| Terri Spargo Tenzycki | Email |
08/25/08
Where do you live now? Niceville, Florida
How many years were you in the desert? 36
Are you willing to help with pictures? yes
Are you willing to help with stories? yes
Comments:
I have already sent some of my memories. I did want to correct my last entry. I was in Ridgecrest until 1993, not 1973. Going through this website really brings back memories of so many things.
Mom's Furniture was always having a "going out of business" sale.
Walking to Las Flores School before the Deeter track was built. Once you walked past the Mormon Church on Norma and Las Flores it was all desert until you got to school. It was a great time to catch horny toads and lizards.
How about the bon fires at Homecoming time? One year the outhouse (yes, there was an outhouse on Ridgecrest Blvd.) by the old courthouse was added to the bon fire. The next year the shingles that were layed out to build some of the new Deeter homes almost ended up in the bonfire. (Thanks Mike for taking the hit for all of us.) That was the last year of the bonfire.
In 1970, our senior year, my friend Patty Anderson Tongate and I dressed as Laurel and Hardy. We had pictures made up of us to hand out. Some of those pictures still show up at reunions.
On graduation night I was the designated driver. We were going to have our party at Sand Canyon. When some of us arrived early to set up, the police were already there cancelling our party. We ended up at either Cherry Hill or the Toenail. I had my 1968 Red Chevy Impala (The Red Machine) and at the school reception my friend Marian Martin Lyttleton came running up to me and told me to hurry and get the car. My friend Laura Dodson had made the comment to Marian that she would give anything to see someone take one of the two full sheet cakes. Marian said "You're on!" and took one of the cakes. Jeff Little's mom was chasing her to get the cake back when Marian found me. We had to get the cake in the car before Mrs. Little found us. The cake was so big that I had to drive with the seat slanted forward in my two door car. Anyway, Marian, Laura and I handed out the cake at the desert party later that night.
In the days before electric curlers and hand held hair dryers, I would put my wet hair up in curlers and drive around the block in either my jeep or my mom's convertible and my hair would be dry.
My first hamburger was from Tiny's and I agree that they were the best ever. Tiny and Regis were like second parents to all of the kids that went there.
Does anyone remember the year the big top from fair blew away?
The fair was still on China Lake Blvd. in the middle of town. The wind was so bad that year that the fair closed some of their rides.
I have more memories that I'll send along and I'm still looking for pictures to send.
08/21/08
Where do you live now? Henderson, Nevada
How many years were you in the desert? 15
Are you willing to help with pictures? Have none
Are you willing to help with stories? sure
Comments:
I remember the great sunsets!! I also remember the desert parties and the great times at Butlers house!!
| Terri Spargo Tenzycki | Email |
08/16/08
Where do you live now? Niceville Florida
How many years were you in the desert? 36
Are you willing to help with pictures? I'll have to go through some old boxes
Are you willing to help with stories? I have lots of them
Comments:
My family moved to Ridgecrest in 1957 and bought the Victory Market. They also bought the Desert Empire Food Market, which later became the Aerosmith building. Eventually, my Grandparents, Bill and Glenadyn Puckett, and my parents, Pete and Beverly Spargo built Champs Market.
I was 5 when we moved to 252 Florence. My Grandparents lived next door at 256 Florence. We were the first people to live in those houses.
I have a lot of memories of Brewer's Sewer, desert parties, riding my 49 Willys Jeep in the desert, cruising thru the A & W and then back around to Foster's, walking barefoot downtown, school dances, dances at the Elks, school friends, etc.
I went to Kindergarten at Monroe and 1st and 2nd grade. Then I attended Las Flores the first year it was built. I went to 3 thru 6th there and then back to Monroe for 7th and 8th. Doug Brewer was Vice Principal by then. I went to Burroughs for High School and graduated in 1970.
My Husband and I moved in 1973 to Niceville, Florida for a job at Eglin AFB. He is an Engineer at Eglin and works for Joint Strike Fighter Program and still gets his checks from China Lake since he is still a Navy DOD employee.
I Love Ridgecrest and shoud be coming back to visit sometime later this fall or winter. My brother Pete and his wife Molly live in Ridgecrest and so does my step sister Kitty, her husband Steve and my nephew Christopher. Pete's children are all attending college or living out of town. My nephew Kevin is in the Air Force.
I'd love to hear from old friends, classmates, etc. any time.
| Terri Spargo Tenzycki | Email |
08/16/08
Where do you live now? Niceville Florida
How many years were you in the desert? 36
Are you willing to help with pictures? I'll have to go through some old boxes
Are you willing to help with stories? I have lots of them
Comments:
My family moved to Ridgecrest in 1957 and bought the Victory Market. They also bought the Desert Empire Food Market, which later became the Aerosmith building. Eventually, my Grandparents, Bill and Glenadyn Puckett, and my parents, Pete and Beverly Spargo built Champs Market.
I was 5 when we moved to 252 Florence. My Grandparents lived next door at 256 Florence. We were the first people to live in those houses.
I have a lot of memories of Brewer's Sewer, desert parties, riding my 49 Willys Jeep in the desert, cruising thru the A & W and then back around to Foster's, walking barefoot downtown, school dances, dances at the Elks, school friends, etc.
I went to Kindergarten at Monroe and 1st and 2nd grade. Then I attended Las Flores the first year it was built. I went to 3 thru 6th there and then back to Monroe for 7th and 8th. Doug Brewer was Vice Principal by then. I went to Burroughs for High School and graduated in 1970.
My Husband and I moved in 1973 to Niceville, Florida for a job at Eglin AFB. He is an Engineer at Eglin and works for Joint Strike Fighter Program and still gets his checks from China Lake since he is still a Navy DOD employee.
I Love Ridgecrest and shoud be coming back to visit sometime later this fall or winter. My brother Pete and his wife Molly live in Ridgecrest and so does my step sister Kitty, her husband Steve and my nephew Christopher. Pete's children are all attending college or living out of town. My nephew Kevin is in the Air Force.
I'd love to hear from old friends, classmates, etc. any time.
08/14/08
Where do you live now? Portland, Oregon
How many years were you in the desert? 3.5
Are you willing to help with pictures? Don't have any
Are you willing to help with stories? Sure
Comments:
Moved to Ridgecrest in the late '80s, in my late twenties, as civil servant engineer for the base. Stayed about three and a half years. It was - interesting! Some good memories of knocking around in the desert - lots to see. Fun poking around in caves. Plinking. 4wheeling. I remember having a pretty dismal social life for being in my twenties - lots of drinking buddies but few same age females to pal around with. Good site!!
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