July 15 – Do you remember the Amsterdam Firestone Store?
No nominations for July 15 Amsterdam birthdays so instead, I did a search for a July 15 edition of the the old Amsterdam Evening Recorder and the first hit took me to a page from the July 15, 1971 edition. It included a large ad for the Amsterdam Firestone tire store that was at one time located at 16 Division Street, just east of the old YMCA building, which still stands. That brought back a memory from my own Amsterdam High School days that friends of my personal Facebook page found amusing so I thought you might as well.
Talk about a curve ball being thrown at you. I had not studied a single second for this exam and after scanning the first two or three questions of the test paper in front of me, I knew there was no way I was going to come close to even a C grade on it. So I did what I had to do. Before Mr. Johnson could grasp the utter non-importantance of the message he had just read, I grabbed my books, stood up and said "I gotta go!" and walked out of the classroom and ran down the stairs.
At the time, I didn't even own a car!