Cindy Ehlen
Mason City Graduate
Belle Plaine Resident
I graduated in 1958. The 50’s music was what we heard and what we danced to. Now 60 years later I still love rock and roll.
I lived at Clear Lake from the middle of May until the middle of September. My sister and I would ride back and forth during the school year, with my dad. He worked in Mason City.
The rest of the year I lived in Mason City. I graduated from Mason City High School in 1958. Rock and Roll was what we danced to. The Surf ballroom had teen night every Wednesday night and my friends and I rarely missed a teen dance. My best friend and I donned our, more than one crinolines, hoop skirts, and rode over to the Surf in our boyfriend’s Chris Craft speed boat. We would tie up at the City Dock and walk to the Surf to enjoy whatever band that was playing that night. Slow and smooth was Glen Miller and fast and furious was Buddy Holly. The Mason City Class of 58 has a reunion every month where they go out and eat always play 50’s music. I try to at least make this once a year. These old souls love reminiscing. Memories take me back to sock hops every Friday night at the WMCA, Wednesday’s teen night in the summers at the Surf Ballroom, KGLO TV (Like Dick Clark) dancing in Mason City and now our class reunions and always visits about the good old times at Surf . Our reunions always have the music of The Buddy Holly and all the other popular tunes of the 50’s
Mason City Graduate
Belle Plaine Resident
I graduated in 1958. The 50’s music was what we heard and what we danced to. Now 60 years later I still love rock and roll.
I lived at Clear Lake from the middle of May until the middle of September. My sister and I would ride back and forth during the school year, with my dad. He worked in Mason City.
The rest of the year I lived in Mason City. I graduated from Mason City High School in 1958. Rock and Roll was what we danced to. The Surf ballroom had teen night every Wednesday night and my friends and I rarely missed a teen dance. My best friend and I donned our, more than one crinolines, hoop skirts, and rode over to the Surf in our boyfriend’s Chris Craft speed boat. We would tie up at the City Dock and walk to the Surf to enjoy whatever band that was playing that night. Slow and smooth was Glen Miller and fast and furious was Buddy Holly. The Mason City Class of 58 has a reunion every month where they go out and eat always play 50’s music. I try to at least make this once a year. These old souls love reminiscing. Memories take me back to sock hops every Friday night at the WMCA, Wednesday’s teen night in the summers at the Surf Ballroom, KGLO TV (Like Dick Clark) dancing in Mason City and now our class reunions and always visits about the good old times at Surf . Our reunions always have the music of The Buddy Holly and all the other popular tunes of the 50’s
On our way to the Surf for teen night