Class Note 1960
Issue
March-April 2022
The Nugget opened in 1916 and we arrived 40 years later. Now, at more than 100, she continues to provide needed diversion from the pressures of study. The following reminiscences attest to our appreciation. Elliot Carr worked there his last two years at Hanover High School and first two years at Dartmouth. “They ran different movies Sunday, Wednesday, and Satursday and better shows Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Friday. Hence, I saw every movie for five or six years.” One memory forever etched in Jim Adler’s then highly libidinous undergraduate brain was watching Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman. He remembers the usually raucous audience just sitting there in awestruck silence. Friendly Persuasion had a dramatic scene for Bob Colyer in which Gary Cooper’s Quakers were in church and being told they should be going to the Civil War. One Quaker stood up and announced that no one would respond, regardless of what was done to them. “You can burn our barns, take our cattle, destroy our fields…” until one wag in the Nugget audience yelled out, “But don’t step on my blue suede shoes!”
Bob Boye’s favorite story involved T-Bear Spetnagel, the notorious athletics director. Since his reputation preceded him, the only way he could get a date was as a blind date. At a moment during Carnival weekend, he took his blind date to the Nugget to see some romantic flick. When all was quiet, T-Bear let loose with a horrendous, loud fart. In a loud voice, he looked at his blind date and said, “It’s okay, just look at me as if I did it.”
Lastly, from Steve Carroll: “I have vivid memories of the autumn 1956 night I became swept up in a large throng (most if not all ’60s) marching down Main Street headed for the Nugget—presumably to crash the gate and avoid paying admission. That our purpose wasn’t clear to me didn’t matter; it was exhilarating to be in the midst of some seemingly palpable force field—a fact that frightens me in retrospect.”
The spell was broken when someone in administration came out and with a strong commanding presence barked an order for us to knock it off and disperse. We (must have been in the hundreds) meekly obliged.”
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com
Bob Boye’s favorite story involved T-Bear Spetnagel, the notorious athletics director. Since his reputation preceded him, the only way he could get a date was as a blind date. At a moment during Carnival weekend, he took his blind date to the Nugget to see some romantic flick. When all was quiet, T-Bear let loose with a horrendous, loud fart. In a loud voice, he looked at his blind date and said, “It’s okay, just look at me as if I did it.”
Lastly, from Steve Carroll: “I have vivid memories of the autumn 1956 night I became swept up in a large throng (most if not all ’60s) marching down Main Street headed for the Nugget—presumably to crash the gate and avoid paying admission. That our purpose wasn’t clear to me didn’t matter; it was exhilarating to be in the midst of some seemingly palpable force field—a fact that frightens me in retrospect.”
The spell was broken when someone in administration came out and with a strong commanding presence barked an order for us to knock it off and disperse. We (must have been in the hundreds) meekly obliged.”
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com