Leon High School
Tallahassee, Florida
Class of 1959
This page is dedicated to whatever anyone comes up with that brings back memories of old Tallahassee, Leon High School, and whatever else that seems appropriate. Expect to see links to related websites, photos, and ??. If you have a contribution, feel free to email it to the webmaster at rjhoffman@yahoo.com. No captions are planned for the photos -- if you can't figure one out, ask a classmate.
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Tallahassee and Leon High School
and '50s Memorabilia
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Click for History of Leon High School website
Click for Football Hall of Fame website
Scroll Down for a fun Elvis quiz!
ELVIS QUIZ
Is anyone in the Class of '59 not an Elvis fan? Maybe a few, but not many. On Monday, July 5, radio stations around the world will simultaneously play Elvis' first commercial recording on the 50th anniversary of it's release! You think you know Elvis? Take the quiz below.
Mouse over any question to see the answer
Click Elvis to hear him sing!
Click the TV to see
THE GOOD OLD DAYS!
CLICK HERE for a Hoffman's page
of Old Folk's Jokes
Click for Leon High School Alumni Association
WANT TO HEAR SOME GREAT 1955-1959 SONGS?
CLICK THE JUKEBOX!
THEN, CLICK BACK HERE AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND
JUKEBOX COURTESY OF TROPICALGLEN.COM
New in 2007! Click photo below for the THEN & NOW Tour!
Click for Leon History details - And a GREAT VIDEO!
This is a CD I got several years ago. Note that it's narrated by Skip Draper and was edited by Dede Keyes.
Click either graphic to play the CD.
CLICK HERE TO READ MUTT & JEFF'S
HOT DOG SLAW RECIPE
That's Mutt & Jeff's Drive-in (as it was in 1959) on the left. And below is Mutt & Jeff's FAMOUS HOT DOG SLAW RECIPE!
After yrs of experimenting to get the slaw sauce right...here is what I came up with....at the 25th reunion of '59 DeWitt (he's either Mutt or Jeff) told me that all of the ingredients are there...but never would give me the recipe.
Sauce:
about 3 serving spoons of Hellmann's mayo
about 1-2 teaspoons sugar
about 1-3 T.n white vinegar
about 3-5T.BBQ sauce (not real sweet, I use K.C.Masterpiece Original)
about 5-8 T. water
salt/pepper to taste
Instructions:
mix all these ingredients until they have a sweetened slightly sharp taste and some ingredients may need to be added a bit more til you get it right...the color should be a pale pinkish clay color
Add sauce to:
1/2 medium cabbage chopped by hand into as small a pieces as you can get...(Don't uses a food processor b/c it makes the slaw too small and loses the balance between sauce and slaw)
You only need to marinate it about 10 minutes...the sauce should be a bit juicy but not overly watered down.
Serve over hot fried hotdogs...this is my husband' s former office's most requested dish for group parties...
Enjoy and drink with a Vanilla or Cherry coke :)
Dana (LaShelle) Lane...Leon Class of '62
Leon Class lunch on July 3, 2009 at A La Provence. Three classmates were in town for their husband's 50th reunion from Florida High (Linda Johnson Smith, Karen Moore Baughman, Rosalind Bigham Ekermeyer). Click photo to see enlargement and everybody's name.
2009 BOOK BY
CLASSMATE J. MCEACHERN
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PICTURE OF 1953 COBB 6th GRADE CLASS
Tallahassee Democrat front page October 11, 2013
FIRST ROW, left to right:
Lee Lee Cobb, Joan Boulware, Dot Alford, Dallas Marshall, Bruce Culpepper, Mark Hopkins, Ken VanAssenderp, Bart Abstein, Frank Andrews, Buddy Underwood.
SECOND ROW, left to right:
Robert Parker, Bob Maxwell, Ward Wilson, maybe Marshall Lawrence, Spike Guilford, Martin Bulloch, Stephen Sterk, Bobbie Harris.
THIRD ROW, left to right:
Karen Moore, Eleanor Kunkle, Judy Thompson, unknown, unknown, unknown, Donna Johnson, Becky Briley, Mary Ann Giles.
Any corrections or additions? Email rjhoffman@yahoo.com.
Below are some neat items sent by Bobby Lane CLICK TO ENLARGE
CLICK HERE for to visit
TakeMeBackToTheFifties,a neat video with music
8/22/14: Sad to say, I just noticed that the great website oldfortyfives.com is no more. If you happen to know where these videos might be, please let me know. Go to https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=50s+cars+and+music to find gobs of videos just like this.
Click either graphic to play the CD.
CLICK TO ENLARGE
Luncheon on August 22, 2017: Ann Dart, Carol Tyler Bowers, Shirley Gilmer Moore, Glenna Martin Landrum, Sandy Spencer Miller, Judy Hayes Fields, Mary Lillian Jones Hemmeter, Lee Lee Cobb Arnold, Jo Gaylon Jordan Barfield, Claire Essig Traynor, Ida Sue Phillips Chambliss, Judy Jones Hopkins, Mary Crumpton Brown (back), and Sharon Daniels Smith (front).
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Got the above video from Ann Dart, who got it from Richard Presnell. Great, nostalgic details about our 1950's. Not Leon High School, but another class of 1959. Long, but worth the time.
Leon 1960 Class lunch on December 10, 2019
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