February 4, 2022

 

I hope this is self-explanatory, because I don't have additional details.  Looks like the plan is to meet up in the parking lot at the Parkway Plaza Sears at 10 AM NEXT Saturday, then cruise to the Lakeside Rodeo Grounds where folks will share their memories of the late Al McBride.  Below is a photo of Patti Frazier and Al at a 1962 Crawford car show.

Looking like an extra from Happy Days, Jerry Lombardo '59 poses with his '55 Chevy during his Senior Year at Crawford.  Click HERE for a slightly larger view on the Cars We Drove to School page.

Mike Shannon '64 has added his photo to the Colts Who Served page.  Click HERE to scope it out.

Click HERE to take a look at the Pacer published February 2, 1967 -- 55 years ago.  I especially enjoyed the ad for the Jim Pagni produced James Brown concert at the Sports Arena.

 

Kim Leimbach Lasley '75 passed away January 23rd.  She is survived by, among others, her husband Jim Lasley, also from the Class of '75.

Philip Haberstroh ’76 died November 23, 1991.  He and  I were good friends through most of high school and afterwards.  Because of our last names we were often seated next to each other, and that is how we got to know each other.  We remained in touch throughout most of the ‘80s.  Tragically, he died in a house fire in Lakeside.  He was one of my best friends and I do still think about him after all these years -- Wayne Haire

January 28, 2022

Can it get any better?  Bill Ross sends a two-minute color video of his sister Carole '60 at Monte Hall's Playland, 7380 El Cajon Blvd., taken in 1947.  Click HERE and grab the reins.

I found an obituary for Monte Hall and added it to the Monty Hall Page.  Click HERE to take a look.

Bill Ross '65 shares his 1959 Oak Park Elementary School Graduation Program and some snapshots.  Click HERE to take a look.

I've added a photo of Bill Grantham '68 to the Colts in the Military Page.  Click HERE for an enlargement and caption.

Michael Tucker ’60 passed away December 20, 2021 after a long and hard-fought battle with lung cancer.  In lieu of flowers, spend extra time with your family or take a bike ride in his memory.  “The time is never right. The heart is never ready.”

January 21, 2022

 

Sheriff Bill Gore '65 announced this week that he will retire on February 2nd, putting an end to a 51-year career in law enforcement.  Click HERE to read the article in the Union-Tribune

Colin Cole and Duane Farrar visited the OB Pier last week and took pictures.  They've been friends for 71 years.  Click HERE to see the uncropped photos.

Some of these 1957 Campus Lab Kindergartners got together at Poway Lake last October.  Click HERE to see the group photo.  

Greg Thomas '69 submitted a couple of photos for the Colts Who Served in the Military Page.  (I forgot there was such a page).  Click HERE to see both photos -- and captions.

John Sullivan '65 shares a photo of the car he and his brother Richard drove to Crawford.  Click HERE for the details.

Below are Pacers that came out this week 60, 55, and 50 years ago.

January 17, 1962

January 19, 1967

January 21, 1972

January 14, 2022

 

Remember when Mom used to put a pencil mark on the door jamb as you grew up?  That was then, this is now.

Jenny Dominique shared a photo of her mother, Jeannette Gurling '59.  Click HERE for an enlargement.

Rolfe Pope '62 and Paulo Mamede '61, and their wives, met for dinner this week in Rio de Janeiro.  Click HERE for a larger photo.

Bill Ross '65 shares snapshots from the 1965 Senior Prom.  Click HERE to take a look.

Gil Tisnado shares three photos from his days as a regular on Monty Hall's Tiny Town Ranch.  Click HERE to take a look.

It's a coincidence -- I think -- that the Serra Museum was in the background of a photo we featured last week and, this week, this great 1930 Walter Averett shot popped up on Facebook.  Click HERE to see it enlarged.

Norm Urquhart ’60 passed away July 8, 2021.  He and his brother Bob were early members of the Prowlers car club, and Norm‘s green pick up truck was featured in one of the Crawford newspapers. He and Bob owned Urquhart Brothers Motorcycle Repair in El Cajon.  After their shop was sold, he went into landscaping.  He lived off Winter Gardens Boulevard in Lakeside -- Gary Morris ’61

January 7, 2022

This was posted on Facebook by Sandie Robbins Knox '61

Here's Carlos Amezcua '71 with his '66 VW at La Jolla Shores.  Click HERE to take another look at the Cars We Drove to School Page.

I misspoke when I suggested that the bridge in this photo was Highway 101.  It's Morena Blvd.  Click HERE to see the photo enlarged -- again.

This Howard Rozelle aerial looks east at the intersection of Highway 80 and Highway 101.  You can clearly see where Morena Boulevard crosses over Highway 80.  Click HERE to see it even more clearly.

Alan Osborn '64 previously shared this snapshot of Room 202 -- Mr. Ross' English class.  Click HERE to see an enlargement and a few names.

Quite a number of you had the same reaction to last week's Colt Clipping -- I can't believe they published their home addresses!  If you think THAT'S bad -- and I've mentioned this before -- articles about beauty pageant winners included their home addresses AND their measurements.  What could go wrong?

December 30, 2021

 

Did you see this picture in the news?  That's not snow and it's not sand.  It's a little house on La Palma, in the Canary Islands, almost totally covered in lava dust from a volcanic eruption.  There are Christmas Lights glowing on what little of the house that's not buried.  Click HERE to read the article and see the photo enlarged.

Here's a photo from Facebook this week that's 60 years old.  The Presidio Museum should let you know that this was where Highway 80 begins its eastward path across America.  I think the overpass is Highway 101.  Click HERE for an enlargement.

Speaking of autos from the '60s, perhaps it's time to take another look at the Cars We Drove To School Page.  Click HERE to take a gander.

Larry Wahlgren '62 sends word of the possible passing of three of his classmates.

He thinks Bill Adragna passed away early in 2020.

He knows his pal Al McBride died September 24, 2021 in North Carolina, where he relocated years ago when he joined the Penske Racing Team.

Bob Peyton may have passed in 2019 from Pancreatic Cancer.

December 24, 2021

Winter's here and it's pouring rain -- but at least the days are going to be getting longer.  Here's a nice shot of Crystal Pier taken by UT photographer Nelvin Cepeda.

And that goes for the apple pies at Oscar's as well!!

Did you see the little snippet on the history of See's Candies on CBS Sunday Morning last weekend?  Click HERE if you'd like to watch it.

Here's an aerial of Crawford taken September 30, 1957 -- the week that it opened.  Click HERE to see it and two other aerials enlarged.  

Robert Lein ’59 died November 22, 2021.  Bob had decided by the age of seven that he would become a police officer like his father Roy, who was a San Diego County Sheriff Deputy.   In December of 1965, Bob graduated from the police academy and became a rookie patrol officer on the El Cajon Police Department.  He served a thirty-year distinguished career. Bob rose to the rank of Lieutenant, was a Watch Commander, and ultimately became Chief of the Detective Division.  Bob was an avid ocean fisherman as well as an expert stream and trout fisherman. He owned his dream boat, a 28 ft. Skipjack. He enjoyed fishing the Coronado Islands and south of San Diego to the Cortez Banks of Mexico. He hiked and fished for trout throughout the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.  He is survived by, among others, his sister Virginia Lein Northcutt ’60.  (I couldn’t find a photo of Bob in the 1959 Centaur)

Jeff Schriebman '63 passed away December 20th. My brother was a well known and respected optician and a talented self-taught musician.  He was the lead guitarist for the popular San Diego band  The Royalites who made several recordings featured on 1960s San Diego radio stations -- Bob Schriebman ’60

Dennis Kretch ’64, of Dewey, Arizona, died on December 12, 2021

Thomas Spirz ’67 passed away on December 1, 2021

December 17, 2021

Lulu Anaya Summers thought I'd enjoy this Bizarro cartoon from 2009.  She was right.

If you liked Eric Watkins Horace Mann Bus Pass, you'll love his Quill and Scroll certificate from 1964.  Click HERE to see and enlargement and read a little note from Eric.

 

Let's take another look at some '61 Colts when they attended the Campus Lab School.  Click HERE for the names.  This 1954 photo must have been one of the earliest taken by Bob Richardson.

We've seen it before, but let's see it again.  It's an aerial of Horace Mann, sent in by Owen Western, that was featured on the cover of the 1959 Cougar.  I never realized how close Don's Hamburgers was to the junior high.  Click HERE to check it out for yourself.

Click HERE to peruse all four pages of the December 17, 1971 Pacer.  It's worth it just for the ads.