I started at the age of 9,(1950) driving an very old John Deer..delivery hay to the dairy stock..or cutting hay or baleing it, cutting grains, my Dad had just had a stroke..then 9 yrs later, in my senior school year, my counseler said "drivers ed" and i got stuck doing something that made me go get a paper license (beginners license) then told the instructor i had been driving 9 years already on the back roads with farm equipment...his comment was this is "Stick Shift" drive.....a Chevy, 4 - door hardtop...he sorta turned grey that year....! That's my story, sticking to it. ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA.

I guess I learned driving by driving the tractor on our small ranch. I never had any formal training by my parents or school teacher. We didn't have driver training in our high school at that time, but I hadn't started there yet anyway. We later had "book learning", but I had been driving long before that. I remember my first experience driving a "car" was one night after pruning season of our almond orchard, my parents had friends over & were playing cards, probably Canasta, & the fire burning the pruning needed to be checked, so I drove our car at that time, my grandmother's 1941 Oldsmobile sedan around the corner to where the fire was burning & using the tractor with the "buckrake" on it to put more brush on the fire. That summer, when I was 13, I drove my sister & myself across a ferry on the Sacramento River, which was very steep on the west side, to Chico to work on my uncle's almond huller. My sister, 5 years older, had her driver's permit, but she was very timid about driving. I have no memory of the experience of taking my first driver's test for my license, so I guess it was uneventful & I don't remember what car I was driving at the time. I have never received a traffic ticket, but that's not to say I shouldn't have. Can you imagine nowadays a 13 yr. old driving daily & with no insurance to boot? We never had any car insurance until my dad bought a 1957 Ford station wagon. They took the train out of Oroville on Jan. 1 back to Detroit & drove their very first new car back home to Glenn Co., CA. On the way back, they stopped briefly in the town in Texas where my mother was born & somewhere in Texas bought me a pair of Elvis Presley earrings, which I still have. =^..^= In a message dated 5/30/2010 11:10:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, edrieanne@gmail.com writes: Mr McCann of Lincoln High School of Stockton and my father taught me to drive. Can't remember the school's car, but I got my license in a 1955 Dodge Station Wagon...a real tank. That was back when you had to parallel park. Dad set up Clorox bottles filled with sand and old broom handles. He started out with a huge parking space in front of the house and made the space smaller and smaller until I could park in about 3/4 of the standard space. I can still parallel park left or right side of the street. I parallel parked a 3/4 ton pickup with a cab over camper in downtown Vacaville in the mid-1970s in one try, got out and people on the sidewalk were applauding. I got my first license in 1964, a year behind my contemporaries due to a knee injury. I received my first traffic ticket in Texas seven years ago...almost to the day. EdrieAnne ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Judy: My wife descends from Emil 1872-1942 spouse Martha. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Frty9rgal@aol.com> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:44 PM Subject: [NORCAL] Schallock genealogy > Hi Gail: > > Do you descend from the same Emil Schallock that I mentioned in my posting > request for Vital Search? He's the earliest I've found. > > Judy > > > ----------------------------------------- > NORCAL ARCHIVES: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. > Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. > ----------------------------------------- > To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to > NORCAL@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Pacific Grove High School Driver's Ed and my mother, step-father and boyfriend's patience. Took the test for license in a 1958 ford convertible with a stick shift. My step-father would only take me down for the test after I passed muster to his satisfaction in the Ford *and* his truck. The family car--an automatic--did not count. Had to be able to parallel park all three. Spent hours on weekends, VERY early in the morning, practicing in school parking lot, on local military base, in neighborhood, downtown, and on town and local roads before taking test in 1963. The school training comprised less than a quarter of the time spent overall. Have never received more than a parking ticket--knock on wood. Kinda laugh at parents today who seem out of sorts that schools do not do this chore for them. This is only the beginning! My boyfriend taught me how to get in gear on a hill by driving me to a hilly neighborhood at 6am and parking. We then exchanged places and he fell asleep on the passenger side after telling me that he would buy me coffee and a doughnut if I could make it into town. I did. The car transmission survived but I will never figure out how he managed to nap with me bucking the car so. Should have married him!!! Jan

My brand new husband taught me right after we got married in 1960. He was going to law school at Boalt Hall. I suppose I had a learner's permit, but I really don't remember. We had a new Volvo sedan. Cathy On May 30, 2010, at 11:08 AM, norcal-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:42:16 -0700 > From: lindamock@webtv.net (Linda Mock) > Subject: [NORCAL] OT- drivers training > To: norcal@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8231-4C02A378-6949@storefull-3171.bay.webtv.net> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > > Does anyone remember when they learned to drive? Who Taught you & where? > Kind of vehicle used...I just renewed my 5 year license for the 5th > time. > > ~Linda~ > Willow Creek, CA. ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'll add my story on this subject. A few years ago I was involved in inventorying the contents of a(n) historical home that one of my relatives had lived in at one time. It was a fascinating experience, as the families had saved everything, it seemed. I even found a letter written by one of my relatives in 1850. There had always been a mystery about a certain daughter of a relative. She had been named as an heir in her uncle's will of a very large estate, but when the will was probated, she was absent, with no explanation, I had looked for her for years, but could never find her. As I said, the people in this home saved everything & there were many, many letters from the various members of the family. Lo & behold, the mystery was solved. We found letters written by this girl's sister that told of her experiencing a fall of some kind & of it causing her to act differently. She told of taking her sister to a doctor in San Francisco, after she could no longer care for her herself, & he recommended that she be sent to the Mendocino State Hospital, where she would get very good care. She died within months & she is buried at the Ukiah Cem., but the sister cautioned in her letters to not tell the younger members of the family about her sister's situation, so this has been a family mystery for all of these years. I have visited her grave & there is a marker for her. I have members from another branch of this family buried in the same cemetery, but I would never have thought to look for her there. If I had not had the chance to work on this project, I would never have found out what happened to this girl. Unfortunately, I am no longer able to be a part of this project, but that is another story. =^..^= In a message dated 5/30/2010 10:36:59 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, lindamock@webtv.net writes: Well, as we talk about these unfortunate folks, my thought is that I'll bet "dollar to dougnuts," we all have an ancestor that has been "tucked" away for "Safe" keeping. In my hunting, so far have found 3 who were in Napa State. Can't believe the reasons given by the Committer were valid reasons....you can't get may State records, if you believe the relies, WHEW, it wasn't pleasant. ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA.

This has been a fascinating thread and a personal thanks to everyone who's contributed. It's recalled an comment by my father about a great aunt who married a man outside her faith. Apparently it was a happy marriage, although her sisters and sisters-in-law were jealous of the husband's indulgent treatment of her. She also went to (I think) Agnew, distraught by the carping by her female relatives. Sounds far fetched, but who knows. Although she was my grandfather's favorite aunt, I never heard any mention of her except that one time. What a sad commentary on the supposedly golden good old days. Kathy. ________________________________ From: Linda Mock <lindamock@webtv.net> To: norcal@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, May 30, 2010 12:36:38 PM Subject: [NORCAL] Mental Health Well, as we talk about these unfortunate folks, my thought is that I'll bet "dollar to dougnuts," we all have an ancestor that has been "tucked" away for "Safe" keeping. In my hunting, so far have found 3 who were in Napa State. Can't believe the reasons given by the Committer were valid reasons....you can't get may State records, if you believe the relies, WHEW, it wasn't pleasant. ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA. ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I drove a tractor before a car! When I was about 11 my dad asked me if I'd like to ride on the tractor...a three wheeled John Deere. I had a great time and told him I'd like to learn to operate the tractor. He told me when I could reach the controls...he'd teach me. I'd go out almost daily to try to reach the controls and eventually learned to run that vehicle. I also would drive my mom's 1965 Plymouth station wagon to town from the ranch at about age 14 to get groceries if she didn't feel like going in. Legally driving a car was almost anticlimactic. Mr. Asplund at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill did my drivers training class circa 1971. We had drivers ed (classroom stuff) and then signed up for drivers training. Mr. Asplund was able to talk to the other two girls who took the on road training stuff with me because I already KNEW how to drive. One of the girls in my group scraped the side of the car on a bridge when we were going through a rural two lane road and another car was coming toward us. Mr. Asplund had her pull over and had the other girl take over after that incident! First car was a truck...196? International...column stick shift that my dad got licensed for street use so I would have something to drive back and forth to school...it had been the hay hauler for the ranch. Next car was a 60's vintage VW bug...sure wish I had that car now. Drove ambulance for about 9 years in the mid-80's to mid-90's...with no problem. Only a few tickets over the years...two 'fix-it' and two speed. Perrin > Does anyone remember when they learned to drive? Who Taught you & where? > Kind of vehicle used...I just renewed my 5 year license for the 5th > time. > > ~Linda~ > Willow Creek, CA. > > > > ----------------------------------------- > NORCAL ARCHIVES: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. > Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. > ----------------------------------------- > To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to > NORCAL@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

The very first time I drove I was about 12 or so and my school friend and I got into her dad's old farm truck and found the keys. I'm always up for adventure so I started it up and off we went, and after going in a large circle, in very muddy ground, we crashed through a small fence and chickens went flying everywhere. We jumped out and ran for the house. I know we got in trouble because they called my parents to come and get me, so much for the sleep over that weekend! I wasn't invited out there for a long time and the next time I remember her dad telling us both (probably directed just at me) to never drive his truck again. We didn't. When I learned to drive for my license my dad took me out to country roads in late 1963 to begin driving our family car, a Rambler station wagon, stick shift of course. We would start, I'd get the clutch right and we'd go, then he would make me turn it off and start over again, and again, and again! After a few days of this and me complaining to my mom she took me out for some training...downtown Modesto during Christmas traffic! We had one way streets on 10th and 11th so when she saw a parking spot we would parallel park, turn off the car, then start again and find another spot, either side of the street. When I passed my test for my license in Feb 1964 the DMV guy almost patted me on the back for the good parking! Yay, Mom!! I can park just about anything, anywhere...a 28' motorhome between a utility pole and a big rig, no problem, and like someone else said, when I finished in one try the people on the sidewalk applauded...so did the wedding party I was transporting!! I drove that Rambler station wagon to school often, and sometimes a '51 Studebaker, the bullet nose style. Sure wish I had that car now! My mom, at age 82 can still parallel park with ease, me too! 40+ yrs of driving with only 2 tickets, speeding while my mind was thinking bad thoughts about an ex husband! Sheila ____________________________________________________________ 2550% Penny Stock Gains? Our last pick exploded 2550% - Join our newsletter for free picks! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4c02b5ec5a36e1034d1st03vuc

My boyfriend (who was 2 years older) taught me to drive his father's 1961 Corvair at 15-1/2 (I had a learner's permit). We would go to the Mission or Geneva Drive-Ins and drive around the parking lot. Sometimes I'd drive home (tricky in foggy Daly City). I got my DL in 1966 in my mother's 1964 Ford Fairlane Sports Coupe on my birthday (she let me take the morning off school to get it). *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Yvonne Bowers Listmom, Webmom NORCAL, SOCAL http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/norcallib.html On May 30, 2010, at 11:08 AM, norcal-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:42:16 -0700 > From: lindamock@webtv.net (Linda Mock) > Subject: [NORCAL] OT- drivers training > To: norcal@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8231-4C02A378-6949@storefull-3171.bay.webtv.net> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > > Does anyone remember when they learned to drive? Who Taught you & where? > Kind of vehicle used...I just renewed my 5 year license for the 5th > time. > > ~Linda~ > Willow Creek, CA.

Mr McCann of Lincoln High School of Stockton and my father taught me to drive. Can't remember the school's car, but I got my license in a 1955 Dodge Station Wagon...a real tank. That was back when you had to parallel park. Dad set up Clorox bottles filled with sand and old broom handles. He started out with a huge parking space in front of the house and made the space smaller and smaller until I could park in about 3/4 of the standard space. I can still parallel park left or right side of the street. I parallel parked a 3/4 ton pickup with a cab over camper in downtown Vacaville in the mid-1970s in one try, got out and people on the sidewalk were applauding. I got my first license in 1964, a year behind my contemporaries due to a knee injury. I received my first traffic ticket in Texas seven years ago...almost to the day. EdrieAnne

by myself at 12 and had a license at 14 that said life time lic.I lost in Korea and in 54 wendown to get a new one remembering my # and she said no more Life licenses so I go a new one.Drove tractor and other equipment on the roads and my mothers Yellow 33 Packard given to her when I was born by her father. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Linda Mock <lindamock@webtv.net> wrote: > Does anyone remember when they learned to drive? Who Taught you & where? > Kind of vehicle used...I just renewed my 5 year license for the 5th > time. > > ~Linda~ > Willow Creek, CA. > > > > ----------------------------------------- > NORCAL ARCHIVES: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. > Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. > ----------------------------------------- > To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to > NORCAL@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Does anyone remember when they learned to drive? Who Taught you & where? Kind of vehicle used...I just renewed my 5 year license for the 5th time. ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA.

Well, as we talk about these unfortunate folks, my thought is that I'll bet "dollar to dougnuts," we all have an ancestor that has been "tucked" away for "Safe" keeping. In my hunting, so far have found 3 who were in Napa State. Can't believe the reasons given by the Committer were valid reasons....you can't get may State records, if you believe the relies, WHEW, it wasn't pleasant. ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA.

I have a fairly large Schallock genealogy. Willing to share. Gail Darling ----- Original Message ----- From: <Frty9rgal@aol.com> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 9:19 AM Subject: [NORCAL] Vital Search Lookup Request-Schallock & Clavere >I can't get into VitalSearch on a guest pass for some reason. These > people are not on the post 1940 CADI. I would really appreciate a lookup > for > their death info: > > John P (Jean Pierre) Clavere & wife Theresa Clavere > > Emil Schallock & wife Alice F Clavere Schallock > > Thanks so very much! > Judy > > > ----------------------------------------- > NORCAL ARCHIVES: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. > Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. > ----------------------------------------- > To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to > NORCAL@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

>From the News Back Then column. 150 yrs. ago. 26,May 1860. Saterday. 1] We are requested to cal a meeting of the citizens of Wwvle, at FLAGG's Hall, on Monday evening to organize a Hook and Ladder Co. <Fire fighters>. JNO MARTIN,esq. has succeeded in raising suffecent funds to pay for the necessare number of hooks and ladders axes, etc. . We hope our citizens will organize a company at once, and thus protect our town from conflagration again...It can be eaisly done. 2] "JACINTO"<person name> wrote from "Pucker City", 19, May 1860; "My whilsom friend, THEODORE JONES, has I think, the best located claim <gold> i ever saw. A boarding house bounds it on one side, a blacksmith shop on another(no excuse for dull licks,) a large Pine tree (whose wide-spreading branches cast a shadow over his entire claim about noon), then a country road runs directly throught the middle of it, where he can see his friends at all hours of the day. What a location for a politician! Best of all, a "house" stands at the foot of his claim, immediately on the road to where his sluices "Jam" the worst, with good reasonable brandy. I should like to own an interest in that claim with Theodore; I think we might combine business and pleasure so thoroughtly that neither would strike in on us." Note: THEODORE ELDON JONES was in Douglas City in 1860..He later was Judge of the Superior Court of Trinity County. He was best known as "Judge T. E. Jones." 125 yrs ago. 23, May 1885 Saterday. 1] Now the skating is over, the bos stand around and suck their thumbs for amusement...What do the girls do? 2] Stage to Deadwood - Mr. M.R.NEWMAN, the enterprising proprietor of the Lewiston Hotel, has put on a daily stage line between Lewiston and Deadwood to accommodate the large and increaseing passenger travel between these points. Fare has been placed at $1 for the up trip and fifty cents down trip. 3] FROST - it been cold and windy for several days past - regular March weather. There was a frost Thrusday night which destroyed tender vegetables. It begins to look like Summer all Winter! and Winter all Summer. 100 yrs. ago. 28, May 1910. Saterday. 1] A lucky find was made on the old JOHNSON place, and it is supposed that the money found, was buried by some employee many years ago, the date of the latest silver piece being 1864.<no amount was given>. 2] The GANS-NELSON fight at the Pasime theater Saterday night, was the 1st fistic encounter witnessed in the town. There were 7 films and it was almost as exciting as the real thing. 3] According to the last official postal guide, HELENA, in this county, has been made a money order post office. 4] CHARLES HEATH, the lucky young prospector of Minersville, spent several days in town this week, exibiting some beautiful specimens from his mine. Mr. HEATH says his mine is fabulously rich, there being thousands of tons of ore in sight, which will mill out<crush> to $10 a ton. The young man made his strike on the 13th, May 1910, and suceeded in 6 days, taking out $6,000, one pan alone yeiding $400. Mr. HEATH, who is a Trinity boy, is naturally gifted in the mining business, considered an expert in the finding of quartz ledges and pockets, etc. . ~ end ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA.

Just an update - REMEMBERING PLAYLAND is still running at the Balboa. http://balboamovies.com/ The DVD is now available as well. Jim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: "Remembering Playland" Movie Playing for 3 Months in San Francisco! Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 09:57:16 EDT From: RichardD56@aol.com To: RichardD56@aol.com, jim@historysmith.com, tpw1705@aol.com, coasterclubmike@yahoo.com, mg1626@yahoo.com It is every filmmaker's dream-come-true to see their film on a big screen in a real movie theater, but for writer / producer / director Tom Wyrsch, his documentary "Remembering Playland" has become a dream-come-true for an entire neighborhood. Originally slated to be shown just once on March 26th, 2010 the advance sales for "Remembering Playland" immediately dictated a second showing and then a second evening of showings. Now three months later, the Balboa Theater in San Francisco is still showing the movie every day of the week. It has become the surprise hit of the early summer in this vintage movie theater located just 12 blocks from where Whitney's Playland at the Beach amusement park entertained visitors for decades. "Everyone misses the old park with its incredible Fun House, Laughing Sal, the Big Dipper wooden rollercoaster, Diving Bell, Carousel and numerous dark rides," Wyrsch enthuses. "Audiences keep coming back to see the film and remember their childhoods and they return with their families to share their experiences from the past." On the opening night in March 2010 the lobby was filled to overflowing and many of the cast of the film were at the Balboa Theater in person. After the showings the audiences did not want to leave. They wanted to stay and share their own stories. Wyrsch has very cleverly interwoven freshly discovered and digitally transferred footage from the hey-day of Playland with interviews and commentary by people who worked at the park or were loyal visitors. And the stories are great! Marv Gold recalls working as a teenager at Playland and stranding riders upside down on the Roll-o-Planes while he went for coffee. Joe Mirante laughingly talks about working inside the Limbo Dark Ride and putting his arm over the shoulders of the riders to add one more thrill. The popularity of the "Remembering Playland" documentary has brought crowds into the neighborhood too, much to the delight of the local business owners. Suddenly the restaurants have waiting lines, the taverns have named drinks after Laughing Sal and other Playland luminaries, and the cast of the film are being stopped on the street for their autographs. Across San Francisco Bay in the suburb of El Cerrito, business has also increased for a museum of showcased artifacts aptly named Playland-Not-at-the-Beach. "Many weeks people leave the Balboa Theater and immediately drive the 18 miles to visit our Museum of Fun," explains Richard Tuck, the self-proclaimed Master of Fun. "They want to spend the rest of the day with Laughing Sal and view all our collections of photographs and memorabilia from the past. Of course they also want to win a teddy bear and play the old games that we have restored." The movie "Remembering Playland" seems to be developing a life of its own. In addition to continuing to play every day at the Balboa Theater, the film recently sold out at a screening in Oakland and is scheduled for showings in Chico, California over Memorial Day weekend -- several hours north of San Francisco. "People who once went to Playland now live all over the country, and they all recall that gentler, happier age when a seaside amusement park brought the whole family together," Wyrsch adds. "Remembering Playland" is now available on DVD and will be a welcome addition to the collection of anyone who loves great old amusement parks. The DVD comes with 15 minutes of additional footage not included in the theatrical version. When buyers order through the Playland-Not-at-the-Beach Museum for $20, they also receive a free artifact from the 1940s from Playland. -- James R. Smith Author/Speaker/Researcher Author: San Francisco's Lost Landmarks California Snatch Racket, June 2010 San Francisco's Playland at the Beach: The Early Years, Nov 2010 www.HistorySmith.com

Is there any way that I can get a copy of a piece that ran in the Sacramento Union? Or is there anyone that goes to a library, somewhere, that has microfilm of this paper that could make me a copy? Thanks. Margaret in NW CA ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 2000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4c02717717b331059a2st06vuc

I mentioned around 1948, but it could have been during the war. I left NBC in 1943 for the merchant marine, so it might have been then. Bill -----Original Message----- From: norcal-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:norcal-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Marciel Wood Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 5:12 PM To: norcal@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NORCAL] Art Linkletter and SF Bill, didn't Art Linkletter have a radio show in San Francisco during the WW11 years?  I remember going with family to one of his shows.   As the years go by I am not as sharp as I used to be. Marciel ________________________________ From: Bill Roddy <billroddy@cox.net> To: norcal@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, May 27, 2010 6:22:26 AM Subject: [NORCAL] Art Linkletter and SF Around 1948 Art had a daily show on KNBC, Taylor and O'Farrell, called a "Date at Eight." (8 a. m.) I was often his announcer. Art was a perfectionist and I thought he was kind of tough on me, but at 26 I wasn't the most mature person, and I wasn't that great an announcer. He passed away May 26, 2010 at age 97. Bill ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL.  Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I was born in 1941 near the grounds of Napa State. My parents rented 360 acers as fence neighbors...As a young school girls, we walked over to the hospital once a month from the Shrutluff school and put on a "affair" for the inmates. Our fear of them came from the "Escapies" who decended on our home...Mom always said if a person with a SHAVED head came we were to get into a secret place and and not say a word, unitl she or Dad came to get us...BOY and we did! Many a time the police were there ahead of the loose inmate and grabbed them....or the nights that the "Towers" would sing, because of the inmates and full moons...one night on the farm, i was told to feed the dogs (3) and water them for the night..and to bring in the Great Dane for Mom, I had the Dane loose as I fed the others, when I went to put out water, an imate swung down from the Oak tree and tried to grab me, the Dane nailed him and I ran for the farm house and Mom made the call...i gave the dog a steak for his dinner...! I have also worked with the mentaly disturb patients at the Vet's Home, but never could quite get over having to have a key for my freedom...to this day I am antsie in tight places...always am looking over my shoulder...spooked big time. That's my story... ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA.