July 29, 2022

 

Last weekend's Outdoors column by Ernie Cowan is about Butterfly Farms in Encinitas.  Click HERE to read all about it -- and see some more photos.

David Clark '69 shares a photo of himself in Vietnam in the Fall of 1971.  Click HERE to revisit the Colts Who Served In The Military Page and get more details.

This colorful photo of a CocaCola truck was taken in 1966.  (Hint:  The San Diego Zoo was established in 1916).  Click HERE to see photos of the NEW (in 1964) Coca Cola bottling plant at Highway 94 and 47th Street.

Remember the June 17th post with the color photos of the 1953 San Diego State Homecoming Parade on El Cajon Boulevard?  Bob Richardson '61 sent me the photo above at the time, and it slipped through the cracks.  Click HERE to see the photo enlarged, plus a super enlargement of the girl sitting on the wall at the far left.  Bob thinks it's Valerie Ziegenfuss.  He ought to know.  They were childhood neighbors.

Jay Easton '66 submitted this photo.  He's second from the left in the back.  James Guffey was good enough to print his name on his shirt.  Neither of them can remember the names of the other people, the location, or the occasion.  Can you help?

My brother Glen “Skee” Strzelecki ’65 passed away Tuesday after a short illness.  He was surrounded by his wife Piedad, son Glen, grandson Christopher, sister Ann and brother in law Dave Harding.   Skee loved surfing, baseball and his family.  Prayers are accepted in lieu of donations -- Ann Strzelecki Harding ’63

July 22, 2022

I just rediscovered this Pandemic cartoon in my phone.

There was a nice article in the New York Times about an exhibit on the history of Jewish Delicatessens at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.   Click HERE and cross your fingers that the NYT will let you read it.

The Skirball exhibit gets its name from the iconic scene in When Harry Met Sally where Meg Ryan, while dining in a deli with Billy Crystal, demonstrates a woman's ability to fake an orgasm.  A lady diner, played by director Rob Reiner's mother, says to the waiter, I'll have what she's having.  I guess if she's Rob Reiner's mother, she must have been Carl Reiner's wife.  Click HERE to view the scene.

This April 1972 aerial of downtown San Diego and Coronado showed up on Facebook this week.  Click HERE to peruse an enlarged view.

Tom Cassie shares a couple of snapshots from 1958 at Horace Mann Junior High.  Above are the 8th Grade Soccer C Champions.  Below are the 8th Grade Volleyball C Champs.  Click on the links for names.

 

July 15, 2022

Some folks from '71 got together for dinner recently.  Click HERE for names and details

A sextet of guys from '67 and '68 met for lunch at Duke's Old Fashioned Onion Burgers recently.  I wonder if they realized they were sitting where the Alvarado Drive-In used to be.  Click HERE for an enlargement with names.

Ernie Cowan '62 talks to the animals on Mt. Hoo in his most recent Outdoors column.  Click HERE and give it a read.

A bunch of folks sent in their memories of the State Theater and Larry Okmin submitted a photo of all that remains.  Click HERE to revisit the State Theater page.

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