Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/23/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** 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. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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 **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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 **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>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) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************