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Steve Jones (1963)

My experience with tomatoes in the Woodland area has less to do with eating them and more about working in the growing and harvesting.  For five summers in 1963-1967 I worked for Lloyd Eveland.  Early in the summer, I was cultivating tomatoes, sugar beets, and beans.  Later came the harvest, with the ’63 tomato harvest still being picked by hand into 50lb. lug boxes.  I drove the farm labor bus and did some supervisory duties.  At lunch, while I was eating my peanut butter sandwich, one of the Mexican workers might take pity on me and offer me a burrito.  They were brought to them fresh just before lunch time and were delicious.  The pickers had a tough job, which they did steadily and without complaint.  1964 brought the UC-Blackwelder harvesters.  For the next several summers the machines loaded 4x4 wooden bins.  My job was to load the cannery trucks using a forklift.   Eventually the 4x4 bins gave way to the cannery trailers having fiberglas tubs on them that were loaded directly by the harvesters.

John Eaton (1964)

Greg is of course correct about UCD and Blackwelder, but there was another harvester of different design that was used more widely.  It was invented by Bob Button Sr, of Winters and built by Johnson Farm Machinery here in Woodland. 

Theresa Eve (1964)

   A lot of family history around the agriculture of Yolo County.  Good to remember our roots.!!! 

Bruce Lawley (1965)

so what about the the major events of the times ? the viet nam war , the sexual revolution, the music , the drugs ?

Theresa Eve (1964)

Keep it simple and keep it homemade, the best memories.  

Don Jones (1966)

So Theresa are you saying that be "signs of the times" are off limits?

Bruce Lawley (1965)

Alot was changing in the late 60s while our little farm town slept. Don't get me wrong, There was some less mundane stuff like car club dances, cruising  main and k in sac, water ballon fights at picnic day in davis. In alot of ways, woodland WAS american graffti ,then the big old world started intruding after 1965.

Theresa Eve (1964)

Don, certainly not.  Just some of the 1960 memories are difficult to recall.  Feel free to add as appropriate. Thank you Bruce.  Looking back a few reasons I never married, which were the drugs, the free love, etc.  Things just were not as classic. 

Bruce Lawley (1965)

Mayacames mts, south of clear lake, hobergs resort, jefferson airplane grace slick 

Bruce Lawley (1965)

ab diving,spear fishing the mendocino .sonoma coast 

Theresa Eve (1964)

 My favorite song, Brothers Four, Green Fields.  So true. 

Bernard Rocksvold (1965)

Lobster diving spear fishing in the Azores, abalone off the coast of Vandenberg AFB, lobster and spear fishing the Chanel islands, very cold and dirty water, cleaning smelly wetsuit. Then diving WW II ship wrecks in Kwajalein Atoll, Levis and a Tshirt, 83 degree water and 200 ft. visibility, never put on a wetsuit again.

Ronald Cleve (1968)

Anybody remember the aquacades at the muni, and the aquamaniacs. Freeman and his gang

Norma Berrettoni (Plocher) (1966)

Yes!  Good times.  

Theresa Eve (1964)

 Woodland Municipool which offered great times for all.  Bill Freeman really had the skills in diving.  He put on some wonderful performances.  Thank you also Mr. Gordon for keeping this pool so much fun.  A joy for all. So sad it is no longer, but a wonderful memory.  

Bruce Lawley (1965)

bernard, what was the acores like ? was that while in the af or vacation ? i also dove the monterey coast, channel is (had a comercial urchin boat with chris bradford for awhile) the caribbean, cayman, jamaica, usvi, cozemel mx and oahu hawaii. gota say monterey was better than the north coast, channel is way better and the tropics, fantastic !

Theresa Eve (1964)

Mr. James Gordon, the Class of 1964 Dedicated the Woodland High School Ilex, Yearbook in his honor. He was noted as one of the best liked teachers of Woodland High School.  He graduated from Chico State College, came to Woodland in 1954.  An outstanding art instructor and swimming coach. 

Joel Childers (1966)

Swimming at Crowders in what seemed like ice water. Riding in the bed of a pickup all the way to Capay. Apple wars with the Gwaltneys nextdoor (kids only of course). Painstakingly building model cars and airplanes, then blowing them up with fire crackers or melting them with matches. A trip to Sutter's fort & Crocker art gallery. Burma Shave signs on the highways. A drive with the family to Golden Gate Park, the Funhouse and lunch at the Cliff House. Dillon Beach or Stinson's Beach on a hot summers day. Shasta, Lasson, the Redwoods, Tahoe, Calavaras and Sequoia all easily within a days drive. I wouldn't change growing up in Woodland for anything.

Bruce Lawley (1965)

joel, these are things that i also  expirenced ,except the apple fights.  familey trips to sf at chrismas to view the live window displays. i fell  in love with the female ice skater. crab louie at a famous oakland place. amazinly i persuded some the same things my dad did. real esate photgraphy,  ( including uw ) diving, a love the the outdoors .                                                    

Bruce Lawley (1965)

mother macrarys santa cruz  any hits?

Anne Douglass (Loud) (1964)

Bruce:  could the "crab Louie at a famous Oakland place" have been Spenger's Fish Grotto on Fourth Street in Berkeley (1890-2018)?  We used to stop there on the way back from a day in San Francisco.

Bernard Rocksvold (1965)

Bruce, I was stationed in the acores while in the Air Force esrly '70s.  Learned to dive in the acores afler receiving free lessons and certification for repairing and rewiring their air compressor. Water was cold with fairly good visibility. Spent quite a few hours on search lines for Sir Francis Drakes flagship The Revenge. Saw a lot of really old ship wreck canons and balast piles. Picked up a few lobster and speared a giant sea bass that tried its best to drown me.

Looks likke you have had way more diving experiences than me. I truely enjoyed every second under water, except for that first shot of really cold water up the back of my wetsuit. 

Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

Dinner at the Villa Be La Paix or Spengers in Oakland after the Cal/Stanford big game!

Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

Dinner at the Villa Be La Paix or Spengers in Oakland after the Cal/Stanford big game!

Bruce Lawley (1965)

anne... one and the same (i think ) wikipedia says it was at 1414 4th in west berkeley . a very interesting artical abought it there.