A young boys Memories of Jayne Mansfield on her way to Niagara Falls

Tom Coombs, class of ’69

“I remember when Jayne Mansfield was going to Niagara Falls for a photo op and she came in a motorcade down Main Street, past Cathedral high school. Now, you have to understand, there were 800 boys, and the principal of the school made an announcement in the morning that any students who have classes on the Main Street side of the building were not to look outside at 11 a.m.

So now we know the exact minute when she’s going to come down. And some of the priests — because all of us were taught by priests — were very cool about it and they didn’t want to get into any trouble, so they left the classroom for a few minutes. As you can imagine, the entire school was all over this motorcade and just going bananas.

When she got to Niagara Falls, they interviewed her and they asked her about her motorcade trip. She said, ‘Well, it was pretty nice, but it got a little crazy when I went by this particular high school. There seemed to be a thousand teenaged boys yelling and screaming and calling my name and trying to get on the motorcade!’ It was quite a memorable moment.”

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