July 8, 2022

 

A goodly crowd of Colts from '67 got together last Saturday for lunch at Casa Guadalajara in Old Town.  Click HERE for a bigger picture -- and names.

The photo of the North Park Theater got me thinking about the State Theater, which was a little closer to home for most Colts.  Click HERE to see what I put together.

July 1, 2022

Take it easy this weekend and don't lose any digits with fireworks.  The Woo Chee Chong advertisement below is from the July 4, 1930 San Diego Union when they were on Third Avenue.  I remember seeing the store on 16th Street when I used to eat at Bea's Rancho Chico.  I'm not sure fireworks were legal in San Diego during my lifetime.

 

Some folks from '69 and '70 held a dinner party for Karen Smith Takizawa last Saturday.  She was visiting from her home in Japan.  Click HERE for an enlargement with names.

Is it warm where you are?  Maybe this winter shot of the Mount Laguna Lodge from the 1950s will cool you off.  Click HERE for an enlargement

This 1929 photo of the North Park Theater popped up on Facebook last week.  It took me back to my classmate Jack Montgomery's attempt to refurbish the venue after it had fallen on hard times.  Click HERE to see an enlarged photo and read the newspaper article from 2003.

June 24, 2022

 

Summer's here and it's time to go to the beach!!

I've retrieved some snapshots I took at La Jolla Shores in June 1962.  Click HERE to check them out 

 

Tragically, on the first day after graduation the Class of 2022 lost a member when basketball player Woodlain Prudhome disappeared in the surf off Mission Beach.

Dick Cloward '60 recalled a similar incident when Glen Carraway '59 was lost while swimming off La Jolla Shores on April 15, 1960.  Click HERE to read more about Glen Carraway.

Turns out that 19-second Channel 8 video of Crawford in 1958 was followed by a 5-minute story done in 1978 -- and it's in color.  Click HERE to travel back.

Some years ago Bob Richardson '61 wrote about Aztec Villa, a portion of the old Frontier Housing where a lot of San Diego State professors and their families lived.  The recent publication of the 1950 Census may have muddied up his research.  Click HERE to take a look at Bob's original story -- and HERE to read about some changes.

June 17, 2022

The latest Outdoors column by Ernie Cowan '62 encourages you to Sit and See.  Click HERE for the full story.

A recent Channel 8 Throwback features a 19-second video of Crawford's campus getting cleaned up prior to opening in 1957.  Click HERE and have a look via YouTube.

The Vintage San Diego Facebook page showed a bunch of color shots of a San Diego State Homecoming Parade from the 1950s.  I was able to find the exact date and transfer most of the photos my web site.  Click HERE to check it out.

Mark Hamm '68 passed away at home in Cottontown, Tennessee on May 31st.

June 10, 2022

 

John Montello shared this Gary Larson cartoon from 1987

John Horner '65 visited recently from his home in Virginia and snapped this photo of the construction at Crawford.  I can't be sure, but I think this is in the general area as the iconic photo below.

We've added Bill Ross '65 to the Colts Who Served Page.

Annette Godels Conway forwarded the story about Dale Irby

I decided to share eight photos from my years teaching at Hale Junior High in the 1970s.

Here are the Pacer Graduation Issues from

June 4, 1962 -- 60 Years Ago

June 7, 1967 -- 55 Years Ago

June 9, 1972 -- 50 Years Ago

The Crawford Foundation says Roy Wayne III '72 passed away May 27th.

June 3, 2022

 

Last week we added a photo of Larry Vansworth to the Colts Who Served page.   

This week we share:

Larry's 1952 Andrew Jackson Kindergarten class photo

All six of his Darnall Elementary class photos

The program from the 1958 Redwood Village Little League Championship game

And a nice photo of the winners -- VFW Ship 1774

This is NOT an obituary.  I just thought I would throw in Larry's yearbook photo to complete the K-12 adventure

May 27, 2022

 

This took me back to Mrs. Bruner's English Class at Horace Mann.  I STILL get lay and lie mixed up.

I've added this photo of Larry Vansworth '64, taken outside Pleiku, Vietnam, to the Colts Who Served page.

This should be immediately recognizable as Torrey Pines State Beach, but the photo was taken in 1946 and the sailor was probably happy to be home from the war.  Click HERE for a larger view.

I STILL don't have a photo of the Oscar's on Menlo and El Cajon, but this gorgeous night shot of the Oscar's on Pacific Highway will have to do.  You can see it slightly enlarged, and look at some other stuff, on the Oscar's Page.

Click HERE to read the May 24, 1962 Pacer, from 60 years ago.  That's a photo of the 62-63 cheerleading squad on the front page.

The May 25, 1967 Pacer is a 6-page issue, two of which are devoted to the del Potrillo literary supplement.  Click HERE to check it out.  Guess what potrillo means in English?  (answer at the bottom of this post)

The Crawford Foundation reports the passing of Bruce Lamb '68 on April 17, 2022

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Potrillo means Colt.  Perfect!!

May 20, 2022

 

This Bliss cartoon was posted the same time as the Crawford aerial photo below.  I believe Emma was #2 on the most popular girls' names of 2021 I mentioned last week.

Dick Cloward ’60 checks in with news that The Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla is finally re-opening to the general public. Wednesdays, Thursdays, plus the 1st and 2nd Saturday of reach month from 11-4. No appointment required. For more information visit www.lajollamapmuseum.org Admission is always free and no  donations are expected.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Cowan are literally Empty Nesters.  In last Saturday's Outdoors column Ernie details the departure of their Wild House Wren chicks.  Click HERE to read all about it.

Aerial photos of the Crawford campus never get old.  Click HERE to see an enlargement of this 1957 photo and two others, that I shared last on May 3, 2019

Remember the Upper Cellar?  I went there when I was 18 (going on 13)  and it was my first time out on the town.  I wonder if anyone paid the $2.00 and went on to run a successful coffee house.

My brother, Vito Danna ’66, passed away on April 7, 2022 from Esophageal Cancer -- Carol Danna Kinney ’72