Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/17/15
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty CONNER ('52), Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Wanda WITTEBORT ('53), Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Helen CROSS ('62)
Bill SCOTT ('64), Mike FRANCO ('70)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty ELY ('47)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Check MEYER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Teresa HOLMES ('93)
BOMBER LUNCH: Spokane, 11:30, Hillside Inn Restaurant
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Betty CONNER Sansom ('52)
Re: Safeway....
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/Safeway.html
Safeway was where the 'new' post office is now – on Cullum. The
grocery store that was where 3 Margaritas is now was, at one
time, owned by "Wild Bill" – There were some bad things that
happened (a broom sat by the cash register, and supposedly was
entered into the cash register as a sale, and several people
complained about it) – apparently that was done more than once.
I don't know who was there before that, but I know my husband,
Doug Sansom ('52-RIP), (as a kid) used to hook up a red wagon to
his bike, and he'd go down and buy soda pop in the bottles, and
meet the busses as they came in and sell the pop to them. As air
conditioning was not readily available in those days, a cold Coke
or Pepsi, or Dr. Pepper, were highly prized. The men would drink
the pop, and toss the empty bottles, and he'd pick them up, and
take them back to the store. There was a window on the North side
of the store that you could buy the pop from, and he wouldn't
have to leave the wagon and the bottles and the pop unattended.
At one time the store on the corner across from the Bon Marche'
was Payless Drug, and then a 'dime store'. Now there's a book
store, and sandwich shop, and some other things.
Anyone remember when the Frontier Days had 'guests' – Janice
Paige, Roddy McDowell, Kirk Douglas, as I remember, that came.
Someone who planned it didn't know those 'stars' expected to be
paid for their presence. I don't know how they handled that but
it was a Big Flap for a short time. The parade was Big – it
seemed that most people who had access to a horse were in the
parade. School bands, 4-H Club, lots of stuff. Then they had
the 'Pasco Water Follies,' and Kennewick had something going on.
After a short number of years of having all 3, they dropped the
Frontier Days.
How about the time the circus came to Kennewick Fair Grounds,
and they were really good times. However, one year an elephant
escaped, and came thru the back yard of the neighborhood where
my sister, LaRee CONNER Pratt ('50), lived. When it went by my
sister's place, all the neighborhood dogs made it clear they
didn't take to having the interloper. It made headlines, and a
man who was working on his car with his feet stuck out, had a
narrow escape when the elephant stepped between his extended
legs. The big pachyderm, then got to the canal, and there was a
pregnant cow there. The elephant threw it over the canal. Cow
was not harmed. Elephant ran amuck for a short time. Not often
that Kennewick made the national news, and we all had fun at
the time. (I believe the year for this was 1955.)
Just like sharing my memories. The Tri-Cities has evolved, in
some ways that isn't an improvement. I did hear they are going
to re-open the Uptown Theater as a theater for plays and
musicals. Anyone know the story? Lots of good times at the
Uptown.
-Betty CONNER Sansom ('52)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
To: Dwight CAREY ('68)
Re: Dorm Cafeteria
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/DormCafeteria.html
I sold the Spokesman Review newspaper in the cafeteria in late
1944 and early 1945 until I got a route. Busses would pick up
workers who worked in the areas. A few of the higher-paid workers
were driven to the areas in stretch vehicles made from 1942
Chevrolets. My Spokesman Review route encompassed the then south
end of Richland, from Lee to Abbot and GWWay to Duane.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Pasco
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>>From: Wanda WITTEBORT Shukay ('53)
Re: Ganzel's - Downtown Map - 1949
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/15/0116-Map1949-Dwntwn.jpg
Thanks Maren for putting up the downtown map. Ganzel's co-owners,
Dwight and Leo gave me my first job as cashier in 1951. I worked
for them after school and on Saturdays until I graduated high
school. They were wonderful for me. All the barbers there were
kind people and so was Otis there was a dress shop next to
Ganzel's that let me put clothing on layaway and on my 50 cents
an hour I didn't buy much. Then when I graduated Col Hi, I went
to work for G.E. at age 17. Life was good.
-Wanda WITTEBORT Shukay ('53)
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>>From: Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Re: Village Theater
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/VillageTheater.html
Observation: on Maren’s map, I see a theater just down the street
from the Desert Inn. As there were only two theaters in town,
that has to be the location of the old Village Theater. I have
always wondered just where it was and now I know... Right?
For what it's worth, I found this on the net, it's the only
picture I have of the Village theater, Any others out there?
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Hem/150117-VillageTheater.jpg
-Ken HEMINGER ('56)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Early Memories
Reading the last couple of 'Storms dredged up all kinds of
memories and the more I think about them the more memories come
back. Maren's early map was great!
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/15/0116-Map1949-Dwntwn.jpg
Re: First Ganzel's Barber shop.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/15/0117-Ganzels-00.htm
The earliest haircut I clearly remember was in spring of '46 at
the present location of the shop. The other half of that building
was a Beauty Salon for women. Except for one time, the barber who
cut my hair for years was in the 2nd or 3rd chair on the right
when I came in the door from the "Greenway" [I believe this is
now known as The Parkway. -Maren]. You took a number token and
handed it to the barber of your choice. He might have 2-3 ahead
of you. The barber's name was Hendrickson. He was there for many
years. He lived across the block from us in a "B" house on
Armistead with a daughter named Marylyn. The Murphy's (Patrick
('66-RIP)) lived next door in the other half. The other barber
who cut my hair once was Mr. Azure, Leo ?
I almost forgot about the shoe shine guy. I can still remember
him making that shine rag "pop".
Next I noted on the map, the "Nursery School" on Goethals across
from the Five and Dime store. I spent a few months at there
until one of my mother's sisters came from KY to take care of me.
Mother had TB and was in the TB Sanatorium in Walla Walla for
many years of my youth. The Nursery School was a combination of
an old tract house and a Quonset hut. I hated that school as one
of the women would slap you hard if you did not do what you were
told instantly. I was bullied along with several other boys, by a
boy a couple of years older. In frustration I grabbed him by his
tee shirt and ripped his shirt off and tore it up. I got kicked
out of Nursery School. Oh, the shame of it. I can still remember
my father's displeasure over that incident. Some women took care
of me for several weeks until my aunt arrived. I have only vague
memories of the "A" house she lived in. But I seem to remember it
was across the street from what became By's Burgers.
The cafeteria building was actually called the "MART".
[The Dorm Cafeteria later became The Mart. -Maren]
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/DormCafeteria.html
The Mart a café and store with a small stock of variety items
and a large magazine rack. The cafe was "cafeteria" style and
was a very busy eatery from early AM to late PM. I think it was
a friend named Vince FITZPATRICK ('57) who washed dishes there.
There were 2-3 other businesses there also, but my memory is blank
on that.
The Safeway store was one of several identical buildings housing
grocery stores: Goethals and Comstock, Thayer and Williams, and
there were more but memory can't recall them.
[http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/Comstock.html
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/Thayer.html
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/Wright.html
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/Symons.html]
But many of them had a drugstore next to them. The identical
building at Goethals and Williams was a Bakery run by the Garmo's
family from the Yakima area. There are still members of that
family in the Yakima area. I ran into one a few years back
working for a customer I had in the instrument business. The old
Safeway store became "Wild Bill's Market". I think he also had a
store in Kennewick.
Mickey Maguire and my father were close friends. He was a fine
cobbler. His shoe repairs held up well. I remember the foot x-ray
machine as being at the Shoe Dept. in CC Andersons. But maybe
Mickey had one also. As the level of understanding radiation came
about, those machines disappeared quickly. Remember here about
25-30 years ago some young boys found one in some brushy area
somewhere in the Midwest, and broke it open and got into the
yellow cake Uranium (or whatever the yellow powder was) and were
very ill from ingesting some of it. I don't recall the outcome of
that incident. (Other then the warnings that came out.) I also
remember a story that went around about some child having their
toes turn black from that machine. Never heard if it was true or
not.
Saturday matinees were a highlight of the week. I remember it
being 12 cents as I would go along the bypass hiway and pick up
4 pop bottles at 3 cents each for admission and 2 more for a
box of popcorn. I turned the bottles in at Campbell's market on
Comstock.
The Thrifty drug on Goethals had a pharmacy with Art the
Pharmacist being a family friend. About 30 years ago I went
into a Drug store in the University Dist. of Seattle and there
was Art at the pill window. He did remember me and we had lunch
together and spoke of "old" Richland.
How times and the Tri Cities have changed...
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: The foot X-ray
I must admit I don't remember in what shoe store it was, nor
the year, but I think it was before I went into jr. high at
Carmichael, so pre-1956 or '57, I definitely do remember seeing
the lemon green image of my feet inside a pair of shoes.
I also remember going to the Village Theater to see the Saturday
matinee line up of westerns like The Lone Ranger and Tonto, or
Roy Rodgers, plus as you say, Pete BEAULIEU ('62), the cartoons!!
and we were dropped off and picked up by my dad, as my mom didn't
drive, and we were left alone in the theater for hours, and it
was fun, and no one trashed the place, or spoke over the loud
(as I remember) voices on the screen!!
Well, the sun is shining and it's a balmy 40° around here,
(suppose to get up to an unbelievable 50° tomorrow, so I want to
get outside a little and enjoy it!!
it's hard to realize just a week ago we were in sub-zero
temperatures when we braved our way to see Carol RICE Forister
(also the class of '62) in Kansas City, where my phone says they
are having even warmer weather than we are! (Another mystic fact
go life in the Midwest!!
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Ganzel's
Ganzel's has always been where it is now. I got my first haircut
there in 1946 or '47. Three generations of the Scott family have
had haircuts there—my dad, me, and my sons.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
Re: Barber Shops
Any of you ever frequent Hanson's Barber Shop in Uptown? I think
it was just a door or two from the Spudnut Shop. My Dad always
took me there... I never could figure out if my dad had to pay
full price even though he was completely bald.
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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