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Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page A-19
By GORDONWEEKS inside the building on Alder
~grdon@masoncoun~com Street that now houses the
Shelton library.
Frankie Valli crooned The students had six rain-
"Sherry Baby" through the utes to get from the school,
stereo speakers as men and under the tunnel, to the Angle
women in Hawaiian shirts and building, Hansen said. As for
party dresses mingled Satur- braving the elements, the girls
day evening in a conferencecouldn't wear pants to school
room at the Little Creek Ca- in 1966, she said.
sino Resort. At school, =we all'knew each
Around their necks they other," Hansen said. =There
wore black-and-white photoswere no cliques." She met her
shot 50 years ago, when they husband as a senior and they
were seniors at Irene S. Reed never moved away.
High School in Shelton. In Linda Andrews, Hansen's
their mugshots, the guys have classmate, also stayed in Shel-
cross-cropped hair and con-ton.
servative suits and ties, while =We were very innocent
many of the girls sport impres- compared to today," she
sive bouffants, said. =We didn't have drugs
Fifty years ago in Shelton,in school, or we didn't know
=it was a different world," said about it .... I think people were
Holly Hansen, one of the 220 friendlier."
members of the class of 1966. Andrews said she acquired
"We didn't have cellphones or most of her best friends when
computers. We had dances ev-she was 10.
ery weekend in town." Duane Fagergren was pres-
Hansen added, =we cruised ident of the class. The teens
downtown all night long. We found their fun in the out-
were just like 'American Graf- doors, he said.
fiti.'" "We fished and hiked and
There were no drugs, but mountain-climbed," he said.
occasionally some booze, when Classmate Greg Shimek,
the teens cruised down Railroad retired after 45 years in the
Avenue, up Front Street, up telephone industry, remem-
Hillcrest, down to First Street, bers that =Shelton was a great
up Olympic Highway North to place to grow up in the 1960s.
the A&W, and then back down-It was just so pure."
• town, Hansen recalled. He added, "It was a very in-
"It was a beautiful town to nocent time and it was a lot of
grow up in .... Dances were fun."
how you met, that's how we got Shelton was a logging town
together, that's how we fell in in 1966, Shimek said.
love," she said. =It revolved around Simp-
Most of the high school wasson, so the families knew each
ABOVE: Black-and-white
mugshots await the
members of the Irene S.
Reed class of 1966 at its
50th anniversary Saturday
evening. AT RIGHT:
Classmates, from left,
Duane Fagergren, John
Irvin and Greg Shimek,
catch up on old and new
times.
Journal photos by Gordon Weeks
other," he said.
Lowell LaMarsh, who now
lives in Olympia, remembers
1966 as a more wholesome era.
=I think there's a lot more
peer pressure and the times
are a little more tense," he said.
The school "was old when
we went there," LaMarsh said.
The students used to battle
congestion in the tunnel un-
der Alder Street, and it was a
=good trek" to get to classes in
the Angle building, he said.
LaMarsh pointed out that
the skinny-legged blue jeans
the boys favored in 1966 are
back in fashion.
"The styles have come full
circle," he said.
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