John Carleton Cowherd

I don't recognize Mrs Herman .............etc.

I think the rest of us went to Rosebank Elementary, but I'm not sure.  I don't recognize some of the names.

I remember Dee Gee Market, but not the malt shop.  Third Avenue was the happening place in the 50's & 60's.

I was just going through some of my Dad's old papers, and ran across my Mom's W-2 and some pay stubs from Sprouse Reitz in 1946.  If I could find my 1966 tax records, I would find my W-2 from the same store.  We both worked for Ray Ponser.

Bruce Wilson

Enough with the suspense.  All those named participated in some manner in  the 1957 Rosebank Elementary School production of  The History of the Theatre.

Stay tuned, moreto follow. Maybe even some photos.

Bruce Wilson

Doesn't get as much airplay as some of the other renditions, but a lot of the Rosebank kids like it.

Linda L. Keating (Keating)

Sunday, November 27, 2016 ~ Thank you Madeline & Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to everyone!  

And also Bruce,, Thank you so much for video of Jimmy Cliff performing beautiful heartfelt rendition: "Many Rivers To Cross" @ post #2373 on Message Forum today, 11.27.2016. 

May Our Lips Always Be Tuned To The Melody Of Thanksgiving. ~

Bruce Wilson

Does anybody remember performing and/or have any memorabilia?

Rosebank After-School Special Interest Dramatic Group

CV Star News May 23, 1957 (OCR introdueces a few errors).

SONG. STORY, DANCE The story of the -theatre will unfold in song, story, dance and through the use of masks. Mike Swift will open the program With a genera! introduction, after which Joan McCurley will give a brief introduction as to how masks were used in primi tive ritual dancing. Arini Cheno-weth, Karen Schuller. Kay Ochi Sandra Hagen, Mike Swift, Steve Lindholm, John Cowherd, Arthur Holt, Marcia Stump and Patty Hansford will present a primitive dance to authentic African drum rhythms. Costumes and masks for this were made by the children. RITUAL DANCE Michele Walter, Debra Mas-sey, Michele Duffey and Joan McCurley will portray early ritual dancing in America with an Apache Indian dance. Their dance is symbolic, depicting the struggle of good and evil. Another form of ; ritual dancing which shows how this type of dance evolved into pure entertainment is the Hula which was taught and directed by Mrs. Robert Green, who was born and raised in the islands. The girls taking part in this dance are : Bobby Green, Kay Ochi, Karen Schuller, Debra. Massey, Marcia Stump and Vicki Hughes. Shayne Maree Schuller describes how the theatre fell into decay after Rome subdued Greece. Lana Staak, Elsa Hem-kes, Judy Harland, Shirley Streib and Joan McCurley tell the story of Greek theatre and Elsa Hemkes, Carolyn Hinshaw, Paula Desmond and Lana Staak portray a Greek tragedy in modern dance form. The dance tells the story of how Antiguana is going to her death as her handmaidens grieve. Leslie Bremer plays the part of Antiguana. Mrs. Herman Hemkes did the choregraphy for the dance and directed it, Mrs. Hemkes at one stage of her intensive study of dance had the opportunity of having Anna Sojsoloff, t ITALIAN COMEDY In the top photo, Patty Hansford (left) will portray Harlequin and Bobbi Green, the part of Columbine in a comedv sequence for the Rosebank dramatic group's show today and tomorrow. The lower photo shows Michele Walter (left) and Shayne Maree Schuller rehearsing an acrobatic sequence which will also be featured in the program, "The History of the Theatre".

Bruce Wilson

Does anybody remember performing and/or have any memorabilia?

Decemer 13, 1956 (CV Star News)

Rosebank Yule Party Tonight Children and parents of Rose- bank School will be imbued with the yule spirit at the Rosebank Parents Club Christmas party to night. A play, "The Spirit of Giving and What It Means" will be pre sented by the Rosebank After-School Special Interest Dramatic Group. The cast, all students, includes Pamela Robinson, Michele Duffey, Patricia Hansford, Michele McGowan, Vicki Hughes, Shayne Schuller, Elsa Hemkes, Sharon Collins, Joan McCurley, Carol Ferguson, Pamela Layton, Cheryl Collins, Susan Zimders, Carolyn Hinshaw, Annie Chenoweth, Phyllis Roughten, Barbara Allbrecht, Kay Ochi, Deborah Massey, Sonja Holloway, Michele Walter, Karen Schuller, Lana Stock and Lonnie "Champ" Walter. Directors of the group are Mmes. Ronni Schuller, Ree Walter and Mary Hansford. Costumes and props for the play were made by parents of the school

John Carleton Cowherd

I remember the 1957 production.  I was one of the drummers who wore a mask.  I forgot my mask at home, so Someone gave me a rubber Halloween mask.  The strap was broken and it kept falling off my face.  Finally I tilted my head back and set it on my face and finished the song.  I don't know why I remember that.  

Bruce Wilson

Memory is a funny phenomenon. What I remember most about the Patrol Boy graduation ceremony is my new shoes squeaking as I walked across the stage.

I bet nobody remembers the Los Braceros Blanco program of the early-mid sixties,

More later

Bruce Wilson

Nobody will remember the Los Braceros Blanco program since I made that name up. However, perhaps some will recall and possibly even have participatged in the A-Team (Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower) program, whereby high school students (mainly athletes) were sent out into the fields to pick fruits and vegetables.

The program was an abject failure as participants found the work and work conditions way too tough. The San Diego contigent went so far as to engage it what has been variously described a sit-in or riot.

How did it go up north? Not much better.

TRIBUNE’S VOICE Wednesday, September 8. 1965 MADERA DAILY TRIBUNE Page 4 ‘A-Team Program Botch-Up’
A good many people won’t quarrel with the aid government lias given the farmer, but a California Farm Bureau writer feels that the !'• S. Department of Labor should of stayed home this year when it “helped out” in the A-Team farm labor program. At least this is the general feeling §he found among growers participating in the A-Team (Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower) program. The California Farm Bureau Monthly this month presents a factual account of the program’s operation in this state in the Stockton. Salinas and Blythe areas where the majority of the teams were employed. As the story tells, the Labor Department not only jumped on the bandwagon of California’s two-year-old program of employing youths in agriculture. “but also took over the driver’s seat without knowing the first thing about handling the vehicle. The result was a bungle which has left some growers as well as some A-Team members very bitter.” Complaints against the program listed in the article include: • The Labor Department did not take advantage of the experience the state has had in operating such a program. • Recruiters oversold the program to the young people. And growers were forced to take the A-Teams in order to meet criteria for the foreign supplemental labor they might need at a later date. • The A-Team program became one vehicle to be used by the Department of Labor in a “crash” program to prove that there are ample domestic people available to do farm labor. • A-Team members interviewed said they had been led to believe that this was a recreational as well as a work program that recreational facilities would be provided and that participants would be coached in sports. • Students were led to believe they would be guaranteed $1.40 per hour* regardless of their production. (In Salinas. after a training and trial period during which they received $l-40 per liour. A-Team members were placed on tpe going piece rate of $1 per flat of Worries. This the students didn’t like.) • Although they understood their food would cost $2.2.") per day. some
said they didn’t realize this was to be deducted from their wages. All interviewed said they hadn’t been told that insurance costs (social security, state disability and off-the-job medical insurance) would be deducted from their pay. • The youngsters said they didn’t feel that living conditions and food measured up to what they had been led to believe they would receive. • The growers were told they would receive junior and senior high school athletes accompanied by their coaches. They say they were also led to believed by the Labor Department personnel that if they cooperated in the A-Team program, they would also receive braceros this season. “Growers will tell you now that they were double-crossed on both counts.” • Growers had to foot the entire bill on the A-Team program, and it has been an extremely costly venture. • The productivity of the A-Teams w r as not on a par with the average qualified farm worker. Nat Scatena. president of the Stockton Growers’ Group, Inc., which managed the teams for growers in the Stockton area, ranked their productivity at 5b per cent of-that, of a qualified farm worker- • Salinas Strawberries will have lost about $75,000 out-of-pocket costs on this program by the end of the season. • Blythe Growers, Inc., estimates growers’ costs will run between $35,000 and $40,000 exclusive of wages and supervisory, state compensation and social security costs. • Dan Riggi, supervisor for the J & A Farms in Blythe, said his firm lost 40 per cent of its cantaloupes in the field. This year’s workers, including A-Teams, left that many melons behind in the fields, • The attrition rate among A-Team members was extremely high, one team quitting after three days and another after five. In summarizing her findings, writer Betty Yater wrote; “All-in-all. the A-Team program in California can only be described as a botch. California agriculture and the Farm Labor Division have a real job on their hands if they are to salvage their youth farm worker program for future years after the setback the nrocram received this year at the hands of the 11. S. Department of Labor.”

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Bruce Wilson

My parents house in Everett Washington - 1945 and 2016 - Two bedroom, 1080 sq. ft.

George Bracey Gillow

OK, here is my family's house in Potrerilos, Chile in 1956 and 2006.  The town is now closed down due to sulfur contamination from smelter smoke. So the house is abandoned.

Notice the large chimney. We had a coal burning heater.  Even though it was a desert, the temperatures were mild in the summer and cold in winter because the altitude was 10,000 feet.

That is me on the front step with two neighborhood girls.

Bruce Wilson

Interesting George. What was the populations there?

Population of Everett in 1952 was 34,690 - Snohomish County 115,200.

High and low temp on my birthday (though I wasn't born yet) 36°& 18°.

Daily average was about  42°°.

George Bracey Gillow

Bruce, The population of Potrerillos when we lived there was about 2500. 

The Americans--and some British--were engineers and managers and they lived in a separate section.

There were about 40 American/British families. So I guess the American/British population was about 150.  The size and location of where each family lived depended on the position in the company. The General Manager having the largest house farthest from the smelter.

The rest of the population were the Chilean workers and miners.

View looking West:

American Sector: The General Manager's Home is at bottom.  The two room school house is in the open area in the middle (6 kids in my class). The white "step" areas are  "tailings" from the smelter.

George Bracey Gillow

I posted the video below in 2160, but here it is again.

This is a 16mm movie of Potrerillos and shows the isolation. Also shown is the Anaconda Mining Company port of Barquito where the copper was loaded on Grace Line ships for transport to Perth Amboy in New Jersey where the copper was refined.

There are some scenes of the track cars that we rode to Barquito.

Barquito had some guest houses where we would spend a couple of weeks in the summer. This was the only opportunity for us to swim. But like Potrerillos there was no radio, TV or movie theaters.

The film also shows the beginnings of the El Salvador mining operation about 12 miles from Potrerillos. It saved the smelter and copper mining in that area of Chile. Thus the name El Salvador. The Potrerillos mines ran out of copper in 1959.

The movie has sound. But somehow it was low when I posted to YouTube, so you need to turn up the volume.

Bruce Wilson

My former brother-in-law spent several years at Atamina, Peru. (4300m = 14,107 ft).

Brought me some "real" coca tea.

Bruce Wilson

The continuing saga of the Braceros. 

Originally by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman. Covered by lots of  folks.

What's in a name?

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-deportees-guthrie-20130710-dto-htmlstory.html

George Bracey Gillow

Pearl Harbor 75 Years

Did your parents or any relatives tell stories about when and how they heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Please post stories, it would be interesting.

My parents were on vacation in Valparaiso, Chile and were at Algarrobo beach south of Valparaiso on December 7th 1941. They heard about the attack that evening when they returned to the city.

This picture, at the beach, is of my dad on the left wearing a coat and tie (what was he thinking). My mother next to him, then my aunt, uncle and cousin Ian (Ian now lives in Miami). My grandmother on the right.

My mother was British and her dad was the port agent for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNC) a British steamship company.

I don't know what CDN was.  Possibly a political party.

The Back of the Picture:

Ian with our Aunt--Grandmother not happy.

Laurel Lucille (Laurie) Webster (Holmes)

My parents were there on Dec 7.   My Dad was a Marine and as soon as the attack started he raced off to the base and wasn't able to contact home for 3 days.   Mom stood outside our house with my two sisters who were little girls back then and along with the  neighbors they watched the planes fly in so low she could see the pilots eyes.   Pretty scary.   "The Greatest Generation" earned their badge of courage  

Dick Holmes

Bruce Wilson

Pearl Harbor is essentially what sent Michele's father into the Navy. Quite a few years later she lived a stones throw away from Pearl Harbor.

I watched a documentary the other night and learned a lot about the  attack and FDR, none of which I ever learned in school. Ditto MacArthur, who I did a paper on in high school.

I wonder if it's in the garage.

Andie (Joan) Ault (Harvey)

My parents were married in August of '41. Dad was the singer with a "big band" in San Diego, and was in the Naval Reserves. When things heated up, he was called into active duty; every morning when they said goodbye, they knew it might be the last time they'd see each other for years. Mom worked at a bank downtown San Diego, and every day on her lunch hour, she'd walk down the street to the pier, looking to see if his ship was still there. Shortly after Pearl Harbor was bombed, she saw that his ship was gone. He was in Pearl Harbor for several years, cleaning up the mess and reconstructing whatever was salvageable. Because of this separation, they never took each other for granted for the duration of their almost 62 year marriage, ending when he passed in 2003.

Michele Ruth Walter

Yo Adri .. er .. Andie

My father died at 62. Michele's mom and dad just celebrated their 73 wedding anniversary.

Did your pop ever go by the Big Band Bopper? Do you have recordings of him performing!

Oops must have used Michele's login!

Andie (Joan) Ault (Harvey)

Yo Bruce - Michele's parents are amazing. I told her at Rosie's that I still remember exactly what her beautiful mother looked like.  ~  I do have some recordings that Dad made, but they're old scratchy 78s. He sang with Frank Comstock's orchestra, a "big band." Mom was his groupie.

Bruce Wilson

This was before either of the Big Wars. Great grandma Maria and Uncle Urho in Finland 1910. My grandfather was preparing to move the entire family back to Finland and took Urho first. He never finished the task, but Urho did return to Michigan. Hedwig (grandma) was soooo happy to see him.

It appears that I got Urho's nose.

Bruce Wilson

And for AJAH, Frank and Co.

Almost all of Comstock's recordings were originally released on vinyl LPs and singles. Most of them have been reissued on CD and can also be heard on music streaming services. (but no list provided, yet).

Shouldn't "The Big Bopper" deserve quotes?

Bruce Wilson

It was 1963 afterall, so I imagine not too many here made it back to the show, reprised here without commercial interruptions. Show was originally scheduled as a December birthday tribute to me, but scheduling  problems pushed it over into January. 

Nothing to you maybe, but that's King Curtis on sax.