FINK was a short lived club of sorts. The name was an acronym for
Friendly
Neighborhood
Kids (not sure where the “
I” came from). I believe our ringleader was Juliet's older sister. Our greatest accomplishment was a variety show put on for the parents. Any of this ring a bell?
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The "i" was part of the word neighborhood I think. Don't forget the Father Son Football & Softball games. The softball game played on the field that was built with old bomb crates before a typhoon blew it down. The football game played on the field we put together out in the coconut grove. The lines were done with flour appropriated from every house in the circle.
The Father Son Football game is one of my fondest Guam memories. I recall your brother played a big part in organizing that event. I also recall we got our asses kicked.
Does anyone remember the volleyball games and when my dad put a ping pong table in our living room?
I remember the girls were cheer leaders for that game and we wore purple shirts and white hot pants and I was attacked by red ants.
Wasn't that show at the Jewels house. I should get Claudia to join the blog she was older and straight and may remember more. Do you remember the Tansy's called us Quins and showed the little finger, no amount of terror could get the meaning out of them. I have a vague recollection of Barkey Barton hanging and tied up in the big Iron Wood tree near the Four Square. Do you boys remember anything about that. How about the Dance at Doug's House.
How about when we plugged up the street drains during a heavy rain and played in the huge water puddle in front of the Sickler's house. I remember that a favorite pass time was just sitting and laying around the curbside in front of Robert and Jeff's house and don't forget the good and bad happenings in the Bus Stop. I won't say more...
Man Juliet, you're busting out names that don't even ring a bell. You've got a memory like Dave.
How could I forget the ping pong table? The skills learned there earned me a good deal of bragging rights (and cash) throughout the years. Of course it didn't hurt having Paul's Dad for a teacher. That man was amazing. He could beat you with a beer in one hand, his pipe in the other and the paddle stuck between his ass cheeks. A true master.
Help me out here Dave and Juliet. Were the Tansy's the kids who lived next to Clay Copeland? I remember they were a little L7 - real big on the Osmonds and Jackson 5 while the rest of us were rocking to Deep Purple.
Yes, that is where they lived. They had a really mean dark colored dog who tried to bite everyone. After you all moved on, Janet and Wendy became good friends. Janet was tall with red hair. She had an older sister Mary Jo who must have been a few years older than Wendy. There was Brian and Mathew and the father worked at the Marine lab. The Sicklers and the Tansy's moved over to the apartments that were built in front of Vocational Tech High school beside GW. She had a younger sister named Christie who was in my grade but I am not sure if she was my age because I skipped a few grades in Elementary. The parents split up and the Mom completed the Nursing program at UOG and took everyone off to Louisiana and I lost track of them. Must have been sometime in 1975-6. Barky Barton lived in the big house behind the Tansy's and Copeland's. I am not sure when he came and went from the neighborhood. We moved out one week before the big typhoon Pamela hit the Island and devastated it. You know the small cave that we all sat in down by the rock in Pago bay caved in and part of the rock cliff above it fell down. You can't believe how big the waves were, whole trees looked like tooth picks being tossed about. The big Iron wood tree in front of the four square area was blown over. Dave sent me some great satellite photos of different typhoons that devastated Guam. Dave you should post them.
Juliet must have saved some brain cells, what a memory!! I do remember the Tansy's, and lots of volleyball! It seemed to be the after school game, when we "went" to school!! I seem to remember Robert breaking Janet's finger, spiking the ball..Or did she break his???
I think it was Clay Carlson who spiked the ball on my mom...he was always quite competitive..a great ping pong player too..lol
Wow!!! My mind is swimming in flash-back memories...and I'm sober! Juliet is finally coming out of her shell. The Tansys may be our missing link to the Sicklers, as Mary Jo used to have the hots for Don...or maybe it was the other way around. My brother Dan was a member of their club. We would call them the Tansy Pansies and they would get so mad and yell QUIN YOU!!!! while giving us the pinky. That's how my brother got the nick name Pansie Dan.
some of you may remember the volleyball nets my dad put up in our "field", than got soo pissed off one day, cause I think we had abused it or something. Screeched his jeep up onto the field, hooked ropes onto each cement pole and pulled them all down. we all stood watching like shit...he's pissed.
Huh, are you kidding? I've played ping pong with my dad but never imagined him jumping around at volley ball.
Doug you have no filter. Haaa. You know as time wore on the conflicts seem to pass and we all became friends but we all were at war at one time or another.
I remember once during one of our football games, Doug kicked me in the stomach and knocked the wind out of me. A few weeks later I got my revenge by punching him in the gut, making him gasp for air. We have been good friends ever since.
Hey, QUINN YOU!!!
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