Riccardo, Susq. Beware of Mr. Baker

[Two Gap Penetrator]

Did you ever make one of those wooden salad bowls?

That was actually cool. You'd first glue a bunch of boards together and then you'd put it on the wood lathe and cut it into a bowl. I remember making a toolbox and a shelf in wood shop. In metal shop we used to make pipes! I don't remember what we smoked in those.

[Riccardo]

Hahah.. funny how some of these things we never forget

I can't remember hardly any teachers from early grade school but will never forget the school janitor grades 1-4 - Mr. Prambo - we called him stinky Prambo because he stunk to high heaven. Prolly took a shower once a month.

[Riccardo]

Don't think our school had a lathe that we could use

metal shop, yeah that rings a bell too

[Irish George]

OMG our grade shool janitor...

I can't remember hardly any teachers from early grade school but will never forget the school janitor grades 1-4 - Mr. Prambo - we called him stinky Prambo because he stunk to high heaven. Prolly took a shower once a month.

was a scary mofo named Dave. It was an "old skool" school and the boiler room looked like something out of the early industrial revolution -- dark, damp, full of hissing sounds and gurgling pipes. Of course that's where Dave "lived" and nobody wanted to be the kid assigned to get him to clean up a spill or un-stick a painted-shit window. he had this very unnerving habit of not speaking but letting out this low, gutteral sound: "chhhhheeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa." Rhymes with "yeah" but long and drawn out like that. And he walked along at a snail's pace while leering at the female teachers and letting out that sound.

Of couse his nickname was "Dave Cheeeeeeaaaaaa."

[Irish George]

we had the lathe from hell

metal shop, yeah that rings a bell too

Heimbach said that anyone who made a baseball bat to his specifications was guaranteed to hit a home run the first time you used it. Of course the wood was rarely mounted properly and would wind up flying off the lathe and nearly decapitating someone.

[Dim Bulb]

Mr. Frankenfield

Heimbach said that anyone who made a baseball bat to his specifications was guaranteed to hit a home run the first time you used it. Of course the wood was rarely mounted properly and would wind up flying off the lathe and nearly decapitating someone.

Why are a lot of these guys German? Anyway, Frankenfield smacked a kid in the face for calling Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick."

[Dim Bulb]

one of my favorite movies

Great guy but he had an assortment of paddles of different descriptions and he wasn't afraid of using them (this was in the good old days before corporal punishment was outlawed).

Depending on the offense he used the solid wood paddle -- or the one with holes drilled in it (boy did that one sting) or the round dowel.

However he also would show us movies he got from the Bucks County Educational Film Library -- each one was a different Indianapolis 500. "OK guys, we're going to see an educational film today," he would say and we'd take a seat in the classroom between the wood and metal shops and for 40 minutes watch the race.

Memories.

[Irish George]

I dont know, but

Heimbach had this ancient tool cabinet for all the hand tools with a plaque that said "A place for everything and everything in its place"

God help the kid who didn't re-place the tool where it belonged or left it out alltogether.

[Loki]

Did anyone -not-...

make a hash pipe in metal shop?