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Speak Out
Thanks for your article on Willow Glen of yesteryear
I've got this habit of going on the web and looking for obscure bits of my past. Now that everything seems to be online, I have found the strangest things.
I've typed my name in a search engine and found my family tree, some of it actually correct. I once found a company that owed me $75 for a small job I did for them 2 1/2 years ago.
Today, I was searching for more of my past. I wanted to find out whatever happened to my old Little League baseball coach and his son. I typed in his name but got nothing back. Then I typed in his business, the same company that sponsored us, and came up with Cookie Curci-Wright's article on Willow Glen of yesteryear, which ran in November 2000.
Now I didn't grow up in Willow Glen. I did, however, grow up as a child of the late '50s, '60s, and early '70s (I had a long childhood) in the West Valley section of San Jose.
In 1964 and '65 I played for the Cardinals in the West Valley Little League. (My misdeeds in the name of baseball are probably still talked about. I was not good. At all.) Our coach was a man named Jim Domrose and we played for the Domrose Masonry Cardinals.
What a delight to find his company mentioned in your article. The next question is: Is he still alive? I'm guessing he'd be in his 70s by now. His son, Jim, was a year older than I, so he should be pushing 50. Searches through phone databases resulted in nothing. I just wonder if he, like me, eventually left town. I'd love to get hold of them and swap stories about the past and where we've been since then.
I did leave town after graduating from San Jose State. Worked in Green Bay, Louisville and Atlanta where I live now. I'm on TV, so it's possible that they've seen me on the tube without even knowing it. I find out about those from time to time.
Yes, I remember Spivey's on Stevens Creek by Valley Fair and was crushed a few years ago to find that Frontier Village became a victim of the wrecker's ball. I would love to have taken my daughter there.
Thanks again for your article.
Paul Ryden
Atlanta, GA
Willow Glen still the home to army sergeant
Hi, I am a longtime resident of Willow Glen. I claim it as my home of record (on Jonathan Avenue). I am in the Army and have been for the last 16 years and plan to retire to Willow Glen in four years.
Just emailed to say thanks for everything. My unit has been deployed here in Kosovo for the last six months. We are leaving back to Germany, where I will be stationed for the next 2 1/2 years, on Sunday, May 27. I have access to the Internet here in Kosovo. I check your website each week to see what's up at home in San Jose. Thanks for everything.
Sgt. 1st Class Graham Gomez
Kosovo
INS needs to treat foreigners better
Recently my son married a lovely Vietnamese girl who was here on a visa. It evidently is required that certain information papers be filled with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
So, since my son and his new wife had heard from her relatives already in California, that the line would be very long, they got up very early to go to the immigration office by 5 a.m. one morning last week.
The line was unbelievably long, so they waited together, with papers in hand, until my son had to go to work at 8 a.m. His wife continued to wait until mid-morning when no more people were taken in, as the limit of 300 had already been reached.
When asking others in line what was going on, they were told by some ahead of them that they had been in the line since the previous day. That means they spent the night on the street.
Is this any way to treat people whether citizens or foreigners?
Also, I thought that when a foreigner married a U.S. citizen, that the person automatically was given legal status to reside in this country. What ever happened to that law? It would be nice if someone could give us an answer.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate for reservations to be made by phone or on a website like the Department of Motor Vehicles?
I don't expect that my son and his wife will spend a night sleeping in the street to get into an immigration office. But what will happen to them or her if they don't?
This looks like the lines in Mocow where people lined up the street to go through one small door to buy a loaf of bread about 10 years ago.
I'm appalled and frustrated for my son and his new wife.
Alma Taylor
Gardendale Drive
Greetings and thanks from India
I was delighted to read about Mr. Prakash Chandras' achievement in the arts, as reported last year in the cover story of your May 5 issue of the Willow Glen Resident.
I came to know about his accomplishments as I was searching for my long-lost friend on the Internet. We both studied together in the city of Pune, India, a.k.a. Vidya Nagari (city of education). As I left Pune in search of a job and Prakash immigrated to the United States to follow his friends and his dreams, we lost touch with each other.
But thanks to Internet and to your newspaper article I was able to locate him.
I thank you for the well-written article you wrote about my friend, Prakash.
Satish Tumne
Maharashtra, India.
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Willow Glen, California Since 1992
