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<< Previous   of   Next >> Kristi O'Harran/ The Herald  (click to enlarge) Walt Taubeneck holds a picture of a gas-station sign advertising unleaded gasoline for 78 cents a gallon.   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Robert Frank, City Editor frank@heraldnet.com   Published: Friday, July 11, 2008 Gas prices of the past at Marysville history display Walt Taubeneck, 84, remembers when gas cost about 75 cents a gallon, circa the late 1970s. He showed a picture of a Hudson gas station at the Marysville Historical Society "museum in waiting" at 1508B Third St. in Marysville. Taubeneck has spent his whole life in Marysville, except for three years in the service and one in Alaska, he said. He is on the Board of Trustees for the society. The group is raising money to build a new permanent museum in Marysville. Feel free to drop by the temporary space filled with artifacts, old phones, military gear and school desks. u u u It's too bad members of the Arlington School District Board of Directors aren't taking their swimsuits to Willis Tucker Community Park today. It promises to be hot outside. The Arlington board is meeting at the park for a retreat to discuss school board goals. The park, east of Mill Creek, has a new spray-pad water feature that soaks neighborhood kids. Julie Davis, assistant to the superintendent and board of directors, said they keep a file about potential places to have retreats. The location needs to have ample space and parking. I asked Davis if the board planned to pack bathing suits today. "Umm, probably not this group," she said. That's too bad. If there is any tension about planning goals, they could go outside and dunk one another with the dragon sprayer. u u u I recently wrote about a surprise bug that was making an appearance at the Granite Falls Library. It bugged me that Linnea Epstein, children's liaison, wouldn't tell me what the insect was going to be. Turns out praying mantises showed up at the recent Bee A Bug Buster program. If seeing a praying mantis gives you the willies, this might gross you out. The Pacific Science Center will show rotten teeth at the library at 2 p.m. Saturday. Investigate your own teeth, see teeth from animals and check out decayed teeth found in real mouths. The library is at 815 E. Galena St. in Granite Falls. u u u Fun Fact: Mytyl Hernandez spent four years with the Quil Ceda Village marketing department and recently changed jobs. She is now with the Tulalip Tribes public affairs department in Tulalip. She was named for a character played by a classic film star, Shirley Temple, who had a role as a little girl in the 1940 film "The Blue Bird." Her mother liked that movie, says Mytyl Hernandez. Temple's name was Mytyl in the film. Neither here nor there -- Temple's character in the film had a brother named Tyltyl. Columnist Kristi O'Harran: 425-339-3451 or oharran@heraldnet.com.

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