May 22, 2020

Just found out that Monday, May 25th, is Memorial Day.  Pay homage as best you can.

Lulu Anaya Summers '63 shared the above photo on Facebook.  It does conjure up an image.  I suspect a non-native speaker gets up at 2 in the morning to start baking and doesn't know how to spell tongs. 

I guess if you were watching the national news from CBS last weekend you would have seen '73 graduate Jeff Gianola.  Click HERE for more information on the Portland legend.   Patty Bremner Brubaker '72 shared this, noting that Jeff was their paper boy.

The Air Force Flight Demonstration team -- the Thunderbirds -- flew over cities in Southern California to honor health care workers last Friday.  Have you ever tried to take pictures at an air show?  Almost impossible.  Nelvin Cepeda got a pretty good shot for the Union-Tribune, I imagine with a telephoto lens from Point Loma.  I think Brian van der Brug, shooting for the LA Times just got lucky with the stunning shot below.

Speaking of stunning shots, I was scanning some slides for a friend of a friend.  They were the usual fare -- vacations, birthdays, weddings -- and one incredible scenic photo.  It was taken in December 1974 by a person diving outside San Diego Harbor.  Click HERE to see it enlarged.

Remember Channel 8's Mel Knoepp?  He's featured, along with Harold Keen, Ray Wilson and some other staff in some recently discovered film footage from the early '60s.  Click HERE to check it out.

I believe we've seen this before, also a Channel 8 Throwback.  It's a 90-second cavalcade of El Cajon Boulevard neon in 1978.  Click HERE and go for a spin. 

I got some pretty strong opinions about the new Horace Mann building.  Perhaps revisiting a previously-shared 1959 aerial of Horace Mann and Andrew Jackson will ease those ruffled feathers -- but I doubt it.  Click HERE to see a way bigger enlargement.

Victor Pei ’73 died May 7, 2020.  Born in Hong Kong, Victor immigrated to the United States at the age of six.  He  grew up in San Diego, California and studied civil engineering at San Diego State  University prior to transferring to, and graduating from, the School of Architecture at  California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.  In 1979, he traveled to New York to seek out the advice of his first cousin, the world famous architect, I M Pei, and to start his own professional architectural career.  He married Maria Judith Tam in 1981 in San Diego County.