Photo Booth pics at Crawfords
Here is a picture of my parents Bernard and Dorothy Cliser and me - taken in 1958 at Crawford's in a photo booth very much like the one on the left.
Some more memories...
I checked your link and what you've posted is great!
Oh by the way, my dad's name is "Ernst" (no second e): he could be a little imposing as he had a heavy German accent... he designed and installed the sound system when Crawford's was rebuilt across the street. He'd also set-up for weekly Wednesday night drawings outside in the parking lot facing Mountain View. Pending how much you bought, you would receive drawing tickets; you'd tear it in half on your way out and drop one side of the ticket in a big drum and keep the other and hope your number was called. You had to be present to win.
The Santa Claus landing was around 1957-58. (Helicopters didn't come into commercial use till the mid 1950's.) Wish I could tell what movie was playing at the Tumbleweed, then we could nail down the year by googling the movie...
I have to chid you: you left out one very important department: the toy department! I think that is where my first Barbie Doll came from in the early 1960's. Crawford's really were ahead of their time by being a true "department" store: everything you could need. But even more, they cared about the community.
And of course the Red Goose Shoe Store to the left of the Valley side entrance. When I was about 6 years old, mom took me and my older sister to buy new Easter Sunday shoes for church. The manager would hide a plastic golden egg in a children's shoe box and if the shoes you bought had the egg, you'd win a stuffed animal. I won a big rabbit once! (It's tattered and old, but it's in a box in the attic.)
These pictures are from Crawford's 20th Anniversary. That's my dad in the white shirt; he was helping-out. A few years ago I shared these pictures with a classmate's elderly parents; her mom gasped and laughed; she recognized herself! She was in the picture holding her daughter, my friend Stella Costanza; she was standing right behind my dad. What a small world: but to discover that now!
I'll get the newsletter to you this weekend.
Regards,
Kathy Andreas
Memories of Crawfords....
Peggy (Perry) Davis (Class of 1948) -
I worked at Crawfords Market from 1960 to 1963 as a department store checker and some times checked on the grocery side......Jim Varney was my boss at that
time.....do any of you remember the giant cheese they had every year.....over a thousand lbs.....they had it sitting in the main isle of the store and would cut you
as much cheese as you wanted from the giant block.....Crawford's was open til midnight and I worked that shift because it made .10 cents more an hour.....at that timeI was making $2.75 an hour.....great money in those day's!!
Rory Varela (Class of 1974) - Was such a treat going to Crawfords even in the 50's and early 60's. I remember getting a golden egg from the goose at the shoe store.
The Tumbleweed Theatre was designed by architect S. Charles Lee for a client with limited capital who needed the theater for film-buying purposes. This particular client said he would accept anything, even a barn, as long as it had a projection booth.
So, Lee designed the exterior of the building to resemble a barn surrounded by a farmyard. Above the marquee stood a wooden tower topped by a windmill. The auditorium had an open-beamed ceiling with wagon-wheel light fixtures and murals of mules and cactus. The creative design was simple and inexpensive, yet captured the mood of the theater's isolated location.
The Tumbleweed opened in 1939 and was demolished sometime before 1970.
Linda McAbee Thomas -
Crawford's - I remember one time Gene Autry was going to sing there. He and Roy Rogers were my heroes, well, along with a lot of other cowboys. ;). I talked my mom into taking me early, so I could get right up front. My dad worked at the store so my mom left me there to watch while she went to say hi to my dad. They used to set up a portable stage in the center aisle between grocery & notions. I was in front of the stage exactly where I wanted to be. I was so early they hadn't set up their instruments yet. I was more than disappointed to see, up close, a very very drunk Gene Autry stumbling around the stage, knocking things over, slurring his speech, annoying the heck out of his bandmates, and generally making a fool of himself. Needless to say he disappointed me so badly that I still don't watch his reruns. :(
Crawford's - I remember one time Gene Autry was going to sing there. He and Roy Rogers were my heroes, well, along with a lot of other cowboys. ;). I talked my mom into taking me early, so I could get right up front. My dad worked at the store so my mom left me there to watch while she went to say hi to my dad. They used to set up a portable stage in the center aisle between grocery & notions. I was in front of the stage exactly where I wanted to be. I was so early they hadn't set up their instruments yet. I was more than disappointed to see, up close, a very very drunk Gene Autry stumbling around the stage, knocking things over, slurring his speech, annoying the heck out of his bandmates, and generally making a fool of himself. Needless to say he disappointed me so badly that I still don't watch his reruns. :(
Roger Mcleod - I was a real finicky eater as a kid (NOT anymore)...but I recall going to Crawford's after church one Sunday night...they had FREE hot dogs and baked beans for everyone...I went back for a third plate of the brown sugar sweetened beans, having never had them before. The trip home in the car was a nightmare for the rest of my family!
Elaine Shultz - I think they had a Mother Goose shoe store too. I remember getting shoes their and pulling the goose's neck for a prize. And they had a underwater mermaid show that I always wanted to see, but couldn't.
Bryan Shrum - I remember the carnival they had. And dad used to buy fishing tackle there. A long walk was when mom used to take us to the mall....at night. LOL
Jerry Fastrup - My dad took me to see Captain Marvel when I was about 8 yrs. old. It was a big deal for me at the time.
Bryan Shrum - I remember the carnival they had. And dad used to buy fishing tackle there. A long walk was when mom used to take us to the mall....at night. LOL
Jerry Fastrup - My dad took me to see Captain Marvel when I was about 8 yrs. old. It was a big deal for me at the time.
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