Weatherwax Aberdeen High School dance — 10/1960 — #37768_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Aberdeen Weatherwax High School
Weatherwax Aberdeen High School dance, one of several photographs made for the 1960-61 class yearbook. Theme was "Evening in Paris".
Thanks to Sam Talley, who notes: "I and my girlfriend Kathy Peterson from Hoquiam are the couple below the "P" in Paris. Now, over 45 years later, we are still together and still dancing --- whenever she can drag me out onto a dance floor...It was a prom. I still have the 'P' from the wall at the dance. We took it as a momento. But in those days we wore suits, not tuxedos, and we went in cars because there were no limos. Afterwards everyone went to Casa Mia, Phil Bellafatto's pizza parlor for cheese pizzas. I swear I have NEVER had pizza which was that good since. Afterwards, it was cruising around drive-in restraunts. Gas was about 22 cents per gallon. If we had a good radio and the weather was right we could get KJR radio from Seattle. They'd play real love songs back then instead of the loud racket played today. Now that was "uptown"!!! A couple Hoquiam guys ended up as disc jockeys there."
Thanks also to Lillian Groesbeck, who noted that Mr. Talley was later on the security team for Elvis Presley. Mr. Talley added some details: "My wife and I met Elvis at the Seattle Worlds Fair and were in the movie "It Happened At the Worlds Fair" in 1963 as spectators when he marched and sang in a parade. We made friends because I did not pester him. I still have the Honda 50 that he drove in the movie. I was hired onto his venue security team for about 16 months after college. We'd sneak him in and out of appearance locations. I did not bring it up much in those days because people had so many questions. I at one time had a vanity auto licence plate that stated I NU LVS, but people would almost run me off the road to see if he was in the pickup with me. I took them off my truck but still have them put away. Believe it or not, I have even signed autographs for a few people who wanted to feel a connection with Elvis Presley. It's a crazy world. Its been a long time and people have forgot all the hoopala....
I loved my youth on the Harbor."
