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02/09/14 03:51 PM #972    

Tim Tucker (1965)

Dan, a single spinster could also mean no more than one spinster or less than two or more spinsters. So technically you're correct.............I've got your back. :o)


02/09/14 09:49 PM #973    

 

Vern Larson (1960)

I have enjoyed reading the recent activity on this message forum. On Robert Cowing's post #1142, was a photo of the 3rd or 4th grade students at Dingle. One of the students was Pam Bentz. Does anybody know whatever became of Pam? I was taking piano lessons from her grandmother, Mrs Bentz, from about 1950 to 1954. Pam lived with her grandparents during that time.

Vern Larson, Class of 1960. 


02/10/14 07:29 AM #974    

Janice Bell (Killian) (1966)

Does anyone remember Montgomery Ward?  I think it was on the south side of Main Street, somewhere west of the theater.


02/10/14 08:25 AM #975    

JoAnn Kergel (Wirth) (1965)

Janice, I remember Wards being right near the State to the east.  My dad bought work clothes there from time to time.  There was a open "second story" mezzanine where they sold womens clothing.  I remember thinking that they were very old fashion.


02/10/14 09:38 AM #976    

Walter J. "Wally" Summ (1967)

JoAnn,

Didn't Montgomery Ward have a vacuum tube system where they would send messages (maybe orders) upstairs?  The Bank of the West drive up window has a similar system today for deposits.
 


02/10/14 10:08 AM #977    

 

Theresa Eve (1964)

I remember Montgomery Wards, and those vacuum tubes for payments and bills,  and the upstairs.  Was JC Penney's also near Wards for awhile before moving across from the Nugget?  Mother made most of our clothes, so we never bought anything in those stores.   I recall one of the stores having a circular door, which one person at a time could enter, or was that the Bank of America.  


02/10/14 10:21 AM #978    

JoAnn Kergel (Wirth) (1965)

Wally & Teresa, Yes to the vacuum tubes.  Brites (sp) also had them.  Payment placed in one & sent up to an office.  Then your change was sent back.  I bet most people used cash-know my family did.  Our credit union & the Rite Aid drive ups use them today so they are still around.  I don't remember Penneys until the "mall" was completed.  Remember when Thrifty Drug went in?  I think they killed the 5 & dimes.  There was also a clothing store right in that Thrifty area.  Can't remember the name of it but it was around in the early 60's.  Did we have a Woolworths in Woodland?  Used to go to the one in Sacramento for lunch when we would school clothes shop.  As the Civil Rights Movement got in to full swing I always felt guilty about eating at Woolworths.  Especially having been in Little Rock the summer of 1963 and seeing segration in action.


02/10/14 12:53 PM #979    

 

William Perry White (1967)

#6 (513 Main) was Provost Men's Shop, co-owned by Charlie Provost and my father, Perry White. After it closed, Wirth expanded into that location.


02/10/14 01:08 PM #980    

Nita Keehn (1962)

Janice & Joanne, M Wards was my very first Job  when I was 16; I worked on the loading dock unloading trucks and opening crates AND then had to go up to the office and type letters fot the boss. This was a "summer" job so it was over a hundred during the day on the docks, but cool in the office. Also did one day of modeling winter coats when I was 17 and it was 104 that day.... there were 3 of us,Pam Linder, Franki Mathes, and myself ( and we made $6 an hour...(LOL) That was a huge amount of money/ hr for us.

Thanks for the fond memories, Nita


02/10/14 01:42 PM #981    

Tim Tucker (1965)

According to my (1948) R.L. Polk  Woodland City Directory, the following were the businesses located at the corresponding numbers Greg posted. # 1 & 2- Mc Kinney Dept. Store,  # 3- Cross Jewelers, # 4- H.S. Graeser Opthamologist, # 5- Porter Building entrance, # 6- Provost Men's Shop, # 7- Wirth Furniture & Upholstery, # 8- Coey's Shoe Store, # 9- De Maria's Men's Furnishings, # 10- J.G. Harling Jeweler, # 11- Lane Hershel Confectionery, # 12- City Meat Market, #13- J.F. Laurence Stationary, #14 Woodland Home & Auto Supply, # 15- Club Barber Shop, # 16- as( 537 Main St.) Sportsman's Club Liquors # 17- as ( 537 1/2 Main St.) Wing Fong Restaurant, # 18- Sprouse Ritz Co......This leaves the question ,what the heck was the store between what we all knew as the Hong Kong Cafe and the The Sportsman's Club in the year 1948 ???


02/10/14 05:40 PM #982    

Cynthia Bourn (Clark) (1968)

Tim, was that unknown store between Sportsman's Club and the Hong Kong Cafe the Army Navy Surplus store?


02/10/14 05:51 PM #983    

Tim Tucker (1965)

Cynthia, yes kind of, it was called Dave's (something ?) in the 70's,( he later went to work for Nordstrom's, in the men's dept. ).  In the sixties I worked 2 doors down at Stan's and for the life of me I can't recall what was there. It might have been a surplus store ???  I guess I spent too much time at the Sportsman's Club .   :o (


02/10/14 06:58 PM #984    

 

Don Murdoch (1962)

Cynthia was right.  It was the Army-Navy Store run by Frank Cobos.  The braceros kept them in business during tomato season.


02/10/14 07:20 PM #985    

 

Bev Hukill (Nunes) (1969)

I was a short timer at WHS - got there in '67 graduated '69 so I don't think anyone in this forum would have known me. But being in the smart-a** generation - I can't help but notice that Mr. Mayfield writes in the Herb Caen style.....with the .......'s.  :) Keep the repartee coming, please.


02/11/14 02:06 AM #986    

Martha Pultz (Amlin) (1966)

There was a Woolworth's in the same shopping center as JC Penney's and Thrifty's.  I remember eating at the lunch counter - usually a hamburger and a tulip sundae, which was just an ice cream sundae in a tulip-shaped glass, but I thought it was very special.  


02/11/14 04:25 AM #987    

 

Sherry Bailey (Westland) (1968)

Mr Carston - it is unkind to "bash" anyone on this site, founded or not. Ye who is without sin, cast the first stone. Your thoughts have been made very clear, perhaps it's time to move on to higher thinking....this site is not for negative comments about other classmates......

02/11/14 07:20 AM #988    

 

Kathy Northup (Schick) (1965)

Sherry, I concur with you, after reading so many warm, nostalgic posts, and still a bit lost in my former fascination with those amazing vacuum tubes, it was so jarring to see a bashing post.

and, here I was so happily thinking about Herb Caen columns... And just getting to the  point of looking up Craig's post.  I was thinking so fondly of my last mental picture of this clown, among many.  One of the boys who ran around with my little brothers, was it Bill, Craig?  

So now I have to rush off to my lecture on medical microbiology on the south campus today. (Some of my college students remind me of us back in high school.) Please, when I get back, may I find only warm fuzzy posts.  And the more posts from all those nutty boys, who hung around with my brothers, the better,  

thanks for all the good memories!

Kathy Northup Schick, '65


02/11/14 08:18 AM #989    

 

Theresa Eve (1964)

There was a Woolworth's in the Stop-n-Shop Center, and I loved going there to have their $.25 Sundae.  That was a treat to save that little babysitting money.  That store had everything, even a pet supply center.  The Thrifty Store around the corner had ice cream for $.5.   Stop-n-Shop also had green stamps.  You could get some nice kitchen items if you saved your stamps.  Mother used those stamp books for some great items in our kitchen.  Orrick Oil also had a nice gift shop.


02/11/14 08:22 AM #990    

Denise DeMaria (Lewis) (1965)

I remember a woolworths one or two doors down from my dads store, it might have

been where Nofziger had a toy store. Also there was a Sprouse Ritz store where

Ed Schmauderers western store is on corner of first and main.

Go Craig!!


02/11/14 09:07 AM #991    

Tim Tucker (1965)

Denise, wasn't your Dad's store on the north side of Main St.?  Woolworths used to be on the south side of Main St. at 524 next to the old Woodland Bakery ( This is in the year 1948 )


02/11/14 09:35 AM #992    

Walter J. "Wally" Summ (1967)

Mr. Lacky, Mr. Lacky.....Tim Tucker is cheating!!!  He admits to using his 1948 R.L Polk Woodland City Directory to find his answers!!!

Now Timmy, we need to use our gray matter to remember the establishments of yesteryear!!  Otherwise, you'll never get to college!!

A. Dale

PS:  Mr. Summ, 4 laps around the track for being a tattle tale!!!!!

 

A little mood lightener?


02/11/14 09:41 AM #993    

Tim Tucker (1965)

Wally , meet me at Nelson's grove tonight , and don't bring Lumpy........got it ?


02/11/14 09:57 AM #994    

Walter J. "Wally" Summ (1967)

Well, I WOULD bring Lumpy........except half the time, that old 1936 Ford Club Cabriolet Roadster of his won't even start!!!!  Gulp.....can't we talk this out like gentlemen????


02/11/14 10:06 AM #995    

Tim Tucker (1965)

Wally, Eddie says you're an okay guy and I trust Eddie, so you're off the hook .......................this time.


02/11/14 10:13 AM #996    

Walter J. "Wally" Summ (1967)

Well, I don't know why you would believe a compulsive liar like Haskell......but, I'm glad you did!!!!  Meet me at the Malt Shop at the corner of Lincoln and 46th.  I'll buy you a soda pop! 


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