Just a side note: when we took over the Texaco Gas from Mr. Pool it was just a house and station with two hand pumped gas pumps. We added the Wagon wheel restaurant and a large Generator in its own little shack.
When I took my wife to see it all was gone but I did find the four steel beams cut off at the gowned were the generator shack was not to long ago. I think when they made the freeway they tore everything down…
Mac.
I just remembered I was in two school drama’s on channel 11 almost when they first went on the TV air.
And in the 70’s(?) I was working for Jungwards Electric on 8th street and we rewound a burned out power transformer for them. A few years later I showed my wife a broken down turn up TV station out in the dunes and it made me feel bad for that old place.
I can still see my brother and I in about 52 waiting for the TV to come to life and then the static stopped and a test patter came on and then we waited some more… and a voice came on and then a picture and all of that happened at Pancho’s Rental 1100 8th street were we lived in back of the shop.
We made and installed tons of heavy duty cloth lines in a new tract across from us. I am sure those cloth lines are still there we made them from heavy steam pipe and I did most of the welding.
I wonder if the trailers we made are still being used all heavy steel with wood sides?
If I could spell I would write more but on the way to Carver school I would stop by the canal and fish and the next thing I knew was school was over.
I stood out front every year to see the Silver Spur Rodeo parade and that old bucking car painted red.I sold horse and chicken poop out of a old buckboard and I never thought about riding in the parade till today.
I flew out of the old Marsh field and grandma lived about ten blocks from the field below the tracks but today all of that is under the freeway. Grandma would always point out the old wooden road in the dunes but later on the freeway I pointed out to our kids the wooden road and next to it the old as-fault road and the Ten Commandments movie spot in the dunes.
I remember the rodeo and the roller ring at 16th street and 4th avenue two of my favorite places. Also the booms from the test station my wife and kids we lived almost next to it on Kofa Ct.
Thank you Loma Usher I have not been in old downtown after they ruined it by redoing it. They had 4th ave for the new town…
1949 we moved to Yuma but almost 4 times a month we drove to Yuma from Redlands Ca. we had the Texaco gas station at the pass and Pancho’s Rental on 8th street.
Later in the 70s I returned with wife she could not take the heat so back to Ca.
If she dies first I am moving back to Yuma…
Take care Mac4TBHatYahoo_com
In 49 was the first time I paid my 10 cents to see a movie in the Lyric and many years later the last movie I saw there was Dean and Jerry in Jumping Jacks. I loved and still do love Yuma and my brother still visits but I do not get around much anymore so I just look at the pictures. I think I may have a poor picture of the main theater sign but from a long way off and I will see if I can find it and post it. We had the wagonwheel/Texaco gas station out on 80 at the pass and also Panchos Rentals in town… 1100 8th street
I remember the Allenâ€\s Square Shooters every Saturday in the late 40â€\s and tossing the popcorn boxâ€\s at the screen! How about the contests and such like balancing a baseball bat on your shoe longer then anyone! I lived just around the corner on San Carlos about in the middle of the block and known as BUTCH any bells ring? How about all the penny candy next door to the theaster…
Just a side note: when we took over the Texaco Gas from Mr. Pool it was just a house and station with two hand pumped gas pumps. We added the Wagon wheel restaurant and a large Generator in its own little shack. When I took my wife to see it all was gone but I did find the four steel beams cut off at the gowned were the generator shack was not to long ago. I think when they made the freeway they tore everything down… Mac.
I just remembered I was in two school drama’s on channel 11 almost when they first went on the TV air. And in the 70’s(?) I was working for Jungwards Electric on 8th street and we rewound a burned out power transformer for them. A few years later I showed my wife a broken down turn up TV station out in the dunes and it made me feel bad for that old place.
I can still see my brother and I in about 52 waiting for the TV to come to life and then the static stopped and a test patter came on and then we waited some more… and a voice came on and then a picture and all of that happened at Pancho’s Rental 1100 8th street were we lived in back of the shop.
We made and installed tons of heavy duty cloth lines in a new tract across from us. I am sure those cloth lines are still there we made them from heavy steam pipe and I did most of the welding.
I wonder if the trailers we made are still being used all heavy steel with wood sides?
If I could spell I would write more but on the way to Carver school I would stop by the canal and fish and the next thing I knew was school was over.
Mac. or in them days I was Butch.
I stood out front every year to see the Silver Spur Rodeo parade and that old bucking car painted red.I sold horse and chicken poop out of a old buckboard and I never thought about riding in the parade till today.
I flew out of the old Marsh field and grandma lived about ten blocks from the field below the tracks but today all of that is under the freeway. Grandma would always point out the old wooden road in the dunes but later on the freeway I pointed out to our kids the wooden road and next to it the old as-fault road and the Ten Commandments movie spot in the dunes.
I remember the rodeo and the roller ring at 16th street and 4th avenue two of my favorite places. Also the booms from the test station my wife and kids we lived almost next to it on Kofa Ct.
Mac.
The picture reminds me of wooden shipping boxes. Mac.
Thank you Loma Usher I have not been in old downtown after they ruined it by redoing it. They had 4th ave for the new town… 1949 we moved to Yuma but almost 4 times a month we drove to Yuma from Redlands Ca. we had the Texaco gas station at the pass and Pancho’s Rental on 8th street. Later in the 70s I returned with wife she could not take the heat so back to Ca. If she dies first I am moving back to Yuma… Take care Mac4TBHatYahoo_com
In 49 was the first time I paid my 10 cents to see a movie in the Lyric and many years later the last movie I saw there was Dean and Jerry in Jumping Jacks. I loved and still do love Yuma and my brother still visits but I do not get around much anymore so I just look at the pictures. I think I may have a poor picture of the main theater sign but from a long way off and I will see if I can find it and post it. We had the wagonwheel/Texaco gas station out on 80 at the pass and also Panchos Rentals in town… 1100 8th street
Thanks for the picks
Butch
I remember the Allenâ€\s Square Shooters every Saturday in the late 40â€\s and tossing the popcorn boxâ€\s at the screen! How about the contests and such like balancing a baseball bat on your shoe longer then anyone! I lived just around the corner on San Carlos about in the middle of the block and known as BUTCH any bells ring? How about all the penny candy next door to the theaster…
Butch and brother Mari
the Hansen boys