A fun look back at growing up in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Please feel free to share some of your memories with us. If you have a memory you would like added to this page, send an e-mail to Larry Sorensen at: thhsagates@hotmail.com or Todd Ronning at: ronfam@lakenet.com. Thanks for the recent contributions to this list, and enjoy your trip down Memory Lane......

Do You Remember:

• Playing pinball and eating pizza at the Sidetrack?
• The old concrete towers down by the docks?
• TJ Swan wine?
• Pitching in $1.00 each to put gas in a low-rider and "beating loops" for several hours?
• The old "Place" by the football field?
• Sliding down the High School Hill?
• Suicide Hill?
• Being a Minnehaha Mountain Mover?
• Pep Fests?
• The smoking bathrooms on the bottom floor of the High School?
• Fire Drills?
• Chuck Halsted's announcements?
• Iowa Basics tests?
• Miller Shorties?
• The Farrah poster?
• The Pop Shoppe?
• Bacon Sales & Service (now the Landing)?
• The liquor store being downtown?
• Looking for a scout?
• Cudda's Pizza?
• The day the old Minnehaha was demolished?
• The National grocery store?
• RW's Drive-In?
• The Korner Store?
• Hardee's (1st fast food place in TH) grand opening during our senior year?
• April Wine?
• Texaconey?
• 8-Track tape players?
• Pit parties?
• Parties at Flood Bay?
• Falk's Drugstore with the full fountain (featuring phosphates) in back?
• Lauralee's Department store?
• Gambles?
• The Silver Dollar Saloon (where you could get a dose of the 3.2 Blues)?
• Ben Franklin Dime Store?
• Going to a movie (that was released at least a year earlier) at the Harbor Theater?
• Pickup baseball games at the vacant lot on 2nd Avenue?
• Being called Faggots by other schools sports teams?
• Floor hockey in the John A. Johnson gym?
• Cross country skiing and curling as part of 10th grade gym class?
• Getting out of school in 1st grade to watch the high school basketball team play Melrose in the state tournament?
• Pintos?
• Listening to 56 WEBC radio?
• Mister Toot?
• Heatwave Berler?
• When there was only one stoplight in town?
• Jock strap checks in boys' gym class?
• The old fish houses by the breakwater?
• Sneaking on the golf course at hole #2?
• Boot-cut corduroy pants?
• Wearing your Parka ten months out of the year?
• Getting a lickety-split at the Dairy Queen?
• School dances?
• The IGA?
• Fights on the playground at the Minnehaha?
• Corn bread and rectangular pieces of pizza for school lunches?
• Rondo pop?
• Oscar's (later the Harbor House, now Blackwoods)?
• Crazy Days?
• Winter Frolic?
• The Lake County Fair being behind the arena?
• Film strips?
• Learning about herpes in Health class ("You can't catch me from toilet seats or doorknobs...")?
• Being forced to watch fatal car crash movies repeatedly in Kortuem's Driver's Ed class?
• "As far as history is concerned.." ?
• Road trips to Souptown?
• Being asked by tourists if the big building up the hill was a prison?
• When the population of Two Harbors was over 4,000?
• Underage drinking resulting in a visit to the Police Station in Souptown?
• Lines a mile long to get candy at Puent's Store after school at the Minnehaha?
• 7th grade trip on the Vista King? Many "boughten" souvenirs floating in the lake?
• 6th grade E.L.C. Trip? Compass readings? Camp fires?
• Watching movies like Jaws and Rocky for the first time?
• "Parking" at the breakwater?
• The famous "King, Queen, and Joker" in Lake Superior?
• Watching the fireworks from the "point" at Burlington Bay?
• Death riding in Bark's van?
• Turning the other cheek in the Blue Lagoon?
• The Hideous Monster?
• Dairy Queen trips during track practice (must have been the weight men)?
• Pit parties to raise money for Prom?
• The daily bathroom attendance meetings?
• Yelling at the Carnie people behind the Arena to wake them up during morning pre-season football practices?
• When putting "regular" gas in your car meant it contained lead?
• The outdoor skating rink by the football field?
• The 4th grade field trip -- planting trees and a treasure hunt?
• Ole's Nickel Roll at the Lake County Fair?
• Riding your bike from 12th avenue to downtown and experiencing a 15 degree drop in temperature?
• After your sports practice shower, going outside and having your hair freeze?
• The blue Pumas with yellow stripes?
• Mr. Whipple?
• The Bay City Rollers: S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Night?
• The Go-Go's?
• Sha Na Na?
• Hey Mickie?
• Malts for lunch and all over the floor of the Minnehaha?
• Smelting and first smelt head removal?
• Hiding beer behind The Place?
• Warm beer?
• Frozen beer?
• Two-beer buzzes?
• Your first date?
• Halsted's death Speedball games?
• Halsted's famous remarks, "Bunch of jokers..." "You little buggers..." "We got a celebrity here.." "Sit down and thut up..."?
• WAKX the music station and our famous deejay, Pete Lewis?
• Wishing you, or someone you knew, had cable TV?
• Disco?
• The Village People - Macho, Macho Man?
• Who was Macho, Macho Man?
• Silk shirts??
• Being hated as freshman?
• Our female classmates dating the upper classmen? (Wah!)
• Coleman's Bait?
• The town ending at 13th avenue?
• John Molten?
• Choir trip room checks? (Did they really think students would hide beer in the toilets?)
• Park Point only hours before graduation?
• Calling for Ralph!!?? (Must have been a popular guy)
• Denny's Restaurant?
• Play Day?
• First and Second Dismissals?

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