John Oates, half of legendary dup Hall & Oates and North Wales native, reflects on his Pennsylvania roots with Chris Epting of Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine.
Oates reflects fondly on his childhood in the Philadelphia suburbs.
“I started out going to North Wales Elementary … I could walk to school, which I really enjoyed,” he said. “Then I started at Pennbrook Junior High School and eventually North Penn High School, where I played football and was cocaptain on the wrestling team. Going to high school at that time in the mid-1960s was really nice. It was like the last age of innocence before things started to turn with Vietnam and all the other tensions of the ’60s.”…