Background: This isn't an "official" blog entry. However, I don't have time to transcribe a regular column entry this week (I'm still using public internet facilities for another couple weeks), and because I didn't want anyone to think I had forgotten about my blog, here is some mindless rambling.
My nostalgia about the 24-hour barn prompted one of my Facebook friends to reflect on a sixth grade field trip to the local bowling alley in Sutherlin (another building where my father had done some sign painting). MY sixth grade class never went to the bowling alley (that I remember), but I do proudly remember all but one of yearly field trips, while attending Washington Elementary School and Lincoln Junior High school in Oakland...
First Grade Field Trip: we did walking field trips in town down to the Oakland Fire Department and to visit postmaster Val Davis at the Oakland Post Office.
Second Grade Field Trip: we rode the "Blue Goose" steam engine passenger train at Cottage Grove out to Dorena Lake.
Third Grade Field Trip: (?) We visited the electrical power facilities up the North Umpqua River at Toketee.
Fourth Grade Field Trip: We traveled to Springfield to see the "Freedom Train" and an afternoon tour at Williams Bakery in Eugene. Perhaps the biggest highlight was visiting McDonalds' at 1417 Villard Street in Eugene (where I would later work as a swing manager while I was in college), because Roseburg/Douglas County didn't yet have a McDonalds' in 1976!
Fifth Grade Field Trip was a three-day jaunt to visit various Portland landmarks (remember the Organ Grinder Pizza Parlor on 82nd street?).
Sixth Grade: FORESTRY EXPO TOUR next to the Glide disposal site.
Seventh Grade: (?).
Eighth Grade: We visited the state capitol in Salem AND and a springtime field trip to visit the "new" Roseburg Valley Mall (we were desperate to get out of class!).
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