Venue for February 2 - Gulfstream

[DonGuido]

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Originally Posted by JolyB

We all sound so old. {When was the first time all of you went to the track?}

I think it was 1968. About a year after I returned to Arkansas from New York and was in college in South Arkansas. Not sure when the second time was. Moved to Hot Springs in 1976. I remember those $50 windows. I guess the management didn't want the "whales" to have to stand in line with the riff raff like me. I'm not sure that Oaklawn doesn't still have some $50 windows. Obviously, I don't frequent them, but seems like I still see them although I'm sure you could bet $50 now at any window.

Let's me see know, '68 I was enjoying the festivities of the US Army going through boot camp at Fort Dix NJ. My wife though, I'm sure kept a keen eye and the T-breds. I made it out of Ft Dix as an E2, went to Fort Lewis, Tacoma for 15 months and then lucked out as an E5 getting a DOD assignment with US Forces High Command in Stuttgart Germany. Oldest daughter was born in Stuttgart-BadConstatt hospital and with an early out came back to the states and started my advanced education at Clemson with much of my wife's help. The rest is history. Horse racing interest for me came a little later in life but my wife kept adding to her encyclopedia every year. Love her!!!

During '70's we made many trips to Saratoga, Finger Lakes, Pocono Downs, Garden State Park and Belmont. Biggest early thrill was to see Kelso paraded at Belmont in '83 I think. Still a racing nubile, I began soaking up all the background and knowledge I could from my t-bred savant wife.

[JolyB]

Don, it appears that we were both in US Army Europe at close to the same time. I spent the last half of '69 and all of '70 in Germany with a Sergeant Missile battalion, first in Darmstadt and then near Wiesbaden (overlooking the Rhine and surrounded by acre after acre of vineyards of the Rhinegau wine district), before also getting an early-out to go back to school.

The last paragraph of your post had me rolling on the floor. I don't want to even consider what it must have involved for you to have been a racing nubile.

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by JolyB

Don, it appears that we were both in US Army Europe at close to the same time. I spent the last half of '69 and all of '70 in Germany with a Sergeant Missile battalion, first in Darmstadt and then near Wiesbaden (overlooking the Rhine and surrounded by acre after acre of vineyards of the Rhinegau wine district), before also getting an early-out to go back to school.

The last paragraph of your post had me rolling on the floor. I don't want to even consider what it must have involved for you to have been a racing nubile.

Wow, what a great place to be and in the Army no less. Patty and I loved our time in Germany. Ahhhhh yes, wurst on a hard crust brotchen, kartoffel salad and sauerbraten . . . and spatlese wine (Schwartz Katz, Piesporter, Liebfraumilch) and my favorite Dinkelacker beer delivered to your doorstep in a case of 8 half liter bottles I believe, not to mention unreal pasties in local shops. Wunderbar!!!

[JolyB]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

Wow, what a great place to be and in the Army no less. Patty and I loved our time in Germany. Ahhhhh yes, wurst on a hard crust brotchen, kartoffel salad and sauerbraten . . . and spatlese wine (Schwartz Katz, Piesporter, Liebfraumilch) and my favorite Dinkelacker beer delivered to your doorstep in a case of 8 half liter bottles I believe, not to mention unreal pasties in local shops. Wunderbar!!!

As I recall, those half liter bottles were lovingly referred to as "flippies" because of the top.

[ElPrado]

Dad was USAF.
Okinawa was, er, interesting. Where else could you play catch with an unexploded hand grenade, which was exploded the next day by the bomb squad, meet a great white shark at a beach with lifeguards and have to back down a mountain doublebacking road in a 57 Desoto luxury sedan because you came face to face with an ox cart full of human poop. That car was the biggest thing not owned by the Armed forces on the island. You could hold a cocktail party in it. It wasn't built for 1 lane roads on the side of a volcano. Dad was trying to show us where he had gotten hit in WW II.

[ElPrado]

I don't know why I bother playing Gulfstream. I can play piano better. I can't play piano at all.