Don't you love the colorful cars of the '50s? Click HERE to see an enlargement of this 1955 color shot of the Santa Fe Station.
I've added a current photo of the view of Torrey Pines Beach from Del Mar. Click HERE to see all three photos on the web page.
The above image caught my eye as I was leafing through last Sunday's U-T. For a microsecond I thought it was a Lincoln High graduation photo, but I was pretty sure -- even with the pandemic -- that graduations don't happen in September. Turns out they're Marines from Camp Pendleton learning how to put on emergency suits before they head out to fight fires. Click HERE if you'd like to read the article.
I got to thinking about Naugahyde during the really hot weather last week, and the sound it makes when you exit a restaurant booth in bare legs. A friend once excoriated me for the Naugahyde seat covers in my '77 Pontiac 'entura. (It WAS a Ventura, 'til somebody stole the V. Or maybe it just fell off). Do you know how many naugas died to so you could have seat covers?, he chortled. Turns out it got the name because it was invented in Naugatuck, Connecticutt. (Thank you Wikipedia). Back to that sound. You insisted it was the naugahyde, but when you tried to recreate the sound it never worked.
We never did find a photo of the Carnation that supposedly existed in the 6600 block of El Cajon across from the Imperial 400 motel, nor even documentation that it ever existed. Someone did mention a Carnation next to Don's Hamburgers on 54th and El Cajon. Here's a photo I took in 1959. I was probably waiting for my mom to pick me up from Horace Mann. Click HERE if you'd like to see it enlarged.
We've probably posted this before, but here's the program from the 22nd Annual San Diego City Schools Football Carnival, played at Balboa Stadium on September 24, 1960 -- sixty years ago yesterday. Click HERE to read the whole thing. Howard Nott got his photo in the program representing Crawford.
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