Lance Picore, the author of this little quiz reserves the right to be incorrect a time or two!

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1. How many grocery stores were located in downtown Lead in 1962?   Answer
2. How many drug stores were located in downtown Lead in 1962?   Answer
3. Who was the first police officer in Lead to actually carry a gun? (Yes, it happened while we were in high school!)   Answer
4. Do you remember the first name of the lady who sternly commanded the swimming pool at the Homestake Rec Building?   Answer
5. Oh yeah? Well who was the man who ran the pool room at the Rec?   Answer
6. Do you have any idea of who produced the huge lamps that hung in the Homestake Theatre and decorated the lobby?   Answer
7. Do I dare ask you if you remember the price of admission to the Homestake Theatre until you were 12 years old?   Answer

1. Who owned the 1953 or '54 Ford that was painted white with a very large red diamond painted in the middle of the hood?   Answer
2. One of your classmates had a late 1940's Chevrolet convertible (WOW). Who was this mystery person?   Answer
3. Which three of your classmates actually drove Model A Fords to school?   Answer
4. Who owned the (hint...maroon) "one-eyed monster" car?   Answer
5. And, who was the proud owner of the 1955 Chevy 2-door hardtop with the stick shift transmission and the really noisy mufflers?   Answer
6. Yeah, well try this one! What kind of car did Harold "Gus" Gustafson drive to school?   Answer
7. Even tougher...who owned the 1939 Chevy that was painted with a paint brush, had no front springs (dago rake), no exhaust system, and had a real set of dog-beater hub caps with '56 Chevy taillights screwed into the middle of the "flippers"?   Answer

1. Who was Superintendent of Schools when we graduated?   Answer
2. Who was the Principal of Lead High School in 1962?   Answer
3. What was the name of the Junior High Principal/English teacher who used the example of "John shot the goose. The goose shot John" approximately 1.3 million times during the eighth grade?   Answer
4. Can you remember the name of the biology teacher and submariner who was assigned to teach algebra during your freshman year?   Answer   Yeah? And what kind of car did he drive...hint...the envy of many a student!   Answer
5. Who was your freshman geography teacher and basketball coach?   Answer
6. Who was the home ec teacher that many of the male students thought was pretty "hot"?   Answer
7. Do you remember which teacher had a "dumbwaiter" in their room?   Answer
8. Do you remember the name of the principal at the Central Campus who would allegedly "use the rubber hose" on misbehaving students?   Answer
9. What was the only kind of soda sold in the school cafeteria?   Answer
   How much did it cost?   Answer
10. What lunch room special "packed 'em in" and seemed to be the most popular item served?   Answer
11. How many teachers do you suppose actually appeared in the 1962 yearbook with a GUN?   Answer

1. Which classmate had parents who owned a restaurant in Lead?   Answer
2. Which classmate's mother taught music in the Lead schools?   Answer
3. Which classmate had parents who owned a gas station?   Answer
4. Whose grandfather owned Lead's premier shoe store located next to the hospital?   Answer
5. Whose mother worked in the high school office?   Answer
6. Do you remember who your senior class president was?   Answer
7. Who was the only guy in our class to wear plaid underwear?   Answer
8. Can you remember who our Valedictorian was?   Answer How about the Salutatorian?   Answer
9. Can you name ALL of the senior cheerleaders when we were seniors?   Answer
10. One evening, members of the class of '62 went to the bridge down by the South Mill and hanged a political leader in effigy. Who was the "victim"?   Answer
11. While you were juniors, do you remember the name of the senior who had a job at the local radio station as a DJ? Do you even remember the call letters of the radio station?   Answer
12. Although it was probably pretty important at the time, do you remember who won the Lead-Deadwood football game during our senior year?   Answer

1. What was the "official" size of the graduating class of 1962? (Give yourself an edge of 5 students either way)   Answer
2. On what date did the Class of '62 graduate?   Answer
3. On Senior Skip Day, many of our class went to a drive-in movie in Rapid City. Do you remember the name of the movie? (Some actually did watch it!)   Answer

1. Do you remember who recorded the 1962 song "Only Love Can Break a Heart"?   Answer
2. Little Eva sang... "Everybody's doing a brand new dance now, come-on baby, do the (what)"   Answer
3. What was the song released by the Beach Boys in 1962?   Answer
4. What did "she" do when Jay and the Americans sang....."and when I told her, another girl had caught my eye"?   Answer
5. And who was the girl that the Four Seasons were asking...."can you come out tonight?"   Answer
6. Dion sang...."I squeeze 'em and hug 'em, they don't even know my name". The song title said he was a (?).   Answer
7. How ya doing? Can you still name the Freddy Cannon hit of 1962?   Answer
8. In what year(s) was "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" a real top tune?   Answer

1. How many stars were in the flag when we were freshman?   Answer Seniors?   Answer
2. Who was President of the United States when we were freshman?   Answer Seniors?   Answer
3. In what year was the Deadwood Forest Fire that forced the evacuation of Deadwood?   Answer
4. Do you remember how much your first driver's license cost (assuming you got it when you were in high school)?   Answer
   And what test(s) did you have to take to get that license?   Answer
5. Can you remember these local personalities?
   Ralph Canary,   Answer
   "Buck" Nadeau,   Answer
   Kenny Keller,   Answer
   Frank Bertolero,   Answer
   Harold Ludeman,   Answer
   Dick McGrath,   Answer
   Don Larson   Answer