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Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

Joann Dahl: The courthouse was my first thought also. I think part of it is still there in front of the stairs. I think it was taken from the stairs toward Court Street. It's where the Vietnam War memorial is now. I don't remember this being in Freeman Park..

Theresa Eve (1964)

Joan and JoAnne:  I can see that it could be the Court House location, with the pine trees and open space.  But,  the one park next to Walnut Street did have some remodeling which was never as lovety.  The sandboxed area not as beautiful. 

Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

Theresa, I think you are talking about City Park. I went there every summer when my mother worked and this was not there. They had a huge "plaything" with a large pole about 20 feet tall in the center, chains hanging from it, and a metal "V" at the bottom. Kids would hold on and start running in a circle and swing-out. It was taken out in the 50s when Bob Jones fell and broke his toes. On the Cross Street side, there was a chinning bar and it was taken out when it fell and broke all my toes in my left foot. Where it used to be is now a sign which says City Park. It is attached to the same poles which held the chinning bar.

Theresa Eve (1964)

This is the Yolo County Courthouse, you can see the architecture around the walkway does match the lady in the picture that Greg has shared, dated 1957 Woodland Parks.  I guess the fountain was in the middle. .

Bernard Rocksvold (1965)

Hi Theresa,

If you look closely you can see differences in the architecture. The posts for the railing at the courthouse are round and tapered and the ones at Freeman park are square. The size of the architecture at the court house is larger and more curved. I belived both structures where created around the same time posibly by the same builder. Just my thoughts. Spent countless hours of my youth playing in both areas. More photos are needed to refresh our memories.

Theresa Eve (1964)

Joan, thank you.  You are so right.  The park did have that additional big structure for the kids, then taken out.  

Maybe I am wrong on the columns for the Court House.  Just look so similar.  A question for sure.  

Mike Miller (1966)

Mike Miller (1966)

I found this in an antique store in Grants Pass

Paul Keller (1960)

Hi Mike, Please tell me me you didn't pay $150 to buy it !!!  Paul Keller  

Mike Miller (1966)

Did not buy.

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

David Tafota would probably know what would be a good price for the Car Club Plates. I know that some of the different clubs, for example "LA Roadsters"  can sell for some pretty pricey amounts. Most of these car club  plates were made in small numbers and many were tossed or recycled. :-) It is a matter of perspective, if you just spent mega bucks restoring a 1949 Ford Custom, 150 bucks for a vintage car club plate is nothing :-)

Theresa Eve (1964)

Greg:  I do not have a vintage car, or maybe, but $150 seems good for history and memories.  Love the car club plates of Woodland.  

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Yes Theresa, when I posted the question about Woodland car club plates a while back, not many Examples showed up.  The last time I went to Turlock swapmeet, I saw some plates going for big $$$

Theresa Eve (1964)

Woodland Class 1964 Members and Friends, join the group to visit.  Many memories.  

Joel Childers (1966)

I went to Google maps to see where the legion hall is. It's interesting to use Google maps to take a tour around Woodland for those of us who haven't been "home" in a while. I see the Legion Hall is just adjacent to where the old legion hall was in that fabulous old building that is still there and takes up most of the block. I think it housed Rick's barber shop and Brackett's pool hall back in the day.

And the Frostie (at least that's what we always called it) is now Doggeros Mex Urban Eats.

Across the street was that corner grocery store which apparently is something else now. And next to that, a building with a sign in the window captioned "Signs by Heck" which was my uncle Charles Hoecker's catchphrase.

Gary Wegener - You worked for Uncle Charlie. Is there still a shop called, "Signs by Heck?"

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Hi Joel   Here it is, "Signs by Heck" from the 1957 woodland Book. 

Doyle Phillips (1961)

On the corner of College and Bush was the Nash Dealership. Corner Grocery was Yolo Grocery owned by Lee. 

Sharyn Boles (Holland) (1963)

The comments of Mike Miller and Joel Childers brought back some good memories.   I was part of the group that started the Valecians Car Club in Woodland, around 1962.  We started the club meetings at the YMCA building on College St. and later moved to the back room of Bracketts pool hall.   The old plack found at the antique store could be Bob Eveland's, who was living in Oregon.  I was at a car show at Sun City Roseville and put the Valecians plack in our 1962 Chevy C-10.  A lady told me that she was from Woodland and  remembers the Club.  Great memories.

Terry Holland

Tom Fisk (1963)

I still have my Valecians car placque in a box in storage. It's in good shape and was never mounted in my car, which was a 56 Chevy in my senior year. Terry, those were some good times. 

Dolores Cabias (Buck) (1965)

Hi all:  I am finally able to get back to this site and chat.  I have followed much of the conversations among the group about various areas in Woodland.  I lived out in the country and did not spend much time in town after school--caught the school bus home.  I donated a book to the Woodland Library back in 2009 or soon thereafter that I inherited at the time of my mother's passing.  It was a book about Woodland going back to when there were rail cars on the streets.  Hopefully the library still has that book, it may contain much of the information you are looking for.

Michele Matter (Timko) (1965)

Today, Signs By Heck is with All Action Awards located on Bush Street in between the old Yolo Grocery and the Elks Lodge parking lot.  Many years ago I think Purity was in that building before they moved to Purity Plaza shopping center at West and Main.  

Gary Wegener (Wegener) (1966)

All Action Awards displays "Signs by Heck" in their window.  

Charlie was great to work for.  He and Margaret (wife) were advisors for the Methodist Youth Group for many years...  back in the day.  Good memories.

Joel Childers (1966)

Thanks Michele and Gary. I could not decipher that window except "Signs By Heck." Uncle Charlie was a long time member of the Kiwanis Club and lay leader of the church. Per google: An effective lay leader functions as the primary representative and role model of Christian discipleship and faith lived out in the church and in daily life. He let me work the Kiwanis hot dog stand with him one summer at the Yolo County Fair, and when we were little kids, he paid Brian and I a buck a week to sweep the floors and such in the paint shop when it was on Main Street next to Olsen's Hobby Shop. He was a radio man in the army during WWII and later rigged up a pair of headphones to my half-deaf Grandfather's radio. As a painter he painted an early version of Woodie the Wolf on the street next to the main building at good old Woodland High. He was quite a guy. If there is a heaven, Aunt Margaret and Uncle Charlie are surely there together.

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

It took me a bit to find it, but I knew I had a vintage postcard (dated 1951) showing the front of the Court House. At that time, the sidewalk was divided and there was a fountain in the middle. I do not know when they took that out and made the "sidewalk fill in"

Orval Hughes (1964)

Class 64 and guests no host at Mojos Friday  5pm or whenever you get there  all old farts welcome