A Parade & a Ball Game, Whats better?

Hi guys,
While I was labeling some more photos, I ran across these two “oldies”. I thought the picture of the 1962 basketball team was fun because it shows the old gym. Notice the ancient score board up on the wall. The other picture is of a early parade in Milford. I don’t have any details on this one nor do I know the men on the horses.
Maybe some one can help us identify them. Good work on the blog. It’s fun to check in and see what has been
posted.  Linda and Brad (Weston).

 

Friends from the 60′s Part II

The following were part of the photos Vicki Stewart Turner sent. See Part I Post below. 1st is of Jed Thomas, the next three are Jerry Mayer, Rick Berger & John Ryan at Jerry’s farm. Pat Stewart Barton, Billie Ann Carter, Irv Jennings & Tom Conto together for spaghetti and Shelley Bird with a ? Bird.

Friends from the 60′s Part I

I am sending some old photo’s that an old friend of Ron and I sent to us after hearing of the death of Rick Berger. He thought Ron and I might enjoy seeing them. We always go to the MHS website and have always enjoyed looking at the old and new photo’s that are posted so we thought you might like to post these, brought back lots of good memories.  Thanks,   Vicki Turner

Old 49ers Photos

Sent to us from Nedra Wunderlich Kennedy, she says they were given to her by Enoch (Nick) Swain of a 49ers celebration. Old timers will recognize some of the Milfordites. Thanks to Nedra for sharing. This celebration is alluded to in the reflections column above, but I see now, the dates were in the early 50s. Click on a photo and you will view this as a slide show, look for directional arrows at left & right of each photo. Check for Pat Wilcock, Lynne Bracken and help us out with the 3rd royal girl (center). See Marvin Horton with the movie starlet (unknown) in the convertible with Robt. S Davis driving and Bob Carter riding Shotgun. In the photo with Hoot Gibson on the left you can see Pat Williams and young steve at far right.

 

Old Fashioned Christmas

We were so tickled to get these great Christmas pictures from Brad and Linda Weston.

Linda writes:

It’s been awhile since I’ve been back scanning some more “old Milford memories”. Since it’s Christmas time, I couldn’t resist sending some of the Weston’s enjoying “Christmas in the good old days” when we loved throwing icicles on the fresh, just cut tree. We sure didn’t realize just how simple and quiet those days were. I sent the one of all the Weston’s showing a real live  pinion pine tree. I can still smell how fragrant those real trees were!

That was quite the train set Brad!

Grandma Metta with her beautiful needlepoint pillow, Gary, Linda, Alan and Brad.

This 1953 Christmas looks like another good one for the Weston Family, Thank you Brad and Linda for sharing them with us! Please Please send us any of your old Christmas pictures, trees, parties or any that you might have. For a blast from the past look at the Archives on the left side of the screen and click on June 2009 for a great picture of Milford Main Street with the famous Red Bells that used to decorate downtown Milford.

Merry Christmaas to you all!

Pheasant Hunt

November is time to put the rifles away and get out the shotguns for the Pheasant Hunting Season.We think this picture was taken at the “Club House” on the Milford Flat sometime in the 40′s. Didn’t they used to serve a lunch out there on the opening day? Does anyone recognize any of these dapper hunters?

The Deer Hunt

Growing up in Milford, October meant Deer Hunt! It was time to pull out those red sweatshirts or red flannel shirts and pin the hunting licence to your hat. We have had this picture for a while waiting to post it in October. Thanks Brad, how about identifying the camp crew for us.

Send us your old hunting pictures and maybe one of the Big Buck you got!

We have gotten word that the Next MHS  Reunion will be held August 31, September 1 and 2, 2012, Labor Day weekend!  Chairman Tim Fisher and his committee have a great time planned, please mark your calendars now!

Summer Camp 1956

The Fotos have a date of Aug 1956! Any idea who, what, where & why? Please let us know. Click in comments at the bottom of the post if you have information.

Don’t forget, just click on the Foto to enlarge.

Milford Swimming Pool

Barry (Hawkeye) Bird brought it to our attention , that the photos we posted earlier (Sept.) of the swimming pool in 1953 were reversed, the deep end was shown as being at the north end of the pool. We are adding the pictures as Barry transposed them. This pool replaced an earlier one on the same site in the late 40′s. The earlier one had wooden planks as a border (some of you may recall slivers in your feet), there were also cabanas rather than common dressing areas. This info was verified with help from Pat
Turner Davis.  There is a chance that Perry Lee Neal MHS coach was the first manager.

You can revisit the first post under the September archive on a left side panel of the blog.

 

 

1958 MHS Cagers

This pic was sent to us, yep, by Brad & Linda Weston. It was published in the 1958 yearbook, however the published picture lacked the scanned quality of this photo. Standing L-R are: Coach Lee Pettey (remember the years of just one athletic coach for all sports)? Larry Lofthouse, Gale Anderson, Paul McGinn, David Bown, Paul Wyatt, Boyd Horton, Mack Whittiker & Mgr. Brad Weston. Kneeling: Wayne Hardy, Arden Fowles, Eddie Tomsik, Robert Davis and Denny Belliston.

MHS Football

Its Football Season again! We were looking through our pictures for High School Football teams, we have many, many basketball pictures but very few football ones. We picked these three because it is fun to see how the uniforms have evolved. There are no names on the bottom team, but since it was scanned from a year book, it is signed. It would be great if someone would list the players for us.

Puffer Lake Lodge

We just could not resist posting this picture of Puffer Lake Lodge, I thought it was a big, big Lodge! What happened? It is another one of Jack Weston’s beautiful pictures. What was the name of the little lake that was in front of the lodge? Brad and Linda had it titled Otter Lake, but I thought it was named Mirror Lake, but I may be totally wrong!  Anyone know?

This last picture was sent by Larry Fitch, he is trying to identify the people in the picture as you can see by what he has written on the picture, can you help him out? Is that the front of the Puffer Lake Lodge?

Fun Pictures, thank you for sharing them with us!

Around Milford in the 1950′s

We found this video on Facebook, posted by Judy Hardy. We thought that everyone would enjoy it. It is a video filmed in the 50′s by Fred O’Leary, we do not know who posted it originally on YouTube but hope that Vanda or Kathlyn will let us know about it. Tell us if you recognize any of the people in the video. We loved seeing the old Garbage Truck, the Granites and all of the other Milford sights. (If you get ads in the bottom of the video, hit the small “x” in the corner of it to get rid of it.)

Summer End at the old swimming pool 1953

How many hours were spent this the old Milford Swimming Pool?! All summer long it was filled with splashing kids, sunbathing girls and a few good divers like Jack Weston in the photo. Brad is standing with his Dad on the side of the pool, note the rubber “nose plug” around his neck. When we were kids it was run by Coach Petty with swim lessons in the morning and free swim all afternoon and evening swim for the serious swimmers. You had to prove to Coach that you could swim across the pool before he would let you cross the rope into the deep end. We loved that pool, our kids would swim there whenever we visited.

Do you recognize any of the swimmers in the picture? What year was the pool built and who managed it before Coach Petty?

Calvin “Crow” Winn

Calvin Winn Class of 1957 with his prize winning 51 Ford Ragtop. A nice photo from Lucille Ferguson Hardy Class of 59 taken at trhe Milford annual car show this past Aug. 6th, 2011.

 

Granite Peaks Pond

Here is another beautiful picture from Brad and Linda Weston, we are truly grateful to them for finding all these wonderful pictures taken by Jack, Brad’s Dad. His talent for photography speaks for itself.

Our family went to this pond to swim only once, but I never forgot the beauty of the place, it was icy cold and of course my brother tried to scare me telling me it was bottomless! We swam to the edge and looked over into the valley below.

We would love to know more about the place, I am sure many of you have been there. Does any one know who put the “wall” on the end? Share your memories of this unusual spot as Linda said, ” The Mineral pond looks beautiful, and again a constant reminder of how lucky to have those mountains so close to Milford”.

Don’t forget to “double click” the picture to enlarge it!

Puffer Lake

Brad and Linda Weston sent us this beautiful picture of Puffer Lake,  Larry Fitch sent us the pictures of the fishermen at Puffer Lake.

Our family also spent a lot of time fishing in the Beaver Mountains and most of it was at Puffer Lake, we used to rent a little cabin there and a boat and spent many hours on the lake or fishing from the rocks. I remember the Lodge being owned by The Larsen’s, Mrs. Clerinth  Larsen was my favorite teacher, and I loved visiting with her in the Lodge. Later it was owned by Bob and Marge Schramn. We would love to hear from you what you know about Puffer Lake, or hear your fishin’ tales!

      

Brad’s Dad was a wonderful photographer and we would like to thank Brad and Linda for going throug them and sharing with us! Thank you too, Larry for sharing the great fishing pictures!

I could not resist adding my own picture of myself and my brother, taken in front of one of the cabins in about 1951 or 52. Send us one of yours!

Parade Floats 50′s

These photos come also from Brad & Linda Weston. Very Nice. Enjoy the pics and remember old friends that we have lost. Please read comments & make some as well, we would all appreciate IDs and memories. Remember,,click on pic to enlarge.

TV BBQ?

Another set of photos from Brad and Linda Weston. Notes from them indicate that this was a TV Barbeque event, possibly for the installation of Television reception equipment in the Mineral Mountains. Must have been quite an event as it looks as if they were catered to by Union Pacific cooks. Can anyone help with some details of the outing?   Q: When did TV come to Milford? Click on image to enlarge!

Volunteer Firemen?

Another great photo from Brad & Linda (Johnson) Weston…. While awaiting correction comments, I’ll guess it is a group of early volunteer firemen standing at the
rear of the Opera House. If so, they are looking north across 3rd south between
1st west and Main St.
Only wish we had a clue what the buildings in the background are.