Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/01/16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8 Bombers sent stuff and memorial INFO for 2 Bombers today: Curt DONAHUE ('53), Rex HUNT ('53) Marilynn WORKING ('54), Dan HAGGARD ('57) Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64) Dwight CAREY ('68), Brad WEAR ('71) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann BISHOP ('56) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Duane LEE ('63) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kevin KELLEY ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Phyllis MAFFEI ('69) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra ELLIOTT ('71) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John MOSLEY ('71) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen FULCHER ('79) BOMBER LUNCH: Class of '60, 11:30, 3 Margaritas (1st Sat) COLLEGE FOOTBALL YESTERDAY: UW#10, 44 vs. Stanford #7, 8 COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY: 11:00 (CT) ~ ND @ Syracuse Orange ~ ESPN 6:30 (CT) ~ LSU - Missouri Tigers (HC) ~ SECN 8:30 (CT) ~ WSU - Oregon Ducks ~ PACN BOMBER CALENDAR: http://BrownBearsw.com/cal/All_Bombers Click the event you want to know more about. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53) Re: Moving back home I have been back in the Tri Cities for a little over 5 years now and, yes, it is much different than when I grew up in the '40s and '50s, but it is still "home." I marvel at what has been built where I used to hunt jack rabbits; where I used to explore old buildings; where I used to skinny-dip; where I did a lot of things that young boys find themselves involved with. I remember when Truman Fergin, the son of the school superintendent, and I found a dead muskrat and Truman picked it up and the next day was pushing a cart around to all the classrooms at Lewis and Clark with the muskrat on it and he explained all the details about a muskrat and its habits. I didn't know he knew anything about them. I just thought he would be in big trouble for picking up that dead thing. And I have driven by the very spot from where he picked it up many times over these last 5 years. If people want to know what it was like growing up in Richland back in those days; Jim WATTS; ('54) book, "The Animal" depicts a lot of vignettes that I'm sure many people of that age can remember. It is certainly a window into our world of that time. It is very useful to enlighten younger generations. I loaned my copy to someone and I don't remember who. If you have it, please bring it back to me. -Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Pasco ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Rex HUNT ('53) Re: Nostalgia Looking back? Look not backward in anger, Nor forward in Fear, But around in awareness! -Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from lovely downtown Hanford, CA where the temps are down to 96 today! Not ready for the chill factor. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) Re: Gloria ADAMS Fulcher ('54) She doesn't want a lot of attention brought to her, but Gloria has given me permission to let all her classmates know of her accident!! Gloria fell down some stairs at her home on September 10th and shattered her right arm between the elbow and shoulder. She had surgery at Yakima Medical Center on Tuesday, September 13th. (this is why we missed her at our 80th birthday party!!) This week, on September 28th, she was moved to the Richland Rehab Center at 1745 Pike Avenue, Richland, WA 99354. She is doing well and will be there for a while to recuperate and heal. Her 2 daughters live in the Tri-Cities, so it is convenient for them to keep an eye on her, too. I visited Gloria today (Friday) and she is still in a lot of pain but alert and cheery. I didn't stay long as not to tire her out more, but I did ask her if it was okay if I notified our classmates and friends of her condition and what happened to her. I also spoke with her daughter and met her granddaughter and great grandson who were visiting. Please send Gloria a card and wish her well. Her husband, Clarence FULCHER ('51), is being taken care of by her son and seems to be doing okay. He is not aware of what happened. -Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco In a cooling down Tri-Cities. Not looking forward to the cold weather!! Rain will be welcomed, tho!! ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Dan HAGGARD ('57) WHAT: Class of 1957 ~ 60 Year Reunion WHEN: September 8, 9, and 10, 2017 (yes, NEXT year) WHERE: Red Lion (Hanford House) Richland with Club 40 on Friday and Saturday Evenings Saturday from Noon to 3pm at the Community Center Riverview Room, Howard Amon Park, for a get together with light snacks and group picture at 2pm. Sunday no host Picnic/Social from 11am until 3pm More information to follow. -Dan HAGGARD ('57) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64) Re: Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be! or, You can't go back. The whole Tri-Cities has changed dramatically since I moved to Richland in 1961. At that time it had not been that long since the government had sold the town. It seemed that everyone who had recently bought a house was remodeling them-- trying to make them look different than the rest of them. There were three areas on new housing being built. One just after you pulled off the bypass and on to Thayer, one on the North side of Van Giesen near the bypass, and then the "Doctor's houses" on the North side along the river. Got out of the Navy in 1972 and there was a big push building reactors and other projects. New houses being built all over the Tri- Cities. Then in late '70s we decided we did not like nuclear and threw away all that money and effort. I went from being a mechanical designer to a pizza driver. I drove all over Richland delivering pizzas and it seemed that every block had at least two houses with a "for sale" sign in the weed patch that used to be a yard and the areas of alphabet houses started to look like a slum. About 1990 they started big push for nuclear clean-up and there was a housing boom again. People moved into the original part of town and fixed up the houses, but over time I guess those people moved out to newer houses being built and the old part of town is looking a bit run down again. In 1973 or '74 a very young couple bought an "F" house just around the corner from us and in a few years he somehow had a feeling it was time to sell; which he did and went back to renting just before the housing crash. Then a few years later when the prices were low bought a really nice house near Jason Lee. I did know just at the beginning of the housing boom comeback it was time to buy, but by that time had spent what I had saved up for buying a house. Two or three months ago I watched "The Next Voice You Hear" with James Whitmore and Nancy Davis Reagan and thought the filming of the houses looked just like the neighborhood of an Aunt and Uncle of mine who lived in Fullerton, CA. I thought that would make sense to pick a neighborhood in the burbs near Hollywood for outside shots would save a lot of money. Just to satisfy my curiosity I checked the Internet Movie Database thinking I would just find a town, but they gave a street address "4233 Le Bourget Avenue, Culver City, California, USA." This really peaked my curiosity and I wondered how much it had changed so I looked up Google maps street view. The movie had been released in 1950 and the shot at Google street view in 2016 so that is 66 years and I was totally blown away! In all those years hardly anything had changed! The house where the family lived has shutters on both front windows instead of one. Shrubs seem the same only taller on one side. They are different on the other side and what I think must be a mailbox is standing next to the steps. A couple fixtures on the door are different and the house number looks different. Even the driveway where James Whitmore keeps backing out at a high rate of speed almost hitting guys in cars and cops on motorcycles is the same. It has two strips on concrete, one for wheels on each side. I bet there is not one in a thousand like it, but at the sidewalk they come together like little triangles, then on the other side of sidewalk is grass, there concrete fans out to the street. I have never seen that before and they didn't even widen the street in 66 years. One thing I don't understand is there are four front steps, the second and third are not as wide as the others leaving a gap on each side. Was this done for shrubs? I think it would be a safety hazard, someone might make one step on the side, then another and there is no step there. That is something I would have changed a long time ago. I am including a link to the Google street view photo so you can look at and understand what I am saying--'cause I am not sure I would. Movie shooting location. Not only was the house where they ware supposedly living not changed much, but I spent a lot of time moving the Google maps photo around and playing the movie back and forth and studied the two houses on the left and the two on the right and they were also very little changed, maybe a bay window here and some different shrubbery, just little things. Re: Alley Oop, the time traveling caveman I was surprised to learn that Alley Oop was unknown in the Tri-Cities when the song came out. I lived in Milton-Freewater when the song came out where people read the Walla Walla Union Bulletin and it carried the comic strip so I was aware of Alley Oop and remember seeing him both riding dinosaurs and wearing a business suit although it was not a comic strip I read. I did see a video clip of a scientist inventing a time machine and transported a very surprised Alley and his girlfriend to modern times. Dick Clark used to have a radio show on Saturdays called, I think, "Rock, Roll & Remember." If I couldn't listen I would tape it on a reel-to-reel tape deck. He had one he called "The Shooting Stars," today they are usually referred to as "One Hit Wonders." I liked that one so well I saved the tape and later transferred it to a cassette. Have not seen that tape in years but am sure I still have it. Anyway, I think that was where he said he had the Hollywood Argyles on Bandstand and it was really hated; nobody liked that song, then it went on to become a number one hit. Dan HOOPER ('64-RIP) told me when the song was popular he was called "Danny Hoop," and/or was it "Danny Hoop-Hoop... Hoop... Hoop-Hoop." -Dennis HAMMER ('64) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Linda REINING ('64) Re: Richland Memories I miss the "old Richland" that I grew up with, in the '50s and '60s. It isn't the same town anymore. Last time I was there I drove around to the houses that I lived in (the 3-bedroom prefab on Rossell... that entire area is so run down; the 3-bedroom Ranch on Elm... that area is still pretty good; was really sad to drive by what was my grandmother's 2-bedroom prefab on Winslow and see how badly that area has "gone down the tubes"... what was her house is in need of repairs and the front yard was full of cars... have great memories of happy times at her house and was sad to see it so run down). I know we can't stop progress, but it just seems so sad to see the changes. I left Richland in '66... once you move away, I don't think you can ever really go back. I still have family in the Tri-Cities, so I will always visit, but it isn't "home" anymore and that makes me wish for "the old days". -Linda REINING ('64) ~ loving life in Kuna, ID ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Dwight CAREY ('68) Re: Richland now vs "back in the day" David RIVERS ('65), Love Your Memories... If we didn't have memories... we'd lose so much. I agree with the responses, as well... So, I went driving by our old home... The one we grew up in and learned how to "Properly" ride behind the mosquito sprayer... . So deep in the fog your parents couldn't see who it was (well, hardly)... The neighborhoods are different now, for sure... . But far from in any dire straits... . 2-bedroom prefabs... the 1943 "temporary" housing... are going for over $120K on the market for less than 5 days. SO... the pride of ownership is poking its head back out, and every neighborhood is rebounding. Our memories are from a town with all new houses, hellacious wind storms, new trees, and a "Provider" that would bring furniture around to us on the back of trucks... Everyone got 1 of this, 2 of this... I remember digging holes for two Sycamore Trees, and planting them a couple days later when they were delivered... some of those trees are now 100' tall. Those were the days of party-line telephones, no computers, no cell phones... just the street lights to guide you... really... We loved it, and the tales of growing up there will fill several books. I'm sure you've started yours by copying all your old Sandstorm entries. And yes, there are new memories being made as we speak... . Somewhat different than ours, but related to growing up in Richland, just the same!! Those original Richland kids are now parents and grandparents, and are influential in much the same way our parents were with us. Very unique, and very different from every other place in this great country!! -Dwight CAREY ('68) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Brad WEAR ('71) Re: Birthday Boy Happy Birthday to one of my long time buds on his special day. A Chief Jo, (9th grade only) Col-Hi alum, an Army vet, a Coast Guard vet, a hunting and fishing buddy, a big Happy Birthday to John MOSLEY ('71) on October 1st. Hope it's a good one!!!!!!! -Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in unseasonably cool Plano, TX where, yes, the dove hunting is still great! ************************************************************* ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>not a memorial - only INFO today >>Rich BOWEN ('65-RIP) Celebration of Life; TODAY, Saturday, October 1, 2016, 2pm Riverview Baptist Church 4921 W. Wernett, Pasco ************************************************************* ************************************************************* ************************************************************* not a memorial - only INFO today >>Jerry IRWIN ('58-RIP) MEMORIAL SERVICE: TOMORROW, Sunday, October 2nd, 2016, 1:30pm Bethel Church on Keene Rd in Richland. Reception to follow. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* That's it for today. 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