There are many sites on the web that bring back memories. Here are a few that we have found, and others that you have sent to us. If you have another one, please send it to Steve Chell. Just click on Steve's name and send it on its way!
Or perhaps you have a personal or business website that would be appropriate for the Classmates page. There is a place that asks you to input your website address as part of the registration process. Please do so ... then send the link to Steve for inclusion below.
Meanwhile, enjoy:
About Sequoia
This just in about the "Atomic Loop" at Sequoia:
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/the-atomic-loop-kept-sequoia-high-school-teens-in-shape/article_6e3d693a-4e90-11e9-9a33-4b46acc44380.html
From Dave Distad (about the Sequoia-Paly football game tradition): "Sequoia-Palo Alto: when the Little Big Game was the biggest in town." Article was in the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sequoia-PaloAlto-when-the-Little-Big-Game-was-12378805.php
From Liz (Betty) Heidel Butcher (about the Sequoia campus):
http://www.sequoiahs.org/ABOUT/Campus-History/index.html
Sequoia's 2009 cheer team recently won first place in the JamFest competition. Thanks to Irene Miles for sending us the YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8McZFDLuYbY
http://www.sequoiahs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1
http://sequoiahsalumniassoc.org/
Here's a Facebook page for the Sequoia Alumni Association; there
were 442 users when we checked:
http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1003307662452#/group.php?gid=46229195708&ref=share
http://images.google.com/imgres?
About Redwood City
The Sequoia/Fox Theatre:
http://www.foxdream.com/Fox/history.htm
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/01.10.07/downtown-redwood-city-0702.html
Believe it or not: The Redwood Theatre:
http://cinematreasures.org/theater.php/23897
http://www.plsinfo.org/bitsofhistory/largephoto.asp?offset=230&id=118
http://www.plsinfo.org/bitsofhistory/largephoto.asp?offset=180&id=120
More Photos of RC:
http://www.plsinfo.org:80/bitsofhistory/owninglibraryrc.asp?offset=0
http://www.city-data.com:80/city/Redwood-City-California.html
Music We Loved
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1959.htm
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1958.htm
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1957.htm
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1956.htm
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1955.htm
1959: http://upchucky.com/music-jukes/1959/player.html
The Platters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hSY2km2IQY&feature=PlayList&p=59F2FBD730DB0A0A&playnext=1&playnext_from=
PL&index=43
Old TV Show themes: http://upchucky.com/music-jukes/OldTvThemes/player.html
Remember when ...
Several of you sent us emails of the poem "The Land That Made Me, Me." We couldn't find a link to the poem, but YouTube has this version for you to enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mign9w4Xzj4
Thanks you Bob Arends for the following fun link:
http://www.billsretroworld.com/index.htm
...and on we go:
http://oldfortyfives.com/growingupinthefifties.htm
http://objflicks.com:80/WhenLifewasInBlack&White.htm
http://www.link4u.com/dare.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f-bcNHFDEM
entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/jpassanisi-113666-close-eyes-1960-closeyoureyes-
http://www.anthology-email.net/remember/remember_when.htm
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/land_that_made.htm
1950s F.W. Woolworth's fountain menu:
http://www.johnfry.com/pages/WoolworthMenu1950s.html
If you were raised on radio, as I was, you will love this site. Not only can you
purchase hundreds -- no thousands -- of programs from the 20s through the 50s,
you can play episodes of all your favoirites. Check it out: http://www.otrcat.com/
Doo Wop Oldies Quiz (from Shirley Meredith Souza, Colleen Garcelon & Leroy Milam:
http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/08/08/doo-wop-oldies-quiz/
From Jerry Schutz & others: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqhHqMTsbqg
Our Classmates
http://www.brucewolfe.com
Ann Morrison Adams: www.allcoasttravel.rovia.com
Steve Chell: www.gualalaarts.org/artis -t/stevechell/index.html
Something Special:
(From Yoshi Minegishi, who says,"Maybe this is one of the core reasons that Sequoia athletic teams were highly successful!)
Lt. Brian Brennan was severely wounded in Iraq and faced unbeatable odds but, as David Martin reports, he made a remarkable recovery with a little help from a special Cherokee word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qch7925maA0