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<DIV>The Bagdad reminds me of the theater where the Jack Carson comedy
crew</DIV>
<DIV>made their broadcast, in 1937 or 1939. It was sponsered by the Signal
Oil</DIV>
<DIV>Company, and my grandfather got tickets through the service station
on</DIV>
<DIV>Foster Road close to his SE 68th ave. residence. That is where I
recall seeing</DIV>
<DIV>at least one of those cars, can't recall the name, but they were large, and
had</DIV>
<DIV>healights molded into the front fenders, and a one piece rounded
hood.</DIV>
<DIV>I can still see the lighted front hood ornament on a neigbor's 1937
Hudson</DIV>
<DIV>Hornet sedan.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>One thing that still exists on SE 69th. When I was a kid, there was
an elderly</DIV>
<DIV>man who owned two small turn of the century houses behind my
grandfather's</DIV>
<DIV>residence. A large, thick hedge, allowed only the top half of the
houses to</DIV>
<DIV>be seen. But this man, as soon as the sun went down, turned on
several out-</DIV>
<DIV>side lights, and began to roll his property with a water filled hand
roller. </DIV>
<DIV>Between the lights and squeaking roller, a summer night became bad
time.</DIV>
<DIV>About 1976, we visited the area, and there is not a blade of grass to be
seen</DIV>
<DIV>on that property. The two old houses were still there, and looked
from</DIV>
<DIV>all appearence, unchanged. The ground around them was a dull
tan.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Gene Barnes</DIV>
<DIV>Costa Mesa, CA</DIV>
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<A title=lworks@molalla.net href="mailto:lworks@molalla.net">Lorraine
Works</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:47
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is the theater The Bagdad?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lorraine</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=dgoodma02@comcast.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">Oregon Group</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:38
PM</DIV>
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<DIV>The B.C stories got me thinking (Very dangerous thing to do!) but her
are a few remberances--</DIV>
<DIV>I was a Jr at Franklin Hi School (1946?) and had a summer job working
for a Compressor/Pump repair Shop downtown (Bishofberger?). We went to
some big office building and the building custodian took us way down
into the Sub-basement. There was a big Air Compressor that we had to fix (I
was just a gofer).</DIV>
<DIV>We fixed the Comprsser, and then the building custodian said he wanted
to show us something. He opened another door and there wa this room
with about four big tables well over six feet long and 3 feet wide. He
told us to look at the table real close. When we did we saw that they were
made of thick (4inch) slabs of clear Pine. and covere with a thick (1/4)
inch coat of clear wax. We asked him what it was and he said it
was an old Chinese Mortuary!. Spooky!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I got another summer job working as a gofer at a Texaco Station just a
block or so from the New FRED MYERS Store. It was down near the river.
My Folks liked that store a lot. I think it was the First Fred Meyer
Store to open.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I also remember a Theater on Hawthorne that my folks liked to go to,
because it would have Vaudavill Acts before the Movie. Anyone know the Name
of that threatre?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>At my job wok=ring on pumps and compressors one day it was raining and
my boss said we needed a new Wiper blade for the Truck (a ford V8 panel
truck) and sent me out to get a new one. Well, I took the truck to a service
station and bought a new blade and put it on. It had stopped raining
by then and so we finished up and went home.</DIV>
<DIV>The nest day my Boss and I got in the truck and headed out to the next
job, and it started to rain again and I turned on the wipers and and the
Wiper went SWISH and disapeared!!. I stopped and got out to see where
it went. Well, it going back and forth above the windshield!! I
had put it on upside down!!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Bob Goodman <BR>USAF Retired
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