Saturday, February 19, 2011

Flint Photos: On the Road with an Expatriate


St. Mary's graduate and former Eastsider Duane Gilles sports an official Flint Expatriates T-Shirt in front of the downtown Halo Burger. Oh, wait, I guess that's the Taj Mahal in the background.



at 1:11 PM
Labels: , , , ,

11 comments:

  1. grumkinFebruary 19, 2011 at 2:18 PM

    Is this going to be a trend... like those gnome pictures in that one movie? Or could that be a Lego model in the background?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Gordon YoungFebruary 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM

    I hope so. How about something from New York?

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    He's to young to have graduated from St. Mary's. IT closed when Powers opened. (St. Mary's class of 55)

    ReplyDelete
  4. Gordon YoungFebruary 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM

    The high school closed, but K-8 didn't. We both graduated from 8th grade at St. Mary's in '79. Was Fr. Berkemier there in 55?

    ReplyDelete
  5. AnonymousFebruary 20, 2011 at 4:23 AM

    From the amateur resident St. Mary's historian:
    Gordie, we graduated from 8th grade at St. Mary's in 1980 (remember???), and Father Berkemeier arrived at St. Mary's in 1961. Any more questions pertaining to the parish, e-mail me. I'll try and get you the answers...LOL! Duane's picture is GREAT, and your website is second to none! Keep up the good work.

    ReplyDelete
  6. AnonymousFebruary 20, 2011 at 6:59 AM

    NO. It was Fr. Soest.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Gordon YoungFebruary 20, 2011 at 8:47 AM

    Ah, 1980 is was. How quickly we forget! Thanks for the info. One thing I have wondered is when the entire school shut down.

    And for the Wildcat Class of '55, did you play your high school basketball games in the gym? Still amazed at how small it was for 5th and 6th graders.

    ReplyDelete
  8. AnonymousFebruary 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM

    I wasn't a jock, but yes basketball was played in the gym. The graduating class was only 35.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Slow LorisFebruary 21, 2011 at 12:45 PM

    We just added a link to this on our Slow shirts FB page. Thanks for the link Gordon! So cool to see.

    http://www.facebook.com/slowshirts

    ReplyDelete
  10. JKFebruary 22, 2011 at 9:20 PM

    Hey, did you guys know Javier Munoz? I'm not sure if he went to St. Mary's, but my mom (his sister) did. She's quite a bit older than he is, though. He graduated from Powers in '83, so I figured he was about your age.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Gordon YoungFebruary 23, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    I was an alter boy with Javi at St. Mike's.

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)