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Public Forums => Wrightwood History => Topic started by: TheSandman on Aug 24, 04, 02:37:31 AM
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i've been walking your streets since 1961. every so often as i read through the posts, the statement "when Wrightwood was Wrightwood" pops up. what do wrightwoodians feel has changed over forty years?
also, i feel the time is right to ask this question. who wants to give me a cabin?
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Well, hmmmmm, I've only known this lovely town since 1975. Back in the late '70's I waitressed at a little restaurant called Long John's - remember that? And next door was a candy shop and then an arcade. I met my hubby at that arcade! :-*
There aren't nearly so many vacant lots, and almost no one had a lawn. I think residents today take more pride in the exteriors of their properties, or maybe there are just more full-time folks now, so it just seems that way.
Ski Sunrise used to be my favorite place to ski; now it's gone. And the horses from the stables across from Holiday Hill (Mt. High East) were quite rambunctious; knocked me on my butt! :-[ They're gone too, aren't they?
And if I had a cabin to give, Sandman, I'd give it to you! But alas, I went to the races Sunday and lost it all.
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I remember Holiday Foods in The Cluster building - no portables at Wrightwood Elementary - Twin Lakes - the wall at the top of town...
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..oh...the wall!! and the dances at the community building! with the local bands playing...Rob Parks on the drums,Eric Magnason up there singing Stairway to Heaven,he was such the hottie!!
or swimming at the Burn's pool,remember those bathing caps! ......eatting apples.
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tell us about "the wall" thanx!!
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being able to yell into the payphone at the lake or in town - into the ear piece - the last four numbers of where you wanted your mother to call you...at the lake it was 3294.
she'd barely be able to hear you but then she'd call you back dialing just 2-3294...
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Yes, I had forgotten about that! We only had to dial the last four numbers; no one needed the prefix to get through locally.
And it was free at the payphone. We'd do just want TinkBelle says and hollar into the phone, no dime needed, and then wait for our friends to call back.
The wall was only taken down within the past year or two. It was at the top of Park, made of stone and only about 30-36" tall max. It was just a place to sit and gather, good view of town and all that was happening.
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at one time the wall was beginning to crumble and so us local kids bought cement and fixed the wall and had our names/initials or a small saying wrote into the top of it.I was able to show mine and my sisters name to my kids a couple of years ago!
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...the hour long ride,3 to a seat on Jonny Lyons bus to school in Victorville.Didn't you just love walking to the bus stop at 5:30/5:45A.M in the snow! (and getting home from school around 4:30-5:00P.M)
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Skiing at Holiday Hill, riding the green chair or getting on Chair 1 at Midway....Veteran's, Woods, Turkey Chute, Witches Haunt, the Olympic Bowl...the rope tow and platter...
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TINKBELLBLONDE,
Great memories of Holiday Hill, you are definitely a LOCAL.
Thats when WRIGHTWOOD was WRIGHTWOOD..
LOCal
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Thanks, Local - I'll take that as a huge compliment!
My children are just now experiencing the things that I did "way back when"...lol
We're still members of the lake and we refer to Holiday Hill as Holiday Hill - still...
I remember ski school Tuesdays at Ski Sunrise - and what exactly are they going to call it now that Mt High has purchased it? Mt High Middle? Mt High More East?
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You guys are bringing tears to my eyes!
Take me back! I want to ride around town with Local in his Dad's green pickup truck and sit on "the wall" with my skateboard.
While I washed dishes at Lyle's, I'd dream of the day I'd be old enough to hang out at the Yodeler. And for the record, I never crawled through the bathroom window to get into a Community building dance!
I learned to ski on the HH rope tow with wood core skiis strapped around my Levis and I vividly remember the first day Serrano opened. Gotta love Mojave Greens in the hallways!
Yes - that was when WW was Wrightwood!
BTW...tink, was that you in the trailer down at the pig ranch?
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Beachtown,
How about the times jumping pops jeep at three levels? or the parties at helicopter hill?. shoot the parties at pops house!!!!!
Hey!!! wait is that all we did in WW?????????
LOcal
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I remember the huge wooden tree house thing at WW elementary - on the lower playground.
and no locked gates around the school...
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...and having a party wasnt a bad thing.There were no fights everybody got along,we all walked home(we seemed to walk everywhere back then) and the neighborhood was mostly ok with it(a lot less neighbors back then)
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I liked having a restaurant where the hardware store is now. It was fun to go there for lunch on snowy days and look out the window.
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we seemed to walk everywhere back then
That's so true - Now I have friends that jump in cars to go get their mail, and they live 5 or so blocks away. And they drop their kids off at school or the bus stop...
I remember everything being on Park Drive - nothing across the highway. The post office was at the top of town where Something Old, Something New is now..
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If i remember right the hardware store used to be the old bank, they moved the building there and opened the restaurant. Anyone remember that?????? or was I partying to much???????
The tree house at the school, no locked school yard. WHEN WRIGHTWOOD WAS WRIGHTWOOD
LOcal
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You're right about the bank. Some of your memory is still intact!
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The hardware store used to be the bottom two "floors" of Something Old, Something New. Then the post office moved and the Hardware store took over the top "floor"...
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The "Bank Building" was used to sell modular homes in 1973....
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Ok, so I know these posts are from a few years back, but I am new and just reading them. I must know some of you, because I was up there then. The only thing is, I rode the school bus to Apple Valley High, not Victorville. I must have spent time with some of you at twin lakes, and especially Holiday Hill. I was always there, because my parents were ski instructors there and we knew all the ski patrol and everyone who worked there. I even worked in the lodge. Also became a ski instructor there. So...I must know some of you, but with these posts, it doesn't give real names. I knew and went to school with the Carters, I remember Cory Lovers, my brother Howard was friends with Doug but I don't remember the last name, and I was good friends with a girl named Terry, don't remember her last name either. Sad. I am around the same age as all of you seem to be. Do I know any of you???? Help
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Merle,
YOU may have gone to school with my sister Laurie, she also went to AVH, we had a large family lived on the corner of Edna and Lark.
I live in Hawaii now, I leave my house unlocked and keys in the truck like we used to be able to do in Wrightwood
WHEN WRIGHTWOOD WAS WRIGHTWOOD and you could.
LOcaL
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Wasn't the restaurant that is now Mt. Hardware called Papa's Pantry?? Great breakfasts as I recall.
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Wasn't the restaurant that is now Mt. Hardware called Papa's Pantry?? Great breakfasts as I recall.
You are absolutely correct, hill okie. We used to eat breakfast there a LOT. I can't remember what year it was that the restaurant became the hardware store. I remember one winter, can't remember what year (I've lived here full time for 31 years now), the power was out for 2 or 3 days. We couldn't cook at home, so we went to Papa's Pantry to eat. They could make scrambled eggs on their gas stove, fried potatoes, and bread (couldn't toast the bread cuz no power for the toaster). Wow, what memories!
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Before that....the building was a bank.
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Before that....the building was a bank.
I had forgotten that - wasn't that the bank building that was moved from the site where Antelope Valley Bank is now? It was United California Bank then, which is where we first got our loan on the house I live in now. (Bought this house in 8/77.) Bart Strittmatter was bank manager then.
Maybe I do have a few feeble brain cells left.... :-\
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Local,
Your sister Laura, what year did she graduate? By the way, Hawaii is my favorite place to vacation.
Merle
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I used to like the resturant that is now the Hardware Store. I also really enjoyed the Coal Car Deli too
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The only restaurants when I lived there were, the Yodler, Blue Ridge Inn, the place in the center of town that was great for breakfast, near where the pool was, and another toward the top of town on the left side of the street. I don't remember the name of it.
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Thank you all so much for all the memories. My kids complain about riding the bus from Phelan to Serrano!!! Of course I have to bring up the 'ole "When I went to school" !!! When it snowed and we were already at school, hearing the announcement for all Wrightwood students to get on the bus! Boy did we get the evil eye from all the AV and Hesperia kids. Riding the late bus. Fun times.