Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/21/15
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11 Bombers sent stuff: 
Shannon CRAIG ('50), Dick WIGHT ('52)
Margaret EHRIG ('61), Annette HALL ('62)
Donni CLARK ('63), Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)
John CAMPBELL ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Tedd CADD ('66)
Clif EDWARDS ('68)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Claris VAN DUSEN ('48)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony DURAN ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judi WILSON ('65) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leona Mari ECKERT ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janey ZWICKER ('71)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Shannon CRAIG (Watkins-Gross) Hightower ('50) 

Wish I knew all you "kids" who are stirring up these memories.
Yes, I held hands with my now husband, Bill HIGHTOWER ('49), in
the old Richland theater [on Biddle] and we saw "Young Men and
Their Flying Machines". That was in '48-'49. Was friends, and had
lots of Sunday dinners, with the jeweler (George James) at that
old drugstore. 

I did hear that when Muscles' family retired and moved somewhere
in California that he was hit by a car when riding his bike --
would like to know if that's true or what. 

One of the first "Atomic Frontier Days" parade had a float with
the reining beauty queen and she was Sharon TATE ('61wb-RIP) -- 
the later Charles Manson victim. 

I lived on corner of Symons and Tunis, walked 2.1 miles to High
school, down Symons to Thayer, down Thayer to school. I usually
met Eulaine HULTMAN ('50-RIP) and/or Lois McCRAREY (50-RIP) on
Thayer. At the time we moved there, ours was the last block. The
next street - Wright - was the edge of town. Later the ranch
houses were built and town extended to a block past Cottonwood.

-Shannon CRAIG (Watkins-Gross) Hightower ('50) 
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)

Re: Memory Lane

I'm really enjoying the geographical "memory lane" about Richland.
I just lived here for 3 years or so, left in January, '52 with
frequent visits home over the years until 1978 when my father
died.

We moved back here last fall, and are still "learning our way
around". I was astounded to see that Richland has migrated south,
clear down to Badger Mountain area. And some of that development
down that way is 20 or more years old! Wow! Why didn't Kennewick
expand west? When I was a Col-Hi "kid" we lived on Van Giesen
(1104, I think) in a duplex. Later on my father bought a house
over near the river on Harris. My memory is that Van Giesen was,
in the '50s, almost at the north edge of town... some open space
beyond that, and then North Richland was mostly an Army camp 
(NIKE missile battalion, I think). It is now a large complex of
attractive permanent buildings, wide streets with big trees lining
them, some upscale condos down on the river. Wow! Battelle Labs
has a big complex, and Washington State U. has a campus there,
with a new building housing a program for grape growing/wine
making students and experimentation.

My wife and I bought a decent "town home" in a complex of 40 of
them, off a street called Smartpark, that wasn't here years ago.
We are just west of Hanford High, not far from GWWay. I think 
this area was dormant farm land and a cherry orchard or two 
"back when". Just west of us a mile or so is an almost-completed
structure that I'm told is going to be the biggest cold storage
facility in the U.S., certainly an indication of growing
agriculture in this region.

What continues to puzzle me is the number of office buildings
surrounding us and to the north of us - there must be thousands 
of folks working here... doing what??? And big trucks roll down
Stevens/Rt 240, aggregate trucks carrying dirt or something! Plus
a railroad spur goes out into the Hanford area... for what? Trains
do roll north and south not far from our home... Lots going on
around here, some of which is (of course) connected with site
clean up and control of nuclear waste.

Richland's past is fascinating, and it's present activity is
interesting and intriguing as well!

-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ in sunny Richland   high in the low 50s today!
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>>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)

Re: Early Memories

To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

I think the building you remember as the Tri-City Herald was
actually the Columbia Basin News. It was near Bell Furniture. They
are usually being picketed because their press men in the printing
shop in Pasco were non-union and the Tri-Hard (as my mother called
it) was union. the Basin News was the morning paper and the Tri-
Hard was the evening paper in town. Mother worked off and on for
the Columbia Basin News in the Richland office as society editor.
Many of you were included at one time or another in their Saturday
picture feature page. They would pick a topic "Keys" or "Wheels"
and think of six or eight different items that would fit the topic
and then Robley Johnson and Mother would go out and take photos of
them. They would include people with the item. Mother found that
my group of friends was a good source of "victims" when we were in
high school. I had some of the original photos until our 50 year
reunion when I gave them to the "victims" that I could find.

-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
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>>From: Annette HALL Bundrant ('62)

Downtown Thrifty Drugs. It was Art Meyers (sp?). He gave me my
first job. Gift wrapping at Christmas. Then the soda and lunch
counter. Then when I hit 16 I got to cashier. Started my whole
life there.

-Annette HALL Bundrant ('62)
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)

Re: True Confessions

It is time for True Confessions. 

The Richland Village Theater [on Biddle] at one time around 1962
played only ADULT movies. I know because one night my boyfriend
(who was older than I) got me in. I was terrified they would find
out my true age but I managed somehow to look the part of an
older woman! Ha! I would never forget it because the movie
showing that night was a double feature. The first was "The Sky
Above and the Mud Below". A true National Geographic documental
wonder! (So embarrassing!) Then the next was something like "La
Dolce Viva". Don't remember that... we may have walked out. Now
this is not something I would have normally done and I hope 
my Lutheran classmates aren't reading this! It was a truly
scandalous thing I did at that time. Then in 1965 when I was
pregnant with my first child, Mrs. Foster, Connie ('63), Lucy ('65),
and I went to see "The Sound of Music" there at Richland Village
Theater when it first came out. That was a far better memory!

On that little map, also in 1963 there was a building that I went
in and worked in a little cubby hole in the back of the store for
the Columbia Basin News. I started working there right after I
graduated. I was their Advertising Secretary and did a good job!
However the paper went bankrupt in a month. I lost my job and
never got paid. The people who owned the Farmers Group Insurance
store or business right behind this store liked me and offered me
work there until I left for California at the end of the summer.
I don't know where it was located on the map but I do know it was
in that little strip there somewhere.

OK so now I need some help from those of you who went to
Carmichael in my class of 1963. What are some of your 8th grade
memories? I remember Shelley McCOY ('63-RIP) singing "Great Balls
of Fire" for our 8th grade party in the Cafeteria. I remember the
field trip to Walla Walla that year to see the Mission and the
Prison. Of course there were the Sock Hops on Friday night in the
gym. etc. I have to write a paper per request of my daughter for
my granddaughter who is turning 13 this year on my memories. Help
me out if you can! Can you remember what the name of the record
store was upstairs in some store in Uptown? I do remember going
there to get records.

Thanks and have a wonderful January day. 

-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63) ~ The sun is peeking out between the 
      clouds in the gorge after a few pounding days of rain. 
      I still am loving it! 
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)

Re: Theaters

I remember going with my folks to the post theater at Camp 
Hanford. 

-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)

Re: Richland Memories

Thanks to all the folks who have posted memories of Richland,
especially the '50s. Most of us can convey what it was like to
younger generations. I loved going to the movies, especially
westerns when I was little. I only wish I had such vivid memories
like Jim HAMILTON ('63), who seems to remember it like yesterday.
Heck, I can't remember yesterday all that well. Does anyone
remember the stock-car races in the highlands?

I was looking at some of the old photos in the "Bomber Gallery".
    http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/gal-index.html
It would be great if someone could post more photos of Zip's
during the late '50s and early '60s. So many good times there,
grabbing a burger and talking cars with friends. Happy Days or
Hollywood Knights?

Go 'Hawks!

-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)

Re: "Muscles"

To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

I remember "Muscles" very well. In our neighborhood he was more
commonly known as "Sonny". In the summer he often rode past my
house on Jadwin on his red and chrome Schwinn. We would always
wave to each other, and he would smile broadly and call out, 
"Hey hey, ho ho". As some of you may recall, he always led off 
the Frontier Days parade on his Schwinn each year. He sure was a
fixture around town. His parents' house still stands near the new
Jason Lee, but as for his fate, I don't know, though I recall
reading a story on that somewhere.

Re: the Uptown

I had my first date there at age 14, in 1959, taking Debbie
SKARSHAUG ('64) to see Ben-Hur. Her parents drove us to the
theater and picked us up afterward. Later remember seeing "The
Savage Innocents" there, starring Anthony Quinn, after convincing
my Mom, who was freaked out by the title, that it was about
Eskimos (it was) and not nasty, licentious people caught up in
unbridled lust. But she never would let me go see "The World of
Susie Wong", starring William Holden. Much too dangerous for a
teenage boy.
 
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Bill SCOTT ('64), et al

 Re: Maren's Map
  http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/15/0116-Map1949-Dwntwn.jpg

OK, I don't know why I didn't think of this before. There was
usually advertising by local businesses in the annuals. There 
are ads in the Columbian for '62 and '64, but not for '63.

Jack D. Zinn, 519 Lee Blvd ~ WH 4-3173
Robley Johnson, 711 The Parkway ~ WH 5-7150
     711 Parkway puts it on the same side as Ganzel's)
Wright's Appliance Service, 766 The Parkway ~ WH 6-6169
Pay Less Drugstore, 701 The Parkway ~ WH 6-6195
Roy Davis Furniture, 719 The Parkway ~ (no phone number given)
Mickey's Shoe Renewing, 705 The Parkway ~ WH 5-9160
Ernie's, 800 Geo Wash Way ~ WH 3-3121
Seattle First National Bank, 507 Knight ~ WH 6-6111

The National Bank of Commerce was on the Jadwin side of Uptown
Shopping Center. When they moved out it became a Coin Shop which
is long gone now. Last summer at the Show and Shine for Cool
Desert Nights I walked through one of the passageways between the
GWWay and Jadwin sides by the old NB of C and at the back of the
building was a side door with a sign that said it was a pawn shop.
I didn't go in, but if memory serves, that is where the vault was.

What were those passageways between the sides of Uptown called? A
breezeway maybe? Maybe it is a breezeway in the summer and a
blowhole in the winter.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)

Re: Jadwin and Goethals

Here is a 1953 map of Richland and a 2014 Zip code map. 
  Map 1953 Richland 
  Map 2014 ZipCodes .pdf 
  Map 2014 ZipCodes .jpg

Yes, Jadwin and Goethals did change names. Additionally, what 
is now Goethals was Duane in 1953. I don't know when the names
changed but there were a lot of shifts and new roads in the
central part of Richland from what you can see from the 1953 map
compared to the current one.

-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Clif EDWARDS ('68)

Re: Our "End of Town"

We (my sister, Vernita EDWARDS Loveridge ('65), and I) grew up on
Hunt street just North of Jefferson Grade School. We lived right
at where Wardrop Street used to go through to Gaillard Place.
Sometime in the early '50s they took the road out and we had a
house lot-sized playground between our house and the Wardens.
Wardrop was also the cut-off street for the high school bus, so
the Wardens got to ride and we walked from there all the way to
Col-Hi. Occasionally my best friend's (Ken MEEK ('67) dad, who
owned BB&M Sporting Goods store in the Uptown shopping area, would
give us a ride that far and then we walked to school up to the
time I got my first car. Seems like my other running mate Neal
WOODS ('67) got a car before I did but he was a year older. When I
turned 16 I also got a job at Kaiser's Grocery Store on the corner
of McMurry and GWWay. I worked there all through school and for a
summer or two when I was at WSU. 

Behind our "A" house was Gaillard Place. I remember as a young lad
having the chore of going past the south end of Gaillard Place
(where Kenny lived) and a few houses down there was a lady who
sold watermelons she kept in a refer out back for a quarter. I
would lug the watermelons back to the house. One hot summer the
road was being repaved on Hunt when I had to go get a water melon.
Part way home I dropped the stupid thing in front of the road
workers. One of them saw me and offered a quarter for a piece of
cold melon. Four other men chimed in and I had made a dollar net
profit! They told me when their lunch break was and I bought two
more watermelons and "accidentally" dropped one near them. For
that two weeks of that summer I was rich.

One of the people who lived on Gaillard Place was Dick Donnell,
who wrote and drew the Dupus Boomer cartoons. He showed us kids
his collection one day; the whole cartoon was about the early days
in Handford. Tumble weed storms, half sized back doors in pre-fabs
and looking on the bottom of your coke bottles for a code - not
sure what it was for. Dupus was a likeable goof, who checked the
bottom of his coke bottle by turning the full bottle upside down.
A lot of Dick's cartoons were really funny. I wonder if anyone has
a link to a site with info on Dick and Dupus? 

      [ask and ye shall receive...  -Maren]
     http://colhibomber59.com/dupus/dbndx.htm
       Website by John NORTHOVER ('59-RIP)

Since we were out on the North end of town we swam every day and
lived life easy until we all had to go to work and school. We
thought summer would never end in the spring and would never come
in March and April.

-Clif EDWARDS ('68) ~ from Vancouver WA  our little bedroom 
      community across the creek from Portland.
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