Here are a real bunch of Portsmouth names. The Clark twins, Carl and Clare, and I worked as ushers at the Ohio Theatre in New Boston during our senior year (49-50). We went to Grierson's Inn and Joe's and found that all high schoolers, boys and girls, spent time there. In contrast, it seems girls were rarely found at the Mound Park, the Sugar Bowl, or the Park Shoppe. I met my wife Jeanie there in New Boston, Carl met Emma Mills whom he married, and Clare (now deceased, dated a few of the New Boston girls.
Hi Kegley bros,
This was in our 3rd newsletter. If you have not read it, you may want to forward it
Dozens of classmates and others can call
themselves members of the Park Shoppe gang. I
was one of those and would like to remember
some of the group.
We went through at least three owners that I
can remember. There was Russ (can’t remember
his last name), Clarence Evans and George
Banchy. Clarence was the most irritable and
George was perhaps the most tolerant of the
three. Clarence was a bit like Basil Faulty of the
English tv comedy series, Faulty Towers. He was
high-strung and short tempered. He wanted our
business but would be quick to toss out anyone
for the slightest reason. His son Larry (a great
buddy of ours) was his waiter and busboy who
was frequently caught in the middle.
We spent hours playing the two pinball
machines at a nickel a game. We drank lemon or
cherry cokes or phosphates (nickel a glass) and
gobbled down their famous pork barbeque sand-
wich. As we neared drinking age(?), many an
elbow was bent in the back room. The best sell-
er was Burger beer, of course.
Some of the names I will not forget: Bill
Banchy, Mark Banchy, Nelson (Nellie) Barker,
Bob (or Phil) Bickham, Jackie Brown, Buddy
Burger, Jack (Bat) Burgess, Larry Coriell, Jack
Duschinsky, Larry Evans, Jim Gardner, Jerry
Gillen, Dick (Hans Gans Afghanistan) Hansgen,
Bill (Animal or Ank) Hilderbrand, Jim (Big
Animal) Hilderbrand, Jim Kegley, Dick Klitch and
his father, TerryKouns, Paul Ladomer, Marlene
Larch, Jim Lauter, Skip Martin, Dave Marting,
Howard (BI) McCoy, Val Minch, Dave Otworth, Al
Oxley, Lovel Pack, Ken Payne, Dick Purpura, Sam
Pollock, Fred Ramsey, Don Stamper, Barbara
Spears, J.B. Warden, (a newcomer from
Roanoke, VA), Nancy Witten, Dick Woolwine,
Mike Zuliani, and other names which are some-
where in my memory and others I have since for-
gotten. To them I apologize
Most of us just sat on the wall across the alley
and next to the tennis courts. We sat and talked
and waited for someone to drive up and give us a
ride around the boulevard or perhaps to the
Cycle Inn or the Shawnee drive-in. The cars had
names like “The Green Hornet”, or “The
Neltilus”. Help me remember...
This was our hangout, our watering hole and
a safe place where our parents knew they could
always find us. It was a place for tennis breaks, a
snow cone during the industrial league softball
games or a place to buy your out of town paper.
I always hoped that one of our classmates would
revive that institution called the Park Shoppe.
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