The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 46

D-2 THE SUN-TILEGRAM Sopt. 25, 1977 London Bridge Days start Saturday at Lake Havasu the colorful London Bridge Days parade, complete with marching bands, floats, and equestrian groups from throughout the Southwest, will march across the bridge and through the nearby area beginning at 10 30 a.m. Following the parade, the concert-dance by-Sinatra and James gets underway at 6 p.m. on the promenade beneath the bridge, with no admission charge. and pennants of a bygone area, will be the star of the events that include a parade, costume contest and a six-hour musical extravaganza featuring Frank Sinatra Jr.

and Harry James and his Big Band. The pine days of events officially start on Oct. 1 with a variety of contests, sports events, dances and shows. The following weekend of the day the last piece of the historic structure completed the transition from the banks of the Thames to a mile-long arm of the Colorado River between Arizona and California. It's Olde England come alive again, a festival of music and merriment that is centered around the or-ginial English landmark that lovers strolled along and poets inramortalied.

The London Bridge, clothed in heraldic flags LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. Wbile the American Southwest offers visitors a variety of traditional festivals, from Mexican fiestas to rodeos and roundups, one of the most popular new celebrations is the unexpected bit of Olde England that is reborn each year on the shores of Lake Havasu. The annual London Fridge Davs celebration, scheduled for Oct. 1 9, will mark the sixth anniversary "tints I Both James and Sinatra will present individual programs, but will join together for a special number. Sinatra is backed by the Larry O'Brien Octette.

Another feature of the nine-day celebration, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. W5, is the costume contest in which area townfolk. both young and old, compete. Area residents, in a tribute to the heritage of their famous bridge, will wear old English costumes whenever the occasion permits, adding color and excitement to the celebration. Visitors will see Elizabethan dukes and duchesses, Edwardian serving wenches, Georgian upstairs maids and chimney sweeps, Victorian generals and farmers, princes and courtesans and dandies.

All of this seems to be an anachronism of the first order massive old London Bridge looking very much at home spanning a mile-long arm of the blue Lake Havasu, and the people of this sunny, recreation-oriented community wearing the finery of Merrie Olde England as they stroll along the broad promenade under the east arch ot the bridge and through the flower-filled gardens of the adjoining English Village. The costume contest began six years ago, as part tes. i "JUv5 ate 1 London Bridge will be the center of attraction for Lake Havasu's annual festival Oct. 1 through 9 lis: of four out of town experts, all with backgrounds in English history. London Bridge is now second only to the Grand Canyon as an Arizona tourist attraction, drawing some two milion visitors a year to Lake Havasu City.

Lake Havasu City is located on Arizona 95, south of Interstate 40 and north of Interstate 10. preparation, the numbe'r of Lake Havasu City families participating in the contest is increasing every year, according Elrose Dussault, contest chairman for the sponsoring Western Welcome Community Club. The contumes are homemade and the contest is only open to Lake Havasu City residents. Costume judging is done by a panel of the ceremonies that marked the dedication and opening of the bridge, following its purchase by Mc-Culloch Oil Corp. in 1968 and the three-year process of dismantling in London, shipment halfway around the world, and stone-by-stone rebuilding in its original form.

Despite the long hours of work reuired for costume Jobb Morrlt Staff Photo by This 66-ton Baldwin was originally built in 1922 for the Cascade Lumber Co. In the 1940's it was converted to an oil burner and went to work doing industrial switching near Ventura. It is among the many pieces of rolling stock that will be on display during the open house. Railway museum open (Continued from D-D directing you to the museum. Admission is free, although donations are accepted.

There's plenty of parking space, and picnic tables if you take a lunch. An all -day pass to ride all the cars and lines costs $2 for adults and $1 for children. There is a cheaper fare of $1 for adults and 50 cents for children, allowing you two rides one on the narrow gauge railway and the other on the standard 'Butcher Block Serving Boards! -rrrjZZ. board meeting1 T'J- 'fff': B3l7n W6 C3rt -'ijirfTH laminated hardwoods L'T-rl3--" vrv i our traveling oasis' tfi3a magically mosaiced into a FrjjffiNjL well grained woods worked trio of chopping mtoathirst-quenchmg. jfaAl cheese serving boards' smooth-rolling bar! 1 hV bO-fii above, find a 12" 32" A'XWif circles to 11'.

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Actually, the museum looks much like an actual railroad yard. Crews may be seen laying rails, setting poles or stringing trolley wires. Others work at restoring old railway equipment, some of it donated by railroad companies, some purchased for just a little more than the scrap-iron value. No one gets paid a cent, except Millie Harsh, a personable, outgoing great-grandmother, who watches over the premises on weekdays when the museum is open, but the rides aren't operating. So, if you're aching for another ride on the trolley and to hear the clang-clang of the bell just one more time, to listen to the clackety-clackety of the steel wheel and rail, then why not ride on down again into history next Saturday in Perris.

Who knows They may even put you to work, building a train track again, just like you did when you were a kid and got your toy train from Santa on Christmas foam pad otters gauge line. There's most everything here that almost any railroad buff would want to see. The museums are chucked full of memorabilia, plus books, posters and souvenirs. You can spend a lot of time, too, walking around the area, seeing old cars and steam engines, trolleys and cranes. Some have been refurbished, some are being repaired and some are standing, pretty much the way they were brought here just castof fs from a railway age that is now history.

Ride to the nostalgic whine of electric motors, the clickety-clack of steel on steel, as the cars gently sway down the right of way. The past comes alive with the rhythm of air compressors, the whistle of in-terurbans and clang-clang of street car bells. Volunteer motormen and conductors are there just like yesteryear, and they are well-trained and have passed tests for your riding safety. Here you will see equipment, and momentos from the fascinating era of electric railroading, covering a period of more than hall a century when the red cars of the Pacific Electric were as much a part of Los Angeles as the modern' freeway is today. Here, too, is "The Blimp" of the Pacific Electric that carried 80 seated passengers, and at least that many more standing.

It was true to its name, this gargantuan interurban which wrote the final chapter in the Big Red Car era of Southern California when the Long Beach line was finally discontinued. There's much more. Steam cars, electric freight equipment, and work and construction cars and cranes. Passenger trolleys include early wooden cars up to most modern streamliners. And if you look hard enough, you may even find the most famous of them all, Tennessee Wil- relaxing comfort If 'J thanks to soecia convoluted styli after use just book shelf to boot1 assembly required squeeze a machine wash f5V and dry too' 29.99 4 Artist Marco Sassone na vua 6-Cup Espresso Maker from Italy Bussed Wind ChinuK from India Fx of 12 Sign Pens a rainbow bright flavorful coffee in Famous Maker Velour Bath Towels plush sheared velours a tinkling treasure collection ot water Marco Sassone to speak at museum the Italian tradition1 color markers in almost 40 long.

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Sept. 28 at the San Bernardino County Museum. The Redlands Art Association will sponsor the event. Admission is free. The artist will show his film, "I Am an Artist: Sassone," and discuss his book of California paintings.

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Ro won a scholarship for his art training, and gained an enviable reputation as a painter. PETTIS STORY Author Miriam Wood presented the first copy of her book, "Congressman Jerry L. Pettis: His Story," to Rep. Shirley Pettis, R-Loma Linda, widow of the late congressman. The author met Mr.

Pettis when she and her husband, Kenneth, were students with him at Pacific Union College ih Angwin, from 1933-38. Following the congressman's fatal plane crash Feb. 14, 1975, Wood began chronicling the congressman's 58 years, which included careers as minister, pilot, rancher, legislator, medical executive, businessman, teacher and inventor. The book was published by Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, Calif. SUMMER TO WINTER Apple Valley's year-old Harlequin Players group, which just opened the season with 'The Owl and the Pussycat," had planned to do Neil Slmon'i "The Odd Couple, starring Skip Young and Bill Comb during the summer, but Pow Wow Days and filming of "Deadwood Dick in the Desert" sidetracked the players, so the Simon play is now scheduled for late November or early December.

KEEPING KUHL Artist of the month at St. Paul's Methodist Church in San Bernardino is Helen Kuhl, whose watercolors have been seen in numerous shows and collections. Her first art instructor was her husband, Elmer, also a fine painter. The Kuhls painted in Mendocino this summer, and attended the Jade Fon painting workshop at Asilomar in Pacific Grove. The Kuhls have three children, five grandchildren and an apartment in Highland lined with paintings.

BLOSSOMING Susan Bean, who received a Water-color West scholarship to begin her art studies at the close of high school in 1974, found her creative outlet in flowers. At the age of 21, she has become the youngest member of the American Institute of Floral Designers and last week opened her own florist shop in Redlands. OPERA BROADCAST The San Francisco Opera's 1977 season will be broadcast by KVCR-FM radio (91.9 FM), beginning with Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur" at 11 a.m. Oct. 8.

The weekly Saturday series will continue for nine more weeks. Mozart's "Idomeneo" will be heard Oct. 15. Steve Ward at KVCR has the complete schedule. IRISH AT WORK Patricia Alley of Corona, who teaches classes at the Riverside Art Center and for Chaffey College In Corona, will demonstrate still life oil painting at 7:30 p.m.

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