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In Celebration of TCH's first 50 years (1955 - 2005)

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Of course kids loved music then just as much as they do now. We bought the latest 45s from our

Fr. Teurlings High School 1958 Homecoming Court:

Back: Gloria Badon (Junior), Barbara Gemillion (Senior), Linda Laurents (Senior)

Front: Shirley Broussard (Senior), Queen Earline Broussard (Senior), Alberta Castille (Sophomore)

Thursday, November 13, 1958 game.

favorite artists like Frank Sinatra, Mitch Miller and Pat Boone and a new type of music from a band named Bill Haley and the Comets. Elvis "the Pelvis" hadn't even had his first hit yet although he would with Heartbreak Hotel before our first school year was over. The first stereo two-channel records wouldn't be issued for another 3 years. To purchase your music, you would go to a music store and buy it! You couldn't download it from the internet and load it on your IPod. You couldn't play it in your car either. Your only choice in your car was the AM Radio. You could get your music for free if one of your friends purchased it first. All you had to do was tape it on your reel to reel tape recorder. But since those didn't run on batteries, you always had to be near an electrical outlet to listen to it.

And if you needed to reach your kids when they're not home, good luck. You couldn't call them on their cell phone. The first cell phones were "bag phones" which had a shoulder strap to carry

Now you know why they're called basketball shorts (1988).

Pictured are Damian Norris and Russell Richard.

And being modeled behind the TCH gymnasium is a pair of authentic polyester pants (era 1970s).

them around and they wouldn't be around for almost 35 years. It would be at least 10 to 15 years before we replaced rotary dialing with touch tone (push button) phones and at least 20 years before the first "mobile" phones appear in oil field worker's automobiles. If you were lucky enough to own a phone it was probably a party line. For those who don't know what that was, it was a system where several households shared the same phone line. Each person had a different ring pattern and you had to listen to it to know whether it was a call you needed to answer or if the call was for someone else you shared the line with. You couldn't use caller ID.

Pat David (Hardest Worker), Valrie Domingue (Best Lineman), John Duplantis (Highest Scholastic Average), and Pat Arceneaux (Best Back) show off their awards from the Lafayette Civic Club's Athletic Awards Banquet. (1959)

Even the first answering machine was over 20 years away. So if you weren't home, you'd never get your call but that's OK because you'd never even knew that you missed a call. When answering machines first came out, people wouldn't leave messages because they refused to talk to a machine. Now if you call someone's house and they don't have an answering machine, the callers gets upset because they couldn't leave a message.

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