+What was the name of the Lakewood hamburger
drive-in which reminds you of a farm animal?
Answer: Cow Palace.
+Who was the Clover Park School District
superintendent during our time as Lakes students? He was the father of one of
our classmates.
Answer: T. Olai Hageness
+Name of Lakes High’s combination cafeteria and
auditorium?
Answer: Classatorium
Answer: Classatorium
+The year Lakes High School opened?
Answer: 1962
+What was dropped from helicopters onto the
Villa Plaza parking lot during the day prior to the 4th of July fireworks show?
Answer: Ping pong balls which
had merchant prize gift certificates inside each.
+The name of Lakes High School reflects the fact
there are lakes in Lakewood. What are the lakes of Lakewood?
Answer:
· Gravelly Lake
· American Lake
· Lake Steilacoom
· Lake Louise
· Carter Lake
· Seeley Lake
(Others?)
+What kind of aircraft land and take off from
American Lake?
Answer: Seaplanes
+What fruit was sold in coin-op vending machines
at Lakes High School?
Answer: Apples.
+Clothing girl students not allowed to wear at
Lakes High?
Answer: (All of the following)
· Pants/slacks
· Bermuda shorts or any
kind of shorts except shorts worn by girls playing on Lakes tennis team.
· Pedal pushers
· Culottes
+Street on which Lakes High School is located?
Answer: Farwest Drive
(Southwest)
+Name of the Lakes teacher who led college
entrance exam pep assembly in the senior wing? She was the mother of a Lakes
student.
Answer: Marion Warner
+Name of the Lakes teacher who was adviser of
the Lakes Ledger student newspaper?
He was the father of a Lakes classmate.
Answer: Charles Croasdill
+Which was built first in Lakewood near Villa
Plaza? McDonald's or Shakey's?
Answer: McDonald's
(Restaurants located across the street from each other at
corners of 100th Street and Bristol Avenue SW.)
+What song did Lakes High School students NOT
sing after the Lakes High boys' basketball team beat Renton, 47-46, in the
Puget Sound League championship game at Highline High School on Friday, March
6, 1964?
Answer: Alma mater.
(At that time, Lakes did not have an alma mater.)
+Both Lakes and Clover Park Fight Songs say
their schools are "Best in the West." Which is the best?
Answer: Lakes
(Lakes: "All will know that Lakes is the
Best in all the West...")
(CP: "Best in the West, you know we'll all
do our best.")
+Name of the drive-in movie theater just off
South Tacoma Way?
Answer: Star-Lite
+What is the prized possession car of classmate
Jon Cox?
Answer: Corvette
+What planet was included in the name of Lakes
High's Junior Prom during the 1965-1966 school year?
Answer: Moon
(A popular song at the time was "Everyone's
Gone to the Moon.")
+Name of Lakes High's annual celebration of the
arts?
Answer: Artasia
+Best place in Lakewood to get donuts?
Answer: House of Donuts
+Name of teacher who organized Lakes choir
program in the fall of 1962?
Answer: Ed Harmic
+Who was the teacher who taught German at Lakes?
Answer: Frau Werny (Bertl
Werny)
+On Oct 1, 2010, Fort Lewis Army base and
McChord Air Force Base merged to become Joint Base Lewis-McChord. What was the
name of Fort Lewis before it was called a fort?
Answer: Camp Lewis.
(Fort Lewis began as Camp Lewis in 1917,
honoring explorer Meriwether Lewis of Lewis & Clark fame. In 1927, Camp
Lewis became Fort Lewis.)
(McChord AFB was originally Northwest Air Base
or Tacoma Field. It was renamed in 1938 for Col. William Caldwell McChord, who
was a chief of HQ Army Air Corp trainings & operations division.)
