Do You Remember...

Things Places People Activities

Things

  • the little cups at the S&L that ran on wires?
  • North Star beer?
  • Grain Belt beer?
  • Red, White, and Blue beer?
  • snow up to your ass? (This one's for the out of towners.)
  • Mr. Frosty's Ice Cream Truck? (those of you who grew up in the late 60's and early 70's should remember this)
  • buying new Paul Parrot school shoes at Arneson's shoe store and getting that little bag of trinkets?
  • Fitgers Beer?
  • Larry Mitchell's black hi-top tennis shoes with the waffle grip?
  • blue popcicles?
  • 50 cc Hondas?
  • the little horse merry-go-round thing you could pedal around in the shoe store?
  • the "blood-stained" curtain in the junior high band room? (rumored to have been left behind from the murder of a young girl ...)
  • the ski jump?
  • frozen nostril hairs?
  • the first 409 Chevy in Cloquet or even the first 427? Does anybody know?
  • I remember the first 409 in town.  Black, two-door, no chrome and owned by "Beak", class of 64.
  • I remember "Beak", but I think the car he had was a 427 Black Chev.
  • Bali Hi wine?
  • green rivers at the Tulip Shop?
  • Keith Wilson's '49 Buick Roadmaster once belonging to some '30s actor?
  • The 1960 Homecoming float that was a boat and said "SAIL THROUGH TWO HARBORS!" And the 1961 Homecoming float that was a cannon and said "VE TANK VE VIN!!!"?
  • Eddie Illola's funny little car?
  • Cloquet Pine Knot?
  • The Wobegon sign in the school parking lot last day of school..79
  • 2 for a dollar tacos at taco john's during lunch
  • Shaver shakes for $.12 at Gordy's?
  • "Bunny Boots"

Places

  • the Golden Rail?
  • Bare Ass Beach?
  • Len's Melody Music?
  • the Tulip  Shop? (an innocent little mom and pop drug store on the outside, but a major porn distributor behind the scenes)
  • the A&W? (back when they had the car hops)
  • Gordy's?
  • Phil's Meat Market? ("You can't beat Phil's meat.")
  • Skogmos?
  • the Rendeveous? (Where the hell is it?)
  • the Igloo? ("Some day everyone will live in an igloo.")
  • Clair's Place?
  • the Register?
  • Old Man's Park? (instead of Old Man's Park, some referred to it as Dead Pecker Park)
  • Wobegon? (not the lake)
  • the Stockade? (formerly known as Peter's) OMG
  • the rollerskating rink at Pinehurst Park?
  • the pond at Pinehurst Park?
  • Gibsons Discount Store?
  • Pamida?
  • the National grocery store?
  • Disco?
  • the Sauna on 14th St.?
  • The Museum? (Cloquet's gay bar)
  • the Bop Shop? (a teen hangout complete with counter service, food, pop, juke box.  Lasted only a short time. The poster of this believes that it eventually became the site of Andrews Store)
  • Andrews Store? (great place to buy cigarettes and have a smoke before school if you were a kid)
  • Shanda's Superette? (now B&B Market)
  • Bodies? (now Marketplace Meats)
  • the Alley Lounge? (Hey, Iron Butterfly played there!)
  • the Northstar Ballroom?
  • Red Forest? (a great party place for underage drinkers)
  • Quito's Gravel Pit? (ditto)
  • Zion? (ditto)
  • Archie's ("I'm glad it's gone or I might never have sobered up.")
  • Molstads Resort?
  • Wheaton's Resort? (before Molstad's)
  • Evergreen Lanes?
  • Jim's Hamburgers?
  • Coney Island?
  • Bridgemans?
  • dances at the Armory?
  • LEB Theater?
  • Pappas grocery store? (John Pappas proprietor)
  • DeCaigneys grocery store? (a good place to sneak to from Garfield school at lunch time to get candy)
  • Mission Bottling Works on 10th St? (You could look through the front window and watch as they bottled beer.)
  • Gladys Albert's stores. Selmser and 10th and one where Burger's Shoe is now? (remember the cats crawling over the merchandise)
  • Central Hall tavern?
  • Loyden's Surplus Store?
  • the old green clown car in the parades with the wheels off balance. Behind the car they pulled a toilet with two legs sticking out and a sign that read "HELP".
  • the big green wooden grandstand at Athletic Park with the roof and the chow counter at the back?
  • "Frost Top" drive-in across from Vnuk's Liquor?
  • the swinging bridge at Jay Cooke Park, when it really did swing?
  • the Chief Theatre? (I remember how it was mobbed when the original Batman movie came out with Adam West ... exceeded by Jaws)
  • the balcony at the Cloquet Theater? (where everybody got lucky with a handful of mammary)
  • Dead Man's Hill?
  • everyone seemed to have a story about someone they knew losing their brakes on "Suicide Hill" and getting creamed by a large truck traveling at tremendous speed. There were about 50 different stories involving Larry M.
  • Clara's hat shoppe?  (corner of 3rd and Carlton Ave.)
  • Carlson's store/Hooks bar? (where Maggies currently exists. Hwy 33 & Selmser)
  • minnow tank at Tom's Texeco Station? (Cloquet Ave. & 18th St.)
  • Ekberg Lumber Co.?
  • Cloquet firemen actually slid down a brass pole from their sleeping quarters at the old fire hall? (currently the Moose Club)
  • Roger Bros.'s Carnival in Pinehurst Park?
  • The Arcade? (accross from the Chief Theatre, lasted about 1 summer)
  • the early nineties party spot behind Leech?
  • the glass floor at the old Library?
  • Ben Franklin (dime store)?
  • Harnishes (sp?) womens clothing store?
  • Johnson Company?
  • Montogomery Wards catalog store?
  • Little woods, medium woods, big woods (east side of Cloquet by Potlach and Diamond Match)?
  • the candy store in the back of the Museum, before it was the Museum?
  • the Co-op?
  • the Pop Shoppe? (is now the west end Little Store)
  • Mike Curtiss Tavern on Big Lake Road? (the biggest and best hamburgers known to mankind!)
  • the two old bridges in Scanlon?
  • the Public Market on Carlton Ave? (Great candy)
  • Hilltop, need I say more?
  • the fence line east of the garfield play ground where many of the kids hid there marbles from day to day. by the way "I got Your Marbles"?
  • the "Junior" and "Senior" windows upstairs in the high school?
  • the store in the Lumberjack Mall called "Off the Wall?" My fave store as a kid :-)
  • Potlatch?
  • Rudy's Restarant?
  • Fish's corner bar?
  • early 70's had a hotspot in the west end...D.G.'s Pizza? Next door was the game room...AWESOME places!!!!!!!!
  • Crystal's dress shop?
  • All Star Video! We miss you so.
  • Jerrios pizza (was located by Lamberts glass)
  • Elm Wood Inn in it's hay day, my father and brother use to play in Len's band back then, wonderful polka's!

People

  • Nature Boy? (The guy with long hair and a beard, who wore a "diaper" and rode a bike.  You would frequently see him on Big Lake Road)
  • Ray Porier? (seen at every Cloquet sporting event)
  • Larry Mitchell? (hung out at Bodie's)
  • Mike Toland? (bag boy at Bystrom's)
  • Ricky Chesborough? (stole the bus from the Junior High back in the 70's)
  • Chumley? (CHS math teacher)
  • Pygme Queen? (CJHS English teacher)
  • Tammy the guestbook killer?
  • Devil Man?
  • 50's Gangs: Red Devils, Blue Devils?
  • Howie Liebeck?
  • Monkey Man?
  • the tit twisting teacher? lay your wood planer on the bed and ole mr. Stapleton would give you one of his double tit twisters so you would never forget again. Or if you let your plastic domino slip when you were buffing it.. double tit twister again.
  • Buff? (CHS Social Studies teacher)
  • Kluney? (CHS Social Studies teacher)
  • Billy Obst? (CHS English teacher)
  • Denny Randelin? (well known to juvenile delinquents in the 70's)
  • Timmy the Rapper?
  • The Fag Priest? (would be seen frequently at the Country Kitchen in the 70's)
  • Mole?
  • Bomber?
  • Speck touring the town in his white Jag?
  • The Rebellions? (rock group)
  • The Devilles? (rock group)
  • Bob Lake Resort proprietor Uncle Billy?
  • The Birdman at the Cloquet Theater with his crew cut, black button sweater and flashlight. (he recieved no respect from the kids)
  • Castaways? (rock group)
  • Elsie Kaner? (7th grade teacher)
  • The Ventures? (car club)
  • The Coachmen? (car club)
  • Miss Pozini? (what an adolescent rush when she would sit on her desk!!!)
  • Rocky Teller? (local outdoor showman, died in bed in Cloquet...not his bed)
  • before the Big Lake Golf Club, they had a neat go-cart track and driving range?
  • Catfish Karjala walking through town with his wet pants and a bottle of wine.
  • the coal man making house calls in a big black truck full of coal.
  • Dr.s making house calls with that big black bag full of drugs and syringes?
  • the T.V. repair man making house calls with that big black bag full of vacuum tubes?
  • Lil and Vic at the old Civic Center refered to as the Y?
  • "Hawk" the bus driver?
  • Miss Laina Alatalo? (former principal of Washington Elementary)
  • Ms. Peacha's incredible patience with her students?
  • infamous Cloquet gang "THE SKULLS"? (their hangout was Gladys Albert's 10th St. store)
  • Carl Schinigoi?
  • Jaw Bone? (the bus driver)
  • Troy LaVoy?
  • Wakey Seppo?
  • Gus Gillespie?
  • Police Boys and Police Girls at Garfield, and that fearsome threat: "YER GOIN' UP, KID"?
  • The mighty mighty Lumberjacks back in 1958?
  • The mighty mighty Lumberjacks back in 1962?
  • The Marshmallow Lady? (infamous substitute teacher)
  • All the "guys" sitting on the Jefferson school wall...girl watching?
  • Mr. Fairbanks and Mr. Butcher, two High School Social Studies teachers that would come back from lunch lookings a little "stoned"? (also referred to as "Cheech and Chong")
  • Bicycle patrols in the late 70s? (They would give you tickets for things such as "not signaling" and you were forced to attend a bike saftey course)
  • Dick Wenaas? (Class of 2000 all the way baby)
  • Dean K. and his flowing golden locks?
  • Back in the 60's during the 4th and Labor Day when that guy drove around town in his station wagon with all the speakers tied to the roof sounding out anouncments.?
  • Mr. Don Strommer? (high school counselor, then pricipal in the late 60's)
  • those wild and crazy chicks in town in the 70's called the Weedwevils? (Boy did they like to party!)
  • Mr. Kennedy's "eagle" incident that was really a housefly?
  • Watching Alice in Wonderland in Mr. Obst's class and going through everyone in the class at least three times to name significant phrases from the movie? That man was so scary.
  • Credit Debit Badger?
  • Ms. Scanlon. Need I say more?
  • The Athletes of The Class 2002!!
  • guy named MF?
  • Ms. Steinhaus for gym, swimming and drivers training, she didn't like me!
  • Ed Krezinski - taught me a lot.
  • The girl with the long blonde hair in 69?
  • Carl Schinigoi. Hes the man.
  • Was the class of '67 really the worst class to graduate from CHS??????
  • Mrs. Andersons home ec class for guys(chef class) stoned.
  • who put the condom on Misses hummels door?
  • DAD?... from the class of 79 ( those who know, know)
  • Scott S. By god he was going to bite your ear!!
  • Mr. Obst being infuriated by the meaning of the lyrics of "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles.
  • Orin Gleason riding his bike?

Activities

  • round and round the frying pan?
  • swimming in the St. Louis River? (yuck!!)
  • the playground game Pom Pom Pullaway?
  • taking the bus out to Carey's Big Lake Resort and peeking through the holes in the changing booths?
  • trying to break the code for the senior class picnic? Oldenburg point or swinging bridge so the stash could be hid the night before.
  • the City of Cloquet would spray hot stinky liquor from Northwest Paper Co. on all the alleys with that orange tank truck for dust control?
  • getting your grade school class pictures taken by Denny from Denny's Studio? (and being scared shitless because he was so big and he had that crazy Cozmo Kramer hair)
  • being nude in boys swimming class in Jr. High? (There was always 1) a kid that wore a suit,  2)the big slow witted kid that was hung like a bull elephant, 3) the fat kid that didn't have any to speak of, and  4) the mean kid that was always snapping towels.)
  • teachers talking about duck and cover during the Cuban missle crisis?
  • walking to school at 20 below zero and having all your acne turn blue?
  • Cloquet Police drove Ramblers without two-way radios?
  • the"BEER CHANT" that got the truck of the mud at the power lines?
  • the 1962 basketball team losing the state championship by one point?
  • singing the Triple-R Song on the rooter bus? C...C...C-L-O      Q...Q...U-E-T     C...L...O...Q...U...E...T...     CLOQUET!  CLOQUET!   CLOHHHHHH---KAYYYY!!!
  • noontime movies at old CHS?
  • stealing brooms from peoples back porches to use to play broom ball?
  • walking across the top of the Thompson Dam?
  • breaking into the middle school at night?
  • putting huge logs in the road on 33 at night and watching people nail them from on top of Pinehurst Hill?
  • driving golf balls into the Pinehurst Pool while people were in it from the top of Pinehurst Hill?
  • Works Bombs!!!
  • launching waterbaloons at baseball players at Veterns Field from the top of Pinehurst Hill?
  • burn cruises through the reservation during lunch in high school?
  • rolling tires down Pinehurst Hill doward unsuspecting drivers on 33? (man we did a lot of bad stuff from the top of pinehurst)
  • I use to play a game called round and round the frying pan when I was little and I looked it up on the net and it said your sight listed it. I was just wondering if the person who listed it could remember the rules for the game? Thanks
  • partying at "the pit"?
  • friday night dances in the school cafeteria - can you believe we paid a buck to get back in?
  • rolling "borrowed" bowling balls from Southgate bowling alley down big lake hill?
  • upper classmen "de-pantsing" freshmen? If they really had it out for you, they would take your underwear,too! Luckily, I looked younger than I was and was skipped over!!
  • buying lunch at Jack Andrew's store in junior high school?
  • keg parties at Sunshine and Moonshine?
  • going out to the town sand pit, by the road to Pine Valley Ski Area, in the first weeks of June and still finding snow! The town would dump it there all winter long. This was in the mid-60's
  • Driving up and down and around town all night just waving and honking at people?
  • That is no rumor about the blood stained curtain, I was in school the day it happened, and in the same class with the guy who did it, horrible!!
  • making out down by the river and carving initials in a tree down there?
  • trying to break the 7 minute run through jay cooke state park from beginning to end in your folks car.. did it in 7.15 mins
  • care package day.. Buffalo bill getting his very own bong..79 .. I missed that well used bong.
  • Kangaroo court.. until class of 78 went a little to far.
  • Armory dances back in the '60's. I think they had a woman sitting in the girl's bathroom monitoring activies. At least one was there the night we crawled through the window to get in without paying?
  • partying down at the river...past the tracks, take a left by usg....drive 'bout 5 miles down horrible road...and try to drive back totally smashed?
  • partying on Botsy's patio?
  • back in the early 70s everyone with a hot car parked in front of 1st bank.and checked out each others ride? (it was sweet)
  • dancing to T.C. Atlantic playing "Shake" (I still have their record album) at Armory Dances?