tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post3152772894488984890..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: RAMBLING REPOST: WHERE WERE YOU IN SEPTEMBER 1967? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-27487636807111973102016-12-13T13:42:00.109+00:002016-12-13T13:42:00.109+00:00Ah, but if you'd stayed in Scotland, CJ, who k...Ah, but if you'd stayed in Scotland, CJ, who knows - you may have discovered Marvel from MWOM #1. Who can tell?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-65416069694715080092016-12-13T13:40:29.146+00:002016-12-13T13:40:29.146+00:00Not only that, Kid - you've said that the Plan...Not only that, Kid - you've said that the Planet Of The Apes TV show was never shown in Scotland but it was the POTA TV show that led directly to me discovering Marvel's POTA weekly and so Marvel comics in general. If we'd stayed in Scotland I might never have discovered Marvel comics which doesn't bear thinking about !!Colin Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-74840162251721419732016-12-13T01:55:16.379+00:002016-12-13T01:55:16.379+00:00And just what type of nose did the kid on the far ...And just what type of nose did the kid on the far left eventually settle on, TC? You'd think he'd have brought one in with him, eh?<br /><br />******<br /><br />Funny how 1967 seems so very long ago and only a couple of years ago at the same time, eh, JP?<br /><br />******<br /><br />Just think, CJ - if you'd stayed in the Highlands, you'd have had a completely different accent. I wonder how that would have affected (if at all) your perception of yourself?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-86110821276498835092016-12-13T01:51:09.713+00:002016-12-13T01:51:09.713+00:00In September 1967 I was only 19 months old and als...In September 1967 I was only 19 months old and also living in Scotland (somewhere in the Highlands). I was born in Islington but in May '67 we moved to Scotland (not that I remember obviously) - only for about nine months though.Colin Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-64877286929160786572016-12-12T23:10:47.141+00:002016-12-12T23:10:47.141+00:00In September, '67 I would have just gone back ...In September, '67 I would have just gone back to school after we had just done a family "do-it-yourself" move of my Grandparents from their terrace house, which was due to be demolished into a new bungalow. Lots of friends and families all chipped in to help out and we moved the whole lot with only a car and a small van!<br />The song "Up, Up and Away" reminds me of this day!<br />John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-76082231787671621392016-12-12T21:18:16.315+00:002016-12-12T21:18:16.315+00:00I don't actually remember where I was or what ...I don't actually remember where I was or what I was doing at that time. Since it was September, I must have been starting back to school after summer vacation. And I had turned nine that summer, so I would have been starting fourth grade.<br /><br />The only class picture I had was taken at graduation from elementary school. The photographer just snapped the photo, without warning, so we didn't have a chance to prepare. I thought I looked ridiculous, because I appeared to be twiddling my thumbs. But at least that wasn't as bad as the kid on the far left, who was picking his nose.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686814973788356726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-49898061236442803412016-12-12T15:08:44.803+00:002016-12-12T15:08:44.803+00:00That's the only class photo that I'm in fr...That's the only class photo that I'm in from my nearly 5 years at the school, PM, although I later acquired three more from George, the 'half-a-cup' guy I mentioned in a post once. Two of them were from before my time, but had just about everyone I remember from the school, and the third must've been taken when I was off school one day. David Doig, the boy on the left (our right) of Gavin Reid, I later found out had emigrated in the early '80s, and the 3rd girl along from the left in the 2nd row died a good number of years back. One look at the photo 'though, and they're still here and we're all still kids who saw one another just a couple of days or so ago (or so it sometimes seems). Moonmando's brother, Tam, is the boy on the end behind David Doig, and he now lives in Greece. The boy next to him (Alan Colhoun, or Colquhoun) I last remember seeing on a train into Glasgow in December of 1978, when I was heading down to Portsmouth to be best man at the wedding of the boy on the far left of the 2nd row of boys (behind the 2nd row of girls) - the very one who said he'd caught an infection off a toilet seat and was operated on through his 'back passage'. (I assume you remember commenting on that particular post.)<br /><br />Life, eh? It's a funny old game.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-70867066006983349722016-12-12T13:13:01.215+00:002016-12-12T13:13:01.215+00:00I have a similar picture taken either in 1969 or i...I have a similar picture taken either in 1969 or in my last year at primary (1970) it was also a lovely day with a clear blue sky and I have a vivid memory of the event (if not the year it was taken). I remember getting the dates of the photos being taken mixed up and was wearing a bottle green jumper that had a small rip in it on the sleeve (from playing football) and my mum wasn’t too pleased as she would have wanted me all tidied up in my school uniform, thankfully most kids wore similar to what’s in your picture so I didn’t look out of place. I remember a few names from my “photo” but most I have now forgotten , but I do have a vague memory of some of them (others are totally lost of the mists of time to me) . Where I stayed my Primary school catered for 3 secondary schools (if I recall correctly that was Rutherglen, Cathkin and Burnside ) and I think only a handful in my class went to Rutherglen with me, so I lost all contact with most of my classmates (plus I also moved house to a new town just before I started secondary but I continued to attend the secondary in my original area). I do remember seeing a few of the old faces from that time in the mid/late 1980s at bus stops or railway stations and we both gave one of those awkward half knowing “ I do know you…. don’t I” looks at each other. I did run into a guy I was friends with in the first year of my secondary school about 10 years ago and he looked ancient (he lost all his hair and put on a lot of weight, and just looked haggard) I only knew it was him as he introduced himself to me. I do know (from the early days of “Friends Reunited”) that 3 people from “my class photo” emigrated, and at least 2 sadly passed away (in their 30s). My old primary (well the one in that my photo is from) was rebuilt and is now my old Secondary (my secondary school having been converted to luxury flats) - my other primary burnt down in the 1990s (but a new one was built in its place) so basically there no record left other than my photo.paul Mcscottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982725171182221096noreply@blogger.com