Another Top 10 List of “Hangouts” 

Cecilia LeVan Watson

LHS '68

Here's the Top 10 for me.  

1. Carters Skateland. I went several times a week!!  I loved all the people there.  

2. Shoney/Jerry’s.  I had a 1968 VW Bug so we could cruise forever. 

3. Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Andrew Jackson.  This was my social life.. my friends. We were a force of God!  

4. Monte Sano. When it was so hot in the city we would drive up and have a picnic.  

5. Big Springs Pool.  The coldest water on a hot day.  

6. Drive-In Movies. Mom would pack us hamburgers and cokes and we would run around and watch the movie. 

7. Lee High School of course always something to watch or do.  

8. Rison was right around the corner. I loved going to all the festivals during the school year and in the summer they had a craft time.  

9. Redstone Arsenal. My dad worked there and it was such an adventure and exciting to drive through those gates. 

10. Five Points. Zesto and the Five and Dime store.  Would walk there and get ice cream or a dip dog!

The Wayback Machine

Tommy Towery

LHS '64

This week I took control of The Wayback Machine to get a song that matches the theme of the last couple of issues. This is another song that was not released while we were at Lee, but it is befitting our age today. 

"Do You Remember These" is a song written by Don Reid, Harold Reid, and Larry Lee, and recorded by the American country music group The Statler Brothers. 

It was released in March of 1972 as the first single from the album Innerview. The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and No. 1 on the Cashbox Country Top 100. "Do You Remember These" was also The Statler Brothers sole entry on the Easy Listening chart, where it peaked at No. 18.

The song was a landmark of sorts for the Statlers, as they began recording songs appealing to nostalgia. While part of that repertoire included covers of oldies and standards, several of their other biggest hits had lyrics that recalled good times of years past.

In the case of "Do You Remember These", the Statlers recall post-war (the late 1940s through the 1950s) popular culture and good times in the form of a list song.

The song caused some unpleasantness for the group in Britain, due to the reference to "knickers to your knees," meaning short pants or Knickerbockers. In the UK, the phrase is taken to refer to women's underpants.

I can't listen to that song without remembering the 1964 Senior Picnic and me wearing my Boatneck Shirt to it. I also wore my Jungle Jim-style Safari Hat. Those are some good memories. Unfortunately, my 8mm film got damaged when my garage flooded during a rare Texas rainstorm when I lived in Fort Worth.

Turned out the computer store could not repair my desktop. My best solution was to go on eBay and buy an identical used model and when it gets here next week I will just swap out the boot drive with my old one and should be back to normal when I start on the next issue. For now, my laptop is carrying the load.

We will always remember this date, 9-11. On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed, 400 were police officers and firefighters, in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in NYC, at the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., and in a plane crash near Shanksville, PA.

That was the week I missed publishing an issue of Lee's Traveller. The next week I started my current run of 1,196 weeks in a row of publishing a new issue - without missing a week. Thanks to each of you for giving me an audience to read my stories and those of your friends. We are Famil-Lee.