Bill Engelhardt

Okay, Joe, here ya go -- Flashback '68

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Geezz, I hardly remember any of these.  Then fast forward to 1969 Woodstock.  Wow, quite a differance!

Al Peffley

Thanks, Michael, for the documentary video suggestion.

Personally, I find many of the tunes of the 1980's most uplifting. It is when my life changed for the better. The quality of the music productions and instrument playing talents seemed to improve by the end of the Vietnam War through the end of the 70's. Every member of the iconic American band known as "Chicago" could not only play several instruments but also sing as well as their adopted lead singer, Peter Cetera, especially after Terry Kath died. They were even better in person than their albums that recorded their hits. I attended one of their performance events (before Peter and his brother Kenny left) at the Tacoma Dome, in the '80's...

Early band photo of the Chicago Transit Authority, AKA "Chicago"

https://www.grunge.com/263954/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-chicago/

Steve Morris

Saw Chicago Transit Authority at Carver Gym at Western WU in 1969 for $2.50. They had one album out. Was happy to be there!

Gary Korsgaard

Saw Chicago here in Seattle on July 15, 1971. It was my first date with my now ex wife,

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Well, I saw Chicago at the Puyallup Fair.  They were fabulous!

Cheryl Miller

I saw CTA at the Eagles in the early 70's  Loved them

Al Peffley

Blood, Sweat, & Tears had the same producer at one time as Chicago. Chicago had to drop the Transit Authority from their band name because the real CTA threatened to sue them if they did not change their name to just "Chicago". Chicago kept evolving because Doc Severinsen (yes, the NBC Orchestra leader on Johnny Carson's Show, from Arlington, Oregon) encouraged them to keep on producing great music. Carl Hilding (AKA "Doc") Severinsen's father was the riverside town's local dentist.

I played the trumpet and french horn in grade school and junior high bands before I entered HHS. Doc was an inspiration to me with his great octive range and tone variance talents. Doc had the professional skills on the trumpet we all strived for, but most of us never achieved. I have often thought of buying a french horn, but never followed up on the urge when I had the money because my lip is so out of shape from years of not playing a brass instrument. I preferred band over orchestra playing on the french horn. I have one daughter and two grand children who all are serious trombone musicians, and one grand daughter who plays the tuba and another who tried playing the cornet. I guess brass playing is in our family line. i'm still a sucker for listening to great guitar "licks" on free-form instrumental jam session albums like "Super Session". TMI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Severinsen

Bill Engelhardt

Feb. 1960

KING radio disc jockey Bill Muncey set a new world speed record for hydroplanes over the measured-mile course with a clocking of 192.001 miles per hour. The mark was established Feb. 16 on Lake Washington. The boat: Miss Thriftway.

Al Peffley

I met "Wild Bill" at Mason Lake while he was visiting our neighbor and testing his APBA 225 Class Limited Hydroplane in the late 1950's. His son worked in Auburn at the motorcycle dealer when it was located over near the airport on Auburn Way. I  never met Bill's second wife, Fran.

The restored Thriftway and the Atlas Van Lines' "Blue Blaster" are located in Kent at the Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum next to the old Boeing Kent Space Center facilities (off of the West Valley Highway.) If you have never been there, It's a fun visit.

My good friend, Phil Lampman (who just passed away) and his daughter, Shelby, helped restore, at the Museum's restoration shop, both cabover unlimiteds that Muncey drove.

Bill Muncey inspired many young men to begin hydroplane racing with APBA and local NW boat racing clubs like the Seattle Outboard Association (SOA), Columbia Outboard Racing Association (CORA), and the Whidbey Island Roostertails (WIR) wildcat club. Chip Hanauer started in SOA driving K and A Class entry-level outboard racing hydroplanes. Bill was his mentor when he entered APBA Limited Hydroplane racing in the 145 Class and won the 145 Class National Title. I met Chip once just after he retired around 1999 at the Museum in Kent during a Ron Jones' Hydroplane Enlosed Cell Design Safety and Communications Symposium. PRO Outboard were transitioning to enclosed capsule boat designs  like the enclosed Fomula 1 petrol-fueled hydros in the APBA/UIM 500cc to 1,000cc methanol-fueled classes. I stayed in the APBA 250cc PRO Hydroplane Class until I retired in 2015. I started in SOA.

https://thunderboats.ning.com/

https://hydroplanehistory.com/personalities/bill_muncey_remembered.html

https://thunderboats.ning.com/page/biography-of-chip-hanauer

Bill Engelhardt

Seafair 1954

Marty Ellison

This photo poped up on my memories page, Mike, John, Bruce Mennella  and I were in the same class entering flight training at Naval Air station Pensacola.  This was taken about October, 1968.  Shortly after that time we attended Mike's Wedding at the NAS Chapel after graduation.

Al Peffley

Additional JFK Assasination report papers are online now. but there is no significant summary in the first release that explains who planned and initiated the shooter[s'] attack. Even the autopsy record is very brief and obviously sanitized in the Warren Report Appendix. No analysis, just photos of notes and hand-typed coordination pages. More information is in the second documents drop.An Act in 1992 concerning the classification and handling of all of the JFK assassination documents was passed by Congress and signed by G.H.W. Bush (in 1976 Bush became the Director of Central Intelligence.)  Go to the User Forums to get a link that discusses the real interesting documents that were released after the Warren Commission Report files. The emerging truth will be shocking to some people...others, not so much.

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk

Our society needs more warrior patriots like Mike. RIP! Pray for our deployed military, our CINC, and SECDEF Pete Hegseth.

[Revised on 19 March 2025]

Bill Engelhardt

Marvelous photo, Marty. And Mike's grin....exactly as I remember him.

Bill

Bill Engelhardt

Gregg Wilson

I have discovered the perfect computer password.

                                   incorrect

"Your computer passwod is incorrect. Yes. I know."

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Now that is one of the funniest I have heard!

Patrick Calkins

Mike McCarthy was one of my best buddies being on the Highline HS State Champion Gymnastic Team together. I was so sad when I heard of his death.

Bill Engelhardt

In the spirit of Opening Day....

Hardwick (KVI), president of Ray Oyler Fan Club, Seattle Pilots, 1969. 

Gregg Wilson

Democrats have decided that if they cuss a lot, they can win back enough votes to re elect themselves.

Amateurs.

As an old Marine, I can assure you that we Marines had cussing down to a fine art. I will demostrate:

                       !@)^$&?%!

Al Peffley

KENT PACIFIC RACEWAYS - 1964

Recently I realized that I attended a 1964 USRRC PNW Grand Prix Race at Kent Pacific Raceways (KPR) that the famous Ken Miles won the GT+2.0 Class for Shelby American Racing in Carroll's 289 Cobra #50 CSX2128 roadster. At the time, I did not know who Ken Miles was or how important he would become to Shelby American and Ford Racing. I was part of the Alan Green Cheetah Racing Team at the time and watched as the #50 Cobra beat Alan Green's best efforts with Green's Corvette Grand Sport and one of Bill Thomas' Cheetahs he owned  to compete against the Iacocca and Shelby 289 Cobras. Ford v Ferrari would change road racing in the next year at la Sarthe Circuit (Le Mans). Green would sometimes team up with Roger Penske on Chevy 305/327 engine builds, and a young Mark Donohue would win at a KPR Trans Am race in a Lola or McLaren small block Chevy Spyder race car. The engine sounds were ground shaking sometimes during the KPR races. Now the electric cars are quiet (and boring). The B&W photo is of Miles driving for a win at Riverside in 1964. I can't find my photos taken at Kent in 1964. I had a Paddock Pass and full race course access in 1964 and 1965. In 1965 it was the new Shelby GT350 versus Penske Z/28 COPO Camaros. Roger Penske was a Chevrolet dealer like Alan Green. WONDERFUL memories of famous constructors, owners, drivers and race cars. The 289 Cobra was ahead of its time. GM abandoned the Corvette Stingray Grand Sport Program to a young  GM engineer Duntov's dismay. I wish I could have met Ken Miles that weekend in 1964. Our Cheetah driver was normally Jerry Grant. Gary Gove drove Trans Am Z/28 Camaros. Dick Milner drove the Thomas fastback Nova at NHRA Drag races. Larry Webb was Alan's Race Team Manager for all of the race cars. Webb and Milner were both Chevy race engine master builders and race car setup wizards. Milner became a personal friend while I was briefly on the Team's Crew.

Bill Engelhardt

Bill Engelhardt

Coy's Hi Line Theater on First Ave.
If you had a quarter, you were set for the Saturday afternoon matinee. A dime to get in, candy bars were a nickel, popcorn a dime. Previews of "coming attractions," a cartoon, newsreel, a serial chapter (The Lost Planet, Congo Bill, Blackhawk), and the main feature -- often a western. 

Al Peffley

OK, Bill, I'll bite. It was on 1st Ave. near 136th on the east side of 1st going north? Across the streat, on the corner in a one-story (mint green stucco?) building, was a rug and flooring retailer? The Coy theater screen was in the quonset (aka Nissen] hut structure to the left of the lobby and projector room bulding in the early 50's or late 40's photo. Heavy rain would make a lot of noise on that steel hut roof. We could walk to the old Burien Theater in those days, A trip to the Danish Bakery and the grocery store's pop cooler (next door) on 152nd for a pastry and a grape Nehi soda and you were "good to go" to a Saturday Matinee at the Burien Theater in the 50's. We only owned one car, so walking to the theater was preferred to attend Saturday movies. My father, being a butcher, worked on Saturdays.

Happy Birthday, Virginia!

Bill Engelhardt

You're close --- 134th and 1st Ave.S. 
Coy also had a theater in White Center, on Roxbury, near 16th SW.