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NNHS Class of 1958 Holiday Dinner, 2005

Place: Hampton Yacht Club

Date: Monday, December 19, 2005

Time: 6:00 PM Social; 7:00 PM Dinner
Contact: Joe Drewry at jwdvt@aol.com

Hi, Carol:

Thank you for sending along to me the message and attachment from Fred Field ('45 - of CA). It was so nice to read his narrative on this neighborhood in East End. It sure brought back many memories, for our family lived at 815-30th Street on the first floor for many years. My father was a printer by trade and worked at Newport News Printing Company located in the 800-Block of 25th Street and occupied a good portion of that block. It is possible that Fred's father who worked there also worked with my father at this location. When our family lived there we were renters, and paid our rent to C.D. West & Company who were the property managers for the Orebaugh Family who then owned the property. I recall they were in the roofing business in downtown Newport News. I am uncertain of the spelling of their name.

Horace L. Overman who lived at 814-30th Street was a superintendent at the shipyard. He had a daughter and a son who graduated from NNHS. His son was Martel Overman, and he was a Merchant Marine and rode a beautiful Harley Davidson Motorcycle when he was in port and home. I remember Mr. Lenz and Mr. Pulley for I delivered papers to them, as well as Mr. Wiggs who had two sons Bobby and Billy who attended NNHS.

Mr. Carter operated the old service station at 848-30th Street for years and then rented the space to "Tip" Forbes who operated an automobile repair shop there for years. Mr. Carter resided in the large house on Wickham Avenue near the corner of 30th Street, next door to where Mr. Pulley's Store occupied the corner facing the intersection.

As for 817-30th Street, it was occupied by a Mr. Walker and his family. He was a disabled veteran from World War I. Any vehicle back-firing along this quite street would send him into a panic.

Fred's memories of the Carriage House for 815-30th Street also gave me reason to recall that structure. The driveway lead to 29th Street, and along the driveway was a large vacant lot which we were allowed to use for a garden.

I sure remember Mr. Walton, the Fish Merchant with his horn tooting to alert the neighbors. Walter was still selling sugar cookies in the neighborhood and at Walter Reed School when I attended school there also.

While I was preparing this message, I received a telephone call from Glenn Dye ('60) of TX who called to tell me that Mr. Reese sang in a gospel trio for years, and he will try to find a copy of a program listing the name of the group.

How cool is that?!?

Please pass this along to Fred.

Indeed I did! Thanks, Adonis!

TYPHOON Regards,

Joe Madagan ('57) of FL

In response to your "Twilight Zone" e-mails-I had to laugh because this is the first week in a year that I actually received a couple of newsletter e-mail notifications from you. There are so many "controls" on e-mails these days I'm surprised we get half them. For example my e-mails at work are blocked most of the time for in-coming mail from Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and any weird sounding e-mail address, and sometimes they all come through. I can send to any of these. Which really makes it fun when you want to e-mail a friend who cannot e-mail you back from work but can use Hotmail which is blocked. Now, if you need any further explanation call me but don't e-mail me because the odds are I will never get it.

Regards, Jo Ann Stewart, TX

Thanks for remembering me with the newsletter. I went home and talked to the folks and both of my brothers about our vacations at Buckroe. I had mentioned to you how my brother had gotten plastic devil's heads as a skee ball prize from the arcade. Still haven't been able to scare one up from the folk's house, but if I do, I'll get a picture to you.

As for the "guy in the tires" which my family remembers as "Joe" (don't know if there was a sign there with his name on it or not) -- my dad said it was "between the highway" and Buckroe - now we were coming down there from Ohio - also I said, was it in town or where? He said it was around "Mercury Boulevard where the space capsule was in a park, before you got to Buckroe".

Make any sense? I don't know. I don't remember the park with the Mercury capsule, having been so small at the time. But it would be neat-o to see now!

The Sherwood Inn was located in Fort Monroe, but not inside the moat. I have six images of it ... now seven, as the one on E-Bay is new to me. I have not been to Ft. Monroe since I became aware of the Inn, but I suspect that it no longer exists. One image shows it in relation to the church at the fork in Ingalls Road.

		Back of Image at Left	1910 - Sherwood Inn and St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church


1910	1911	1924

Thank you, David! These are just beautiful! I had never heard of the Sherwood Inn, nor do I recall ever having seen any of the images. They were too pretty not to give their own space: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-S-Z.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/sherwood-inn.html - brand new page