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Friday, July 29, 2016

July 29, 2016

ONCE AGAIN, there's not a lot of news in the Colt Corral.  Summer visitors have made it increasingly difficult to find a breakfast spot without a 30-minute wait.  Lately Nancy and I have visited the Loma Portal Denny's and the adjacent Swami's


 

Newsletter subscribers from the Classes of '69 and '74 should receive their renewal envelopes in the mail shortly.  They went in the mail yesterday.  If you want to save the price of a stamp you can renew -- or start -- your subscription using the Alumni Newsletter Order Form.



Last Saturday's Union-Tribune had a nice article about Stephen Bishop '69.  Click HERE to check it out.



Try to control yourself ladies.  I just came across this 1964 photo of me and my '56 Chevy, and have added it to the Cars We Drove To School Page.  I'm pretty sure I got the "Chrome" wheel covers and Mickey Mouse sidewalls at Pep Boys.



I may have shared this photo of Caesar's in Mission Valley before, but it popped up again this week on Greg May's Vintage San Diego Facebook page.  It was taken by Virginia May.  I wonder if that was Greg's mother.  It later became Rusty Pelican -- or Lusty Perican, as Jeff Dalrymple's Japanese girlfriend called it.  The entire space was razed and is now Gordon Biersch.



Remember Pioneer Chicken?  I didn't remember that it was Take Out.  The Pacific Beach store is now "my" Starbucks.



Dennis Atherton '61 passed away on June 20th.  That's all I know



We've just now learned of the passing of Richard Saunders on December 10, 2013 -- a day short of his 70th birthday.  You can read more on the Class of '61 Obituary Page