West Valley High School - Class of 1967

September 29, 2007

#5 Karl's game

submitted by Karl Baker on September 29, 2007

Where was this picture taken?

A year or two ago Karen and I had time to kill in Seattle so we tracked down this world famous landmark and had our picture taken in front of it. A box of Armadillo Droppings (chocolate covered pecan clusters) to the first person to identify the landmark.

To be fair, I have to explain that I think only the eight people listed below could possibly know. But the contest is open to everyone because the list was compiled from memory and therefore may be incomplete (or the list may have people on it who shouldn't be there, you know how that goes......)

Doug Anderson Randy Bowles Tom Ewing Tom Kean Ron Nystrom Dale Peterson Richard Skelton Brad Weller

A bigger box of chocolates to the person that provides the funniest speculation about how these eight diverse characters ended up on a list together.

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Dale Peterson on September 30, 2007 6:08 PM

Hi Karl & Karen

My guess is the first home in Seattle. Seems it was in a rough neighborhood and and Mista Kozmo Weller almost caught someone robbing the Smog mobile parked out front when we visited from Fla. Armadillo Droppings not necessary. I just got a bag of "Moose Poop" from N. Idaho. SSDD

Karl Baker on October 1, 2007 5:16 PM

Wow Dale, I am impressed. Doing the math I figured out it had to be between 33 and 35 years ago. I'd forgotten all about that incident but when I read your comment I remembered it well. Senior moments be damned.

Makes me sad that I won't be at the reunion because I bet there will be a lot of those "Do you remember when" conversations. Ah well, I'll just have to be satisfied reading the blog comments, which I am doing every day. Keep 'em coming guys.

Randy Bowles on October 5, 2007 1:45 PM

randy bowles on October 3, 2007 7:56 PM

I'll tell you what we fellows had in common. (See Karl Baker's blog.) We're all Karl Baker fans. One couldn't ask for a better friend. Karl and Karen moved me from Yakima to Seattle in 1974 and let me live with them until I got established in a Country Rock band, with an apartment of my own. We had a great deal of fun for years and years, until they relocated to Austin. Someday I wanna move down there so Karl and I can be old men together!

Kyle Weller (Sonnabend)- Liberty on November 10, 2007 12:23 PM

I'm not on the list........ not a West Valley grad....... but recognize the house near Green Lake and the spectacular looking couple! So great to see you, and to read all the great bios. Through some hazy purple memories, I picture some crazy fun times with numerous people on your list. The Jethro Tull concert was so outstanding that Doug Anderson went out the next morning and picked up (so to speak) every single Jethro Tull album!! Remember that one?

Karl Baker on March 20, 2008 4:52 PM

Kyle,

What a pleasant surprise I got today, my first reading of your response to my WV ’67 reunion blog entry. Sorry for the delay but I posted it 9/29, got Dale’s response 9/30, a response from Doug Anderson (via email, not on the WV site) on 10/1, then Randy’s response on 10/5. Then nothing for quite a while so I stopped checking it. I am not sure what made me look at it today, I only go to the site about once a week now, and then only use the Latest Edit sort on Classmates to see if anybody has put up something new. So I just now saw your response. Sorry.

Like I said above, it was fun to get a connection to those times we had so long long ago. Well I sort of remember the concert in your reply, but not really. However I do remember you telling us that as you were driving out of Spokane headed our way there were lots of hitchers with just “Tull” written on their signs. Such different times.

Hope things are going well for you. Let me know your email address and we can play remember when without clogging up everybody’s space here. Take care.

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