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03/16/25 10:28 AM

#8265

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.

03/16/25 10:32 AM

#8266

Bruce Lawley (1965)

correction...1919 4th

03/16/25 11:01 AM

#8267

Larry Michalak (1960)

Thank you for the photo of the municipal pool and the obituary on Mr. Gordon. I was on the WHS swiming team in the late 1950s and Mr. Gordon was our coach as well as the art teacher. The swim team was great fun. Paul Keller was our backstroker and Don McClinton was our butterfly swimmer. I also remember climbing the fence of the municipal pool at night with friends for forbidden swims. The pumps working on the undisturbed water would collect little piles of silt that we would step in at the shallow end. The municipal pool had an open swim meet every year and Art Williams held the record for the underwater swim--three lengths of the pool (3 x 100 feet) without coming up for air!

03/16/25 12:44 PM

#8268

Anne Douglass (Loud) (1964)

Norma: I found this regarding the Aquacade.

03/16/25 03:10 PM

#8269

Becky Knight (Tobitt) (1961)

Anne, thank you for posting the article about the aquacde. Pat Baxter went on to be a middle school teacher in Fairfield. I worked many years with Pat and it was many years after our time in Woodland and at the pool. But then I knew her as Trish Cutler. When FSUSD teachers were in negotiations in 2001, teachers wore orange t-shirts one day a week. On one of these days, I was walking out to my room and Trish was setting up the volleyball nets, me in ornage and white, Trish in orange and black. Me : you are wearing my college school colors (orange and black for UOP). Trish :Well, you are wearing my high school colors. Me : Where did you go to high school!? Trish: Woodland . At point we put our heads together and realized who the other one was. We had only been working at the same school for 10 years!

Sadly, Pat/Trish passed away in 2006 after a short retirement and a bout with cancer..

03/17/25 06:50 AM

#8270

Norma Berrettoni (Plocher) (1966)

Thank you, Anne, for the article from the Daily Democrat. I did not realize there was an age limit of between 9 and 14. Good times. There were other aquamaniacs too. I remember Bill Richter, Jerry Mosher and Don Jones (?). I am thinking there were others. Freeman was definitely the ring leader!

03/17/25 09:31 AM

#8271

Paul Keller (1960)

Hi Everyone, There is an obvious error in Bob (Flash) Gordon's obit. According to his published birthday, he was 99 not 73. Thanks for the mention Larry. The swim team was fun time. They heated the pool for us in the winter, so we could still practice. Spent a lot of rainy and cold days in the pool. Lots of fun. Paul Keller

03/17/25 10:22 AM

#8272

Theresa Eve (1964)

Thanks for the correction on the obituary of Mr. Gordon (73), a wonderful man in all ways. His art class opened many doors. But his swimming pool days were a gift to us all. A great Gang at the pool. Thank you Anne for the picture of Acquacde Days. I did my best to stay alive during those dancing water moves. Happy St. Patrick's Day to All!!!

03/18/25 02:34 PM

#8273

Mike Miller (1966)

WE ARE A GENERATION THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK.

A generation that walked to school and then walked back.

A generation that did their homework alone to get out asap to play in the street.

A generation that spent all their free time in the streets with their Friends.

A generation that played hide and seek when dark.

A generation that made mud cakes.

A generation that collected sports cards.

A generation that found, collected and washed & Returned empty coke bottles to the local grocery store for 5 cents each , then bought a Mountain Dew and candy bar with the money.

A generation that made paper toys with their bare hands.

A generation who bought vinyl albums to play on record players.

A generation that collected photos and albums of clippings of their life experiences as a Kid.

A generation that played board games and cards on rainy days.

A generation whose TV went off at midnight after playing the National Anthem.

A generation that had parents who were there.

A generation that laughed under the covers in bed so parents didn't know we were still awake.

A generation that is passing and unfortunately it will never return no matter how hard we try.

I loved Growing up when I did. it was the best of times.

03/19/25 09:07 AM	#8274
Josefa Catalan (Matthews) (1962) Amen to that! Those of us who are 80 are grateful for those days, fun, simple, memorable times. Thanks for posting this.

03/19/25 01:20 PM

#8275

Theresa Eve (1964)

Josefia, Alfred Catalan was one of the funniest guys to be around. A laugh a minute. Remember when he put the frogs in the Woodland Library Book Drop our Senior Year!!!

03/19/25 01:27 PM

#8276

Joel Childers (1966)

Nice Mike. And I hope that we all treasure those wonderful memories and that none of us is spending these golden years worrying about the future. I remember my grandfather who lived with us, as my sibblings and I were growing up. He would talk lovingly about growing up in the very early part of the 20th century, and complain bitterly that everything had gone to he!!. I'm convinced that every generation goes through the same thing, i.e. childhood was wonderful and the future is bleak. Yet look back at the thousands of generations that have survived all the trials and tribulations of life. Of course, it wasn't all great, and not everybody made it, but here we are, so as the song says, Accentuate the Positive.

03/20/25 09:12 AM

#8277

Theresa Eve (1964)

1964 at Tim's, these were very fun times!! Good group of friends. Liz never changes.

03/20/25 07:00 PM

#8278

Dee (Marilee) Damsen (Kindelt) (1965)

It is with a sad heart that I am posting the passing of Marilyn Reiff Mitchell, class of 65. Not only was she in my class, she and her sister were neighbors in the country and we all attended Cacheville Elementary in Yolo. Thus a very long friendship. Condolences to the family. Marilee (Dee) Kindelt

03/20/25 09:20 PM

#8279

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Its been really fun seeing a bunch of new names posting memories and pix!! I guess it is time again for me to ask my favorite question, again. Does anyone know what happened to the two stone "Sphinx" that used to sit on the front step of the Memorial Florest?? :-)

03/21/25 02:23 PM

#8280

Elvis Kelley (1962)

How many saw Emmett Pugh's Indian artifacts he had there in the basement ? It was basically a museum, very interesting.

Thanks for the picture Greg.

03/22/25 07:56 AM

#8281

Bernard Rocksvold (1965)

Elvis,

I got to see his collection once. Spent hours there. Very impressed. Wasn't there also some model trains on the wall?

03/22/25 02:28 PM

#8282

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Hi Elvis and Bernie, yes I got to spend much time in that museum of Indian artificts! I only wish I would have had some of the cameras I have today to have been able to take photos of it. One of the times I was there, Judge Jameson was there and we talked, I can't remember exactly how it went, but the Judge gave me some Indian shell beads he found by the Sacramento River. I still have those beads!

03/23/25 08:41 AM

#8283

Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

03/23/25 04:13 PM

#8284

Theresa Eve (1964)

Who is Willetta Hayden. I am asking Jean Hayden if she knows. Jean told me that Willetta Calvert Hayden was her Dad's (Clyde Hayden) sister. Willetta never married. Born December 20, 1882 - July 11, 1976 (93). Buried at Mary's Chapel.

03/23/25 04:16 PM

#8285

Theresa Eve (1964)

Marilee: Very sad to learn that Marilyn Reiff had passed. I understand it was cancer. Her mother passed from cancer when the girls were at Cacheville. I believe Marilyn and Carolyn were in the sixth grade at the time. I could be wrong on the year of school. Their Mother taugh second grade in 1962 at Cacheville, very pretty.

03/24/25 08:48 AM

#8286

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

The building in the photo posted by Joan and Theresa is the reason the Street is named "COLLEGE". I used to wonder, had that building not started out as Hesperian College, would the street have been named "High School"?

03/24/25 04:22 PM

#8287

Joan Richter (Lucchesi) (1960)

You are right, Greg. Thanks for turning the photo I posted in the correct direction, Theresa.. It's ok on my computer but when I downloaded it to the site it turned. I tried to figure out how to turn it but failed. It was a photo in one of my grandmother's photo albums.

03/25/25 09:20 AM

#8288

Theresa Eve (1964)

The photo of the original "college" is so great Joan. Loved that Jean Hayden was able to add the history about her Aunt Willetta Hayden, sister to Jean Hayden's Father Clyde. Here is a picture of Willetta.

03/26/25 08:52 AM

#8289

Orval Hughes (1964)

In about 1959 my parents still owners of the Brownie contracted with the city to operate the concession stand at the pool. What fun!! Dave and I would go there and make corn dogs and serve Pepsi,potato chips and lots of candy bars that we didn't eat. I was on the city dive team until I broke my toe playing barefoot football in the park. Oops could not play freshman football. Really fun times

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