Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/19/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9 Bombers sent stuff: Pat UPSON ('49), Mike CLOWES ('54) Karen COLE ('55), Helen CROSS ('62) Peg SHEERAN ('63), Dennis HAMMER ('64) Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65) Mike FRANCO ('70) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom TRACY ('55) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon BROOKS ('62) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna BOWERS ('63) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan LAWSON ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean ARMSTRONG ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwayne WILSON ('81) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49) Re: Genealogy and Richland memories So much fun reading the genealogy and memories of Richland past! Great maps, Maren. Our histories, past, can bring to us both delight, surprise and embarrassment! Fortunately, for me, my relatives from my past spent many years putting together a fabulous two inch book "The Upson Family in America" so I could just enjoy their endeavors without doing any of the pain of putting it all together. When I received the book, I could hardly wait to open the first page!! I found, to my delight, that Thomas Upson arrived in Hartford, CT in 1638. Thomas did acquire some parcels of land, etc. in Hartford~~but Thomas also found the first pub and was fined 20 schillings for unseasonable and immoderate drinking!! His eldest son, Thomas, evidently found the pub too as it is mentioned he was run over ~~ on his head ~~ by an oxen cart! To give credit to the thousands of Upsons, some quite famous, in all of the wars but doing great things all over America, I will say the book has given our family many ohhs and ahhs and surprises and great pride. So do dig up your past it brings great joy. On to the Village Theatre [on GWWay]. I was a junior in 1948 and went to work, as an usher after school, in starving mode, until the later shift. I remember that I led some of you down the aisle ~~ to your seats ~~ by my trusty flashlight. Yes, there were westerns at the matinees ~~ but also the usual Hollywood movies. They would be on for weeks! As you needed me to lead you down, in the dark, to your seat you couldn't go down if it was near the end of the movie. Some of you were not too happy standing for 30 minutes until all the seated patrons came out through the curtained doors. I found by memorizing the lines of the female actresses (which I heard over and over and over) I could go on for 30 minutes, in mute, entertaining you and keeping you happy. Fun memories! Also, SOME of you were the matinee kids -- grade school age and many probably writing, now, into the Sandstorm -- your Moms gave you candy money and when you ate WAY too much -- yeah I GOT TO CLEAN UP AND SANITIZE the seats and floor!! Well, you are forgiven and look at all the memories I tucked away! You were ALL perfect little angels. As was written previously in the Sandstorm, I can't remember during those two years of work ever seeing any damage or anyone cutting the seat fabric, etc. Also, it was perfectly safe to leave your kids all afternoon to see The Lone Ranger and not have to worry about them. Hey, your trusty usherette was there to keep any creeps away!! And I KNEW how to use that flashlight! My Mom worked for a while at the Thriftway Drug and at one of the Drug stores, one of you mentioned there was a pharmacist called Art (I can't remember his last name) who became a friend of our family and I believe he came to my wedding ~~ in 1952 ~~ in Dayton, WA. Thanks so much for the memories ~~ I had forgotten many of them. HOORAY for the Seahawks! Bomber Cheers, -Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) Re: Beautiful Downtown Richland http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/15/0116-Map1949-Dwntwn.jpg Rumor had it that what I knew as Ernie's was the original Richland City Hall with the jail in the basement. I could be wrong about this, and I'm sure to be corrected. Not too sure when the Village Theater [on GWWay] became in the late '50s the Village Theatre home to the Richland Players. I do recall participating in their production of "Joan of Lorraine" in 1958. In its day, the Village was home to "B" movies, low budget westerns, and Saturday matinees. The Richland theater [on Biddle] was given to showing first run "A" movies, and became sort of an "art" house after the Uptown went widescreen. You could also see 3-D movies at the Richland. There were two (count 'em, 2) Thrifty Drug Stores. The first was in downtown [on Biddle] next to the Richland Theater; the second was in Uptown next to the theater on the Jadwin side. The bank in downtown was known as the First National Bank. Seafirst didn't come into being until sometime later. There was also a National Bank of Commerce somewhere, but not to sure of its location. [See SeaFirst National Bank "history". -Maren] http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/SeaFirst.html The Cafeteria was known (in my day) as the Merchandise Mart more commonly known as The Mart (alleged home of French fries and gravy). [FIRST it was the cafeteria for the dorms... apparently not for very long... then it became The Mart. -Maren] And wasn't the Frontier Tavern slightly larger than shown in the map? -Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR mourning the loss of a beautiful Bomber Babe **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55) In 1948 when Janice Paige and Roddy McDowell came to Frontier Days, a cute baby contest was held. This was in the Richland theater [on Biddle], and the judge was Roddy McDowell. The twins, Jackie and Judie ('63) were three, adorable, and looked exactly alike. I believe they won either second or third place. I can't remember if it was Frontier days of 1948 or 1949, I was in a square dance group that was part of the scheduled entertainment that took place in the park. I remember they gave us each a box of candy. I remained part of this group until we moved from the precut on old Goethals to the mansion on Cottonwood. The precut had three bedrooms and housed all eight of us. The ranch house had four bedrooms but still one bathroom, (Much to the dismay of the two males, with six women in the house.) My sister Patti ('52) and husband Don live in the house now, but it has two bathrooms. When I was in high school, I worked at the cleaning plant across from C.C. Anderson's. I had to join the union for $25. I was making $19 a week. The plant was there only a short while. After high school I worked for five years at the big pool with Rish. A totally fun experience -Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Nine Mile Falls, WA Go Hawks! **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) Thanks again to Pete BEAULIEU (also from the great class of '62). I thought I remembered another theater in downtown Richland where my brother, Roy CROSS ('65), and I used to frequent the Saturday afternoon matinees. Thanks for confirming that memory. As I read your entry, Pete (and many others) it becomes very clear that our young lives were limited by our parents' interests, as I never heard of or saw the roaring bonfire of Christmas trees before reading of it in your interesting entry! Thanks for the enlightenment, Pete. -Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63) To: Earl BENNETT ('63) Re: Richland ? Village Theatre It was fun reading your entry today, and it brought to mind my mom, Helen Sheeran (RIP), sewing costumes at the theatre, (and she probably had to bring brother, Mike ('66), and myself along at times). Seems she and Mrs. Di Van Wyck worked on things together. Having been in many musical productions in our small town (Omak) through the years, I have seen (and helped a bit at times) the sewing involved in the making of costumes for up to 50 "actors". How the heck did she have time for that, I now wonder? OUR costumer spends many hundreds of hours getting costumes ready for each show, and I never even thought about what those hours would have been like for Mom, with a large family at home, and all that she did for us there. I know she just helped, but it's still a big time commitment. Guess you don't do that kind of thing unless you love it. (By the way, I was in the barbershop quartet in our Music Man production, and we've just started working on our next musical, "Into the Woods", and I get to play Milky White, the cow - no words / no singing? no comment, except it's a true sign of aging...) -Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64) To: Jim ARMSTRONG ('63) Re: Robley Johnson's photography Re: The 1949 Map [with typos fixed] I do believe you are right about the location of Robley Johnson's Photography. I had my Jr. picture taken there and my Sr. picture taken by Jack Zinn. Was there also a barber shop in the A. B. Murray Building? It seems that I had a haircut there, then walked across the street which wasn't there when this map was made, to have my picture taken. I remember telling them at the barber shop not to cut it too close because I was having my picture taken and did not want it to look like I had just gotten a haircut. He took a longer time than usual and was a very good haircut. I am sure it was not at Ganzel's but may have been at still another location. I used to go to Ganzel's but by then had switched to a small barbershop with entrance in the back of a store on Wright which was still there a year or so ago. OK--finally getting a round tuit to reply to other posts To: Dwight CAREY ('68) Re: Johnny Horton "Battle of New Orleans" I did some research on the history of the song and found not much than I already knew. It was written by Jimmy Driftwood, a.k.a James Corbitt Morris, who before his career in folk music was a teacher and would to write songs about history to spur student interest. Re: Math I want to know why for years I worked at Hanford as a mechanical and piping designer. I could use trigonometry to calculate things like if an underground pipe starts at certain coordinate and runs off at an angle to another coordinate and sloping down, how long is it? I always got the right answer. So why can't I get my bank book to balance? It is just addition and subtraction! I have one on those things we didn't have in High School called a calculator. I double check my numbers to make sure I am punching the right keys, and then I check them by adding if it is a withdrawal and subtracting if it is a deposit. Recently I had too much money between two checks and went to the bank to see why. She found a check for $24 cleared between those two checks, and I realized that was to Maren for the Sandstorm, and thought I must have forgot to subtract that. Still was not the amount I had as over, and I did find I had subtracted it. I go back through it, check and check, sometimes I find it and sometimes I don't. More and more when there is nothing outstanding and I agree with the bank I draw a line and write "agree with bank" and if I don't a make a new line and write, "change to what bank says." Re: genealogy I always want to verify what I find on public family trees at ancestry.com. I find a lot of mistakes. An example is that there are seven that include my paternal grandfather (probably none are done by descendants of his). One does not give a death date and the other six have it as 1936. Is was 1941, at least that is the date I got from family (his children), it is the date on his death certificate readily available for free at the Missouri State Digital Archives, It is the date shown at the free Find-a-Grave website, and it is the date in his obituary available for free in the newspaper an Google books. Re: Checks from parents' financial records. My dad kept records long past when he needed to and after he was gone my mother would destroy records she needed to keep. I think the filing system used was semi-organized chaos. I have boxes of their records I need to run through the shredder, and work on it from time to time. I started to go through a file box with canceled checks and bank statements. He would tape the canceled checks to the statement and when he had a pile of them put them in a big brown envelope and file it. I found two checks, and only two checks, for after I was born. There is one to the Hospital 10 days after I was born for $57.75, and another to the doctor 23 days after I was born for $60.00. Is this all it cost to bring a child into the world in those days? I would think that even counting inflation that would be cheap by today's standards. I also have a file box that looks like a book you put on the shelf. It is full of receipts for running the farm from 1935 to 1945. I doubt a historical society or something would even be interested in anything like this, but since they have been saved so long it seems a shame to destroy them now. -Dennis HAMMER ('64) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Linda REINING ('64) Re: Memories I remember going to the Uptown Theater on Saturday mornings... we could get in for the price of a current receipt, so we'd go next door to Thrifty's and buy a penny candy, then go to the movies from 9am to noon... we watched westerns, cartoons, news reels, comedies... we even took our own popcorn in paper bags... we'd just have enough money to buy a soda from the concession stand. then, at noon, they made us leave, cause they needed to clean the theater and get ready for "paying customers" at the 1pm showing. IF memory serves, we paid 35 cents to get into the movies till we were 13, then it "jumped" to 65 cents till we were 18, after that it was 95 cents for everyone else. I also remember going to the Richland theater [on Biddle] and watching, "South Pacific", but I always thought the Uptown was a much nicer theater. -Linda REINING ('64) ~ wet and cold in Kuna, ID I am hoping we get more snow, before Winter ends. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: It's here it's here Finally... I dunno why I thought her anniversary was her birthday but this Bomb-babe is finally having her 2015 birthday and alla stuff I said about her on the wrong day still goes... she lets me sit at the Big kids' table even tho I grageated with her little bro... now how 'bout that... but she's also a very cool "big sis" to a kid that has no sisters... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Donna BOWERS ('63) on your special day, January 19, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Mike FRANCO ('70 - class year... not age!!) Cheap movies? Seems to me we had FREE movies at The Uptown Theatre Saturday mornings. Anyone remember those? Very early '60s. -Mike FRANCO ('70) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************