Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/19/15
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9 Bombers sent stuff: 
Pat UPSON ('49), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Karen COLE ('55), Helen CROSS ('62)
Peg SHEERAN ('63), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Mike FRANCO ('70)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom TRACY ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon BROOKS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna BOWERS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan LAWSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean ARMSTRONG ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwayne WILSON ('81)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)

Re: Genealogy and Richland memories

So much fun reading the genealogy and memories of Richland past!
Great maps, Maren. Our histories, past, can bring to us both
delight, surprise and embarrassment! Fortunately, for me, my
relatives from my past spent many years putting together a
fabulous two inch book "The Upson Family in America" so I could
just enjoy their endeavors without doing any of the pain of
putting it all together. When I received the book, I could hardly
wait to open the first page!! I found, to my delight, that Thomas
Upson arrived in Hartford, CT in 1638. Thomas did acquire some
parcels of land, etc. in Hartford~~but Thomas also found the first
pub and was fined 20 schillings for unseasonable and immoderate
drinking!! His eldest son, Thomas, evidently found the pub too
as it is mentioned he was run over ~~ on his head ~~ by an oxen
cart! To give credit to the thousands of Upsons, some quite
famous, in all of the wars but doing great things all over
America, I will say the book has given our family many ohhs and
ahhs and surprises and great pride. So do dig up your past it
brings great joy.

On to the Village Theatre [on GWWay]. I was a junior in 1948 and
went to work, as an usher after school, in starving mode, until
the later shift. I remember that I led some of you down the aisle
~~ to your seats ~~ by my trusty flashlight. Yes, there were
westerns at the matinees ~~ but also the usual Hollywood movies.
They would be on for weeks! As you needed me to lead you down, 
in the dark, to your seat you couldn't go down if it was near 
the  end of the movie. Some of you were not too happy standing 
for  30 minutes until all the seated patrons came out through the
curtained doors. I found by memorizing the lines of the female
actresses (which I heard over and over and over) I could go on for
30 minutes, in mute, entertaining you and keeping you happy. Fun
memories! Also, SOME of you were the matinee kids -- grade school
age and many probably writing, now, into the Sandstorm -- your
Moms gave you candy money and when you ate WAY too much -- yeah I
GOT TO CLEAN UP AND SANITIZE the seats and floor!! Well, you are
forgiven and look at all the memories I tucked away! You were ALL
perfect little angels. As was written previously in the Sandstorm,
I can't remember during those two years of work ever seeing 
any damage or anyone cutting the seat fabric, etc. Also, it 
was perfectly safe to leave your kids all afternoon to see The 
Lone Ranger and not have to worry about them. Hey, your trusty
usherette was there to keep any creeps away!! And I KNEW how to
use that flashlight!

My Mom worked for a while at the Thriftway Drug and at one of the
Drug stores, one of you mentioned there was a pharmacist called
Art (I can't remember his last name) who became a friend of our
family and I believe he came to my wedding ~~ in 1952 ~~ in 
Dayton, WA.

Thanks so much for the memories ~~ I had forgotten many of them. 

HOORAY for the Seahawks! 

Bomber Cheers,
-Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Re: Beautiful Downtown Richland
  http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/15/0116-Map1949-Dwntwn.jpg

Rumor had it that what I knew as Ernie's was the original Richland
City Hall with the jail in the basement. I could be wrong about
this, and I'm sure to be corrected.

Not too sure when the Village Theater [on GWWay] became in the
late '50s the Village Theatre home to the Richland Players. I do
recall participating in their production of "Joan of Lorraine" in
1958. In its day, the Village was home to "B" movies, low budget
westerns, and Saturday matinees. The Richland theater [on Biddle]
was given to showing first run "A" movies, and became sort of an
"art" house after the Uptown went widescreen. You could also see
3-D movies at the Richland.

There were two (count 'em, 2) Thrifty Drug Stores. The first was
in downtown [on Biddle] next to the Richland Theater; the second
was in Uptown next to the theater on the Jadwin side.

The bank in downtown was known as the First National Bank. 
Seafirst didn't come into being until sometime later. There was 
also a National Bank of Commerce somewhere, but not to sure of 
its location.
	[See SeaFirst National Bank "history".   -Maren]
    http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/SeaFirst.html

The Cafeteria was known (in my day) as the Merchandise Mart more
commonly known as The Mart (alleged home of French fries and
gravy).

      [FIRST it was the cafeteria for the dorms... apparently
      not for very long... then it became The Mart.  -Maren]

And wasn't the Frontier Tavern slightly larger than shown in the
map?

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR  mourning 
      the loss of a beautiful Bomber Babe
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)

In 1948 when Janice Paige and Roddy McDowell came to Frontier
Days, a cute baby contest was held. This was in the Richland
theater [on Biddle], and the judge was Roddy McDowell. The twins,
Jackie and Judie ('63) were three, adorable, and looked exactly
alike. I believe they won either second or third place.

I can't remember if it was Frontier days of 1948 or 1949, I was in
a square dance group that was part of the scheduled entertainment
that took place in the park. I remember they gave us each a box 
of candy. I remained part of this group until we moved from the
precut on old Goethals to the mansion on Cottonwood. The precut
had three bedrooms and housed all eight of us. The ranch house had
four bedrooms but still one bathroom, (Much to the dismay of the
two males, with six women in the house.) My sister Patti ('52) and
husband Don live in the house now, but it has two bathrooms.

When I was in high school, I worked at the cleaning plant across
from C.C. Anderson's. I had to join the union for $25. I was
making $19 a week. The plant was there only a short while. After
high school I worked for five years at the big pool with Rish. A
totally fun experience

-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Nine Mile Falls, WA   Go Hawks!
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

Thanks again to Pete BEAULIEU (also from the great class of '62). 
I thought I remembered another theater in downtown Richland where
my brother, Roy CROSS ('65), and I used to frequent the Saturday
afternoon matinees. Thanks for confirming that memory.

As I read your entry, Pete (and many others) it becomes very clear
that our young lives were limited by our parents' interests, as I
never heard of or saw the roaring bonfire of Christmas trees
before reading of it in your interesting entry!

Thanks for the enlightenment, Pete.

-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
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>>From: Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)

To: Earl BENNETT ('63)

Re: Richland ? Village Theatre

It was fun reading your entry today, and it brought to mind my
mom, Helen Sheeran (RIP), sewing costumes at the theatre, (and she
probably had to bring brother, Mike ('66), and myself along at
times). Seems she and Mrs. Di Van Wyck worked on things together.
Having been in many musical productions in our small town (Omak)
through the years, I have seen (and helped a bit at times) the
sewing involved in the making of costumes for up to 50 "actors".
How the heck did she have time for that, I now wonder? OUR
costumer spends many hundreds of hours getting costumes ready for
each show, and I never even thought about what those hours would
have been like for Mom, with a large family at home, and all that
she did for us there. I know she just helped, but it's still a big
time commitment. Guess you don't do that kind of thing unless you
love it. (By the way, I was in the barbershop quartet in our 
Music Man production, and we've just started working on our next
musical, "Into the Woods", and I get to play Milky White, the cow
- no words / no singing? no comment, except it's a true sign of
aging...)

-Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)

Re: Robley Johnson's photography
Re: The 1949 Map [with typos fixed] 
  
I do believe you are right about the location of Robley Johnson's
Photography. I had my Jr. picture taken there and my Sr. picture
taken by Jack Zinn.

Was there also a barber shop in the A. B. Murray Building? It
seems that I had a haircut there, then walked across the street
which wasn't there when this map was made, to have my picture
taken. I remember telling them at the barber shop not to cut it
too close because I was having my picture taken and did not want
it to look like I had just gotten a haircut. He took a longer time
than usual and was a very good haircut. I am sure it was not at
Ganzel's but may have been at still another location. I used to 
go to Ganzel's but by then had switched to a small barbershop with
entrance in the back of a store on Wright which was still there a
year or so ago.

OK--finally getting a round tuit to reply to other posts

To: Dwight CAREY ('68)

Re: Johnny Horton "Battle of New Orleans"

I did some research on the history of the song and found not much
than I already knew. It was written by Jimmy Driftwood, a.k.a
James Corbitt Morris, who before his career in folk music was a
teacher and would to write songs about history to spur student
interest.

Re: Math

I want to know why for years I worked at Hanford as a mechanical
and piping designer. I could use trigonometry to calculate things
like if an underground pipe starts at certain coordinate and runs
off at an angle to another coordinate and sloping down, how long
is it? I always got the right answer. So why can't I get my bank
book to balance? It is just addition and subtraction! I have one
on those things we didn't have in High School called a calculator.
I double check my numbers to make sure I am punching the right
keys, and then I check them by adding if it is a withdrawal and
subtracting if it is a deposit. Recently I had too much money
between two checks and went to the bank to see why. She found a
check for $24 cleared between those two checks, and I realized
that was to Maren for the Sandstorm, and thought I must have
forgot to subtract that. Still was not the amount I had as over,
and I did find I had subtracted it. I go back through it, check
and check, sometimes I find it and sometimes I don't. More and
more when there is nothing outstanding and I agree with the bank I
draw a line and write "agree with bank" and if I don't a make a
new line and write, "change to what bank says."

Re: genealogy

I always want to verify what I find on public family trees at
ancestry.com. I find a lot of mistakes. An example is that there
are seven that include my paternal grandfather (probably none are
done by descendants of his). One does not give a death date
and the other six have it as 1936. Is was 1941, at least that is
the date I got from family (his children), it is the date on his
death certificate readily available for free at the Missouri State
Digital Archives, It is the date shown at the free Find-a-Grave
website, and it is the date in his obituary available for free in
the newspaper an Google books.

Re: Checks from parents' financial records.

My dad kept records long past when he needed to and after he was
gone my mother would destroy records she needed to keep. I think
the filing system used was semi-organized chaos. 

I have boxes of their records I need to run through the shredder,
and work on it from time to time. I started to go through a file
box with canceled checks and bank statements. He would tape the
canceled checks to the statement and when he had a pile of them
put them in a big brown envelope and file it.

I found two checks, and only two checks, for after I was born.
There is one to the Hospital 10 days after I was born for $57.75,
and another to the doctor 23 days after I was born for $60.00. Is
this all it cost to bring a child into the world in those days? I
would think that even counting inflation that would be cheap by
today's standards.

I also have a file box that looks like a book you put on the
shelf. It is full of receipts for running the farm from 1935 to
1945. I doubt a historical society or something would even be
interested in anything like this, but since they have been saved
so long it seems a shame to destroy them now.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)

Re: Memories

I remember going to the Uptown Theater on Saturday mornings... we
could get in for the price of a current receipt, so we'd go next
door to Thrifty's and buy a penny candy, then go to the movies
from 9am to noon... we watched westerns, cartoons, news reels,
comedies... we even took our own popcorn in paper bags... we'd
just have enough money to buy a soda from the concession stand.
then, at noon, they made us leave, cause they needed to clean the
theater and get ready for "paying customers" at the 1pm showing.
IF memory serves, we paid 35 cents to get into the movies till we
were 13, then it "jumped" to 65 cents till we were 18, after that
it was 95 cents for everyone else. I also remember going to the
Richland theater [on Biddle] and watching, "South Pacific", but I
always thought the Uptown was a much nicer theater.
 
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ wet and cold in Kuna, ID   I am hoping we
     get more snow, before Winter ends.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: It's here it's here

Finally... I dunno why I thought her anniversary was her birthday
but this Bomb-babe is finally having her 2015 birthday and alla
stuff I said about her on the wrong day still goes... she lets me
sit at the Big kids' table even tho I grageated with her little
bro... now how 'bout that... but she's also a very cool "big sis"
to a kid that has no sisters... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Donna BOWERS
('63) on your special day, January 19, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70 - class year... not age!!)

Cheap movies? Seems to me we had FREE movies at The Uptown Theatre
Saturday mornings. Anyone remember those? Very early '60s.

-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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