Last week’s Remember When “mystery photo” showed the start of production of Thermax insulated sheathing at the Celotex Corp.’s Tracy factory in December 1980.
Left to right: Peggy Yarbrough, customer-services representative; Ray Slattery, plant manager; and R.P. Kipper, Celotex manufacturing manager for foamed-plastic plants.
The forklift driver is Jeff Nelson. The 153,000-square-foot plant produced Thermax — fiberglass-reinforced plastic foam sandwiched between sheets of aluminum foil — used for construction projects. The plant, on Gandy Dancer Drive in south Tracy, is now owned by Dow Chemical Co., which has announced plans to close the plant by the end of the year.
This week’s Remember When “mystery photo” shows the main speaker at the 1975 dedication of a housing project in Tracy. Who is the speaker, and what is being dedicated?
TWICE TOLD TALES
10 years ago — 1997
Tracy is rapidly running out of land for industrial development, Mike Locke, director of the San Joaquin Partnership, has warned city officials.
Developers of the proposed Tracy Hills project south of town have lined up a water supply from the Delta-Mendota Canal. Grupe Communities Inc. has purchased a 2,500-acre Firebaugh farm with a water contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Services have been observed for Stuart Clever, 58, a Tracy farmer who died at his home in Stockton.
The Tracy High Bulldogs were blanked by Sonora, 24-0, and the West High Wolf Pack lost to Los Banos, 56-38, in a grim Friday night for Tracy football fortunes.
Tracy fire Chief Terrell Estes has told the Tracy City Council that the city needs to replace its 1968 snorkel truck with a ladder truck that would cost $576,199.
25 years ago — 1982
Overcrowding at Deuel Vocational Institution is causing fears of violence in the inmate population, reported Bob Rees, DVI superintendent.
Tracy High School is making plans to enter a team in the new San Joaquin County Academic Decathlon.
John Telleria is chairman of the annual Basque Night at the Tracy Elks Lodge.
Gilbert and Lila Gomes are trying to maintain their rural lifestyle at their home on Tracy Boulevard, but housing subdivisions are closing in.
Raymond Silva ran wild to lead the Tracy High Bulldogs to a 31-8 victory against Tokay. The Bulldog running back picked up 186 yards while scoring three touchdowns at the Grape Bowl.
Jim Davidson, director of vocational and special education for Tracy Public Schools, has been suspended without pay while the district attorney continues an investigation of the administrator’s actions.
50 years ago — 1957
Trustees of the Tracy Elementary School District are making plans to place a bond issue and override tax measure on the ballot in 1958. District voters defeated a 45-cent override tax measure in June.
Tracy’s VFW Post is offering free sickroom equipment to low-income Tracy residents, according to Arny VanderMeer, post commander.
Willie McGuire is leading Press Peerless Pigskin Prognosticators in picking football game winners. The Tracy High student has a 78-22 record.
One-hundred seventy teachers from Tracy-area schools visited local industries during Tracy’s first Business-Education Day.
Four efforts to score came up empty for the Tracy High Bulldogs, who lost to Franklin of Stockton, 6-0.
John Silveria has taken the men’s championship at Tracy Golf & Country Club with a 6-and-5 win against Roy Welch.
75 years ago — 1932
Tracy has been promised a post office building costing $72,000. The search for a site is now in progress, said Rep. C.F. Curry.
Employees of the Dairymaid Creamery have signed up 100 percent to support the local relief program for the unemployed and their families.
Coffee is going for 20 cents a pound at the Piggly Wiggly-Safeway food market on Central Avenue.
The Tracy High Bulldogs have found themselves on the losing end again, this time to the Lodi Flames, 19-0.
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