And then nice thing about it was the girls that I started in grade school with; we went through junior high and high school together.  When we graduated, probably there was a group of 30 of us.   After that, we have gotten together every year since and we call ourselves The Golden Girls.  We get together once a month for lunch either in Fostoria or some place and there are eight of us left.

Our graduation class was the largest one that went through Fostoria at that time.  We had 121.   Boy, we thought we were wonderful!  (Laughter)  We couldn’t get in the car and go somewhere.  If we wanted to go out uptown on Saturday night and sit down and watch people we had to walk.  Everything we had to walk.  From my house to downtown it was probably a good five or six blocks.

So that was kind of neat.   Of course we got into junior high.   In high school they could drive so that’s when the cars kinda came into being, but still, we weren’t allowed to go out of town.   We couldn’t do it.

Boys had their parent’s cars, not their own, because they couldn’t work.  We kind of made up our own entertainment.  Like, we would go dancing or just go listen to music at the Old Hijinx, just across from the high school.  Or…gosh,  go uptown around the soda fountain and sit and tell about how bad our life was (Laughs).

There was the Hijinx and the soda fountain.   The Hijinx was a little place across from the high school.   It was a little building and it was just a place where the kids hung out.   It had an old jukebox and we could dance and have sodas, something to drink, potato chips and popcorn and meet all the cool kids.   But there again we were into – that wasn’t what you call the top notch of the city.   Those kids had their own private things you know?  Country Club things they went to, so this was just kind of the common…person’s.   It was fun.