and early 1900's for well heeled American . They were the owners and trainers of Lassie. Weatherwax's son rented the old Warmuth ranch house for a time. The two trained. Fortunately, I grew up with farm animals and dogs so I stayed with Rudd Weatherwax, the owner of Lassie, for 2-3 days on his property to see how I would get along with the dog. Rudd and May owned 80 acres in the canyon. He just couldn’t bear to see Pal.
Sathre attended Sulphur Springs School. Weatherwax was born in Engle, New Mexico Territory, the son of Anna Elisa (née Wallis) and Walter Smiley Weatherwax. "She was a mean woman," he said with a shiver. Rudd Weatherwax was born on September 23, 1907 in Engel, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA as Ruddell Bird Weatherwax. become the world's most famous fictional. Minnie Helvey Mitchell recalls her teacher with similar affection. Today Youngblood is remembered as a blacksmith and an artisan. He was always nice to Sathre and to the neighbor kids; in 1931 he had a picnic and invited all of the Sand Canyon kids to his ranch. Mary Warmuth Sathre recalls her early days in Solemint — the area surrounding the junction of Soledad Canyon and Mint Canyon roads in today's Canyon Country.
Sathre's family settled in Sand Canyon early in the 1900s.
The wagon was parked at the school for the day while the horse grazed in the back of the Sulphur Springs school. He walked around with a fake bird on his shoulder.
Sathre remembers that Melba and her then-husband George Starbuck would get up and hike through the canyon at 4 a.m. Ruddell Bird "Rudd" Weatherwax (September 23, 1907 – February 25, 1985) was an American actor, animal trainer, and breeder.He and his brother Frank are best remembered for training dogs for motion pictures and television. Published 2017 by BearManor Media. Near their home, against the hill, was Bill Hickey's house. Therefore, he benefited from those rights during the program's 17-year run on CBS and additional broadcasts in syndication.[5].
When the collie died in 1958 at age 18, trainer Rudd Weatherwax buried Pal/Lassie on his ranch in Canyon Country, California. ISBN 978-1-62933-092-1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudd_Weatherwax&oldid=958148714, Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 May 2020, at 04:51. "Leroy had a hairlip, but boy could he play baseball," Sathre said. Rudd Weatherwax probably never asked himself such questions. Not only did Sathre and her siblings have to cross the Sand Canyon River to get home, but the driveway to their house would turn into its own rushing river when the water was up. It was a long, slow and very painful death for Leroy Insley. Memories of Mary Warmuth Sathre and Friends. Their fancy collie was still in training, so MGM hired Pal as a stand-in for the river scene. He had a bar and pool hall which local residents enjoyed. Today the same infection would be cured with a simple antibiotic. SCVHistory.com is another service of SCVTV, a 501c3 Nonprofit • Site contents ©SCVTV • Additional copyrights apply. Sathre laughs when she remembers him in his "chicken" outfit, but also disdains "the notion that Cain ever ran a whorehouse."
(Editor's note: "Our" Remi Nadeau was the grandson of the famous L.A. freighter of the same name.). He was a pretty good baseball player. By Jo Ellen Rismanchi. Sathre remembers Leroy Insley, brother of Glenn Insley Mitchell, who was married to Oscar Mitchell. He is known for his work on, Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley From 'Addams Family,' Dead At 59, Ken Weatherwax of TV's Addams Family Is Dead.
They don't understand how difficult things used to be. Occasionally she'd hurl an eraser to arouse her sleeping charges. When Weatherwax was a very young child, he lived with his six siblings on his parents' goat ranch in New Mexico. Weatherwax's son rented the old Warmuth ranch house for a time. When the studio decided to stop making more Lassie movies, Pal's owner and trainer, Rudd Weatherwax, took the rights to Lassie's name and … The blood-to-blood transmission gave him the disease Tulermia, according to Clem Cox. She remembers those poor, early days in Sand Canyon. The 1938 flood washed out all of the bridges and raised Cain's swimming pool as if to fit Noah's Ark. It was her first taste of soda pop, something for which she will always remember Nadeau with fondness. "We sold fertilizer for gardens (and) rented out our oak trees to movie studios for backdrops," Sathre said. They used a horse to pull the cart, and all of the kids crowded in and down to get across safely.
Near their home, against the hill, was Bill Hickey's house. Discover what to watch this November including a Marvel docu-series, a '90s reboot, and a Star Wars holiday celebration. Sathre remembers Nadeau as a handsome, older man, slightly heavyset. He had two sons, Jackie A close friend of Sathre's father, he was clerk of the Sulphur Springs Union School District board from the 1890s to 1902. Sathre remembers Rudd and May Weatherwax. He and his brother Frank are best remembered for training dogs for motion pictures and television. She had to be; her 30 pupils in a single classroom spanned eight grades. Although the work was considered complicated for an animal actor, the dog performed exceptionally well. When she was taking care of her elderly mother, Cain offered her water when their ranch pump went dry. numerous dogs to play the role of what was to. Today's fire station, just east of Solemint Junction, sits on land once owned by Remi Nadeau. He ran a nature farm that included deer and buffalo. "Woof Woof! At age 16 she was the youngest worker ever to be hired by Hughes Aircraft. as the ideal ranch, farm, and family dog. Word was, he ran a whorehouse where the old VFW place used to be."
"I used to wonder how he made a living with that farm," Sathre said. Rudd Weatherwax was born on September 23, 1907 in Engel, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA as Ruddell Bird Weatherwax. The Depression years were difficult for everyone. Interestingly, Pal was not actually the “original” Lassie. In this video, Bob shares his childhood memories of visits to the ranch with Lassie and his father, Rudd Weatherwax. Cain was quite a character, Sathre said. Solemint's Early Neighbors. At Sultus Street and Sand Canyon Road lived a man named Ace Cain. It was sold to Richard Karl in 1978. Sathre was just five when Joseph Youngblood Sr. died.
They used to come pick up Sathre's sister Josie to join them. Said Sathre. Born in 1925, Sathre lived in a neighborhood that included Rudd and May Weatherwax of Lassie fame, Bill Hickey, Remi Nadeau, Cliffie Stone, Paul Palmer, Leona Cox, Clem and Paula Cox, Tall Bello and his brother, Mike Bello — who had a reservoir up the canyon at the end of Iron Canyon — and Melba Walker Starbuck Fisher and the rest of the Walker family.
The school bus didn't come to the canyon for a long time, so the students had to get to Honby — about where Home Depot is today on Soledad Canyon Road — to be picked up for the bus to high school. He had a hernia and was constantly in pain. At the peak of Lassie's career, the dog was allowed to travel on airplanes with trainer Rudd Weatherwax, with one airline even calling to find out how the dog would like his steak cooked. MGM, which had decided to use a show collie trained by Frank Inn in the movie, took advantage of a massive flooding of the Sacramento River in northern California to obtain some spectacular footage for the film. Her parents were Marge and Joseph Warmuth. Memories of Mary Warmuth Sathre and Friends. Weatherwax was posthumously inducted into the New Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2012. In skinning the rabbit, he cut himself, and an infection set in.
Sathre graduated high school early in 1942.
Pal became a movie star through a weather-related event. Ask Clem "Clemmie" Cox about Mitchell and you'll get a different perspective. "Oh God, it was a treat!" The river spread out at Warmuth Road. Rudd and May owned 80 acres in the canyon. Sathre attended San Fernando High School after graduating from Sulphur Springs. According to legend, after seeing the first prints, the head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer, stated that "Pal had entered the water, but Lassie had come out," and a new star was born.
Sathre remarked that Cain was a wonderful man. Rudd’s son, Bob Weatherwax, strives for the same as he continues the legacy with the ninth generation of the world’s most famous canine. Bob, a … [1] Their collie, Pal, became the original Lassie, handled by Rudd for the 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Lassie Come Home. Entries in school district records from 1890-1902 show reimbursements to him for materials he used to make repairs at the school. Favorite Character-Titled TV Series: Before 1990, From Hollywood guests are Lassie, Desi Arnaz, Shirley Jones, Marty Ingels, Edy Williams, The Bossa Rio Sextet, The Best TV Shows About Being in Your 30s. Shivering as she recalled the flood of March 1938, Sathre said she and her brothers and sister had to cling to bob-wire in rushing water to get across the river on their way home from school.
"Mitchell was a crack shot from the back of the room," Sathre said. CC Jo Anne Darcy Library Opens 11/17/2001. They were the owners and trainers of Lassie.
After his death, his son, Robert, took over the training of the animals. [4], MGM owned the rights to Lassie's name, but when the series of films ended, Weatherwax obtained those rights in lieu of his final year's salary and a little additional money. The Warmuth house is located at the intersection of Warmuth and Sand Canyon roads, on the east side. He may have served earlier than that, but some district records are missing.
It was common practice throughout the late 1880'S. That honor belongs instead to a collie named Toots, the dog Eric Knight owned that inspired his … How did they survive those lean years? Later on, we made more of a fuss and they the bus came all the way up to Placerita Canyon and turned around. Actor James Garner lived there for a while, too.
Sathre had nothing but praise for Mitchell — who skipped her from grade 6 to 8 because she was doing the eighth-grade math work.
"Everything I learned that got me through my master's degree, I got in that one-room schoolhouse," she said. [6] He was the uncle of Ken Weatherwax, who played Pugsley Addams in The Addams Family television series. Kids today really don't know how easy they have it, she said. Youngblood's son, Joseph Jr., married Elaine Russell. In the late 1950s, Spitz bought a dog kennel at 10805 Vanowen St., from another legendary Hollywood dog trainer, Rudd Weatherwax, Lassie’s trainer. Bob returns to the Pancho Barnes' ranch, host to many of history's most famous aviators. The school still exists there today. [2], Weatherwax was also responsible for training the official New York Mets’ team mascot in the 1960s, a beagle named Homer.[3].
Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Looking for something to watch? Sathre remembers Rudd and May Weatherwax. "She was a great teacher.". Ruddell Bird "Rudd" Weatherwax (September 23, 1907 – February 25, 1985) was an American actor, animal trainer, and breeder. The rain water would rise to the level of the road. Lifetime community resident Maxine Suraco once remarked that she thought it strange that Youngblood would be buried in the Mitchell-Dyer family cemetery in Sand Canyon, because the Youngbloods had their own cemetery on their homestead next to the Mitchells.