Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/23/15
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13 Bombers sent stuff: 
Shannon CRAIG ('50), Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Lyndy WHEELER ('62)
Duane LEE ('63), Earl BENNETT ('63)
Bill SCOTT ('64), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Karla SNYDER ('69), Lori SIMPSON ('70)
Brad UPTON ('74)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Billie LAWELL ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann McCUE ('63) '45
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cherrie TEMPERO ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank STRATTON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra HARDING ('77wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Matt HASKINS ('81)

BOMBER LUNCH: Mostly '52ers, Noon, Sterling's GWWay (Fridays) 

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Shannon CRAIG (Watkins-Gross) Hightower ('50) 

Oh Yeah, the record part of the Richland Bell Furniture store was
the upstairs floor. One small area of one end was the accounting.
They sold baby furniture, records and 45 record players. I
learned to be a pretty good "45 player mechanic". Those little
things were always going haywire. I bought several kid things for
my baby sister with my employee discount. I worked there from
graduation in June '50 till starting at G.E. on August 7, '51.
There were several booths where you could play the record before
buying. 

I had to walk thru The Parkway to the corner of Goethals and Lee,
the drugstore and CC Anderson's, to catch the free city bus. Spent
a lot of time on that bus with my baby sis teaching her what the
signal lights meant. When she wasn't on my lap on the bus she was
on our mother's lap in the car. From our mother's driving she
learned that the yellow light meant "hurry up and see if you can
make it". I could never get that changed.

-Shannon CRAIG (Watkins-Gross) Hightower ('50) 
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)

Re: Memories

To: All who have shared memories of early Richland:

I'll add some of my own while I have a few of my faculties about
me. When my family moved into Richland in August of 1944, there
were no new homes available for us so we lived in one of the
original houses on Cullum between Harding and Lee Blvd. The house
was on the corner of Harding and Cullum. I have no recollection of
what happened to it after we left it for our end of a new "B"
house on the corner of Fitch and Douglass sometime in late 1945.
Fergins (Superintendent of Schools) lived on Cullum between
Harding and Gillespie and their youngest son, Truman, became a
close friend. In those early years before we got into the later
grades of elementary school, we explored nearly every inch of real
estate, streams, abandoned buildings and some not so abandoned.
One day we found a dead muskrat in one of the drying-up streams
and Truman took it home. I was sure he would be in trouble, but
the next day at school he, along with principal Lee Clarkson was
taking around to all the classes where he would tell all about the
muskrat and its habits. Richland was indeed a great place for a
kid to grow up in those days.

Re: Newspapers

As far as what newspapers were in Richland, Bob Carlson, aka Mike
CLOWES ('54) was correct in his post on the 22nd. I, too, believe
that The Oregonian may have been available as well. I sold the
Spokesman Review in the Cafeteria until I got a route in late 1945
and then delivered it to the then south end.

The other places I worked until I was out of school were
Campbell's Grocery on Comstock, the grocery store at the "Y", a
hobby store in the upstairs portion of the building housing
Ernie's Typewriters, a shoe store on GWWay across from C.C.
Anderson's, The Bootery in the Uptown Shopping Center (where I
worked for several years with Art Dawald's wife), and the Richland
School District for one summer where I was responsible for moving
the sprinklers on all school property. The dress-code for that job
was a pair of swimming trunks. I had a great tan by the end of
summer. There was a break partway through the summer when I helped
unload and set-up the furniture for Chief Jo when it was
completed.

The Downtown Thrifty Drug store was a favorite place to go. I
spent a lot of time around the soda fountain. It was a great place
for a shy kid to see lots of girls. They had a nice fine jewelry
section from which I bought an engagement ring for my girl.
Several months later, she gave it back to me and later when I was
engaged again, I traded it in for a ring set there also. They gave
me full trade-in value, which was nice.

I don't want this to get too long so more tomorrow.

-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Pasco   
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)

Re: Memories

OK, I have to get in on the Richland memory gig. There has been
little said about the drive-in theaters; Pasco was the River View
I think, Kennewick had the Highland Drive In, the Y had the Y
Drive In, West Richland had you guessed it and then there was 
the one that came later on the north end of Richland on GWWay. 
Most of you are too young to remember but the big thing in my time
was to see how many could get in a car trunk, under blankets or
sneak through the fence without getting caught. Someone probably
has some sort of record as to how many they got in at one time. It
was the place to take your date and not watch the movie if you get
my drift.

Now for the parkway in down town Richland; next to Ganzel's 
barbershop was the Style Center a woman's up scale clothing store
where my mom worked until the place burned almost to the ground
and it closed. She then went to work at the department store on
the corner of Lee and ? which became the Bon Marche (sp). 

Re: Now for David RIVERS ('65)

I can't believe he was such a rowdy slacker that he says he was
and yet be as successful as he became. 


Re: Muscles

Sonny was fun back in those days and could get away with almost
anything. I do recall him getting hit by a car in CA but I do not
remember the year or any details.

Re: Uptown

The Uptown district was always interesting to me; we lived at 1314
Hunt while Uptown was being built and I would spend much time
watching the construction and sneaking over and playing in the
large drainage pipe that runs under the district. When the Uptown
tavern was built I would lay in my bed at night and watch the
drunks come out and sometimes get into fights, better than the
movies. 

Speaking of movies I do not remember going to the Richland
Theater [on Biddle] often but spent a lot of time at the Village
Theater [on GWWay]. At night walking home (there was not much
between the Desert Inn and the uptown district, it was dark and
scary for an 8-10 year old and we would try to walk and not run
but that did not happen very often we usually got scared and ran
the whole way. But the good thing was that we could be out there
and no one would bother us it was just a great place for one to
grow up.

We moved to 517 Douglass when I was going into the 6th grade and
there was By's Burgers on the corner where I spent many a night
while in High School hanging out with friends. Course we would
head to the Stop and Go in Kennewick and try and pick up girls.
Most hated Richland boys and we would end up in fights with the
boys, crazy. Well I will close with that as I could go on even
longer than David.

-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Lyndy WHEELER Myers ('62)

Re: Richland

Charlie WARFORD ('61) and Dana MOSLEY ('62) are still married.

Wayne and I were in South Africa two years ago and on an elephant
ride. One thing always leads to another and we were talking with
our other participants when somehow the Bomber name was dropped, 
a woman from the Seattle area said that she worked with a Bomber,
Dana Warford and did we know her. Boy, the world is sure small. 

I am really enjoying this digging into the past. 

-Lyndy WHEELER Myers ('62) ~ St Augustine, FL
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)

We used to buy popcorn or Spanish peanuts at Newberry's then line
up for the matinees at the Uptown Theater. The line would go down
the block and when we passed the NBC bank, you could climb up the
bricks on the front of the building to avoid boredom. The front of
the bank is a restaurant (that keeps changing names) and the back
part is a coin shop. I recently traded in some old Confederate
money that I had there. They are so happy to have the original
vault from the bank to store their merchandise in every night. How
secure can you get? It's called Tri-City Vault and it is a pawn
and coin shop.

-Duane LEE ('63)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)

Re: Newspapers

To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Besides the Spokesman Review and Oregonian, there was also the
Oregon Journal. I had about 22-30 customers scattered across the
western side of town. Sold enough new subscriptions one year,
maybe eighth grade ('58-'59) to earn a trip to the Pendleton
Roundup. It was cold and rainy and the refreshment stand ran out
of hot chocolate, so I had my first ever cup of coffee, loaded
with cream and sugar. Eventually I shifted to black coffee, but
have gone back to cream and sugar now, can't handle more than two
cups a day (normally one or none) and stay away from stronger
blends because of gastro-intestinal reactions. Same with all
caffeinated beverages.

Re: Leland Bond-UPSON ('63)

Yes, it was Korten's, picked up a lot of 45s there and took piano
lessons from Fred Grazzini at home during Chief Jo days, then
guitar lessons from him at Korten's during high school. Wish I had
kept up both. Also saw a demonstration of the latest Gretsch
electric guitar by the company salesman in the upstairs area - he
was good!

      Regards, ecb3 - from a nice day in central Virginia,
      where a lumber buyer is taking down some trees and
      giving me 30% of what he gets from the mill. The
      leftover stuff will become firewood for our church's
      Operation Stay Warm ministry, for those who can't
      afford fuel. Already got 5 cords from our place that
      was already dead, these will have to age a bit and
      might total twice that amount.

-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)

Re: TCH

The correct location for the Tri-City Herald office was indeed on
the Parkway, across from C.C. Anderson's. The union picket was 
a permanent fixture outside the office for many years. I was a
Columbia Basin Newsboy for about two years (horrible paper), and 
I do not recall a CBN office anywhere in Richland, but it sounds
like there was. Also available in the Tri-Cities was the Seattle
P.I., which my dad subscribed to all the time I was growing up.

-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

Re Oops, I made a Boo Boo!

In my Sandstorm entry for 1/21/2015 I gave the address for Roy
Davis Furniture as 719 The Parkway. It was 719 Jadwin, as pointed
out to me by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66). I guess I just got
used to writing "The Parkway" so many times I got carried away. My
Bad! 

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Karla SNYDER ('69)

Re: Korton's

Yes, I remember Korton's. Think it was on the GWWay side in the
Uptown. I took piano lessons there upstairs. Also, upstairs, first
room on the left, I think, was a place you could go and listen to
a record before you bought it. Did that a lot.

Thrifty Drug had a small restaurant in the back. Our family would
go there for dinner sometimes. One of the waitresses loved my
dad's pipe tobacco, and would always say how nice it smelled.

-Karla SNYDER ('69)
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>>From:  Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)

Re: 1/22 Sandstorm

To: Pam EHINGER Edinger ('67)

Wow! I didn't know there were 2 Mike HOGANs... "mine" grew up at 
1208 Thayer, but he is from the class of '70.

-Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
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>>From: Brad UPTON ('74)

Re: RHS Fund raiser

Hey Bombers,

I'll stick my nose back here for the day. I am doing a fund raiser
for the RHS Class of '15, senior graduation party. It will be held
on Saturday, March 7th at the Shilo Inn Ballroom. Cash bar and
appetizers available, silent auction and dessert dash (and then
me). Tickets are $30 and available at the Shilo Inn, or email
rhs2015grad@gmail.com I'd also like to plug another date: I'll be
with the legendary Johnny Mathis at the Pantages Theater in Tacoma
on Oct. 8th. This'll be a week after his 80th birthday. The man
can still sing. Go see him. Tickets are already selling quickly!
 
Click to get tickets.

-Brad UPTON ('74)
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