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From: "ALEX MAGDALENO" <>
Subject: Re: Lousy Old Society
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:02:17 -0600


All I remember about the chickens is the firecrackers in the chicken poop.
Run for coverrrrr!
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Dumas <>
To: <>
Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Lousy Old Society

>Holy fuzzy mcuckins batman! Your right! I always prided myself on kind of
>keeping up with the diocesan upper echelon in those days but he must be the
>very same confirmation confereror.
>The only thing I can line up with the chicken batteries is that Johnny and
I
>got our new Schwinn bicycles at that time. The money from selling the eggs
>back to mama paid off the cost of my bicycle. I don't think Johnny had to
>pay for his....because he was president of some exclusive secret
>club.......something about Lauding-it Over Siblings...I think??? That would
>have been somewhere around '53 or 54' I would guess because I remember
>riding to St. Michael's for awhile and I graduated (barely) in 1955. It
>seems to me that we would have built my shed prior to that because it was
>around quite a few years and we must have torn down the chicken coops
around
>'57. I'm sure someone else out there has probably some other memory links
to
>those times.
>-----Original Message-----l.o.s., Dave
>From: mdumas <>
>To: <>
>Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 9:58 PM
>Subject: Re: Lousy Old Society
>
>
>>Hey Daville! -- Well, after I sent that, I wondered too if there could
>>possibly be an Irish name that weird. But a quick Metacrawler search
>>showed that there was indeed a Bishop McGucken in L.A. in the fifties.
>>Ain't the web great? There were a bunch of other McGucken hits too
>>(McGucken Park, Captain McGucken, etc. McGucken). Do you remember what
>>year your clubhouse went up? Was it pre- or post-chicken batteries? I
>>think we should start a timeline so we can reconstruct the entire Korean
>>War era in perfect detail. In the process, maybe those elitist
>>red-periscope guys would let a few secrets slip. --mike
>>
>>
>>
>>Dave Dumas wrote:
>> I think Mike just misunderstood Johnny when he said Mcguckins, when
>>what he actually said was "theguckonthewalls".
>>
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