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Here's one for Bob Letterman
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I had a pair of those shoes...
Yep, that's Dad on the far right
Yep, that's Dad on the far right
I'm with you JR. the guy on the far right, the only one smiling
I wonder why :hmmm You had a pair of those shoes??.......Just one question....... WHY !!!???
Thanks for posting this pic AgentG. are you in the picture to??
Cheers Erik
Yeah, I remember that one. I have that photo somewhere. I think that was around 1974. It was at a meeting of the St. Louis Civilian review Board. All those guys received commendations. I believe the one for me was for the arrest of a murderer that had been killing St. Louis businessmen. That was pretty common stuff back then.
Agent G. Where did you find that? I think I was already retired when you started, right? I retired in April, 1985.
Hey Dave, I'll have you know those hairstyles were cutting edge cool back then.
I just like to smile Erik! See? Those shoes were cool! I had a pair of high heeled lizagators! Super Hip Man!
Willem, there wasn't a sprue. those contained sheets of balsa with instructions on how to cut out the parts. :S
Bob
Agent G. Where did you find that? I think I was already retired when you started, right? I retired in April, 1985.
Hey Dave, I'll have you know those hairstyles were cutting edge cool back then.
I just like to smile Erik!
See? Those shoes were cool! I had a pair of high heeled lizagators! Super Hip Man!Willem, there wasn't a sprue. those contained sheets of balsa with instructions on how to cut out the parts. :S
Bob
I honestly don't know him. Back then, there were about 2500 of us. I was in the Fifth Bureau with Joe Mokwa as my partner throughout the 70s. At the time, we were kinda the hot shot detective team of the north side and the only other guy I knew there was Dan Stewart, wearing the hat. He and his partner, James Eichelburger, were our counterparts on the south side out of the Third Bureau. The Post dispatch did a big spread on us and them called, "Detective Teams, Partners on patrol". We used to tease them a lot because all the crime was on our side of the city. Not sure why that would be a valid reason to tease them today, but it was then. They had this silly thing going on with the 1950s fedora's, go figure.
In 1980, The Intelligence unit confirmed Mokwa and I had 7 contracts on our lives, pulled us off the street. Joe went to Intelligence, I went to the S.I.U. of the Circuit Attorney's office. I had just turned 40 and it was then I started thinking about another career that eventually became VLS.
Bob
We had roughly 2100 coppers when I came on. I recognized most of the back row, and Mike Karl in the front.
I worked with Mike and most of the back row in the third in the mid-late eighties. Leo Lewis spent many years in Mobile with my uncle, Jack Nieman.
Leo made Sergeant in '76, and retired as one in '08, a year after I retired.
G
I worked with Mike and most of the back row in the third in the mid-late eighties. Leo Lewis spent many years in Mobile with my uncle, Jack Nieman.
Leo made Sergeant in '76, and retired as one in '08, a year after I retired.
G
So, Bob, were you Starsky or Hutch? Problem is I remember '74 like it was yesterday
Actually Paul, we were called Starsky and Hutch, which was popular at the time, by all the little kids in the inner city. I was Hutch and my partner was Starsky. Here is a photo taken about 1976. of me and my partner, Joe Mokwa. That was our normal clothes that we wore on the street.
Me working as a NARC in 1973.
We were known on many St. Louis radio stations as "The Hippie Cops". This was an out take from a magazine article. The chief's office called and told us to get haircuts and wear business suits so we wouldn't be an embarrassment to the department when the article was published. We took a lot of ribbing over these outfits. The uniform patrol cars would drive by and whistle at us.
Bob
I had a lot of friends in the Mobile Reserve. I don't remember your uncle, but then I sure didn't know them all. They saved my rear end more than once! The sixties, seventies and eighties were some really turbulent times in the city. Most of those years St. Louis had the title of the highest crime city in America. It has declined in crime since as have all the big cities, but it still ranks up there in the top two or three. I remember in the sixties in the summer evenings they would routinely call in the cruising patrol wagons to the Laclede garage to hose the blood out of them. It was a war zone. Glad we survived all that. I lost a few friends during those years. Kinda seems like a dream when I remember it all these years later.
Bob
No problem Paul. After a couple of beers, I can really get on a roll telling war stories. :yipee
Bob
So, Bob, were you Starsky or Hutch? Problem is I remember '74 like it was yesterday
Problem is Paul you can't remember where you put your Geritol this morning lol
:fencing That is a pretty cool story Bob.Similar threads
