ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Will(Bump) Murphy
From: Van Isle.

Comments:
Chuckle. ...The building bricks were made by American 'plastic' bricks. Believe it or not the manufacturer was a toy co. called Elgo Tous. Same for the Skyscraper set I mentioned which was called American Skyline. My brother Ernie and I received those toy sets. ..Until recently I had a Lonestar Cowboy Six shooter and Holster set I got for Xmas in late fifties. Also I still have a Red Ryder Winchester lever action carbine Daisy air rifle(1000 shot BB rifle). It shoots as well and strait as when I got in good ole #7 Ubique. It has an endorsement on it by Tex Ritter. Remember Red Ryder and Little Beaver. ..Some toy dolls my sisters got were Betsy Wetsy and another called Tiny Tears. I remember a toy from Xmas called the Kenner Give a Show Projector. I made a cool flash lite. ...Oh Yes and for us boys, remember getting the really neat diving submarines that were a prize in cereal boxes. They went up and down fuelled by Baking Powder. * * * Tracy decoder rings. By the way, who was * * * Tracy's alter Ego? ...I always thought Bruce Willis could portray that character. ....I do not remember any of the Teachers I had in Shilo. Nor any of my other Shools except for some in HS. in NS. Sorry about that folks. They would be mentioned on my Shilo school report cards. My younger sister would have all those records from my Mums passing. ....My older brother was not very happy at end of school year and report cards. Chuckle. My reports were like teachers pet. His were not. Schooling was not his thing although he taught in NS technical schools for a brief time.
Who knows the classic cars. C'mon you guys and gals. All the gear heads. ...All the older antiques as well. I started cutting my teeth on them as a very young boy. All my dads cars which were fairly new then. All the Chevs and Ford and Dodge and the like. Poodle skirts and Bobby socks. ...
I remember a family a couple doors down from us that my dad always called the Otts. Would this be any relation to the chap you guys call Otter? I have read a bit about him of course in these posts.
How many of you guys went East and West along the RR line and hopped the odd train. We laid out pennies on the tracks and had them squashed. My mum always gave,U.S. heck because she said we could make the train skip the track. She was a compulsive worrier. Good old days.
I will get back yet about the post in regard to some of the girls on our street about my age. .....bump

Added: September 6, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Gerald R. Brown
From: Winnipeg, MB
E-mail: browner1@shaw.ca

Comments:
Hi Folks, I was a teacher in Shilo for 1959-65. I do appreciate seeing your postings from those good days.

Do any of you remember having a teacher named Marvin Gordon, Grade 5 from 1958-63
He will be celebrating his 80th birthday on 13 September 2015. Unfortunately, he isn`t electronically connected, but if you wanted to surprise him, you could send a snail mail post card to 3 Metz St, St. Vital, Winnipeg, MB R2M 271. HE WOULD APPRECIATE THAT A LOT.

Marvin is still in relatively good health, altho his hearing has deteriorated in the last few years. His wife Anne keeps him busy and on track most of the time.

Best wishes to all. GRB

Added: September 4, 2015

Submitted by
Name: edie

Comments:
Or Bump, it might have been Sta-Lox Miniature Building Bricks that came in a tall cylinder can. I played with them for hours ... thought I'd be an architect someday! But I became a Domestic Engineer.

Added: September 3, 2015

Submitted by
Name: alf
From: brandon, Mb
E-mail: nripley@mymts.net

Comments:
Bump, I think the skyscraper set you were talking about was the "Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set". Very popular in the late 50s and early 60s.

Added: September 2, 2015

Submitted by
Name: barbara altseimer
From: vancouver island
E-mail: barb-l@shaw.ca

Comments:
Hi Bump, I think the little bricks might have been called mini bricks.

Added: September 2, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Will (bump) Murphy
From: CRBC

Comments:
Barbara: Thanx for your answer about Howdy Doody's nasty brother. I could not remember. However I knew about Heidi and also the snake. The snake always talked with a hiss lisp,I believe. ..Then there was the princess. Two actually. American ver. was Princess SummerFallWinterSpring. Canada ver. was Princess Haida. There was a puppet that was used for photo shoots called Photo Doody. A Qiestion! Who held the mortgage on Doodyville? ......Howdy Doody was a concept thought up after and earlier sort of TV or Radio show called Puppet Parade.Something like that.
Another Trivia quiz: As boys in Shilo at Xmas and on Birthdays we had as presents two gifts we loved. One was a set of building bricks that were a reddish brown Color. The other was a skyscraper set. Can anyone remember the names of these wonderful toys. ...Quiz: What was Western Star Tim Holt's sidekicks name. Then the name of his horse. I will never forget one of my all time favorite Horse Opera stars sidekicks which was The Cisco Kids sidekick. He was Pancho. Who knows Pancho's stage name?
On another note. ...YPA for me was Young People Association. We had dances on Thursday evenings. No boozers allowed for sure. Most of my teen dances were in my HS over lunch or on Saturday nights. We had some wicked RR Bands. Anne Murray did in those days the High School and College gigs. We had a great band called the Five Sounds from our neighbourhood. ....Bedford NS. We had as much cold and drifting snow as in Shilo. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr! .....My Mum and Dad were night owls and myself and older brother were with them many times in evening going to the show or other nite time entertainment. At Barney's Drive Inn we saw all sorts of late night local Color celebrities. ...Does anyone remember at all any names of the midget wrestlers. They were a very hot property then. ....I was given a signet ring as a gift by one of them. Believe me or not. I guess they just took a shine to me. More later. Hope you guys have fun with this stuff or have your memory jogged.

Added: September 2, 2015

Submitted by
Name: barbara willerton altseimer
From: vancouver island
E-mail: barb-l@shaw.ca

Comments:
I think Howdy Doody's brother was Double doody, his sister was Heidy Doody, and the snake was Hista. My favorite show when I was 5.

Added: September 1, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Bill Brown

Comments:
Hey Bump;

YPA in Shilo was not like other bases, it had no affiliation to the Church. It was dances on Saturday nights for teens only, we had a committee which organized the dances and officer who oversaw us. We were watched over quite well, we had a man and his wife as Chaperones at the dances. The word was from the base commander, if we did not discipline those that were drunk at the dances, all our dances would be shut down. We would have to bar those that showed up drunk from dances for I am thinking 3 months the first time and double that time for the second time. I became President of YPA shortly after I got to Shilo. While our committee made the suspension I was the one to enforce it, so for a time was rather unpopular with the drinkers. I did go from having records being played to brining in bands from Winnipeg every second Saturday. Everyone loved the bands. We even organized bus trips to Rivers to go to their dances and they would come back to ours. I really enjoyed my role as president, except for having to bar those that drank.

To me Shilo was a great place to be as a teen! There was the pool, gym, bowling alley, theatre and of course YPA dances. Also they had a bus to take us to Brandon to shop or to hang out, as us teens did.

I can't say Shilo was a great place to be for our parents, being stranded in the middle of no where away from family. I think because of this and the effects of being in WW, many soldiers drank far to much and it was actually encourage by the military back then.

On Howdy Doody. Here is one for you; What was Howdy Doody's brothers name? Also, I believe it was Buffalo Bob, not Cowboy Bob, but I could be wrong.

Added: August 31, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Bump Murphy

Comments:
I left Shilo at age of 12/13. I never knew or heard of YPA. If it was Young People's,I did attend in our local church in Sackville NS. after leaving Shilo. ..Forever young I must admit we had our fair share of petty crimes although we certainly had service medals for undetected crime. Chuckle. For example on one early fall evening, several of us young boys and also some young ladies , while just after young people's had upon impulse took it up to deposit our Pastor's VW bug up against the stately oak tree that shadowed the small church. The VW front bumper was a couple feet angled up and hanging up on the tree bark. The Pastor gave us the evil eye and then a war smile of understanding. No harm done. Kids. We were that.
Remember -'kick the can' ? We played it with lots of gusto and very much fun in the neighbourhood. mostly just after dinner time as it began to get dark. The street lamps added flavour and atmosphere.
Speaking of cans. How many of us got a hold of tins from carnation milk or pop cans and we stepped our feet into them so they folded over our shoes. Then we paraded around like we were wearing horseshoes. My Mum told me later she hated the noise of it but she always knew where we were when we were playing like that.
...Thanx Floyd for mentioning the Coffe Shop. That is where I remembered the small mail drop area.
.....I was born in 1948. I was in nursery school in Shilo and of course kindergarten and then Gr. 1. Six years old and in grade 1 gives a bit of a time stamp for my time in Shilo. I was in NS by the fall of 1961 attending school in a rather tiny one room school house. There was no room or indeed grade to teach me. For several months they stuck me in a corner and had me re- do my ABC's and to,es tables to keep me occupied. After a short period of time I was sent to a nearby town and advanced to a grade that could keep up to my previous Army report cards. Life is strange. Camp Shilo was much better for me in my School years until it levelled out around Gr. 10 in SSHS in Bedford Ns.
...Remember Howdy Doody and Cowboy Bob. The silly snake. The Indian Primcess. ....How about Little,Maggie Muggins. All kids stuff now mind you. Early TV you know.
I will tell a story about my brother Ernie' eye . Next time maybe.

Added: August 29, 2015