This is obviously a fake -- but it still put a smile on MY face!
Julie Newmar turned 92 this week. Check out that pay phone! Remember when you didn't have correct change and had to ask a friend? Just looking at that dial makes my finger hurt. I never DID have a girlfriend whose phone number had a 9 in it. I couldn't get the spring-loaded dial all the way around.
Well, THAT'S a relief. I guess they can go back to REAL dyes.
Here's a great old photo, looking up 5th Avenue from E Street,
around 1925. I've added a 5th Avenue snippet from an old City
Directory so you can see what you're looking at. Click HERE
to check it out.
I'm up to December 1959 in my Clairemont History research, which
is how I stumbled onto this obituary for Monty Hall. Wait a
minute -- I've got a Monte Hall Page! Click HERE to
take another look.
My classmate Mike Cheshire made the paper 65 years ago this
week. I wonder what happened to the possum. I wonder what
happened to Mike. We were pretty good friends at Crawford. Click
HERE
for "the rest of the story" in the San Diego Union.
Gail DeWoskin Hofer Halinka ’60 died June 24th, surrounded by family and loved ones. She married Bill Hofer (Lincoln High ’59) shortly after graduation, and they had two daughters before divorcing in 1970. She graduated from San Diego State and eventually went on to get her Marriage and Family Counseling Degree in 1997. She remained in private practice until 2020. After a move to Memory Care last December, she was diagnosed in the Emergency Room in June with Abdominal Cancer — Lynn DeWoskin Covarrubias ’66
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