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05/07/25 03:14 PM #8323    

Jeff Brown (1969)

I was very sad to hear of Mrs. Contreras' passing. I remember her in the office at WHS and at Holy Rosary. She was a very friendly person. I also worked with her son Jim at Pacific Bell in the 1980's and 90's.

05/09/25 02:42 PM #8324    

 

Theresa Eve (1964)

Woodland High School Members in Memory and Honor:    

   William Earle Hatcher, Feb. 8, 1948 - March 21, 2025

    Marilyn Reiff Mitchell, June 13, 1947 - 2025

    Terry Lacky, - May 2025.   

    Betty Carmen Tafoya Contreras, 1933 - 2025


05/10/25 09:15 AM #8325    

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Thanks to David Tafoya for giving me this "card'. When this card was given out by Fred McGrew Plumbing, the company was located in the "Jackson Building", at the corner of Bush and First Street. The Jackson Building was originally built as "Luxary Apartments", with comercial areas on the first floor. I remember the fun of visiting McGrew's shop with my Dad or my uncle John in the 1950's. For a  kid it was a real treat to wander around all the "stuff" Fred had there. One of the cool old "Woodland Buidings"


05/10/25 12:18 PM #8326    

Gary Wegener (Wegener) (1966)

More to follow if we find more


05/10/25 12:41 PM #8327    

Janet Long (Levers) (1966)

Add to memoriams: Bill Ebell, Paula Hildebrand, Georgene Pucci  


05/10/25 02:52 PM #8328    

 

Jeff Johnson (1966)

 

Lately I have been seeing an alaming number of 1964-1966 class members passing away ,... sending healthy messages to all our classmates to not pass away so early in life ... Be well everyone ... Jeff Johnson 1966

 


05/10/25 03:04 PM #8329    

 

Joel Childers (1966)

Good old Fred R. McGrew, the plumber. He always had a smile for everybody. And he was so laid back, sometimes to the point of being an oddball. He was a good friend of my father's, and at my fathers funeral, with everybody else dressed appropriately, old Fred showed up dressed like he was going to a picnic. He cracked me up. Fred's brother (I don't recall his name) was one of many of that generation struck by polio, but it didn't stop him from getting around town every day struggling along in his crippled waddle often near the plumbing store. Perhaps some of you recall seeing him down on Main Street.


05/10/25 07:56 PM #8330    

 

Orval Hughes (1964)

Somwtimwa no call is good.But we need to kanow

Sorry for the peeps we miss 


05/11/25 09:35 AM #8331    

 

Theresa Eve (1964)

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers, Aunts, and giving ladies in our Woodland High School classes. 

 

  


05/11/25 04:22 PM #8332    

 

Orval Hughes (1964)

I apologize for the mispelling.

Not sure I graduated


05/12/25 09:29 AM #8333    

 

Michele Matter (Timko) (1965)

Fred and Walt McGrew, I remember them well when I worked for the Yolo Grocery across the street.


05/12/25 09:39 AM #8334    

 

Theresa Eve (1964)

I remember the MO letters needed to dial a telephone number.  All landlines, no cells.  There were party lines also.  Those were the days of personal contact to make conversation, write a letter, or use the landline to call.  A lot of going directly to the merchant for services.   


05/14/25 08:39 PM #8335    

Jeff Brown (1969)

Back in the 50s and 60s the "MO" at the beginning of a phone number in Woodland identified the exchange. The Woodland exchange was called MOhawk (66). When Woodland got dial phones back in the early 50's there was only one prefix MOHawk 2 or 662. We dropped the exchange names back in the 1960s and just went to a 3-digit prefx (662). I grew up in Woodland and I went to work for the phone company (originally Pacific Telephone) in 1971 and stayed there for 43 years. The old exchange names went away.But us old time phone folks remember them.

05/15/25 11:07 AM #8336    

 

Burke Fong (1967)

Still remember my parent's telephone number, MO2-7614. The number was still on the dialer until 2001. That's when we sold the family home.

05/15/25 12:38 PM #8337    

Anna Lopez (Northam) (1963)

I worked as a long distants operator in  Woodland. you had to go through the operator to call any long distants. I worked there for a few years.


05/15/25 12:54 PM #8338    

 

Orval Hughes (1964)

MO6-6767!! 


05/15/25 09:32 PM #8339    

Buni Murphy (Panick) (1964)

662-6182


05/16/25 07:58 AM #8340    

 

Burke Fong (1967)

After graduating from UC Berkeley in 1972, I started working for Pacific Bell. Started as a Directory Assistance (411) operator. At one point in my career, I became a manager in the Operator Services Organization. I had a list of all the exchanges (e.g., MOhawk) that were used in the U.S. since we were still owned by the original AT&T.

05/16/25 08:10 AM #8341    

Bernard Rocksvold (1965)

I still have our original home phone number and it is still active in my home. MO2-5290. I don't answer it much any more because of all the spam and scam calls.


05/16/25 09:30 AM #8342    

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

At some time in the early 1950's, at Holy Rosary School, they made and gave us all this "Dog Tag" with our name, address and phone number. So it had to be before the MOhawk was added. Does anyone else from HR still have theirs? Mine got saved because Mom put it aside and kept it for me :-)


05/16/25 10:18 AM #8343    

 

Theresa Eve (1964)

Our Woodland Phone was:  662-8331.  Called Mother daily.  :


05/16/25 10:40 AM #8344    

Barbara Avilla (Hurley) (1961)

I still have mine.


05/16/25 10:43 AM #8345    

 

Orval Hughes (1964)

oops yes MO2-6767


05/16/25 10:49 AM #8346    

Jeff Brown (1969)

Greg, the "dog tag" is a great remembrance of Holy Rosary. I didn't start first grade there until 1957 and I don't remember having one. They may have stopped making them by then. (HR Class of 1965)

Burke, you may not remember me, but we worked together on the Orange Peal your Senior year.

05/16/25 02:31 PM #8347    

Becky Knight (Tobitt) (1961)

MO2-6546 when we got a dial phone but before that our number was 33F4. It was a farm party line and ours was four rings. If the phone went out,  my Dad would go out and check the lines to see where it was down.


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