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Rueben is still in California....in fact he lives in the same town I do. I know this because I saw him leading a group of witnesses out in field service a couple of years ago.
I was out in my yard on a ladder hanging christmas lights....the look on his face was....priceless!
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Wunce~
Don't remember where Chambers was from, but he was a good guy. We played basketball down at the squib bldg alot, he was an outstanding athlete.
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Sorry, didn't realize there was another black bro on drums in the photo..... I was refering to the one on the right with the drumstick in his hand.
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Wunze~
The guy in the front row of the group photo of pressroom boys with his hand in his pocket is Eddie Hernandez, you're probably thinking of another hispanic bro from CA named Rueben Teran, they hung around alot together.
Warren~
That black bro on the drums in your band....is that Richard Chambers????? I worked with him on a 2/7 cardcutter for a summer.....
Anybody remember Kenny Weber? How about Kent Furguson? Other 2/7 guys..... Bob
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Tall Hispanic bro on the right is Eddie Hernandez, right? And the guy in the middle back with the tan suit is Phil Trice! I knew him even before he went to bethel in Kentucky. Haven't thought about him in decades. Last I heard, he was not a dub anymore, and that was 20 years ago! Bob
this was a few years ago now, i was on the work one day with an elders elder.. you now the type!.
& he said this to me me (now i would love to know if you heard this one if its from a wt mag).
"how you are viewed by others (& so treated) is a reflection of how god views you".
For me, I remember my dad and I talking about a WT article from, (I think) Nov. 89' that said the "End" would surely be here before the end of this century. I remember thinking, "Wow, that's only 11 years away!"
Then, in Feb. 1990 he shows me the new bound volume that just came in, and the comment is completely removed from it! He just sort of looked at me with a, "I'm not sure what to think about this" look.
That's when I first started THINKING.....
i am now a reformed conspiracy theorist.
i have been wrong, i see it clearly now.. lee harvey oswald, acting alone, fired 3 bullets on november 22, 1963 wounding gov.
connally and killing president kennedy.
Uh oh....I think Mary's opened it up....here we go!
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Tom~
Good story! Petrie's van was a classic! We would take it out to Fire Island back in 70's and watch all the Brooklyn girls wear high heels to the beach (that "disco look" was so big in Brooklyn then, everybody looked like they were in Saturday Night Fever).
Some regulars in the van on meeting night were.....Harold Dies, Judy Martin, Mark Quazell (sp?), Rueben Barraza and his sister Anita, Peter Coconis, Buster Hicks (yes, that was his real name), Tim Smith, John Hill, John Shirey.
The first time I ever got drunk was in that van!
We were helping a guy in our cong. move named Nick Tramentano, with that van. We were drinking beer all day long, and after we finally get the last box in the house Nick puts out this bottle of Whiskey like he's going to toast his new house or something...well we all took a couple shots. The next thing I remember, i'm outside in the snow blowing chunks on the back of that van!
Jim put me in the van and we headed back to bethel. This was on a Saturday night. The next thing I remember, I'm waking up in my bed on Sunday afternoon about 3pm and I haven't got a clue how or when I got there. BB
i am now a reformed conspiracy theorist.
i have been wrong, i see it clearly now.. lee harvey oswald, acting alone, fired 3 bullets on november 22, 1963 wounding gov.
connally and killing president kennedy.
Tex~
I agree with Hillbilly....
However I just find it unbelievable that the President of the United States can be shot in public, in front of thousands of people, ON FILM, and decades later it's still considered a unsolved murder! Don't you think it's kinda' weird?
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I was in Kings County Cong. with Harold Dies and Jim Petrie back in the 70's. We would take Peach's old chevy van to the meetings out in Bay Ridge Brooklyn (that's where they sent the cong. after it no longer met at the bethel hall) and he would get a buck from everybody who was riding along since that's what the round trip subway fare was back then, and nobody wanted to take the train if you could just hitch a ride. I swear that guy would pile as many bethelites as he could in that van and come away with some serious $$ for each meeting!
Bob
