July 3, 2026

250th?  That can't be right.  We celebrated the 200th just last week, I think.  Oh, 1976.  Well, it SEEMS like last week.

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I don’t know who these people are or where the photo was taken, but they’re apparently former Andrew Jackson Little Leaguers and they’d like to hear from you. Email Sayne Maza

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Remember those great 1955 Christmas photos Bob Richardson shared a few years back?  I've run them through ChatGPT and spiffed them up a tad.  Sadly, some of the people are no longer with us.  I'm gonna keep them, along with the folks in my iPhone address book who are gone.  Sort of a memorial.  Oh, click HERE if you want to see how the robots did.

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San Diego Union • July 5, 1961 -- My late pal Wayne Brickey married and sired a brood.  I don't recall the number, but his mom told me (way back when), "That's a lot -- even for a Mormon."

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Evening Tribune • July 7, 1966 -- Dave, as mentioned more than once, was a Class of '63 member who went on to great success as a catcher and then a PITCHING coach.

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San Diego Union • July 4, 1971

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San Diego Union • July 3, 1976 -- Bob was a member of the Class of '65 and like Dave Duncan caught in the majors, coached in the majors, and may -- for all I know -- still be a scout in the majors.

June 26, 2026

 

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This photo of what was then the Civic Center shows a '57 Cadillac in the background.  Someone needs to get to Earl Scheib for that $6.95 paint job.

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Click HERE to read all of the June 6, 1961 Pacer and see this page a little larger.  Yes, I know -- I shoulda thought of this two weeks ago. I'm sad, as well, to see photos of folks who aren't with us anymore.  Old Age Ain't Fer Sissies!

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Click HERE to peruse the June 8, 1966 Pacer

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Click HERE to read the June 11, 1971 Pacer

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San Diego Union • July 1, 1961

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San Diego Union • June 26, 1966

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Evening Tribune • July 2, 1966

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Evening Tribune • June 30, 1971

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San Diego Union • June 29, 1976 -- Angela Davis went to Crawford?

 

Juneteenth 2026

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I thought you'd wanna know what's happening with the younger set.  Of course I've never heard of them! Where's Perry Como when I need him?  (These are from the San Diego Union, not the National Enquirer)

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Here's important information on the Class of '71 Reunion. Can't read it? Click HERE to go to the Class Reunion page and see an enlargement.

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I've re-posted Bob Richardson's 9th Grade annual from Horace Mann.  The pages are all 30% larger and more legible.  I hope you haven't lost 30% of your visual acuity in the meantime.  Click HERE and go way back -- to when "Lei Day" didn't raise an eyebrow.

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Evening Tribune • June 21, 1961 -- Dang!  Louise could be a retired General by now.

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San Diego Union • June 24, 1961

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San Diego Union • June 20, 1976 -- The first Colt weightlifter I ever heard of.

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My long-time buddy Gary Bonwell passed away last weekend.  We chatted last during COVID, when he revealed he was suffering from Parkinson's Disease.  I've placed a remembrance on the Class of '62 Obituary Page.

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June 12, 2026

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I chided Jo Brown that nice girls wouldn’t own up to knowing most of the boys on a Pony League baseball team. “And who’s been spreading the rumor that I’m a nice girl,” she responded. “I once danced on a pool table at Tug’s Bar in PB.”  You knew her as Jo Anne Mellington ’64, who danced  up a storm in Fillies’ Follies of 1963

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We've seen it before, but let's take another look at a 1942 shot of El Cajon Blvd looking west at Alabama Street.  That's the Ed Center up in the trees.  Click HERE please.
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I ran across this previously-posted snapshot of Class of '71's Harris Triplets in Balboa Park and one thought crossed my mind -- Run it through ChatGPT and colorize it!  I like the results, and I think the mosaic tiles came out accurately.  Wanna see some newspaper coverage of the twins when they were little?  Click HERE.

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Evening Tribune • June 15, 1961 
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Evening Tribune • June 14, 1966 -- Dave had a great career as a major league catcher, and then as a respected pitching coach.
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Evening Tribune • June 14, 1966 -- I've steered clear of wedding announcements in the past, but Saundra is the cousin of my late Gal Pal Nancy Watson Wingo.  She and Norris are still together and, at least once a year, are captured by pirates and forced to go on a cruise.  They appear to be enjoying themselves, by the photos I've seen.
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Evening Tribune • June 16, 1966 -- I don't think my classmate Tom lasted long in the majors, but he sure set a lot of records in Over-the-Line.  Click HERE to get a glimpse.
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Evening Tribune • June 18, 1966 -- When did the abbreviation for microphone change from "mike" to "mic"?  I don't like "mic".
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June 5, 2026

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63 years ago tomorrow -- June 6, 1963 -- President John F. Kennedy was the Commencement Speaker at San Diego State College.  I was there and took pictures.  Later in the day he flew out to the USS Kitty Hawk for a Presidential Fleet Review.  I wasn't there, but my late friend "Hap" Hill WAS there and took pictures. Click HERE to see them -- and links to a lot of other events from that day.

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Sometimes you can't see the trees for the forest.  All these years I've been sharing historic San Diego photos, it never occurred to me to feature Jack Minteer's iconic 1972 color shot of Maynard's Bar at the foot of Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach.  I know, it doesn't LOOK like an old photo, but at 54 it's no youngster.  Wanna see it enlarged?  Click HERE.  One of Owen's Spanish Omelets and a Red Beer on a Sunday morning.  Good times!

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I’m still not sure why a firm in Minneapolis is interested in ephemera on my web site having to do with Boney’s Market.  They want to blow up the Little League photos sent to me by my ’62 classmate Dan Lewis.  I told them the images were too small to blow up very far but I would cross over to the Dark Side and experiment with Artificial Intelligence — i.e. ChatGTP.

Here's the original photo.

ChatGTP gives a little more detail.

Look what happened when I said "Colorize the photo".  Amazing!!  I wonder if the uniforms were actually blue.

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COLTS IN THE NEWS
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65 YEARS AGO
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From the San Diego Union • June 8, 1961

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From the Evening Tribune • June 10, 1961

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From the Evening Tribune • June 7, 1966

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55 YEARS AGO
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From the Evening Tribune • June 5, 1971

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50 YEARS AGO
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From the Evening Tribune • June 7, 1976

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Thank you for including the May 29, 1971 Evening Tribune article/picture on my 1971 San Diego CIF Championship in the long jump.  Although I never held a Crawford High School record in the event, I set the UCI long jump record at 23’ 7 1/4” the next year as a freshman.  That wasn’t too much of an accomplishment, however, since my freshman year was the first year that UCI fielded a track team!  I retired from track the next year because of severe shin splints — Dave Crouch  (You were a "Leaping Anteater?" -- JF)