Photo Safari in Ashland Oregon--remembering trips connected with Michael Wynschenk and Sharon Reeve
One of these days, when it is relatively safe to do so, Marisa and I will go to Ashland, Oregon.
The primary reason will be to visit with my longtime friend Michael Wynschenk and his wife Cathy. The last time I visited face to face with Michael was, I think, in January 1990, after I got back from Hawaii. It was on that same visit that I remember visiting with Sharon and The-Man-Who-Would-Have-Been-My-Uncle Reeve in Sebastapool (his sister, Mary Reeve, was our birth mother). As I remember I met with Michael in something like a warehouse district near the airport: just a quick chat.
Unfortunately, I am not completely sure about this: all of my vacations have been mixed up in a soup and the separate events are no longer connected.
The previous quick chat with Michael I do remember associated with a particular trip: my 1980 flight from Eugene, Oregon to Columbus, Ohio for the Society of Professional Journalists convention. The flight back connected through San Francisco International Airport, so Michael met me there with my ill-fitting hat I bought in Columbus. That same trip was full of moments, in part because I used my bicycle there--took it apart and boxed it in Eugene, then assembled it in a snowy lean-to in Columbus with very little idea of how to get from the airport to the hotel. I nearly froze to death and ended up calling for help. I don't remember exactly how I got to the Neil House hotel where I was staying, but if I got a lift I don't remember it. I must have only got directions. I did take slides (I need to find them). After the convention I stayed at a motel near Ohio State University, a Knights' Inn, and I bought a small paperback with Rube Goldberg cartoons at a book store near the University (and that hat at a thrift store or vintage clothing store, not sure).
Anyway, 31+ years later I will get to see Michael again, I hope! Cathy I saw only at their marriage ceremony in 1983 I believe it was. I drove down to San Francisco from Klamath Falls in my VW bug (probably the 1968, not the 1966 I had already totalled while driving from Portland to Klamath Falls on the Oakridge Highway after a visit with Tania Dmytryshyn, now Mrs. Tania Thompson). It was on this trip I believe where I met Sharon for lunch in San Francisco, a cool place which had a juke box that played opera 45s (it was near the Opera House). And yet, I also remember a trip where I parked near her home early in the morning and slept in my car until dawn: not sure if that was the same trip or not. Perhaps. She may have driven me to that place, then back (because I would have remembered the difficult time in finding a legal parking place on the hilly street). The ceremony was great and the reception/party even better, other than the older woman who couldn't help but notice the moth hole in my thrift store suit! I drove back at night taking no-doze pills to stay awake--having wakeful dreams along the way. Scary, but I got back in one piece, just in time to go to the city manager's news conference Monday morning still wearing that suit. My friend Jeannine Sweat (now Jeannine Mars) liked the suit or at least the attempt.
I had also been to Michael's bar mitzvah in 1972 I think. For the event my Mom picked out a solid orange color tie. It may have been my 2nd real tie, the first was a multi-colored silk tie that came from my Dad's boss, Hank Cleary. I remember John Shepherd was there at the bar mitzvah...and I remember having my first drink of wine. I thought it was grape juice and downed it quickly before I realized it was "grape juice plus." There was cake as well. My piece came with a plastic structural pillar which I kept. For all I know it is in some box somewhere. My mom was nice enough to make a trip out of it for us.
Not too much later we went down to SF again to get me to an amateur radio license test and to transport Sharon to some sort of event there. I remember eating at a place named something like Joe's Cafe where they had this scrambled eggs and spinach breakfast. It was so good to me that I had managed to make a facsimile of this this for myself at home many times over the years.
Ok, now my main point: Ashland, Oregon.
Besides visiting with Michael and Cathy I would like to take photographs of a variety of locations in and around Ashland. The photographs apply to a variety of projects I am lining up to complete in a few years.
* Lithia Park: a comprehensive set of views with special attention to taking identical angles as vintage cards and photos I own.
* The home of one resident which still exists and for which I have a stereoview: F. H. Crowson family house on 8th St: 253 8th St.
* locations associated with L.W. Marble including the IOOF Hall, Moose Hall and the F.L. Camp 2-story brick building (if any of these exist).
* locations associated with F.F. Lloyd
* locations associated with J.S. Walter (itinerant dentist)
* The Methodist Church, matching shots taken around 1910: 175 N. Main.
* Carter Memorial directed at the statue with buildings behind.
* any and all Ashland historical register buildings! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Jackson_County,_Oregon
-- 248 5th St., Nils Ahlstrom House
-- Junction of E. Main and Morton Sts., Ashland Cemetary.
-- 624 A St., Ashland Depot Hotel.
-- 25 N. Main St., Ashland Masonic Lodge.
-- Ashland Creek Canyon at 42°10′09″N 122°42′46″W, Ashland Municipal Powerhouse.
-- 208 Oak St., National Guard Armory.
-- 125 N. Main St., W. H. Atkinson House.
-- 1023 E. Main St., Barclay-Klum House.
-- 348 Hargadine St., Baldwin Beach House.
-- 1 Hillcrest St., Boslough-Claycomb House.
-- 2200 Buckhorn Springs Rd., Buckhorn Mineral Springs Resort.
-- 94 Bush St., Orlando Coolidge Rental House/Richard Posey Campbell House.
-- 505 Siskiyou Blvd., E.V. Carter House.
-- 91 Gresham St., H.B. Carter House.
-- 514 Siskiyou Blvd., Carter-Fortmiller House.
-- 990 Siskiyou Blvd., Chapel-Swedenberg House.
-- 232-242 E. Main St., Citizens Banking and Trust Company.
-- 137 N. Main St., Orlando Coolidge House.
-- 364 Vista St., Eddings Provost House.
....and many more!
* Dutchman's Peak. This is not in Ashland, but southwest of Ruch. I can only take this in August to be assured of not running into snow or ice! FS Rd. 20 approximately 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Ashland
42°02′37″N 122°53′23″W
(I will add to this list and add details).
The primary reason will be to visit with my longtime friend Michael Wynschenk and his wife Cathy. The last time I visited face to face with Michael was, I think, in January 1990, after I got back from Hawaii. It was on that same visit that I remember visiting with Sharon and The-Man-Who-Would-Have-Been-My-Uncle Reeve in Sebastapool (his sister, Mary Reeve, was our birth mother). As I remember I met with Michael in something like a warehouse district near the airport: just a quick chat.
Unfortunately, I am not completely sure about this: all of my vacations have been mixed up in a soup and the separate events are no longer connected.
The previous quick chat with Michael I do remember associated with a particular trip: my 1980 flight from Eugene, Oregon to Columbus, Ohio for the Society of Professional Journalists convention. The flight back connected through San Francisco International Airport, so Michael met me there with my ill-fitting hat I bought in Columbus. That same trip was full of moments, in part because I used my bicycle there--took it apart and boxed it in Eugene, then assembled it in a snowy lean-to in Columbus with very little idea of how to get from the airport to the hotel. I nearly froze to death and ended up calling for help. I don't remember exactly how I got to the Neil House hotel where I was staying, but if I got a lift I don't remember it. I must have only got directions. I did take slides (I need to find them). After the convention I stayed at a motel near Ohio State University, a Knights' Inn, and I bought a small paperback with Rube Goldberg cartoons at a book store near the University (and that hat at a thrift store or vintage clothing store, not sure).
Anyway, 31+ years later I will get to see Michael again, I hope! Cathy I saw only at their marriage ceremony in 1983 I believe it was. I drove down to San Francisco from Klamath Falls in my VW bug (probably the 1968, not the 1966 I had already totalled while driving from Portland to Klamath Falls on the Oakridge Highway after a visit with Tania Dmytryshyn, now Mrs. Tania Thompson). It was on this trip I believe where I met Sharon for lunch in San Francisco, a cool place which had a juke box that played opera 45s (it was near the Opera House). And yet, I also remember a trip where I parked near her home early in the morning and slept in my car until dawn: not sure if that was the same trip or not. Perhaps. She may have driven me to that place, then back (because I would have remembered the difficult time in finding a legal parking place on the hilly street). The ceremony was great and the reception/party even better, other than the older woman who couldn't help but notice the moth hole in my thrift store suit! I drove back at night taking no-doze pills to stay awake--having wakeful dreams along the way. Scary, but I got back in one piece, just in time to go to the city manager's news conference Monday morning still wearing that suit. My friend Jeannine Sweat (now Jeannine Mars) liked the suit or at least the attempt.
I had also been to Michael's bar mitzvah in 1972 I think. For the event my Mom picked out a solid orange color tie. It may have been my 2nd real tie, the first was a multi-colored silk tie that came from my Dad's boss, Hank Cleary. I remember John Shepherd was there at the bar mitzvah...and I remember having my first drink of wine. I thought it was grape juice and downed it quickly before I realized it was "grape juice plus." There was cake as well. My piece came with a plastic structural pillar which I kept. For all I know it is in some box somewhere. My mom was nice enough to make a trip out of it for us.
Not too much later we went down to SF again to get me to an amateur radio license test and to transport Sharon to some sort of event there. I remember eating at a place named something like Joe's Cafe where they had this scrambled eggs and spinach breakfast. It was so good to me that I had managed to make a facsimile of this this for myself at home many times over the years.
Ok, now my main point: Ashland, Oregon.
Besides visiting with Michael and Cathy I would like to take photographs of a variety of locations in and around Ashland. The photographs apply to a variety of projects I am lining up to complete in a few years.
* Lithia Park: a comprehensive set of views with special attention to taking identical angles as vintage cards and photos I own.
* The home of one resident which still exists and for which I have a stereoview: F. H. Crowson family house on 8th St: 253 8th St.
* locations associated with L.W. Marble including the IOOF Hall, Moose Hall and the F.L. Camp 2-story brick building (if any of these exist).
* locations associated with F.F. Lloyd
* locations associated with J.S. Walter (itinerant dentist)
* The Methodist Church, matching shots taken around 1910: 175 N. Main.
* Carter Memorial directed at the statue with buildings behind.
* any and all Ashland historical register buildings! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Jackson_County,_Oregon
-- 248 5th St., Nils Ahlstrom House
-- Junction of E. Main and Morton Sts., Ashland Cemetary.
-- 624 A St., Ashland Depot Hotel.
-- 25 N. Main St., Ashland Masonic Lodge.
-- Ashland Creek Canyon at 42°10′09″N 122°42′46″W, Ashland Municipal Powerhouse.
-- 208 Oak St., National Guard Armory.
-- 125 N. Main St., W. H. Atkinson House.
-- 1023 E. Main St., Barclay-Klum House.
-- 348 Hargadine St., Baldwin Beach House.
-- 1 Hillcrest St., Boslough-Claycomb House.
-- 2200 Buckhorn Springs Rd., Buckhorn Mineral Springs Resort.
-- 94 Bush St., Orlando Coolidge Rental House/Richard Posey Campbell House.
-- 505 Siskiyou Blvd., E.V. Carter House.
-- 91 Gresham St., H.B. Carter House.
-- 514 Siskiyou Blvd., Carter-Fortmiller House.
-- 990 Siskiyou Blvd., Chapel-Swedenberg House.
-- 232-242 E. Main St., Citizens Banking and Trust Company.
-- 137 N. Main St., Orlando Coolidge House.
-- 364 Vista St., Eddings Provost House.
....and many more!
* Dutchman's Peak. This is not in Ashland, but southwest of Ruch. I can only take this in August to be assured of not running into snow or ice! FS Rd. 20 approximately 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Ashland
42°02′37″N 122°53′23″W
(I will add to this list and add details).