Terry Gates:  

CLASS OF 1975
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Bothell High SchoolClass of 1975
Bothell, WA
Bothell, WA
Bothell, WA
Bothell, WA

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Hard to imagine it has now been 37 years since BHS days....can it really be??!!..WOW! Those were some great days and fun times....long ago. I get back to good old Bothell a couple times a year, live in Atlanta, GA area since mid-80s. Still crazy about motorcycles and motocross just like "back in the day" Busy IT career professional travel all over the world, but the bikes keep me sane. Three great kids, 29, 18, 16 - and remarried a wonderful younger woman this past year, life is good!!! I used to work in Bellevue, WA when I started my IT career in 1978, two floors above our data communications company was this little 8 person firm called "Microsoft" HA what a story that is. Now, 34 years later I have done a lot in IT and am a Sr. Consultant with HP and travel a lot. Still good friends with Doug Evans, since WA Anderson days! He and I have been friends since 6th grade, and still hang out. Went to the 30th reunion and saw lots of classmates. Some changed a lot, some not so much. Those BHS days were a great time in life....so many memories of fun times, marching band, hanging out at Artic Circle, and var...Expand for more
ious parties, my first car VW bug, "the cove", motorcycle riding and camping in eastern Washington: Mattawa desert race, camping and riding the "coal hills" at Cle Elum, Startup MX and Puyallup Raceway Park, and the Bothell wrecking crew in motocross racing. Binkley's, Elledge, McCaffery, and quite a few others. After High School some great, memorable young adult years too, The 70s & early 80s, and the Aquarius, WESMAR, Harris DataComm, and work friends from then I won't ever forget. Living in Ballard, Woodinville, Auburn, and other old haunts - those were some great carefree times with little responsibilities and ohh to be 21 again, sigh, what memories! HA. Well, Bothell and the entire eastside area have grown so much, but when I get back to Bothell I walk around the Westhill area and remember all the fun and friends we had, and what a great place and time it was to grow up in. Can it REALLY have been 37 years ago??? I cannot get around how much time has flown!! Life goes on, but the memories of Bothell, BHS years and the fun times in the class of 1975 growing up in a simpler, great time will be there all my days.
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racing at Barber Motorsports Road Race 2009
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Texas vintage motocross race - 2006
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riding around Bothell  circa 1974
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Road Race day Barber Motorsports 2008
Road racing action - 2008
Vintage motocross, August, 2008
Cool view of Seattle,  2007 visit
visit back home to Seattle , 2007
70s style - Van at Indian Dunes MX - 1977
Me and my kids 2008
1970 - OSSA Stiletto vintage MX action
TZ250 - you only live once.....
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Thankful for  my Mom. Margie Gates (Wood). She is 83 and still going strong!   Everything good in this world she embodies.
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A constant in my life for 47 years.  Been true the entire time.    

The number of memories and friendships made at the motocross track is unrivaled in any other aspect of my life.
I woke up this morning and I was 60!   I can't believe time has marched by so fast.    In my mind I'm still a 17 year old kid, but my body is starting to tell me otherwise.   

But i'm Truely blessed with a great wife and g
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Big TBT -  41 years ago I was 19, and I saw Paul McCartney and Wings at their commercial peak in the new Seattle Kingdome with 76,000 others.  It was a tour de force show and experience in my then young life. 

Fast forward
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Wheelie Wednesday. 

Circa early 1974 when I was 17,  43 years ago! Wow.  

On My friend Douglas Gardiner tricked out Powerall  SL100

I still feel that I'm 17 in my mind when I ride, but now my body tells me I'm really 60!
Today is my late Father's birthday, he would have been 86.     My best friend, mentor, all a Father could ever be.  

Happy birthday Dad, gone 24 years.  Miss you every day. 

My Dad and Mom 24 years ago about my age now! C
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