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Norma Berrettoni (Plocher) (1966)

Tom Stewart - thank you for your post and comment about Craig Mayfield.  Very well said.  My observation about Mr. Mayfield's posts is he's craving attention.....  

Loved the articles about the Pet Parade.  What I remember is a carnival held in City Park in the summer sponosored by the Kiwanis Club?  Anyone remember this?  I can remember winning gold fish.  

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Don Murdoch (1962)

Joel,  

The 3-Jay Market was on the east side of 4th St, between Court and North.  Al (Pee Wee) Medina bought it from Ted and Nellie Jacques and renamed it Lo-Cut Market.  Bob Wademan and Larry Highfill had their first barber shop next door, taking over from Pete Doane and Sid Whitaker.

The barber shop across from the Brackets pool hall was Joe Montoya, who had just left Top Hat Barbers with Rick Gonzales, Ted Ramirez and Vince Guerrero. Top Hat was later owned by my classmate, Paul Giusti, until he retired 1 1/2 years ago. Joe later moved across the street next to the Pasttime Club and called it Pasttime Barber Shop. Joe was my barber until he retired.  Brackett later moved to the north side of Main St, between 2nd and 3rd. Played a lot of Snooker there with the great Dave Saucedo.

Dale Weishahn once told me that if you wanted information on the happenings in Woodland, you went to Paul Giusti.   If you wanted a haircut, you went to a barber,  He, of course, said that tongue in cheek.

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Don...after Pee Wee owned that Market..I believe he sold it........He... I believe went to work at the Raley's on College St..... I remember shopping in there...seeing him as Cashier....along with Bob Mata

Don Murdoch (1962)

Dan,

Pee Wee was the asst. mgr at Raleys under Wally Sheffields father Carl in the 60s  His wife had expensive tastes and he got caught stealing from Raleys.  He went to prison and bought 3 Jay Market after his release. He was a good man with a very greedy wife.  Knew him well. Bobby Matta never worked at Raleys.  He was always in construction and quit HS after his junior year to go to work. I believe Rich Mata worked there though. Different spelling.

Tom Stewart (1969)

I spent half my income at 3J market since I lived by Fourth and Grafton Street.  I got my hair cut next door by Sid and Karl.  Wow, the good ole' days.  What was the name of the hamburger place next to Pioneer Market on West Main street?

All the high school kids went to the "Brownie" or the hamburger stand near Bush and First Street.

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Don...thanks for the update...that it...I heard the same about Pee Wee.......as far as Mata...I thought it out....I believe Val Mata was the one working there....He went to work there after Stop-N-Shop Closed at the Woodland Shopping Center ..when I was a Box Boy and later a Journey Clerk...Remember those Days......Yes..Pee Wee was a Great guy..just did a thing forthe wrong reason ..as you stated...........As one could say...Woodland is Rich in it's past History...we do not see today...........Ps..Did Bob Mata live on Beamer St..at a Wooden Home..there was a old Corral next to the house????

Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

Doyle Phillips:  Ralph is Frank's older brother, Don and Leo were also older. One brother, Al, and sister, Darlene are younger. Joanne Wirth and Norma Ploker: I was living in Hawaii when the dress shop was on Kentucky. Coopers was on Main when I returned to Woodland. Wally Summ: thanks for the location of the racetrack. Did it have a name?  I worked with PeeWee for a number of years at P.I.R.M.I. He was at he Robbins facility. He always greeted people with a smile.

Doyle Phillips (1961)

Judy Nusz Andrade,  I was looking at the old postings and #2086 you posted about Olga Duran.  I was wondering if in the picture #2050 next to my brother Keith bottom row far right is that Peter? 

Doyle Phillips (1961)

Dan, I remember Bobby and Benny living off Dead Cat Alley in mid to late 50's. On Elm or across from the Parish Hall. I remember it was close to the Parish Hall.  We spent a lot of time around the hall and the Flying A station and Chicago Cafe.   Which end of Beamer you refering to?  By Matroni Lumber or Clark Field? 

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Doyle.......Bobby lived by Clark Field area more North ...Past Fiske Dr......on the North side of the street past ...Where Fred Martin lived....there was a Two story small House and an Alley....Does that help...All that comes to mind ....there was an old Horse Corral along side the wooden house with a Big Porch......

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

While we are on the Barbers........Something keeps coming back to me...when I was around 7 or 8....i remember my dad...taking us boys to a Barber on First St.....It was a White Building...right across the Old Police Dept......Is that true or did I have a Dream??????...Was it called..White House Barber?

Doyle Phillips (1961)

Dan, now I am curious. The next time I see Bobby I will find out.  The place you describe in more like where Louie, Rudy, Pete, Richard and Ernie Lucero lived on Emerald and Cleveland, next to an alley. They were right up from where John Didion, Jim Moody, Nusz's, etc lived.  I cannot remember there being an alley around Clark Field area. 

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Doyle..No...More futher.east...like between Fisk Dr. and College St.  area....... to the north..remember there was this small two story house..next to that was a house where Chief Martin lived......I think I have an old photo of that house...i will put up

Don Murdoch (1962)

Dan and Doyle,

  I saw Bobby Matta today  He grew up in Solano Village behiond Tafoya's Market.  He then moved to the corner of Beamer and Walnut across from Camerena Field.

Doyle Phillips (1961)

Dan, maybe Hobo Alley, next to Freeman.  I will find out. It's all empty lot now.

Doyle Phillips (1961)

Don, I knew he lived in Yolano Village. Next time you see him ask him who lived around Parish Hall area.  Off of Dead Cat Alley. I am curious now. Maybe it was one of his relatives. We played a lot of ball at the "labor camp" as they called it, behind the Village. A lot of our classmates lived there.

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Doyle....here an old photo..of Beamer Street..This is the two story house I was talking about to left.....to the east of that house you could see fencing..that approx the area where I remember Mata living and the Corral there......

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Don...that's it...I knew I wasn't going crazy..Yet...LOL!

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Don...before Camerena Park...there was a rows of small housing.........they tore down and built the Little League Field.....Correct?

Doyle Phillips (1961)

Dan, I cannot remember him living there. I remember him living at the Yolano Village, or Labor Camp as they called it. We played a lot of ball there.  The scales were there behind Tafoya's market.  If was a good location to get seasonal work.    I do not remember a barber on First Street.  My first hair cuts were on Main between Elm and College. Until around 10 or 11 my dad always gave me a bowl cut or flat top and I would try to grow it long. 

Were you a member of Law Enforcement in Woodland?

Dan Ree (Ree) (1964)

Doyle...that right about Bob...then he moved to Beamer and Walnut....Yes ...I was a memeber of Law Enforcement....1968 to 1982..Retired on a Medical

Doyle Phillips (1961)

Dan, did you know anyone in the Fire Department?  There was one name Joe from Texas I believe made Capt. I could never remember his last name.  You Police or Sheriff?  In 66 I wnt to the CHP on Main to get papers to apply and a 5' Sgt told me I was disqualified because I was only 5'6". 

Doyle Phillips (1961)

Burke Fong, A lot was mentioned about you connection to the Cafes in Woodland. Were you related to Henry Fong at the United Market, just up from the Chicago Cafe next to Tracy Ford? 

Don Murdoch (1962)

Dan,   Camarena Field opened in 1956 when I was 11.  Bobby lived across the strreet at that time. Bob, Marv Klinkhammer, John Rademaker and others had a team of Beamer Bums and challenged us Dingle Berries, Paul Giusti, Bing Crowley, Ron Carston and others to a game just before the Little League season started.  We had played two innings and the police ran us off.

Doyle.  The only relatives of Bobby that I recall was Manuel Rubio, a cousin.  Manuel was quite an athlete as was Bobby.  There were no relatives named Matta as Bobby came from Texas when he was 6 years old.

My first barber was Cliff's Barber Shop next to the State Theater.  Four barbers, no waiting. Larry Highfill's uncle was one of them, 4th chair as I recall. Then I started going to Joe Montoya at Top Hat. There was more cigarette smoke in Cliff's than there was at any bar.  Couldn't breathe