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Becky Knight (Tobitt) (1961)
Oh, my! I'm gone for a week and have lots of things to answer.
Yes, Don, I have a picture of the old Knight Hotel in Yolo. I just need to figure out how to post it. I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Cecil and Darlene. I have such fond memories of all of your family.
I remember when they built Gorman's. Marge Gorman fixed me my first chocolate sundae. And I love the juke box they had there!
I also have very fond memories of Laura Mae Silva. She was such a lovely lady, always friendly, up beat, always interested in what you were doing. She lived next door to Art and Ruth Stice. Art worked for my Dad as a hired hand for years until Art had a stroke. Ruth was the sister of Frank Fowler who was a painter. He and his wife Ethel lived across from Bill Baker and between Vidales and Richters.
Where the JW hall is was the site of a gas station that was run by Cliff "Duffy" Thomas in the late 1930's-early 1940's. The station was on the route of 99W that was rerouted when I-5 was completed. At one time Norma Pierce (Russe) lived in the little house behind the gas station. Norma and I would walk home together from school.
Across the street was a collection of livestock pens that were used to ship livestock back when Yolo was a real train stop. And Jim Cleary was the station master. My grandfather ran a slaughter house and would ship the butchered meat to San Francisco from the Yolo station.
Vern's Place was the local hang out for a lot of farmers, including my Dad, for many years. It was just east of the old gas station and across the street from the Half Moon and Produce melon shed.
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