Brad Bentson:  

Although I did not actually attend Jackson High School, I have joined classmates to find friends and students I attended Multnomah Grade School with from 1956 to Grade 8 in 1964. My family moved to Brisbane Australia in February 1964, Brisbane was the birthplace of my Mother. Dad was stationed in Australia in WW II with General Douglas MacArthur, First in Melbourne then Brisbane where he and my mother met at a dance one night. They married 3 months later and after the war my mother joined thousands of other Australia War Brides who travelled by ship to the USA. I have very fond memories of growing up in Multnomah, Portland Oregon. And of the many school friends and friends I grew up with. Including The local Boy Scout Group who met at Multnomah Grade School and before that The Cub Scouts and before that The Braces I think. I often used to hang around Ed's camera Corner store in Multnomah. Elsie's diner. The Dime store. The Swiss Bakery. and the Parks and Woods around Multnomah. Alpinerose Dairy Farm, where I played Little League Baseball, Raced my 10 speed Peugeot racing Bike I imported from France in 1963 around the dirt bike track the established and one first place.. I stood in John Lennon’s Bedroom at his Aunt Mimi's Home in Liverpool las...Expand for more