Yvonne Pope (Uhrich)

Steve Hagensicker

I put this up a few months ago on FB, and several people had fun with it. I'm blessed (cursed?) with a good memory, so this isn't close to everything I could list. Have fun and see what else you can come up with. I'm adding it here for those who don't have the link to the Class of 71 FB page.

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Do you remember?
Star Lite Drive In
Liberty Theatre
Killingsdads
Wrights Music Store
Tom Thumb (Slot Cars)
Skating Rink on North Ave
Trampolines in Eastway Parking lot
Walkers Hardware
Eastway Pharmacy
Walters Drug Store
Dairy Queen by the park
Giffens
3 B's
In-N-Out burgers
Ball Funeral Home (Now Sunnyside Museum)
Rasco's Dime Store
Haskins
Green Valley Implement on 6th
Circle L gas station
Kranz 88 Cent Store
Denos
Camaros, Chevelles, GTOs, Firebirds, Mustangs, Cudas, Challengers, Chargers...... all cruising the ave Fridays and Saturdays
Teen Beat from 8 to 10 PM on KREW
Pied Piper muffler shop
Bowdens
32 cent a gallon premium 104 octane gas
Playing pinball at the old bowling alley (now mini mall)
Pats Pool Hall
Old National Bank
Jims Texaco
Lucky Dollar
Super Duper
Red Baron
Chatterbox Pizza
The original Chief Kamiakin school
Ken Curry Ford
Denny's Cycle Shop
Tree's Market
Planters Hotel
Amundsons Hardware
Arctic Circle
Humbyrd Pawn Shop
Sunny Grand Speedway
Manferd at the A&W
Manferd at Bobs Drive In
Prairie Market
Totem Sales
Bill and Vi's Market
Roller Rink at 5th and Decatur
Bear up the tree on Zillah Ave
Bent tree in the park
Races on Sheller, Emerald and Washout roads
Going over those damn railroad tracks on 6th street........ SLOW!
Carnation Milk Plant
Sonic Booms
Fireworks were legal, firecrackers and all!

Yvonne Pope (Uhrich)

Steve these are great!  I had forgotten about some of them and some of them I still don't remember. :)

There was also the Denny Blaine school.  I went to 1st grade there.  They condemned the top floor and moved the upper classes to Kamiakan during the year (maybe it was during 2nd grade?), leaving us to finish the year there.

The "Housing Project"

I also went to Kindergarten in what I think was the old Sheriff's Offices by the Housing Project.  There were two Kindergarten classes held there.

410 Market

Safari Room

Linda Differding (McIntosh)

I love that list, Steve. Brought back a lot of memories. Does anyone remember Perry's Corner; a store in the country on the corner of Emerald and Midvale Roads. As a kid we used to collect pop beer bottles and cash them in at the store and bought candy. I lived on Alexander Road about a mile from there. My siblings and I also wrote a fake note from our Mom to purchase cigarettes and we would smoke them. I didn't really start smoking until after I was married and had my first baby in 1973, but I quit for good in January of '95. Thank goodness! Don't miss them at all.

Sandra Lutjemeier (Gillihan)

need help w/names :) written on the back of pic "Absent: Terry Green, Donna Grigsby, Rosemary Cunningham" Think I recognize the Arnold twins, Whitney Williams, Karen Carlyle, Suzanne Lones, Sherrie Dow, Barry Morrow, Mark Wyatt, David Hole & Terry Orth. I'm in the front, 4th from the right. Pls make identity comments on the Users Forum. TY!

Scott Drysdale

Steve, that is an incredible list.  My how I wish Sunnyside still existed so I could show it to my kids.  Some memories:

The trampolines at Eastway:  My older sister and I went there once.  She and I both remember that late summer afternoon.  It was one of those beautiful times when the sunset just stretched forever it seemed.  Remember those pale blue skies that gradually changed hues, especially if there were some clouds around?  Funny, I remember, maybe because she was older and the way the world turned but I think of Vietnam and that it was going on at that time.  How crazy is that for mental association?  By the way, I am not saying that in the morbid sense of "oh my gosh, what a terrible tragedy."  My mind just juxtaposes the carefree nature of what we were doing while soldiers who I would later serve with were being heroes.

For the list:

Dickinson Seed Mill at around 11th and the NP tracks

The Northern Pacific depot near 6th and the Union Pacific depot near the pool

Sugar beet trains in the autumn, about the only time there were long trains in Sunnyside

Think I was crazy about trains?  LOL.  Well, I got it out of my system.  After leaving active duty I went to work as a planning analyst for Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco.  Part of the management development program was to teach the annual 20 recruits a trade.  For me, that meant passing the brakemen and switchmen class at West Oakland yard.  During an internship on the Oregon Division I put those skills to work riding on trains and studying traffic/work flows.  I'd often lend the crews a hand which impressed them that an "officer" actually got his hands dirty and knew what he was doing.  After grad school, I became a manager of planning at Conrail in Philadelphia for the auto and steel group.  That was by far the firm's biggest revenue generator.  Didn't ride many trains then, mostly passenger trips on business along the Northeast corridor.  Anyway, I absolutely loved watching trains in Sunnyside. 

Scott Drysdale

Also, El Baille Grande Mexican dance at about 5th as I recall.  I think it was Roscoe Sheller's original Ford dealership site.

Anybody besides me read Sheller's "Me and the Model T"?

And car dealerships.  C. Speck's, the old Dodge dealership north across the street from Pennys and behind the Shell station that used to sit on the corner of sixth; the Rambler dealership on sixth that became an empty parking lot right in the middle of town and became a great place to sit and watch cruising cars go by, Ken Curry Ford, later Morrow Mercury (I think).

Speaking of Ken Curry Ford, I ran into Bill Curry years later at a business luncheon in Seattle.  He was an exec with Keytronics over in Spokane.  Talk about technology change.  The original IBM PCs all came with pretty mediocre keyboards.  Keytronics developed relatively smarter keyboards and sold a bunch.  The company rocketed up and utterly collapsed as the software on the PC itself made the keyboard's smarts obsolete and keyboard manufacturing became a pure commodity, low-margin, way lower priced business.

Scott Drysdale

Before it was Denny's Cycle Shop, it was Pomeroys Cycle.  Old man Pomeroy and some other guys in Sunnyside were pals with Evil Knievil.  I remember Knievel popping a noise and long wheely at a Sunshine Days Parade on 6th.  He was ticketed for wreckless driving.  LOL.  My dad thought Knievel was a horse's ass.  I gotta think Knievel didn't care about the ticket or what my dad thought.  Ya think?

Steve Hagensicker

Hey Scott

You mention trains :-) We used to visit relation in Missouri by train. One trip in 67, we went four weeks by train ahead of dad. The night we got there, a Wed, I started not feeling good. Long story short, I got to meet the same doctor again that delivered me in that same hospital in 53. He removed my appendix Friday, two days later. I left the hospital two weeks later with a large bag of firecrackers since it was the 4th of July. Man, Linda was a HOT nurse :-)

Always liked trains. When I was younger, I wanted to touch a train wheel. They just looked cool. Mom stopped one time at the tracks on sixth, I got out of the car and touched a train wheel. Fetish accomplished :-)

My draft (lottery) number was 364. I was driving in front of Lucky Dollar while they were naming dates and numbers. To say the least, I was a bit happy over not being number one for the draft. I sure the hell didn't want to go to Naam.

Denny Morrow's first bike shop was right next to 410 Market, then he moved to the location west on Hiway 12 that used to be Pomeroys. I worked there for four years after he sold it to Gene Macintire. It was Sunnyside Yamaha-Honda. Slow times, (if the farmers in the valley aren't making it, many business's that rely on them have to cut back) Gene dropped Yamaha line and people got laid off, me included. 6 months later, Denny opened the Yamaha franchise at Denny Morrow Ford. (Used to be Ken Curry Ford) on 6th street. I went to work there running the Yamaha parts and also working Ford parts. Sigh, slow times again, got laid off in the winter. (I had also worked there when it was Ken Curry Ford)

I'm glad you enjoyed the list. I remember a lot more, but I figured I had to leave room for others :-)

Like:

Kellog Corner
The rendering plant........

Better stop there, don't want to get myself going again!

Donna Grigsby (Oswalt)

I still have AND use a clother hamper I purchased from Kranz 88 cent Store.  Things were made to last back then.  I think it still has the price tag on it too!!!

Steve Hagensicker

The only thing I can think of I still have I bought there is a Matchbox Rolls Royce Silver Shadow.

Randy Hendricks

Yvonne - Here is a pic of one of the kindergarden classes at the housing project..do I remember that place..it's where I spent my formative years (3-A Rainier Court). Jimmy Castilla lived there, The Guzmans, Karst, Sheryl and Keith Brandsma and many more I can't recall. In the pic I am 3rd from the left in the center row. Right to the left of me is Jeanie Harker and next to her is Gary Rollinger. In front of Jeannie is Nelda Guzman. I can't put names to anyone else. Are you in there Yvonne?

Scott - El Baille Grande! What a memory. I remember laying awake (6-7-8 years old) on summer nights with the window open listening to the Guzmans practicing just across the lane. They used to play at the El Baille Grande and it is the reason I still love Mexican music to this day. Got a bunch of it in my ipod (including Joel Guzman the accordian master). I read and loved every book by Roscoe Sheller (Blowsand was a favorite) and I believe his original Model T dealership was the corner building across edison from the Golden Pheasant and across 7th from the Post Office. It used to have one of those open corners you could drive thru and get gas (way before our time-I've just seen pictures of it) I used to deliver papers to him at his house behind the park. It's too bad that his house wasn't preserved somehow and is now a delapidated wreck. That block used to be prime upscale real estate behind the park there but it's pretty ghetto now!

I remember the Evil Kneivel incident real well - He did a wheelie from about 13th St on edison to probably ninth - along the side of the regular parade - between the parade and the kids on the side watching! Then he turned around and came back up the other side doing the same thing! Wearing a purple helmet and a purple bike (that was before the flag stuff I guess). That kind of thing really makes an impression on a kid. I'm not sure but I think you and I were watching that together weren't we Steve - right there by the Church of Christ there on 13th

Sandy- The kid in your pic second from the right in the last row is my cousin Ken Whitner.

Steve Levold

Barry Morrow

 Sandra,

I found this on the back of my picture.

 Back Row: Mark Wyatt, Jeff Adamson Whitney Williams, Jerry, Sherry Dow, Terry Arnold, Mike Travis, Miss Furman, Kenny Whitner, Terry Hake,

Middle row: David Hole, Barry Morrow,?, Davey, Mike Wilkewitz Karen Carlyle, Danial McManis, Jimmy Church,

Front row: Susan Waller, Suzanne Lones, Mary Arnold, ? Sandra, ?, Debby Graham, Linda Roberts. Absent that day: Terry Green, Donna Grigsby & Rosemary Cunningham.

Mary Jo McMinimee (Hamby)

For all of the classmates that attended Outlook Grade School, check out the Photo Gallery for some pictures that I have posted.  They were a few that I couldn't identify but maybe you will be able to.

Jeanne A. Wright (Pickel)

I love the picture of the Outlook kids!  How do I make it bigger so I can see the faces??!!

Mary Jo McMinimee (Hamby)

Hi Jeanne:

Just click onto the gallery picture and it will take you to the two pictures and just click on each picture to enlarge it. Have fun looking at all of us.....Mary Jo

Steve Hagensicker

If you want to see the full size pictures, right click the picture and choose "Open in New Window".

John Allen Hardin

Steve

We will be travelling on Saturday, so a potluck, is a bit hard for us.  Sunday would suit me better.  But I would support one either way.  I tried to get people excited about some extra events earliier in the process, but did not get much response.  I wish you luck!!  People are generally not easily motivated.