'57 PIZZA LUNCHEO JULY 5TH

Hello Sarj,

 

We had a great luncheon today at Fort Ball. Boy what a noisy bunch lol.

 

I always know when their having a good time. Their was 25 attending today.

 

They got a surprise !! I didn't tell them who was going to join us today but Keith Hepler from Lehigh Acres Fl, was in town and wanted to join us.So good to see you Keith.

 

Those attending was Herb and Paula Crum, Ellen Drake, Carol Engel,Jim Fey,Sara Huffman,Shirley Baker,Peg Brickner,Rudy Karle, Ethel Lee, Janet & Howard Beisner,Peggy Thallman,Judy & Gene Zimmer,Keith Hepler, Bill Dryfuse, Loretta Bargaheiser & friend Barbara Patrice, Fred & Jean Michaels, Dave Speas, Denise Ziegler, Claude Hohman, Vivian Blankenship.

 

Our next luncheon will be held at the same placeSept.6, 2013.

 

Thank you Sarj.

Vivian.

SAD NEWS

I recently got this email form Judy Stritzinger (Biller) 

Sarj,

Could you let our classmates know that my daughter, Sarah Johnson, passed away in Florida
on June 28.

Thanks,
Judy Stritzinger (Biller)

I have her email but don't want to publish here in case of spam people, so if you would like to send a note to her check the group email I am sending to you now and I will attach her email address.

Sarj

TIFFIN'S TEEN MEETING PLACES

MEET ME AT ..THE MAR-GE-NE

This was the place at lunch time or to meet someone  before the game or just to meet up with other kiids.

In the front there was a big display window which sometimes was so crowded you could hardly get in the door. There was a large window seating area and as I remember 2 kissing booths.....ah I mean telephone booths, although these were used more for kissing then telephoning. 

Some call them soda joints but mostly they were meeting places. Maybe one kid could afford a burger   but more often kids bought french fries because you could share them. If you sat at the counter you would watch with amazemant at the lenght of the ash on the cooks cigarette. I'm sure that I ate more than one of his ashes. He always had a cig in his mouth. Seeing him without one he would be unrecognizable. Sort of like a mad who always wears a hat or glasses and then doesn't one day.

I would say that 1956 was probably it's hay day, it was always almost too crowded and then a place opened up beside the bowling alley and a lot of kids made this there new home away from home. It was nice and I could see times were achanging but the MAR-GE-NE would always have a place in my heart like my first love.

BECK'S was nice but it didn't have that warm fuzzy feeling that made the MAR-GE-NE so special. The MAR-GE-NE was the place to be seen and to see upper classmen and some of those hot senior girls. Maybe BECK'S had that feeling for others and maybe some it was DICK & FRAN'S but for me ...

MEET ME AT THE MAR-GE-NE and I'll share some fries and some lies with you. 

Kay Huss  class of 1956 had this to say about the MAR-GE-NE her son is a historian of Tiffin. 

I asked my son John Huss, who is a Tiffin historian, about the Mar-Ge-Ne and he said that it was named by ballot in the store. It was from part of the owners names as follows: Mar-was for Mary Newcomber and GE-was for Gerald her husband and the NE was for their last name being Newcomber. They lived above the Mar-Ge-Ne at 102 1/2 East Market. The address of the store was 102 East Market. It was so popular a hangout for the high school crowd at noon and after school , that it kept paying customers away.

Kay's coments to me on FACEBOOK