www.GraniteCityGossip.com "Where Everyone In Granite City Comes To Find Out What's Going On In Granite City" Other than our hometown, there is no other place we love more than the beach! We are dedicating this update to "sun tanned toes ticklin' the sand", sand castle building, collecting sea shells and creepy little scurrying crabs. Have a vacation picture or story you would like to share? Send it our way! |
Going, going, gone! Who remembers the Libson Shop? Well, the building at 19th & Edison is no more. Also gone, the old apartments on Niedringhaus Avenue. Progress in downtown Granite City! |
Danielle Daily and boyfriend Ethan celebrating her fifteenth birthday at Lattawatta Creek, in Fairview Heights on July 20, 2008 Happy Birthday Danielle! |
If you have ever visited our Eddleman-Kite Collection, located in the Historical Granite City section of our site, we are sure you enjoyed the vintage photographs of our city. Now, Sparky Eddleman is sharing a portion of his personal local memorabilia collection for all to enjoy! Please click here to take a trip back in time. |
Happy 9th Birthday Noah Daily Love you always, Mom, Dani, Tony, Ethan & Friends |
All Nations Deliverance Ministries All Nations is a non-profit organization, we recycle and refurbish computers to benefit area schools, non-profits and those in need. Our refurbished computers and recycling programs provide for the technology needs of schools and public charities while solving the problem of equipment disposal for businesses upgrading their office systems Click here for Computer Program Information Click here for All Nations Deliverance Ministries |
Wedding bells were ringing on Saturday, July 12 in Wilson Park for Amber Clark-Ybarra and Leslie N. Whittington |
Also married on July 12, 2008 at Cedarview General Baptist Church in Pontoon Beach Amanda Welsch and Kyle Neuling Congratulations Amanda & Kyle! |
Our Childhood In Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand) You could hardly see for all the snow, Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. Pull a chair up to the TV set, 'Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.' My mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning. My mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice-pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e-coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system. We all took gym, not PE and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries, but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option, even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. Oh yeah ... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed! We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front step, just before he fell off. Little did his mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that? We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive? This was sent to us in email, we thought it hit home! |
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GraniteCityGossip.com presents the Sandy Sides Collection. A collection of vintage photographs of Sandy & her family's early life in Granite City - Click Here |
Since this month's update theme is beaches and vacations, we'd like to share some of our favorite places that the two of us have traveled to! |
"Sending Our Troops A Piece Of Home" Come "adopt a trooper", send a care package and make a difference to our troops. Go to our this website, fill out the information, and you can be sending a package from home to a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine or Coast Guard serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, South Korea or Kosovo. You may contact Julieann with any questions at 314-440-6859 www.asoldierswishlist.org www.ultimatemilitarymom.com www.myspace.com/julieannday |
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CONNIE JOLLY BENEFIT Chicken & Beer Dance (Asst. Manager at Hit N' Run) Saturday, September 6th 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm VENICE SOCIAL CLUB 4168 Hwy 162, Pontoon Beach Tickets $15 each or 2 for $25 For tickets, please contact Lee Ann - 920-3127 Sue - 910-1433 or inquire at Hit N' Run Please bring your own side dishes! Music provided by "Oasis Entertainment" Silent Auction - Door Prizes! |
GraniteCityGossip.com welcomes the two newest members of our advertising family... World Finance located at 4 American Village and Dollar-A-Day Recycling located at 3133 Missouri Avenue WELCOME! |
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GraniteCityGossip.com Welcomes "Just Imagine Publishing" |
Happy 8th Birthday Tayler! August 18, 2008 Love, Mommy, Daddy & Bubby |
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