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Walter J. "Wally" Summ (1967)

I couldn't tell you JoAnn...too far back.  I do remember a "Beatles" group called RAIN that came to the Woodland Opera House.  They did costume changes to show how the Fab Four transformed over the years.  They were great!

Cynthia Bourn (Clark) (1968)

Wally, just wanted to say what an exceptional job you are doing with the memories, pictures, music trivia.....particularly fine job since you are on the missing classmates list. You really are good but then we all knew that.   Cindy

Walter J. "Wally" Summ (1967)

Awwwwwwwwww, thank you Cindy.  That's awfully kind.   Ah, I'm missing?  I'm right cheer!!!

JoAnn Kergel (Wirth) (1965)

Find Wally!  Yes, thanks for the music posts.  I remember our '65 "skip day" at the Muni Pool.  John's band played & I thought the were darn good.  Especially when Isgreen cut loose with "Johnny be Good."  Such a fitting song for him!

Sherry Bailey (Westland) (1968)

Where is the World is Wally San Diego?  lol  Glad you are found!  About "clothing changes", I remember bands would take a break and come back the second half freshened up and wearing different colored shirts.  It seemed to add some variety for the dance crowd and maybe it also helped give added motivation to the band?

Wally, you must have some amazing scrap books...I hope you will continue sharing pix with the rest of us.  (And, the crafter in me is thinking, I hope that's acid free paper.  :)

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Thanks everyone for all the memories and addresses on the "North Side of the 500 Block". I'll go thru the responses and see what is still left as "unknown".

Here is the Southside of the 500 Block, starting with the old bank building on the corner of Main and College. Im not sure if this is the original building, remodeled, or did they just build some thing new??

Anyway, Pic number 1 starts at that address and goes "East"

#19 - 500 Main

#20 - 506 Main (someone asked if the Stag was still there :-), I did not peek inside to see if it still looked the same, or smelled the same)

#21 508 Main

#22 510 Main

#23 512 Main

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Pic #2 South side of Main, 500 Block

#24 514 Main

#25 518 Main

#26 520 Main

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Pic #3 South side of 500 Block of Main

#27 522? Main

#28 524 Main

#29 526 Main

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Pic #4 South side of 500 Block Main

#30 528 Main

#31 530 Main

#32 532 Main

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Last pic of the south side of 500 Block of Main Street - Corner of 1st and Main

#33 534 Main

#34 54 Main

(The next series will be the "400 Block of Main", I'll take those pix, the next time I get to Woodland)

Julie Eis (Millstein) (1962)

Back to Holy Rosary Academy.   It burned down on the morning of Oct 6th, 1952.   I was there - we lined up and exited the building, stood out in the yard and watched the flames until our parents came to get us.

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Hi Julie

I was probably somewhere behind you, I think we lined up "Alphabetically :-) " I think we were in the third grade, I remember when the fire burned the cross on the tower, I can still close my eyes and see that image!

Here is a pic of what Holy Rosary looked like before it burned. It is on an old Post card I have. Remember the "Fire Horn" they would blow in Woodland in those days? It was "coded" to what part of town the fire was in, so the Fire Volunteers would know where to go.

Tim Tucker (1965)

 The stores on the south side of Main St. in the 500 block in the year 1948 were as follows....# 19 Bank of America National Trust & Savings,  #20 ( not listed ), #21 Karls Shoes,  #22 Burton's Shoes,  #23 Harley's Restaurant,  #24  F.S. Rasco & Co. Variety Store,  #25  Steve Mitropoulos Restaurant,  #26  F.L. Farish Real Estate Co.,  #27 & 28  F.W. Woolworth & Co.,  #29  Woodland Bakery,  #30  Stening & Weider's Men's Clothing,  #31  Weider's Electric Works & Supply,  #32  O.D. Payne Jeweler,  #33 Mode O' Day Women's Clothing,  #34  A.E. Arthur Drugs.  

Julie Eis (Millstein) (1962)

Greg - You were definitely behind me.   If it wasn't alphabetically, then they lined us up by height.   Things were very well organized when you dealt with the nuns.    No panic allowed.   I didn't even cry until I saw my dad, who seemed pretty upset!

Jim Kiehn (1965)

According to the American Legion Post, the fire at Holy Rosary was in 1956 with no day specified. They helped with people from the flood in 1955 and the Holy Rosary. A trip to the library or the democrat is in order. I am 1800 miles away, maybe if I get to our 50th reunion next year

Walter J. "Wally" Summ (1967)

Julie and Jim,

It looks like you are both right!! 

Walter J. "Wally" Summ (1967)

Greg,

Here is another shot from a different angle from the David L. Wilkinson book, Crafting a Valley Jewel.

Jim Kiehn (1965)

Thanks Wally. I was there too, but at that time I was 5 and only a spectator. My curiosity has been satisfied. I only lived a few blocks from the school. While searching yesterday for the year and before todays posts, I found out that the school served as a live in girl's school in the 20's and 30's for music and college curriculum.

I don't think there was another fire in 1956. There must be pictures around somewhere.

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Hi All

The fire that burned Holy Rosary was when I was in the third Grade. That would have been the 1952 date. It burned the old part (the front part) of the school down. There was a "back part" that did not burn. Classes continued to be held there unti I was in the Sixth grade. They were building another school for us (on California Street?) That is where our class graduated in 1958. Once we moved, they tore the rest down and built the shopping mall that is still there today. That would be the 1956 date. I don't think they burned it, in the back of my mind I can see Large tractors knocking it down and loading it on trucks??

Greg Kareofelas (1962)

Hi Wally

That is a nice pic of the front of the school. I was "told" that when the building was first built, it was a "Boarding School" and much of those upper floors were "like dorm rooms"? There was a "chapel" in the old part, because, after the fire, we kids played in that area and "found": bits and pieces of colored stained glass and square nails - treasures to a kid in the third grade :-)

Julie Eis (Millstein) (1962)

Oh yeah, Greg - I almost mentioned that stained glass from the chapel.   We were avid treasure hunters.  And to this day I'm a fan of stained glass.   Holy Rosary did have boarders but I didn't know any of them, did you?.   It was also a high school at one time - my mother came to Woodland to live with her sister so she could go there, graduating in 1941.  

Virginia Roath (Atkeison) (1966)

Hi Janice,  I kind of remember the "drills" too and wasn't there a phrase the teachers used??? "Tuck and duck"???? (getting under our desks).  The "age of innocence" was definitely the 50's!!!

Janice Bell (Killian) (1966)

Hi, Virginia.  I think you are right - it was "tuck and duck". 

Mary Cassel (Mailloux) (1967)

Regarding Holy Rosary -  My mother was also a boarder there.  My older sister was there when it burned, and I went there for it's last year when I was in first grade.  My second grade year we were at the new school on California St.

Janice Bell (Killian) (1966)

Craig, thanks for the great photos.  I think the Hesperian College was where the high school was and Douglas Middle School is today.  Does anyone know for sure?