February 28, 2020

If you stay alive long enough you become an authority.  Click HERE to see the interview Channel 10 did with me about PB's historic Handley House.

Scott Shaw '68, who helped found the original Comic-Con, is back with Comic Fest 2020.  It'll be held March 5-8 at San Diego's Four Points by Sheraton, 8110 Aero Drive.  

There really WAS an indoor firing range for ROTC -- and the GAA Firing Fillies.  Jim Person '61 said if I'd send him a Crawford map he'd show me where it was -- and he has.  This inset looks east, by the way.

The photo of Channel 8's Bob Regan misusing the phone apparently prompted Julia Burnham Little to share a video on how to dial a rotary phone.  Click HERE to check it out.  What kind of phone did you have?  We had the one on the left.  It weighed about eight pounds and had a spring-loaded dial that made me dread having to call people who had a 9 in their number.  Its replacement on the right was MUCH easier to use.

This week's Pacer is from February 25, 1960 -- 60 years ago.  Click HERE to read all four pages.

Wendy Nelson Myers shares a photo from Horace Mann days -- 1957 or 1958.  In the front row are the Hull twins -- Joan and Judy, Jeri Norstrom and Barbara Friedrich.  In the back Wendy Nelson Myers, Natalie Ault, Fritz Ziegenfuss, Nancy Biggs, Judy Marcotte, and Marion Pasas.   Wendy can't remember what the occasion was, but thinks the group won a prize.

I thought I'd shared this photo earlier, but I haven't.  It was taken by Howard Rozelle, possibly in 1945.  It looks north across the intersection of 43rd and University.  The photo I DID share was taken seconds later, across the intersection of 44th and University.  Click HERE to see both photos enlarged -- plus a page out of the San Diego City Directory listing businesses in that area.