| Name: Earl Pepper Website: Pep's Page Referred by: Just Surfed On In! From: Minnesota Time: 1997-11-16 00:43:00 Comments: The page is cute. |
| Name: George Girard Website: The Wizard's Mysterious Page Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Vicksburg, MS. USA Time: Jan 15, 1998 23:57 Comments: Thanks for the visit and leaving your updated link on my "LinkItFree Page"... Have updated my MidiLink page also... I See All... I Know All... I Am The Wizard... Drop by and and I will have a surprise for YOU |
| Name: don wheeler (born don mings 8/26/43) Website: under construction (brother made it for me) Referred by: Other From: L.A. ,but have links to Trona Ca. Time: Jan 26, 1998 19:40 Comments: weird but cool ! just got your link from my long lost brother. What is/was your mother and fathers names ? Do you know anything at all about the mings family of Trona? Was your family connected to the big chemical company in Trona ? Nice home page and family! Hope to have my own home page soon on at&t, right now I'm using one my brother set up for me that contains some embarrassing early college essays. Sorry about the spelling , spell-checkers were invented with ME in mind. All the best to you and your family, don |
| Name: puke Website: Referred by: Other From: Canada Time: Jan 27, 1998 20:54 Comments: I got no clue how I got your home page .... but wa's'up anyway dude |
| Name: Jessie Website: Referred by: Net Search From: From??? Time: Sep 20, 1998 22:04 Comments: Hi...I am not a member of your family. I am 22, married, lonely tonight, so I was just net-surfing. Nice page...I am going to continue to explore it now... |
| Name: Roger
Jackson Website: Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Roger Jackson Time: Oct 13, 1998 06:30 Comments: Hi David! Just wandering thru, and thought it would be nice to know who does these pages. I have not built a homepage yet, but should do I guess. I'm a composer (mostly TV drama) I live in a converted church in Aylesbury UK. Best Wishes! RJ |
| Name: Jackie Standard
Green Website: Referred by: From Trona on the Web From: trona,miss. now il. Time: Oct 21, 1998 21:08 Comments: great page kinda of made me homesick. had planned on going for the class reunion 62,63 me and 7 other failed 7th grade so i guess i beloneg to both classes even if i didn't finish school till i put my youngest in school then went back and finised and on to lpn nursing. due to health problems will not be there in person only in person. agine great page,keep adding to it now that i found it i'll visit often. jackie green standard rebel1@cin.net |
| Name: Sandy
Zentgraf Website: Mrs. Leary's Daughter Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Wichita Falls, Texas Time: Nov 14, 1998 01:30 Comments: Dear Cyber Dad & family. Some great music site. I will return to see and hear more. I am still trying to learn things about music in sending them so have written you by e-mail. My best to you and your family. In love, and always with pen in hand, Sandy (I Still Climb Mountains)
Excerpts from an Autobiography by Margaret (Sandy) Zentgraf. |
| Name: John
Johnson Website: Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Time: Nov 18, 1998 10:12 Comments: Just surfing and found your page thru a Trona link, I would have been with the class of "63". You may have known my older brother Ray, he was big into football. I return to Trona when I can but it has been a few years and I don't know if I'll get there this year. |
| Name: David Wayne
Kuykendall Website: Referred by: From Trona on the Web From: Lakeville, MN Time: Nov 24, 1998 15:45 Comments: What is the background picture of on your page "About Me"? Is it the walls of your room? Maybe you didn't get out of Trona quite soon enough ! (Oh, now I can tell, they aren't padded. Maybe that answers how you got out of Trona. Is your current rent paid by the Federal government?) Seriously, I love history, and I loved living in Trona. I had the privilege to be involved with the Historical Society while I lived there. Thanks for the website on Trona. |
| Name: Wendy
Estill Lawrence Website: Wendy's Genealogy Homepage Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: live in Connersville, Indiana Time: Dec 3, 1998 15:59 Comments: Hi David, Really love the page on Trona, I lived their in 1962, left for a couple of years, then returned in November 1964, and graduated from there in 1965, however if you ever see a 1965 yearbook, the only picture of me is my baby picture, I didn't even rate a caricature and initials (boo-hoo! tehe!). My stepfather was John Weise Walker and he worked twice for American Potash and Chemical Co. The last time from late 1961 till probably 1973/1974. He and my mom then moved in with my sis (class of 1963), where John passed away Nov. 15, 1974. My sis and mother now live in Ft. Worth, Tx. John was a maintenance machnist, he is buried in the Trona Cemetery. I really enjoyed the Classic 60's Reunion, it was a blast. I was not accepted very well when I went to HS., but it was not that way when I went to the reunion, it felt great to feel accepted. I thought everyone looked just great!! Guess now that I came back home (to Trona), I'll have to put a link from my homepage, and when I get a scanner, I will add pictures of the Reunion. Hey guys, let's do it again!!!!! Love to all. Wendy Estill Lawrence |
| Name: Ron Wilson Website: I don't have one Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Coon Rapids,MN Time: Dec 7, 1998 23:23 Comments: Found your web page thru a link at soundtrek's web page. Excellent web page!Lots of midi related links.I'm running cakewalk P.A.7 & Jammer pro 4.0 to an alesis qsr & all the midi's you have on your page sound great.I live right across the river from you,and it's great to see someone has really put the Twin Cities on the "midi map". |
| Name: Ernest A. Kraut
(Ernie) Website: Referred by: Net Search From: Time: Dec 29, 1998 14:29 Comments: Hi David, It is nice to see Trona well represented on the web. In the last few years there has been a lot of additions. I found you while looking for Glenn Stevens(THS:1957 )from Westend. He had a brother, Malvern(THS: 1953/4). Glenn apparently prospected (or retreated) into a ranch somewhere near the radar station on Rte 395 between Atolia and Four Corners (Cramer Crossing). But that was 15-18 years ago. No word since. I am a Westend desert rat, born 1940, graduated Trona High in 1957, went one year to CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, and then 20 years in the Army Signal Corps. Since then I've spent 20 years with MITRE Corporation. I'm currently living in New Hampshire - southern New Hampshire. Our weather is quite a bit more mild than yours. Didn't have much to say but you said "Shock me" so shocked be you. Ernie |
| Name: Dave
Coburn Website: Dave Coburn's Area Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Laurel, Maryland Time: Jan 5, 1999 18:03 Comments: Well put together and humorous web site. Visisted your homepage from your MIDI website (which I found through a web search on MIDI). Thanks for the information and sharing it with me and everyone else. Take care. |
| Name: Glen Lane Website: Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Time: Jan 31, 1999 13:23 Comments: Hi David Wanted to say thanks to you for creating the "Trona web site" without the public display on that page. I worked a few years with your dad in borax. I knew him well and liked him a lot. He was "frozen" in the dryer tenders job and trained me in the task. Of course I was only a child. I enjoy the yearbook pages most of all. If you could get more years of those it would be great! Thanks again Glen |
| Name: Mary Adam
Prendergast Website: Referred by: From Trona on the Web From: Time: Jan 31, 1999 18:45 Comments: Dear David Stevens, I wanted to thank you for the wonderful Trona homepage. It has brought tears to my eyes, as I lived there as a child--from 1946 to 1958 (with a 1-year gap in the late 40s). I'm not ready to post anything on the web site yet. I now live in New Jersey. Maybe 5 years ago I returned to Trona for the first time in about 30 years, when my aunt Eleanor Rockdale, who is living in Ridgecrest, drove me around town faster than I wanted to go. So much has disappeared--it is a shock. It was so wonderful to see the old pictures on your site and remember the old theater, ceiling open to the stars, and the beery smell emanating from the pool hall in Austin Hall. It is going to take me some time to adjust to the middle-aged state of all of the people I remember as young teens--including me. I feel like I'm twelve, but if we had stayed in Trona I would have been in the HS class of 1960. I'd rather remember Billy Ray as a good-looking pesty boy across the street--how did he get to have gray hair? Eddie Semansky's hair looks dark in the photo--I want to remember him with the blonde hair he had as a kid. So I prefer to lurk for a while. I'll tell my Dad to send some memories to the web site. Many, many thanks for doing this. |
| Name: JIMMIE (REED)
ROLOF Website: Referred by: From Trona on the Web From: Ridgecrest, CA Time: Feb 18, 1999 16:22 Comments: I have really enjoyed your site, but I am interested in reading your fathers book. (I'm sure my sister Raynette would be also.) So how can we get a copy of it?? |
| Name: Carol
Stein Website: Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Time: Feb 27, 1999 14:36 Comments: Just cruisin around midi info and caught youyr homepage. I am a musician in Florida. Have traveled the world as an acoutsic pianist and now entereing into the world of midi recording (how humbling indeed) Carol |
| Name: kevin Website: none yet Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Kevin Time: Mar 9, 1999 22:48 Comments: I was born in Trona too..in 1966...Weird little town, huh? You have a nice page, and by the music would say that you are a wealthy man! ehhehehehe bye...Kevin |
| Name: Dick Kunsman Website: Referred by: From Trona on the Web From: Time: Mar 10, 1999 21:18 Comments: I haven't finished browsing your web page yet but what I've seen so far I am quite impressed. It's quite a coincidence, I was born in Minn and lived in Trona (62 thru 66) and worked at West End and at the Trona Plant. Small world! I reached you VIA my searching for info on Seldom Seen Slim and Ballarat Bob. What ever happened to Bob? Both those guys used to come into the bar we had in Argus. The Bonanza. My better halfs name is Penny. We were also on the West End Bowling League, at the old bowling alley with the two legged pin setters. We had six kids, two of which attended school there. Tell me more about your life in Trona and when you left there. |
| Name: Dolores
Perry Website: Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Dolores Time: Mar 22, 1999 07:27 Comments: i love to hear midi |
| Name: Glen Website: Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Time: Apr 4, 1999 06:37 Comments: A 'cyber-hug' is worth following up - but, NOT with that beard to circumscribe! Sunday cruising on the Net, particularly for mid.files and sites. I am the only one with a Mac, chums have PCs so I have to show the flag! I do have a http: site, but cannot recall the name or URL at the moment. It has been needing an idea to resolve for me, what am I going to do with it? Having seen your site; good layout! Simple but effective. It started me to thinking of some theme, which may just make for a solution. I am into 'communication' but lack for, and don't want technical stuff unless it helps me make better tracks on the web. Greetings from Edinburgh/Scotland; I like jazz, am retired and sorting ot the aches and twinges to allow me to finally walk for miles, or as near to that distance as possible. Pooters and chat about … name your poison is a source of pleasure and informative! Be shocked, and enjoy it! … Glen. |
| Name: Anna Perry Website: Referred by: From Trona on the Web From: Time: Jun 19, 1999 02:54 Comments: I was born in Trona in 1959. I appreciate your website devoted to it, and I like your homepage. |
| Name: Judi
(Shafer) McGill Website: Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Time: Jun 30, 1999 01:17 Comments: Hi, Found a link to your page on one of the Trona sites. My family lived in Trona beginning in 1951. We lived in a little camp trailer in a trailer park that used to be in Argus, then moved to a railroad house on Alameda Street, then to Pioneer Point. My sister and I graduated from Trona Hi. Dad worked for the railroad and Mom was a secretary in plant maintenance. I can remember playing with "Trona Money" which they used to coin for the plant until the IRS said it was a no-no. When Dad retired, he was assistant Train Master, but he started as a conductor. Mom would take us to the train in our P.J.s and let us ride with Dad up to Searles Station in the caboose. She would met us and take us back home to bed. It was our big adventure. I once took a friend home for a visit with my folks and she started laughing when we rounded the corner into town. The road got bumpy, the sign said "the end" (they were referring to the county maintained road) and she got a big wiff of rotten eggs. When she finally stopped laughing, she said "Judi, this is the worse place I've ever been, and I've been to Calcutta" She was probably right, but you know, the desert has it's own beauty and one thing is for sure, we had a safe place to be little kids in. I've been having a lot of fun with the Trona sites and yours was one of the links I looked at. I just couldn't resist responding to your invitation for anyone from Trona to write. Best Wishes, Judi McGill |
| Name: jack
daddy Website: Java 4 u Referred by: From Geocities From: Time: Jul 4, 1999 06:18 Comments: Your home page is super cool because you encryptied midi. I am very proud of you. |
| Name: Mary
(Downs) Lay Website: Referred by: From Trona on the Web From: Time: Jul 10, 1999 17:22 Comments: Hi, I have tried to email you thru the contact on the Trona web page but it wouldn't go thru. Let me know if you receive this. I think you might remember me as Judge Downs daughter. -Mary- |
| Name: Glenna
Slenning (Powers Website: Referred by: From Trona on the Web From: Time: Jul 15, 1999 01:08 Comments: I too was born in Trona, ok, not Trona, but Ridgecrest. I think the Trona hospital must have been closed. (My younger sister was born at the Trona hospital 18 months later.) But I lived my first 17 years in Trona. Both my parents are buried in Trona as are both sets of my grandparents. My Dad was Leroy Powers (he worked at the West End Plant for over 40 years) and his parents were Sidney and Ruth Powers. My mother was Ila Powers (Worman) and her parents were Esau (he worked at the Trona AP&C for 40 years) and Lois Worman. My uncle owned and operated the Chevron gas station in Trona. I still have relatives in Trona and Ridgecrest. I graduated from Trona High School in 1969, married a young man from the Navy Base in China Lake and this August, we will celebrate our 30th anniversary (He was from Oregon and we have made our home there ever since.) I was in Trona last September. It is sad and quite depressing to go back. The town is really suffering. I had a wonderful life growing up in Trona, but I would never be able to live there now....... It has been fun to read up on Trona. Enjoyed your web page..... |
| Name: Trisha
Prince Website: Referred by: From Twin Cities MIDI From: Trona ca Time: Aug 18, 1999 15:23 Comments: Hi I was just writeing in to say hi =) Im 16 and from Trona =) I hope i shocked u !!! Trisha |
| Name: Ricky Ranger Website: Referred by: Word of Mouth From: Oneida, NY Time: Sep 19, 1999 00:07 Comments: U r so c00l! I wish u were my dad! |
