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MAKE OUT MUSIC... OH YEAH...

Definitely "Color My World"! "

Always & Forever" by Heatwave was a good one too!

11/13/17 01:56 PM

#531

Maja Wiesinger (Ramirez)

Ken. Pretty sure the Jackson5 sang that we "should make a pacT," but typos will out...

Maybe we were "choosy" in grade school - I don't know anyone you went to grammar school with (was it Aggasiz? Then Kris) - but some of us had been warned by our parents not to do this-or-that, and their voices echoed in our minds even decades after they were dead. Or some of us listened to our gut if it said, Not here, not now, not at all.

Gut instincts should be respected: "Respect yourself" might not fit your criteria, but it WAS a good tune back then (and now).

Now another question: What music did you all first hear during HS years/at Lane that made the hair stand up on the back of your neck - maybe then AND ever since - that music that made/makes you feel alive?

- Grand Funk Railroad's the Locomotion; Light Up and Lorelei by Styx; Roundabout, I've Seen All Good People, and Yours Is No Disgrace from Yes.

11/14/17 12:15 PM

#532

We started school dances in 7th grade. In the gym. You know... guys on one side of the gym... girls on the other... no one really knowing what to do next. It was good practice before High School. Especially being a guy at Lane... where the girls were great and so was the competition! 10 to 1 odds against me was certainly a challenge!

Anything by the Carpenters. NOTHING by Captain and Toenail. Couldn't stand them.

I was really never a "teeny bopper". Went right from nursery rhynes to Frank Zappa and Black Sabbath. Unfortunately, those were the days of AM radio so I had to listen to WLS and WCFL. Nothing but Top 40's trash. Spent my money on LP's while everyone else was buying 45 singles!

Liked listening to student radio in college. They could play most anything they wanted. Had a friend who DJed the graveyard shift on WBAA. She complained that I kept calling her in the middle of the night requesting Zappa and she COULDN'T play it! Did get a lot of Dead in the middle of the night, though.

Years later, after college I moved out to Woodstock, NY. Yes, "the" Woodstock. All the 60's hippies still lived there. They just had long GREY hair and little hippie children! Met Abby Hoffman at a club there once. Lots of "unpluggged" rock and folk. Eric Clapton acoustic in a litttle bar. Alice Cooper acoustic without all the makeup. Arlo Guthrie and Louden Wainwright III. WDST. Best radio station I've ever heard. Thier motto was "we'll play anything. As long as it's NOT Top 40's!"

Also (mis)spent a lot of time at outdoor Grateful Dead concerts. After marriage, convinced my wife to let me take our 18-month old son to an outdoor Dead concert. He was the hit of the party. Twirly-dancing with the rest of the Deadheads. Not for the same reasons, though!

11/16/17 10:11 AM

#533

Patricia Hodge (Hanes)

A friend sent me this photo this morning. I don't remember ever seeing it but I notice two things about it. First, Kevin Mooney is over my shoulder, and second, one of those delicious ice cream sandwiches is in my left hand! Ah those were simpler times back then!

11/17/17 11:02 AM

#534

Mmmm.... I'd forgotten about those ice cream sandwiches. And cutting class to hang out in the lunchroom! I also remember in our first couple years when they still sold pop in bottles, and we popped open the bottles on the sides of the lunchroom tables. Sort of "James Dean-ish". Ok, so it was cool back then. Probably why they swithched to fountain soda.

"Pizza" was actually just leftover sloppy joe on a toasted English Muffin with a little cheese on it. And every couple weeks they had "Chop Suey" which was just all the leftovers served over rice!

One year they got a TON of canned prunes donated by... I think... the US Govt. We were getting prunes in everything for months! I think I was the only person in the school who liked prunes. And the lunchroom ladies knew it. So, I got extra prunes every day! When I graduated the staff invited me down to the lunchroom during an off period. My graduation gift from the lunchroom ladies... a GIANT PRUNE CAKE with extra thick cream cheese frosting!!! Yumm!

Then there was the time Pres. Reagan handed out the govt. surplus cheese all over the country. We were all loaded down with cheese for a long time.

Hard to tell, but that looks like it might be Jim Paskind over your other shoulder. Face is covered, but the size and hair look right.

11/17/17 11:05 AM

#535

Michelle... go back a few posts... the one you posted with all the pictures. Do you know the girl in the middle of the first photo? Smiling and looking to her right?

11/17/17 03:26 PM

#536

No Bob... but maybe some of the other ladies will recognize her...

11/18/17 08:44 AM

#537

June K Hori (Yamasaki)

Bob: Reagan was not president during our time at Lane. It was Nixon, and then Ford.

11/18/17 08:55 AM

#538

Oops! Thanks June. I remembered the cheese. I thought it was Reagan. And, maybe it wasn't at Lane.

Senior moment!

11/18/17 09:29 AM

#539

Peter Ingraffia

A few months ago there were some posts about concerts that occurred during our Lane years. Janet and I have been cleaning out some closets and I came across several old ticket stubs of concerts that I attended with some other Laneites. Here is just a sampling. Amazing that back then the "expensive" seats were $9 or $10, most were $7.50.

11/18/17 11:32 AM

#540

WXRT is featuring music from 1974 this morning and it's glorious!

11/23/17 10:26 AM

#541

12/04/17 11:21 PM

#542

I took the Metra to Chicago last Saturday night and whan I got to the platform to await the train, I saw Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus there. So I was like "Cool! I can get a picture with them to show my family!" It turned out that Metra was having a Holiday train ride event with a few extra cars dedicated to that event, and Mr. and Mrs. Claus were waiting for that train so they can board and participate in that event.
So when we took the picture, Mr. Claus noticed my Lane Tech Alumni hat and asked me if I went to Lane. I told him I did and graduated in 1976. He then told me that he went to Gordon Tech and graduated in 1970. I told him that I still frequent that area and if he knew that Gordon Tech is now called De Paul academy. He said he did not know that. I did not get a chance to talk further with them as the train arrived and some of the people that exited the train wanted to take pictures with them.
Here is our picture:

12/05/17 10:11 AM

#543

Ken Ortiz... Mr. Christmas!

12/05/17 10:02 PM

#544

Robert,

I wanted to mention that one of my favorite 45's back in the day was "Black Dog" by Led Zepplin. My parents had a cow when I decided to blast it on the BIG stereo (with the BASS knob cranked to MAX and with the LOUDNESS switch to ON) in our living room instead of on my portable turntable in my bedroom. Good thing my Aunt and cousins were living downstairs at the time.

12/06/17 09:45 AM

#545

A friend of mine bought a set of Army surplus speakers. Stood about 5 feet tall each. Poor sound but, DAMN they were loud! Didn't blast out the house... blasted out the entire neighborhood!

12/07/17 01:21 PM

#546

Maja Wiesinger (Ramirez)

Ken Ortiz -

"good thing" your aunt was living downstairs - so she could save you from the walloping your father was about to give you?!

12/08/17 08:49 PM

#547

Maja,
Well......luckily for me, I did not get a walloping that time. Plus I was getting too old to get "The Chancla". The reason my Aunt didn't complain was that she had 3 boys (my cousins) and 2 of them were already teenagers. The oldest one was around 18 and he had a drum set in the basement as he was in a band called "The Weird Terrors" and they would practice in the basement. My Aunt and cousins lived in the first floor and we lived in the second floor and the basement was mostly for storage (and to hold band practice). So the "shaking ceiling" I created that day was probably not a big deal for my Aunt. I also did the same thing (super MAX Bass and Loudness) when I played my "Theme From Shaft" 45 record. You could see (and also feel) those speaker woofers pounding away with that song.

12/08/17 08:50 PM

#548

Maja and June,
Last weekend I showed my Daughter and a couple of her friends my post about "The Centipede" to see what they thought of my "storytelling skillz" and my "wordsmithiness". They all told me the same thing:
"Why didn't you just squash the critter?"
Because they all would have.

12/09/17 06:33 PM

#549

June K Hori (Yamasaki)

Yes! No mercy for bugs or mice once they step inside my house!

12/09/17 08:30 PM

#550

Congrats to Kenny Ortiz... contributing editor at Lane Tech Today! Here's a sneak peek of his new regular feature...Sightings!

Watch out guys... he's everywhere!

12/14/17 09:06 PM

#551

Hello all,

In lieu of the mid-season finale of the Walking Dead last Sunday, we were made aware of a new threat to our existence. So be on the lookout and beware of......The Walking Alumni!

Fortunately, a group of brave and fearless warriors have stepped forward and will be there to protect us by tracking down and eliminating this new threat.

Are some of these fearless warriors Laneites? Are some of them 76'ers and former classmates?

Hmmmmmm...............could be......

12/15/17 01:07 PM

#552

Andrew Flor

I know I was a zombi at Lane on a few occassions!

12/15/17 07:18 PM

#553