Carol Olson Gardinier remembers:

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't remember squat accurately.  Odd how even then, because I lived up at Hillcrest my experiences were slightly different than those who lived in the older part of town.  I worked at Raney's in Hillcrest, the IGA was there; I rode the bus to school (I think I vaguely remember doing that), no car until senior year, and so on.

I responded:

 

Rich responded:

 

Oh I remember Raney's at Hillcrest.  I remember being the diner area one time when I was real young and some young man went into a seizure and it scared me half to death.

Carol (Olson) Gardinier remembers:
 
Raney's on Hillcrest was definitely my window to the world!  Pancho hung out at the lunch counter there because he was great friends with Don Shaw (my boss) waiting around for the next delivery.  He was a real character.  Annie and I were best of friends in 9th grade and early high school.  We used to really have a good time and used to spend hours doing our hair and lip-syncing to 45s; she was a real good friend.  Pancho used to take Annie and I to KC while he visited "friends" (hmmm) and Annie and I were on our own in downtown KC for a few hours.  Now, how scary would THAT be these days??!! -- two 14/15 -year old girls on their own in mid-town KC on a Saturday or Sunday.  I chuckle when I think of all the things my parents wouldn't let me do and they allowed this -- Dad and Pancho were real good friends.  This was all fun until my mother found notes Annie and I had written back and forth which admittedly contained pretty raunchy content, but also some pretty fine artwork -- Annie was a great fan of "Mad" characters and the artwork and I just liked doing cartoons.  Anyway, Mom won out and Annie and I didn't hang out much after that.  She and I kept in touch, though, and I heard from her not too long before she died. 
 
Other events at Raney's were the older guys - Dwight Perry, Roger Heck, some of the jocks, etc. came in there a lot to eat lunch, see Don and Pancho, etc.   Those guys were smart enough not to date me, but it wasn't for my lack of effort.  I was pretty safe, though -- early curfew (as I mentioned before) put the skids to that nonsense.  There were many fun times up there, but Don made sure we worked, as well.  I learned about all one can learn about short-order cooking and making simple syrup from scratch, etc.  Enough to never want to do that again.  Sue Lockard and I worked together there one summer. 
 
Any free time was spent with Janet Heck and Sue Maison, mostly.  Janet and I spent a lot of time enjoying Earl's pizza.  I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had!!!  And, I could AFFORD it. 
 
Lots of fun was had "shooting the square" in Cecil Transmeier's ford convertible.  What a character he was, as well!  I could never figure out what his deal was hanging around with us younger girls, but I like to think he was sort of looking after us.  I hope I don't hear otherwise.
 
Someone mentioned wondering about Dixie Workman and Hoover (and that would be JIM Hoover).  Dixie I don't know about, but kind of wondered myself.  Another was Judy Demos.  Jim Hoover is now the president of the Eudora bank -- not much more pleasant than he was then, either, as I understand it.  Married Carole Zimmerman.  Those folks always seemed a bit on the dark side to me, but I envied them their cars, that's for sure!!  
 
Oh, well, enough for now.