"Bomber Memories"
August 25, 1998
Rick Maddy (67)
OK Ginny -- I put the fries, tarter sauce and the cherry 7-UP in my blender, but it doesn't taste the same. Did I forget the pickle juice? Please send the recipe :0)
Rick Maddy
Ginny Rowe Duve (68)
I've had several requests for the recipe for Zip's tartar sauce so here it is. Remember I said this is the original recipe. What's a cube of mayonnaise???? I was a car hop. Any of you Zip's cooks out there who can interpret this recipe and convert it to a family size portion rather an an army size?
This is straight from the bulletin board in the hallway next to Mary's office:
1 Cube Mayonnaise
2/3 Can Relish
56 Squirts Catsup
50 Squirts Mustard
1 Ounce Garlic Salt
2 Ounces Celery Salt
1/3 Can Pickle Juice
Enjoy!
Ginny
Steve Oak (67)
Spudnuts!
I moved to Richland in 1960 just in time to be in Mr. Yance's last 6th grade class at Sacajawea Grade School (I think he moved on to high school). He worked a second job (seems to be the requirement for most teachers...unfortunately) at the Spudnut Shop in Uptown. The big treat was when he would bring us the holes...made us all spudnut addicts for life.
The thing I remember most about Richland is the great water skiing. I have never skied any where else that is better and most places are terrible in comparison. I remember cruising the shoreline in my old Renault 4CV (this is when it was still pronounced with a "t" at the end) with my ski down the middle of the front seats looking for friends with a boat in the water for a quick ski. Some of the best summers of my life.
Pat Bezzio (63)
Subject: When Kennedy was shot and other brief topics
Well, I was attending a Catholic university when Kennedy was shot - imagine the uproar! The only really clear memory I have now, though, is that those of us in the University Chorale were rushed over to rehearse briefly for a requiem mass, which I believe we performed that day or the very next day.
We had only recently (that same autumn) sung the Mass of the Holy Spirit at St. James Cathedral - the pageantry (all professors wore those academic, medieval-style robes in the colors of their own universities, many priests and altar boys, and guys chanting and playing organ along with us up in the choir loft) was truly incredible. The requiem for Kennedy was a bare-bones affair held on campus, but it and the tragic event of his death made a profound impression on all of us.
I wonder if our classmates Rosemary Qualheim and Gary Bartram were at this Requiem
Things I was wondering if anyone else remembers:
The goofy names of the streets in North Richland - trailer court area - Cosmic Lane, Proton Lane, Log Lane - and since the abbreviation for Lane is "Ln", the sign for the latter read, of course, Log Ln.
I am pretty sure that some place - Spudnut Shop? made lemon soft ice cream.
Also, it was considered revolutionary when Popsicle came out with new flavors - two I recall were blue raspberry and white licorice. And remember how there was a science to breaking the popsicles down the middle - any kid who goofed had to take the tops and not have a stick.
Has anyone mentioned Tangee natural lipstick yet - sometimes a girl whose mom wouldn't let her use real lipstick would be allowed to use Tangee natural.
There was that ritual of how the jr. high boys would find the outgoing 6th grade girls, the ones they considered "cool", at the drugstore or similar places, and smear them with lipstick. Those who did not get smeared were already suspected of not being "cool". And somehow, even though it was still summertime, word got out as to who got smeared.
P.S. No, I did not get smeared. I wore braces and glasses and was good in science and math, and to top it all off, my mom did not let me wear any type of lipstick!
Katie Sheeran Johnson (61)
Subject: A PENNY'S WORTH OF INFO
Just thought I'd add some info. First off, Gene Conley graduated in 1948.
About 1980, I was working in a place called Jazz Plus down in Waikiki and we booked Larry Coryell for a week. He played to a packed house every night and after the shows we had a chance to talk about the old Richland days.
Oh, and did you know that Sharon Tate appeared in quite a few of the Beverly Hillbillies shows? That was soon after she left Europe. She was the secretary to the secretary of the bank. They had her in a black wig to disguise her and Jethro always had a crush on her.
Katie (Sheeran) Johnson
Ned Barker and Susan Birge Barker
(59)
Gene [Conley] was in a class sometime after 1945. He was the center on the first team that went to "STATE". By the way they played in what everyone refers to as the girls gym. My father E.R. (Joe) Barker was the coach at that time. My sister is Jan Barker who I think was in the class of 56 or 57.
To Ken Heminger: I also went to john ball grade school. what a experience it was. I remember it well the bomb shelter in the ditch out back, and all the huts and the cafeteria where everything was held. I only lived across the parking lot in the trailers at that time.
Ray Hall (57)
Hi friends! Thought I would share some memories of the early years in Richland. I moved to Richland in October of 1948. My dad opened the Richland jewelry store at the corner of Lee and George Washington Way. Our government house was at the corner of Stevens and Wilson. I will never forget the famous dust storms we had. I can visualize one in particular when mom and I were leaving the jewelry store to go home and it was so dusty that she had to have here lights on the car and started heading to Kennewick it was so bad: I informed her to turn around and get headed in the right direction. I remember, to young, the liquor store was behind the jewelry store and on Friday evenings the lines would wrap around on GW Way. Some of you may remember Hurts Apparel in the same building as ours, and naturally you all remember the Village Theatre; where on Saturdays we could pay 12 cents to get in, buy 3 boxes of popcorn and a hershey bar and still have two pennies left from a 50 cent piece; my how times have change. On the other side of the theatre was a rose garden that was maintained by the Rose Society. then the Desert Inn Hotel was the cities only place to stay overnight. i used to get my haircut there or at Ganzels barber shop. you guys remember the great black man that shined shoes called otis; he was very nice to everyone; and how many chairs did that shop have, seemed like 20 or so, anyway a lot. i would entertain my self in the old recreation hall. I remember the manual pin setters in the bowling lanes there and the 30 or so pool tables, quite the hang out and we kids could go into the pool hall to play. As I remember it had a restaurant there also. Then the community house at the other end. I spent many a day there playing ping pong, pool and shuffleboard. I think Al Maurica, and Ernie Curtis were the directors. Riverside Park as it was then called had many games for us to play. No for you younger graduates that is what is know Howard Amon Park. And the old bus depot with its music blaring out over the area, what is now the Jackpot. a very busy place as people took the bus to the basin area for work and the bus was a major way to travel at that time. those softball games by the bus depot. i can remember them starting at 4pm and lasting until late evenings. great games to watch. Another place was the Mart, corner of Knight Street and Jadwin, but someone else has talked about that place. we would take the ferry in North Richland to go hunting across the river in the blocks. I often wished that I was older when this place was being developed. I don`t think the younger people can appreciate what a fast growing town we lived in. I remember selling trees that my neighbor, Mr Christensen, had purchased to the people in North Richland. At one time it was the world`s largest trailor court. I can remember just barren dust that their trailors would sit on and they were happy to purchase a tree for 25 cents. They would wash there clothes at building, brick, that the government built for the residents North Richland had a theatre called the North Star i believe, and even a big department store in which we even had a jewelry section. John Ball school was there, and i think, not sure, that a bowling alley was there also. i went to the old Sacajawea school, corner of Williams and Stevens, went to the great Chief Joseph Junior High School, we were Warriors then, they call themselves Eagles now, but it will be Warriors to me. went to the great Columbia High School. Many memories of Dutch Haag and Mcintosh trying to catch smokers between classes. We had a pretty good system of notifying the smokers who was on the prowl. I didn`t smoke but was one who would kind of keep watch.
I enjoyed writing this and reading all of your others. Brings back memories, that I can honestly say were great.
Hope to hear more about the history of this great town. We not only lived hear, but we are the history.
Ray
Pat Vaché (60)
I am a Cougar-Bomber, class of 60. From our home in West Richland, I think that I went (by bus) to every grade school in Richland, but one, even John Ball in North Richland. It was at John Ball that we got to practice hiding from "the bomb" in a large trench in back of the school.
Last moth the local museum held a display Smithsonian display of WWII posters. My mind immediately took me back to C.C. Andersons and the scary posters reminding us to that at every turn there might be a spy or other evil lurking about.
Margaret (Peggy) Hartnett (72)
Here's my entry into the Where Were You When JFK....." well, at the moment I was in Mrs. Nichola's 4th Grade class at Christ the King, as I recall we immediately hit the aisles on our knees, the rest is pretty common to everyone's memories until later that evening, My older sister Mary Mike (61) was getting married the next day, whether it is family lore or the truth, Father Sweeny asked her if she wanted to postpone the wedding, but people had come from out of town, etc. When we went to the rehearsal that night the church was draped in black, somewhat ominous. Next morning the church wasn't in black, just everyone's mood but the wedding went on and since Irish/Catholic wakes and weddings call for the same sort of behavior.........so that's my memory.
Irene Smith Gostnell Goodnight (59)
I was just sitting here reading today's Online Sandstorm (truly a miracle, the paper we all can read and write an article for at the same time and I just thought of Flattop. No one has mentioned it that I've noticed. When we moved out to West Richland I was 16, but we had been building our house on Canal Drive since I was 6. The family built it ourselves on weekends and evenings after work and school - a great family project. It kept us from having to get a teevee for years - we were never home! But us kids went up Flattop many times over those years, and I remember running down all the way without stopping, or tripping and falling, rolling back up on my feet again and running on, flyyy-ingggg, that was a trip!!!
In 1959 after I graduated I bleached my hair in the canal with Joyce Farley egging me on. We used a 4 oz bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and while it was wet it didn't look much lighter, so we just kept pouring it on til the bottle was empty. Of course it was almost white when it dried!! Looked smashing with my black eyebrows and glasses! My dad took one look at me and said if I ever did that again I would have to move out. Of course I'd never have done it again anyway.
That was also the summer that I was "Carp Queen of '59" for loaning Dave Stiles and some other guys my dad's pitchfork to go carping in the Yakima at the end of our land out there. I don't remember them ever stabbing any carp though.....
Irene Smith Gostnell Goodnight
Jack Grouell (61)
Subject:Larry Coryell Correction,
Larry Coryell was class of 1961. I had a couple of celebration drinks with Larry and my cousin Bill Grouell (also class of '61) in Bill's dark green '54 Merc Sunvalley (Plexiglas top!).
Time for a new celebrity Thread? Who remembers Beth Pederson (class of '61 of course). She sang around the NW for a long time. I have a record titled Beth and Cinde recorded in 1977 in Sandpoint Idaho. Does anybody know if she recorded anything else?
Still working on a list of things I remember, but for now, Does anyone remember Tiger Gentle and his parking stall name change? Or the disappearance of his beloved star chart? I have the details!
Mr Scott, the Physics teacher: He had a VW microbus. One of the big things to do at lunch was for a bunch of guys to pick it up and turn it sideways in the parking stall. I think on time it wound up on the steps in front of (Help me here, what was the annex building called). [Mac Hall -- MacIntosh]
John Northover (59)
For those that remember what great burgers By's cooked ... How many remember sometime in '58 or '59, By's was shut down for a few days by the food inspector due to some mix-up with the butcher ... seems as though there was a little more equine mixed in with the bovine, than there should have been ... or the shipments from the butcher got mixed up with what was supposed to go to the dog pound ... Regardless ... they sure did taste good!!! I do not remember any one getting ill over a little equine burger ... or that it kept anyone from returning as soon as they re-opened.
In response to Gloria Falls Evans (58) Sharon Tate was the Sophomore Princess at the '59 Bomber Home Coming, along with Katie Sheeran, Junior Princess's Sandy Stice and Cheryl Weihermiller, Senior Princess's Sandy Witherup and Betty Baker, AND Judy Rees the Queen of the Ball! ... which would put her in the Class of '61.
John
Janice Mulroy Wick (58)
Regarding JFK and the day he came to Hanford and the day he died. I was married and was home vacuuming the living room when my phone rang and my mother was screaming turn on your TV the president has been shot. My husband had just left to go to Pasco for something and heard it on the radio and turned around and came back home. Like everybody else we never left the TV for 5 days and were in total disbelief that he had been assassinated.
When he came to Hanford my husband (Roger) was a State Patrolman. He was one of the 8-10 chosen to be on the honor guard for Kennedy. He was on the stage right by him. What a thrill for both of us. I was left to fin for myself in crowd and I was rabid about getting close enough to see him. I was practically on the land pad when his helicopter landed!! When he was leaving and walking by the people I was right there and got a fast movie picture of him.
Janice Mulroy Wick
Micki Spears Rose (61)
It has been incredible to read all the memories that we have in common.
We are, indeed, a very unique group.All of us that were born here or lived here during the war years, when it was Hanford, up until the military left (1961-62) lived and shared a very different reality from most other children growing up in the United States at that time. I am curious whether the families of Oak Ridge, TN (the only community that might have been the same), have this same intense connected awareness, or is it just us Richlanders?. I think it would be interesting to contact their High School and see if some of them are interested in sharing their stories as group recollection, and if their stories have a thread of similarity since they were raised in the only other situation similar to ours. War stories that my father told me were that the first atomic bomb (Hiroshima) originated from their location, and the second (Nagasaki) from Hanford. My father worked for DuPont (at Oak Ridge) in 1942, and was sent here as one of that first group of "Manhattan Project" engineers in 1943.
I was born in February of 1943 and took my first steps later that year in the trailor camp called Hanford. We moved to 1616 Perkins (a two bedroom pre-fab) then to a "Ranch House" at 633 Cedar Street where I went to Marcus Whitman (Kindergarten and half of first grade) and then to an "A" house at 514 Delafield (Hazel and Arlene Gruver lived next door) where I went to Lewis and Clark Elementary (we played in one of the authentic canoes from the L&C expedition for years before someone realized that we were tearing a piece of history apart and moved it to the Sacajawea Park site), then on to Carmichael Jr High and then Col Hi. In the 3d grade we had moved down the street to another "A" house at 509 Delafield that my parents bought in 1957 for 7,900.00. They still live in that house and I sleep in my old bedroom when I visit my parents.
Sharon Tate was indeed from my class of 1961. I was a Carmichael kid, so I first really knew her from our Sophomore year at Col Hi. I don't think I have ever met anyone as beautiful, both physically and spiritually. She had a very sweet nature and was kind and loving to everyone. She was one of the least snobbish persons I have ever met. She would be as likely to seek out and walk to class with a "nobody" (high school hierarchy) as she would one of the "cheerleaders". I personally witnessed this many times. I believe that the year we were 16 (1959), she held these titles:
Miss Frontier Days
Miss Richland
Miss Tri-Cities
Miss Water Follies
Miss Auto-Rama
Robley Johnson Photography also won a national contest with a picture of her in a straw hat that year. It was such a beautiful picture. It hung in the window of his studio for years. I wonder if Bill Johnson ('61) would have a copy of it in his fathers files? She always looked and acted so serene and composed for a girl our age, and was eons ahead of all of us in compassion and grace. It is so hard to understand the event that took her life, and the life of her baby. Vicky Fitzgerald ('61) was one of her best friends, and would be able to fill in a lot of details about her before she left to move to Italy with her family, and I know she continued to corresponded with Sharon for some time after she left Richland. I will look for her address, or maybe someone else has it on hand and can contact her. She might be able to confirm the titles that Sharon held that year we were all 16, I know she had many...and deserved them all. So many other "beauty queens" are only superficially beautiful, while anyone who ever met or knew Sharon will attest...she was "truly" an exquisitely beautiful person ...from the inside out.
Do any of you from that year (1959) remember "squash heels"? Actually, I think Sharon Tate started that craze at school...I remember her having the first pair I ever saw...cream white ones. I nearly put my parents into fits that same evening to get to the store to find mine. Within a week there wasn't a pair available in the Tri Cities. Girls were driving to Walla Walla to get theirs...ah! the joys of high school fads...but it was so simple then...just a pair of shoes with a squashed down heel.
I do remember the white lipstick too, the Bridgitte Bardot look. And, in 1960, the exchange student that taught us all to "rat" our hair (later called 'teasing")? I have forgotten her name, but she was from Italy and years ahead of Richland in fashion. It didn't take long for us to get the hang of it though, and we went into the 60's with beehives and ratted french twists to be proud of.
Reading these stories that could so easily have my name instead of the authors and it would be my own authentic experience is fascinating. My mother worked at The Mart and I remember Muscles so clearly and how my mother taught me to be compassionate and not make fun of those who were different...good lessons. The Village theatre where, on Saturdays, you could get 2 main features (Roy Rogers,Tarzan, Lash LaRue, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger...I guess we were big on westerns) plus 2 cartoons and a serial. The price?...a whopping 25 cents. That also included popcorn and a candy.
Unfortunately, my brother and I had to walk past the downtown Richland theatre to get to the Village. I was older and a real adventurous kid...so I talked him into going to see the House of Wax in 3-D one Saturday instead of the kiddie show. Big Mistake. Scared both of us half to death with nightmares, and when we broke and told...the teller got in trouble for letting us in.
Micki (Spears) Rose
David Rivers (65)
I lived next to Jerry. Vonnie, Sharon, Larry, Johnny and Billy Lipke from god knows when till 2d grade. My mom still talks about those kids all the time. I got the address for Gene Conley from Bo Belinski, an old Angels friend of mine. I remember meeting him one time. My dad took me to his folks' house and all I had for him to sign was an old chewed up ball my dog had got. He signed it and I still have it. You can no longer even see his name...but I know it's there. Bo said the first time he met Gene, he also met Wilt the Stilt. He said he felt like he was standing between two redwoods.
Susie Dill Atlee (64)
I remember vividly what I was doing when JFK was killed. I was one of those students who "worked" in the school office during my free period. That's where I was...with Sharon (Sasser) Warren, who also worked in the office. I had forgotten how compelling the TV coverage was 'til Karen (Kaas) Foster brought it up. We were glued to the television from the time of the assassination 'til the funeral. Remember John-John saluting his Dad's casket? Hard to believe it was soooo many years ago.
Does anybody else remember heading to Zips for lunch during school for our usual order of fries, tartar sauce, and a Vanilla coke with extra vanilla? This was a daily routine for many of us! Don't think I've had fries quite that good since. :o)
Susie (Dill) Atlee
Tony Tellier (57)
SUBJECT: Also Richland's own Chessmen were one of
the best of the local Rock and Roll groups.OK, then how about Galen Walley and the Pyramids ....
Tony
Carol Carson Renaud (60)
I love reading all these "memories". I loved the one about Mrs. LaBorde. Boy - did we think she was a witch at times.
Does anyone remember Tim's (down across from the Richland Cemetery)? One side was for families and the back part was for all of us kids to sit around, drink cokes and eat french fries and try to pretend we were ignoring the opposite sex! What a life.
Keep all the memories coming.
Carol (Carson) Renaud
