Originally Posted by
moparbarn
Jim, I won't say we ever "knew" each other, I grew up 3 doors down from the Russell's. I'm about 3 or4 years younger than Ronnie. Hung out down there a lot, I'm reasonably sure we met back then. I remember the record boat well, sat in a lot in their back yard, pretending.....that & the purple metalflake aluminum D or E boat, that sat beside the garage in the grass ( the flexy flier as Brooke called it). A couple years later I was helping Teddy Swing screw & glue Swingers together. Thanx to you & everybody else for sharing this stuff with us.
Does anyone know what happened to Ronnie? We were roommates down off 79th street about 72 or 73, after he got out of the navy.Then I heard he was living on a houseboat off Pelican Harbor. Last I heard, someone thought he had moved to Orlando to be closer to his parents after they moved up there.