An oldy but a goody. Wall hasn't changed much in the last 25 years:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1120988/1/index.htm

About the only change is 87 not going thru town any more. Clayton lived on mile due north of my house and found and kept my 2 labs that got out one weekend.

He was rewarded with $50 GC from Zentner's on Sherwood way. (And this was back when $50 would get lots of KC for ?)

EMC were y'all on Bluementritt?

great article. can't believe i've never read that about a family i just knew as the weishuhn's.

His daughter, Brandi talked about in the article was a great gal and heck of an aggie. Prettiest girl I ever saw in high school and the friendliest to boot.

even though i'm in angelo now, an article like that makes me miss living out there w/ my folks. that's exactly how life is and was.

c-jags- We were on Susan Peak, right in the Y of the road to the gins.

I grew up on Blumentritt Rd, outside the loop...

The address was Rt 3 box 105J, before 911...

EMC i read it wrong. I read that you lived due north of him. gotcha.

but that would be where murphy lives.

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c-jags- We were on Susan Peak, right in the Y of the road to the gins.

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I was running CC for wall right when they started to do well on the state level. Wall's CC success owes a lot to the cotton fields out there and susan peak road. they've seen a lot of sneaker tread.

which, by the way, reminds me....

http://gosanangelo.com/news/2008/nov/16/wall-cross-country-teams-shine-at-state-meet/

Dan Shannahan is still kicking butt out there w/ some good CC teams. And he's an aggie.


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"Years ago, I'd catch half my runners hiding behind a church," not doing their full runs, Shannahan said. "This year, I never had to say a word. They were so motivated. I just had to tell them to ease up."

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sad to say that was my class when we were sophomores and what not. complete attitude change from then till we were Srs.

So what's the big attraction in farming cotton?

That's what I would want to be doing myself, but life has pulled me other directions.

Mixed bag of Clayton stories.

Clayton and I are cousins, he got all the big and strong genes, I ended up with the other (short). But we do have the same beer gene.

My youngest sister, Diane and Clayton were in the same class, she and Diane were always up to something.
Brandi, strange but true, her roommate at A&M was dating our best friends son for a while.

Seems like my stories about Clayton always seem to include beer.

Diane and my wife are also cousins so we always end up at the same reunions, which always have beer.

Another Clayton Story

My supervisor's son played football for Bangs at the time Clayton was playing.

The son remembers the game because he was on defense and wasn't playing directly against Clayton, but they were runing out of running backs for the night and the Bangs coach said he was going in as a back. He pleaded with the coach, because he knew what Clayton would do. His coach wouldn't listen and in he went. The hits he received from Clayton he still remembers to this day.

But he said that Clayton came to their locker room after the game and shook everyones hand he could.

Clayton always was a good sport, but I think he was just checking everyone out for beer.

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Next time you talk to him, ask him if he remembers finding the 2 black labs. One would come up to anyone, but Maggie would only stand and bark at him, even though she was in his shop/barn building.

It was pretty funny when he described them to me that way when I called him after he responded to an add we put in the sub-Standard for lost dogs.

When he told me that, I knew he had found them. The fact that they made it across 87 and didn't get run over was amazing.

And I bet he can drink plenty of beer, especially on the weekend of the fall festival at St. Ambrose!

C-jags,What year did your graduate?

I was a track guy (and a defensive end when he coached football) for Shannahan. That was pre-cross country. We won district, and regional title in track my senior year, and finished third at state(only two of us qualified)...

'02.

years after they gave him the shaft and forced him out of FB.

I'm pleased to see him be able to shove this in the faces of those who did that to him years ago. Not that he ever would do that himself, because he's a classier than that.

also that was the first year we had a resurgence in track for the boys. didn't even field full teams my fr. and so. year.

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I thought this comment from Mytus on Shannahan was spot on:

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...every year, I find myself looking up football scores in the fall for my old high school, thinking that this year is the year. Some years are good...and some, like my senior year at Wall, were not. And yet...I still read about Wall Hawks as State Champions in the fall. It's amazing just how consistent Coach Shannahan is in producing great runners year after year. But if you've never been part of a team he's coached, it's hard to explain what makes him so awesome. Coach Shannahan is the type of coach I wish every high school athlete had to opportunity to play/ run for. He made good athletes better and great athletes amazing. He believes in you...wants you to win, sometimes more than you do. He commits himself to your development...and you find yourself working harder than you wanted to. He was there when you won…and when you didn’t. No matter what sport he coached, his positive attitude was infectious and steadfast commitment to excellence brought people together. I don’t think that it was just about winning with Coach Shannahan…I think that winning was the end result. It’s been a while since I graduated from Wall…but the one thing I value the most was the efforts that this coach put forth for me. To this day I still compete as if he was watching…hoping that my performance will make him get as excited as he did on the football field on or at a cross country/ track meet. I can’t tell you how much of a profound impact Coach Shannahan has made in my life…but his efforts have made me, and thousands of other Wall athletes, better at the sport we played, and the lives that we are living today. I know that Cross Country may not be another gold football for the trophy case, but State Champions and Wall Hawks go together and both Cross Country teams should be recognized as Outstanding Student Athletes!!! …Coach Shannahan, with the upmost admiration and appreciation for ALL that you have done for those you have had the opportunity to coach and mentor, CONGRATULATIONS to you and your runners on a job extremely well done!!! GO HAWKS!!!

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His daughter, Brandi talked about in the article was a great gal and heck of an aggie. Prettiest girl I ever saw in high school and the friendliest to boot.

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Didn't know her until A&M but I certainly second every comment made there. (crush noted)

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She takes after both her mom and her Dad. Both are friendly and just plain good folks. She is a true West Texan.

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Didn't know her until A&M but I certainly second every comment made there. (crush noted)

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nothing bad on my part. EVERY SINGLE guy at wall would have married her on the spot and rightfully so.

There is something about young ladies from Wall. I would always sit in on the interviews for the San Angelo club's scholly that is given away every spring. I was always amazed at the poise, intelligence and looks that came from Wall. I mean, Torbush- WoW.......

IMHO, always a lock for the pretty ladies from Wall for the $$$.

And then I would wonder, "were there that many good looking women at A&M when I was there?"

(Of course after getting married in the middle of my p-head year, that didn't matter...)



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I was always amazed at the poise, intelligence and looks that came from Wall.

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You all have got to be kidding.

He is decidedly not kidding. Out of a class with ~25 ladies, I would say a half dozen of the girls I graduated with were solid 8's, and and few 9's, and at least one 10. I saw her on a billboard modeling once...

bump. El Paso was getting to much ttt action.

yup growin up in ballinger we always loved when the wall girls played our girls in basketball!

Byronic Aggie, I do know good looks when I see it. Kim Tomes, Miss USA was a classmate, so I know what is good looking.

Back to the track part of this thread, an Aggie budding in Angelo has a daughter who ran for Wall and now is on ASU's track team. He wanted here to try at A&M but not quite that fast. She does have the looks and brains to make it at A&M, though!

Whenever a friend of mine and I passed through Wall, he would mention something about a cotton gin turned restaurant that was haunted. Anyone know anything about this?

The Ol' Gin was good when if first opened several years ago, but I think it is now closed.

As far as being haunted, maybe memories of bad service from bad service from later owners...???