Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/06/16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 Bombers sent stuff: Dennis HAMMER ('64) David RIVERS ('65) Pam DeVRIES ('67) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary COLLINS ('63) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Harvey Hershel IRBY, Jr. ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Willie MITCHELL ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam PYLE ('69) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From:Dennis HAMMER ('64) To: John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83 & '84) Re: Great Post "JP" from Wetter Washington I mean Western Washington. We need more from you younger Bombers. Maybe you could turn your wet-side siblings on to the Sandstorm, or maybe some other classmates you grew up with. Seems it was not uncommon to have a Sandstorm with fifteen or more entries. Now we seldom have more than five or six. I think I am running out of things to say. If there were more posting on the Sandstorm might trigger something else for me to post. Learned something new from your post. I did not know that President Nixon had visited the 300 area in 1972, I was outta town most of 1972 visiting Vietnam for the last time. Some of the nostalgia posted I don't remember because we didn't move here until summer of 1961, but I still like to hear about it. Except for two years at WSU and time in the Navy I stayed in Richland until 1992 and moved from a "B" house to an apartment in Kennewick. By that time I was getting tired of living in the Tri-Cities because it was getting too big for me. I am a small town kinda guy having gone to grade school in a town with population of about 800, and Jr. High through Freshman high school actually about three miles out of another town. I like visiting Seattle and Portland, but I sure would not want to live there. I had been thinking all along I would stay in that apartment, then retire and buy a house in some small town. However, my wife wasn't going to hear of it and when they raised my rent by $150 and I said, "If I'm going to be making a house payment, I might as well be buying a house." Actually, unless there were two of them, that X-rated circle drive-in was on Keene Rd not far from the new Yoke's store. Wife's cousin built a house on the hill just across the road from it. Was still there but may have no longer been open for business and shortly after building the house they moved the road to where it ran through it. Seems like in those days the two main ways to leave Richland heading west were to go to the Richland Wye, turn, and head out that way or by going through West Richland. Those two roads joined near Benton City. Re: The Duke and his Oscar In the May 28, 2016, Alumni Sandstorm I wrote of a skit I had seen I thought on "The Carol Burnett Show" where John Wayne and Lee Marvin on the trail bedding down with their Oscars. Well, I found it. It wasn't Carol Burnett; it was a tribute to John Wayne. Lee Marvin was in the skit, but the Duke was played by another actor -- John Wayne was however in the audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dp-HmJk7KQ Re: Lowell Thomas (Sr. & Jr.) High Adventure to Tibet In the October 20, 2009, Alumni Sandstorm I mentioned in the '50s watching on that new-fangled thing called television Lowell Thomas and his son about their journey to Tibet in 1949 being the first two westerners invited there. Finally, someone posted it on YouTube. Used to watch programs like "Bold Journey" and "I Search For Adventure" and read books to learn more about those far away and exotic places I was going to visit. What happened? Well... I did get to "The Enchanted Tiki Room" at Disneyland. On the return trip an accident with a horse shattered Lowell Thomas senior's hip in eight places. His son rigged up a litter and two teams of porters carried him out for 25 days. His hip was put back together, but made me think of the improvements in medicine; now days they would just replace the hip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVN4M4l7sc -Dennis HAMMER ('64) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: Bomber tattoos OK boyz 'n' girls... pop quiz... how many of you have Bomber tattoos? Now being all young and cute and seemingly innocent I can tell ya I've been flashed many a tattooed gam from Bomber-babes with Bomber tattoos... being a total gentleman I am loathe to give names but you babes know who you are... there are also several Bomber guys who I would not have taken for canvas, but some have fooled me with their Bomber tats... One ('61) keeps giving one of his buddies ('61) crap about not having our school displayed on his bod... but the other guy reminds him that he already has around 27-29 (I'm pretty sure it's an odd number which means it is prolly 26) works of art displayed... I have very fleetingly thought of having the one on my right leg redone like the one Uncle Burt ('59) has on his shoulder, but the memory of the artist and the circumstances of its acquisition are too special to deface it... now it's not the balanced artwork we normally think of... it was an off-handed sketch... I think when Jimmy HEIDLEBAUGH ('65) and I decided to go get tattooed, we figured the kid at the shop would be familiar with the artwork... WRONG... so it's a little lop-sided and all but the day is still fresh in my memory... especially of Terry DAVIS ('65) telling Jack KEENEY ('65) to slap me on my right calf that evening... dang that hurt! My other is on Rat Fink's t-shirt on my left calf... so I am pretty well covered... in any event... I think that's a fair lead in to one birthday today... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mary COLLINS ('63) and Harvey IRBY ('64) on your special day, October 6, 2016!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Pam DeVRIES Laughery ('67) Re: '67 Missing Classmates The '67 in '17 50 year class reunion will be held September 15-16, 2017 [Yes, NEXT year}. Currently the committee is looking for contact information for the classmates at this link: '67 Missing If you are able to provide any information please let me know. -Pam DeVRIES Laughery ('67) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* That's it for today. Please send more. *************************************************************