October 23, 2026

You can tell a lot about someone by the cartoons they choose (that would be me)

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Hide the Women and Children!!  The Campus Lab School '63 gang is back at Lake Poway.  Click HERE for an enlargement and captions.

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Mary Lou Gurling saved the confetti from President Eisenhower's parade up Broadway on April 24, 1960.  Click HERE to see a bigger picture AND a great photo of the parade.

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Lee Young's '55 Chevy Bel Air was Heap of the Week in the October 10, 1960 Pacer.  Click HERE to get the details.

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60 YEARS AGO

Evening Tribune • October 24, 1966 -- Valerie, I believe, went on to tennis greatness, once beating Billie Jean King.

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50 YEARS AGO

San Diego Union • October 26, 1976

October 16, 2026

Well THIS brings back some bad memories!!

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I'm not even sure if Five Guys is still around, but this cracked me up.

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Hey, Dobbin -- how about we go visit the zoo?  I'll bet the lions reading this ad were licking their chops.  I came across it while researching the house at 4110 Lamont in Pacific Beach.

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'65 Colt Jack Tempchin apparently writes a new song every day and goes down to the beach and sings it to strangers.  I assume he can afford to do that with the money he gets from The Eagles for writing Peaceful, Easy Feeling (and a couple of others).  He got a nice mention in the Netflix documentary on the group.  I like the title and the message of this one.  Click HERE if you'd like to watch the video.

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I've added Jerry Monell's '56 Ford to the Heap of the Week Page.

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How does this look?  I colorized a screen grab of Barb Nielsen's CBS8 "Throwback" video of the clean-up crew getting Crawford ready to open in September 1957.  Click HERE to see some other shots.

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Remember "Fearless Fosdick's" futuristic "2-Way Wrist Radio".  My classmate Mary Lou Gurling has one -- or maybe it's just an iPhone.  Anyway, from her home in Lake Wylie, South Carolina she sent pictures of some of the pages in her high school scrapbook. Actually, the one below is from Fad & Fun Day at Horace Mann in 1959.  Click HERE to get the details.

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IN MEMORIAM

Elliott passed in his sleep on September 4, 2026 according to his wife Diane.  A great guy, a great dad, and a great surfer — Matthew Leddick

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65 YEARS AGO

Evening Tribune • October 21, 1961

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Evening Tribune • October 21, 1961 -- Olafur is sporting his first short sleeve shirt. They don't sell them in Iceland.  Ugo was the AFS student in my class at Crawford.

October 9, 2026

 

Tickets go on sale today for Stephen Bishop's Farewell Tour.  It seems like only yesterday that he wrote about his musical aspirations in the 1969 Centaur

Stephen's final performance will take place in San Diego on August 21, 2027 at the Balboa Theatre, not to be confused with Balboa Stadium where The Beatles played their first, last and only San Diego concert.

Stephen (no, I can't call him Steve) is a regular Fry Day reader and is offering Crawford Colts a 10% discount on tickets purchased during the next two weeks.    Click HERE and use the code BISH10.  Tickets in Rows 1 and 2 include a limited-edition collectible tote bag and merchandise package.

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Let's leave last week's llamas in the A & P parking lot and see what's happening on the east side of 54th.  

Let's revisit the Don's Hamburger Page and see who this girl is.  I took the picture in 1959.  "A pretty girl is like a melody" or -- from some others -- "You always WERE a pervert."  Such talk. 

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Can you even SEE Andrew Jackson Elementary from the street?  I snagged this photo off of Joe Dyke's page.  Click HERE to look at his class photos.  You can almost read the names of a lot of the kids.

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I've spiffed up the color photo, taken on the Horace Mann steps, of Larry Okmin's 1958 tribute to Mr. Bob Sanford.  Click HERE to check it out.

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I've used ChatGTP to improve the photo of the cheerleaders for the 1969 Horace Mann Student-Faculty basketball game.  Click HERE to learn more. One of these girls played volleyball in the 1988 Olympics.

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65 YEARS AGO

San Diego Union • October 14, 1961

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60 YEARS AGO

Evening Tribune • October 10, 1966

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50 YEARS AGO

San Diego Union • October 11, 1976

October 2, 2026

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NOT AGAIN!!  I'm back in the principal's office. The #1 Fan Letterman's Jacket presented to me by Tom Cassie at the 30th reunion is now on display at our Alma Mater.  65 years ago I was called in for shooting the wrapper off a straw in the cafeteria.  OK, maybe I was just kicked out of the cafeteria.

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This 1946 photo (perhaps colorized) of our hated rival Hoover appeared on the internet recently.  That's pretty much the way I remember it when I attended Summer School right after 9th grade at Horace Mann.  Below is a 2011 photo of the rebuild.  Pretty cool.

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A brisk walk from Hoover, and across the street, was Don Jose's, where I had my first taste of Mexican Food.  I was too young to appreciate it. Click HERE to revisit the Don Jose Page.

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I've added Ken Burns' '50 Chevy to the Heap of the Week Page.

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Rick Layton '71 shares some swell stuff from the 1957 Oak Park Little League Championship Game in which his brother Ron Layton '66 played.  Rick was the Team Mascot.  Click HERE and enjoy.

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DyAnn Richardson Candee ’62 passed away September 27th.  She worked at Pacific Bell after graduation, where she met her husband Ralph.  They moved to Cottonwood, Arizona after retiring.  Dyann suffered from dementia and is survived by, among others, her sister Laralee ’67  (Remember Busco-Nestor?  They did our Senior Photos.  DyAnn's is nicely tinted.  I wonder what year they switched to real color)

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65 YEARS AGO

San Diego Union • October 7, 1961

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60 YEARS AGO

Evening Tribune • October 8, 1966

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55 YEARS AGO

Evening Tribune • October 7, 1971

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50 YEARS AGO

San Diego Union • October 3, 1976

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September 25, 2026

MOM!!!! Get the tweezers!!

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Evening Tribune • September 25, 1961 -- 65 years ago!  My rear end still hurts from the concrete seats at Balboa Stadium.  Click HERE to peruse all 20 pages of the program

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Crawford Pacer • March 18, 1958 -- Click HERE to see this enlarged on the new "Heap of the Week" page.

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Let's take another look at the almost-mythical Carnation at 6663 El Cajon.  I used ChatGTP to spiff up Jean Peacock Graham's screen grab of the City of San Diego's 1973 street videos.  Click HERE and be amazed.

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Click HERE to revisit Joe Schlader's night shots of the Aztec and Westward Ho motels in the same neighborhood as Carnation.

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and HERE to see Diana Morawitz Schlader Kruse astride a llama in the parking lot of the A & P Market on 54th and El Cajon.  I previously had all of the Schlader shots on one page.

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Lee Harris ’59 passed away in Dunwoody, Georgia on September 4th, following complications from pneumonia and dementia.  He graduated from San Diego City College and attended San Diego State. In 1972, Lee's job transferred him to Atlanta, where he and his wife, Donna, came to appreciate the warmth and hospitality of the people they met. They later made their home in Dunwoody, where they lived for more than 30 years.  Lee had a successful career in medical sales spanning more than 50 years. He and Donna were fortunate to travel to many countries, including many wonderful family trips to Mission Beach.  He stayed in touch with several of his Crawford High classmates and served on the reunion committee for their 60th reunion in 2019.