part 3 | Beautiful Columbus, Ga.
Columbus became a real wartime military town where soldiers could go and enjoy their leave without a lot of hassle. The Infantry School was near Columbus. [continue reading]
View ArticleJane Russell Columbus Connection 1
Jane Russell, movie star, who in 1943 moved to Columbus, Ga while her husband Bob Waterfield, the football player, was training at Fort Benning, Georgia. [continue reading]
View ArticleJane Russell Columbus Connection 2
Jane Russell's second house in columbus was a duplex, next to an open field- Lakebottom park?, Just a short bus ride from Uptown Columbus. [continue reading]
View ArticleHistory of Girard, Alabama – people remember part 3
Girard, Alabama was a city in the far north-east corner of Russell County, Alabama across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus, Georgia. From 1832–1839 Girard was the first county seat of Russell...
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