Early FOTW Postcards and Airport Photos from Grandma..

[MacUser]

Here are some older printed packets, photos and postcards from the Fields of the Wood and others. I thought everyone would love to see them. They came from my recently passed Grandmother. I will be placing them in this church gallery below as I scan them in.

http://www.northparkchurch.com/photo/in ... lbum&id=43

Here are some samples already posted.





(See the inside of this on the above link)

I have some post cards sent from my Great Grandmother to my Grandmother during the 1956 Convention expressing great services.

[soulsearcher]

Mc,

Thanks for posting these awesome photos.

As a 3rd Generation COCOP kid (baby boomer) I grew up attending the annual Assemblies in the Old Tabernacle on Central Avenue (and visiting the Fields of the Wood on the first day of those Assemblies). I remember riding in the "caravan" from Cleveland there and back. It was a very exciting parade for us kids to be a part of!

I remember seeing these very postcards for sale at FOTW and the old WWPH, also on Central Avenue, which we (my sister and I) toured almost every day of the Assembly. My favorite part of that tour was riding up the freight elevator from the Press Department to the third floor and getting to see the original Majestic Recording Studio

At the age of 20, Eddie Griffith hired me to work as a secretary at the old Bible Place builidng. I eventually found my way into the music department (hired by Phil Barker) and stayed there for 17 years.

Wonderful, cherished memories. Thanks for helping to bring them back.

P.S. And the Assembly then just wasn't complete without a hamburger or hot dot and snowcone from one of the lunch tents outside the tabernacle, or an ice cream cone from Dooley's up the street. After you got your shoes shined, again, right on the street, you walked over to the photo booth and had your annual Assembly picture made. I still have one from 1966!!

[paul]

Soulsearcher

P.S. And the Assembly then just wasn't complete without a hamburger or hot dot and snowcone from one of the lunch tents outside the tabernacle, or an ice cream cone from Dooley's up the street. After you got your shoes shined, again, right on the street, you walked over to the photo booth and had your annual Assembly picture made. I still have one from 1966!!

The assembly photo I still have is from 1962

[DaJudge]

Cool pics. That old stuff fascinates me. What a cult we were!

[paul]

Cool pics. That old stuff fascinates me. What a cult we were!

Oh, but what little boy did not want to grow up and wear that cpma uniform like Grady Kent and fly a plane. I remember my first rides in one of those planes. Glen Whitner was the pilot.

[MacUser]

I was going to originally ask.. who has rode in one of the planes!

[darylscook]

One of the members that I pastor used to Fly one of those planes.

Billy Williams

Daryl

[Gerald Creasy]

One of these guys missed their calling.

[DaJudge]

One of these guys missed their calling.

Bishop Curly Kent

[Mister Ed]

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Here is someone who rode in them:



This is me in Grady Kent's plane (hope Gerald doesn't think I missed my calling). But hey! I got in something like 400 hours free flying time in these planes, and free room&board. (And also it was fun giving those cute girls a ride.) (I think this was made at Stanton KY when I landed there during youth camp en-route from Cleveland to South Dakota, or vise versa.

One year we took 5 to 7 planes and flew in the form of a cross over Cleveland during the Assembly. And we would fly over FOTW during special programs there.

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'Captain' Charles Barnes

[pastorables]

I stand to be corrected, but I think Dr. Ron and J.E. Brisson were pilots for them also?!

pa