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Marilyn Millsap (Thompson) (1961)

Wow, that is really interesting information.  The Town and Country Club and Shakespeare Club used that building for meetings on a regular basis starting in the 1930s when the building was bought from the Unitarian Church.  The agreement was that it would always be used as a woman's clubhouse.  I am shocked that it ever was used as a YMCA and housed a pool table.  Does anyone else remember this?

JoAnn Kergel (Wirth) (1965)

 Dan Wirth remembers playing basketball at the old "Y".  I don't remember it but I do remember the Carlton Club.  My parents were members for a couple of summers and then my Dad put in a back yard pool at our rural home outside Yolo.  We would go to the Carlton Club to cool off but by the time we drove the eight miles home we were hot again.  Pre A/C in most cars.  I remember Packer Creek as a camper and counselor.  Also Timber Tarn as a girl scout.  Good memories from camp.

Doyle Phillips (1961)

I remember the YMCA and I believe a Mr. Patterson at that location in the 50's and I believe that is where we had our NRA Meetings.

Becky Knight (Tobitt) (1961)

Loved Timber Tarn! I went there for five summers as a camper and two as a counselor. I have been back a couple of times over the last 50 years. You can park your car where the old cook shack was and walk down to the waterfront. Rucker Lake is still beautiful! It was a very special place.

Don Murdoch (1962)

Marilyn,  I remember at least 2 dances at the 'Y' while in the 7th grade, which would have been late 1956 or early 1957.  We also played basketball on Saturdays. If Merle Grant reads this, he can confirm on the pool table. He and his younger brother had just moved to Woodland.  If memory serves me correct, the building was split, with the 'Y' on the right side and something else on the left side.

Connie Waldeck (Beard) (1966)

JR Hendrix remembers (he won't get on the forum, but enjoys reading it).  The Y was at the rear of Women's Club and might have been connected,  The entrance into the Y was in the alley across from McNary's.  Mr. McDonald was the manager - a very nice man.   The Women's Club was used as the German Lutheran Church for Sunday services (Pastor Hintz) until their own church (American Lutheran Church) was built on College Street close to the high school about 1950.  JR doesn't think the Y had a pool table, but Brackets on First between Main and Bush had several tables. 

Bernard Rocksvold (1965)

I misspoke in my post #6095 about Tom Stallard. He replaced Jeff Monroe, not Bill Marble.

My misstrust of him stems from the following Quoted from the Woodland Daily Democrat Jul.20,2016.

"Stallard had been appointed to the council to serve out the unexpired term of Jeff Monroe in March 2011 and noted at the time he would not seek re-election, but did so anyway." 

Don Murdoch (1962)

Connie,      Now that you mention it, I do remember the entrance being on the east side of the building in the alley.  Hence, the split building. The 'Y' defintely had a pool table, but not in the best of shape and the cue sticks were terrible. I played a lot of pool, actually snooker, at Brackett's, both on 1st and then on the north side of Main between 2nd and 3rd Sts.  Dave Saucedo was the king of snooker in those days as was Ray Flores.  Snooker was ther game back then, not much 8-ball, etc.  Different table.  The best snooker player in the area was Jay Leake, RIP.  He had an advantage.  He had a snooker table in the basement when the Leake's lived on 1st St., a block from WHS.  We used to slide down the coal chute to the basement when the Leakes weren't home to play snooker.  Say 'Hi' to JR for me. 

Janet Long (Levers) (1966)

According to a friend who graduated before 1960, the Y was a separate building. She feels it was behind the building that burned and a little to the west towards the Carlton Club. Yes/no?

Marilyn Millsap (Thompson) (1961)

Thanks for all the great memories of the Y.  I am thinking it must have been in a separate building behind the clubhouse - where the parking lot is now.  The clubhouse is very small and has a stage along the north side.  I don't know how it could have been divided in half and how it could have accommodated basketball, etc. Plus the only entrance off the alley goes directly into the kitchen.  There apparently are pictures in the present Y building which show their previous locations.  I plan to check those out.

Don Murdoch (1962)

Connie was right about the entrance being on the alley on the east side.  I believe the 'Y' took up the NE quadrant of the building with the entrance on the SE corner of the rear quadrant. Just inside the door, was the pool table. The BB court was small with only one basket. Like I said earlier, we had  school dances there in the 7th grade. I believe we left for Camp Packer Creek at the new 'Y' on College St. in 1956-57, so the old 'Y' was probably abandoned in early 1956.

Marilyn Millsap (Thompson) (1961)

Mystery solved!  There is a picture hanging in the current YMCA of the old Y building.  It was a distinctly separate building just north of the clubhouse where there is now a parking lot.  It was a very plain rectangular frame building and was in use 1924-1960.  It was the second Y location.  The first was in a very elaborate three story Victorian building on Second St. just south of Main - long gone.  It was there until 1895.  I don't know if there was a Y between 1895 and 1924.

Mike Miller (1966)

Hi all. Anybody know if there is a list somewhere showing who is attending the reunion in September?

Don Murdoch (1962)

That confirms what I said in #6110.  The 'Y' was a separate building.

Gary Wegener (Wegener) (1966)

Mike, if you go to the Classmate Profiles page, you can select what reunion event you want to check signups for.  Looks like only 19 total signed up so far for the dinner Saturday, but invites just went out April 1st.  Let's pick a place and do a MYF gathering Friday night.  (Unfortunately, the Hoecker's home was bought by the city and demolished to make way for a new fire station, so their front porch is out.)

Carol Dunton (Stone) (1968)

I tried to purchase a ticket for the decade reunion here and I got through and hit ‘submit’ and it said “declined”

So I hit back and it said “processing” but didn’t ever finish.  Can anyone tell if I’ve signed up or not?

Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

Marilyn, thanks for telling us about the picture and the history of the YMCA.

Carol Dunton: you are not signed up for the reunion.You can tell by going to your own profile page and in the left corner it says you are going, if you are regestrered.

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Back around Christmas and Thanksgiving, we were talking about "Branigan's Turkeys" and the Boxes they came in. I found this box a few days ago. Now, I can understand "OVEN READY", but, I can't imagine they used the other saying very long :-)

Joel Childers (1966)

OMG, My Uncle Charlie's house was demolished? I didn't know that. I suppose that means his sign painting business building in the back is also gone. We had some great Thanksgiving dinners there. Us Childers boys would torment those Hoecker girls while waiting for the big meal. Hello to cousins Mary and Kay if you are reading this. Sad how people and things pass away, but that's life. That end of Court Street was all residential last time I was in town, but...a fire station? That area must be getting real commercialized. (P.S. If anyone has been trying to connect with me on Facebook, forget it. I quit Facebook before quiting Facebook was cool.) 

Gary Wegener (Wegener) (1966)

Joel, Charlie's business apparently got bought out by All Action Awards and became... All Action Awards and Signs by Heck   Funny, I spent a lot of time at Hoeckers-worked for Charlie doing simple signs in high school but I didn't realize then that you were related. Charlie's favorite saying-no matter how busy it got-was that he was never too busy to take an order.  Talk about cool houses, yours with the secret passages was top on my list.

I also worked at Tim's (the old Brownie) by the old high school.  One weekend Tim ran a promotion, 10 hamburgers for a $1.  I volunteered to make up a big sign for the window: "Weekend Sale: Hambugers 10 for a $1"  My proofreading skills reached new heights after that.

Carol Dunton (Stone) (1968)

Signed up for the Decade reunion.  Yay!  Thanks to all who are working so hard to make this event another day to remember.   Looking forward to it.

Bill Means (1961)

Gary,

HAMBUGERS is only a minor 'error' in the scheme of things, so have a beer and relax.

AFTER I ran the Marketing Department at Bisco, I tried explaining to the new marketing employees, that everything they produced had to be proof read by at least three excellent writers / spellers to insure there were no spelling or gramatical errors and to ASSUME that everyone who came in contact with mailings did their best to MESSUP the final product as the owner of the company majored in Marketing in college and EXPECTED perfection. Sure enough, after I was NOT running the department,  when sending out customer quality questionaires for four of our companies at one time, the new marketing prople didn't heed my directions to be there when the mailings went out to assure quality control. The mailing company ran out of material so the mailing envelope had one company name, the letter had another company name, the questionaire had another company name and the return envelope had another company name. Needless to say, the owner received many bad comments on the return questionaires and was RATHER annoyed with the new marketing department employees.

The WORST mailer I received while there was several months later when the local German Auto Repair company mailed out a 12 page brocure to everyone in Anaheim Hills and Yorba Linda ( lots of German Cars ) and the central 8 pages were local companies with small advertisements, but both covers inside and out had the Auto Repair advertisements on full pages. The company specialized in PORSCHE and the 4 pages spelled it PORCHE without the 'S'. Mighty expensive way to have potential customers stay away.

Norma Berrettoni (Plocher) (1966)

Class of '66 - the following Decades Reunion invitations were returned as 'undeliverable' and 'unable to be forwarded':    Joanne Stafford, Randy Botkins, Mary Jane Gonzales Simpson, Cherie Taylor Peterson, Bill Northrup, Virginia Cruz Steele, Donna Scarborough, June Sakata and Tom Cook.

Please send me a correct mailing address at:  normainbarn@gmail.com.  I will re-send your invitation and also update the database.  

Thank you - Norma Berrettoni

Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

The class of 1960 had the following invitations returned:

Ed Johnson, Coronel E. Miller, Tony Tucker, Mervin Dahl, Elsie Moody Chase, Orville Easterly, Ron Groh and Lorine Moore Safley.

If anyone has information please email me at jalucchesi2@gmail.com.

Thanks

Don Murdoch (1962)

Joan,   Re: Tony Tucker.   Contact his brother, Tim, Class of 65.   Mervin Dahl, I believe still lives in the Woodland area.  Bob Wademan is his barber.  Check with Bob.   Good luck.