Back then, there were a lot of "old people" in town, it seems. Who were they? I'll bet back then they were younger than we are now. Hmmmmm ....
Herman Volz will always be the first person who comes to mind. Herman symbolized for me The Temple. He was down to earth, alone, simple, and he read a lot of Theosophical stuff (although I did not know this until in my later years). When I was little, I remember he delivered the US Mail. He had a pick up truck with a canvas top over the back. When Halcyonites went on picnics to the County Park (back toward Lopez Canyon) he would carry a bunch of kids in the back of his pick up. I felt so privileged when I was finally big enough to ride in the back with the older kids.
I was absolutely thrilled whenever Cethil Mallory would play some classical piano pieces in the Temple on Sundays. I remember Pat Mallory delivering gifts to everyone throughout town at Christmas.
Some names that come to mind, old and not-so-old: Ken and Martha Schussman, and their beautiful home up on that hillside; Olive and Russel Hoff, with their marvelous old fireplace and chimney; Joyce Hedin; the blind piano repairmen, Mr. Paulsen; Fred and Freida Wolff, and his amazing rock collection; the Varians and Sheila's Arabian horses; Gertrude and Thelma Tedford; Maryalice Mankins; Evelyn Carlberg (you know Carl - aka Colin - now lives up our way in Arcata); Roberta Shumway; who else .... ?
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