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Little Falls High School

Where it all began giving new meaning to the term “old school” where we had looked forward to sitting in the balcony the next year.  Gone were the kids with ’51 Merc’s, belt loops cut out of Levi’s, and those you saw at the Falls Theater watching “Jailhouse Rock”.  The Shaffer brothers, the Ebertowski brothers, the Lundell brothers were gone and we were the little fish in a shrunken pond.  And now it has been added to the roster of gone schools, Hawthorne, Lincoln, and Washington.

But now we had new cool kids from St. Mary’s and new heartthrobs for our raging hormones.  And we had to muddle our way through deciding on our own class schedules.  The year went by quick and then we got to go to the new “Senior High”. 

Photo courtesy of the Morrison County Historical Society

Little Falls Senior High School

Our class only went to the "old" Little Falls HS our freshman year.  They called the new one Little Falls Senior High (10, 11, 12th).
Charles Augustus Lindbergh

"Lucky Lindy"  "The Lone Eagle"  "Our Hero"

Lindbergh lived in Little Falls next door to the Nordlins (Bruce Smith's mother and webmaster Bob Hoffman's mother). He is rumored to have been very grouchy when little neighbor girls wandered into his garage, where he worked on bicycles, engines, and other strange objects.

Read all about him in Wikipedia. Also, an interesting article on Little Falls in Wikipedia. newsreel sources."
St. Francis High School

The 3rd school we'll include on this website. Had a goodly number of friends over there, all neighbors in our little town.
Bruce's Corner

Since I'm the webmaster and have complete control over this page, I thought I'd throw in some old photos of Bruce Smith that I found. I figured his classmates might enjoy them. I call them "growing up".
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With 1951 Triumph, just after return from Viet Nam
In 1977, while mining gold in California
Little Falls Senior High School Class of 1965 Commencement Program

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This is the instrument panel of Lindy's Spirit of St. Louis. Click anywhere on it to go to Perkins' webpage, where you can view his videos of Lindbergh's flight. When you get there, click Part 1, 2, 3, or 4 in the center screen. At the end of each video, click Contact to return to this view. When complete, close the window to return here.
Flight Videos

Below, a 2011 addition: Win Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in airport properties,  has posted on his Web site a video he created of Charles Lindbergh's famous  and risky takeoff in the Spirit of  St. Louis  ..    According to Perkins, this is unlike any other presentation of the takeoff  footage. Perkins said he "painstakingly assembled news footage from five  cameras that filmed Lindbergh's takeoff from Roosevelt Field,  Long  Island  " and "mixed it with enhanced audio from the same  newsreel sources."
Video taken by Greg Gamradt at the dam in
Little Falls in Early May 2014