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Friday, August 14, 2020

August 14, 2020

 

I think this is a chess joke

The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Women's Museum of California are celebrating a century of female achievement to mark the 100th year of women's suffrage in America.  Last Sunday's installment honored Women in Sports, and Laurel Brassey made the cut.  Laurel made history a year after graduating from Crawford High by becoming the first woman to play on an NCAA men’s varsity team -- joining the 1973 San Diego State men’s volleyball team as a setter.  An eligibility rule change enabled her to join the SDSU women’s team seven years later, just in time for the inaugural NCAA women’s volleyball championship (where the Aztecs finished third).  A U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics cost her an opportunity to play with the U.S. women’s team in Moscow, although she was a member of the U.S. women’s team that competed in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.  As a coach, she guided New Mexico to six NCAA Tournament appearances over 17 years.  She was elected to the Aztec Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2017.




On August 4, 2020 Bill Grigg and his wife, Jeannie came to our house for lunch and a visit.  Bill and Jeannie live in Surprise, Arizona and Gary and I live in Prescott, AZ which is 99 miles north of Surprise.  We had a wonderful Class of '70 micro-mini reunion -- Kris Pruski Wood  




Janice Ricca Hom '72 wonders if anyone remembers Rickshaw Boy on 52nd and El Cajon.  I wonder if she stole their poster.  I also wonder if anyone could name a restaurant Rickshaw Boy anymore.  Actually, I'm now wondering if I can get in trouble for even mentioning that it once existed.



This is a current photo of Lips nightclub, at 3036 El Cajon Blvd.  If you squint your eyes you might be able to picture it as the Carnation Ice Cream Parlor that existed in the 1960s.  It became a Sizzler Steak House in the 1980s.  I was amazed to learn that it had been a Carnation distribution center AND ice cream parlor during WWII and into the early '50s.   The Big Question is WHERE EXACTLY was the Carnation I remember, mentioned last week as being across the street from the Imperial 400 Motel?



I forget how it got started, but it turns out George Glover '73 is a big time hockey fan.  He shared this program from a San Diego Skyhawks match at Glacier Gardens on February 3, 1946.  Our family went to Glacier Gardens to see the Ice Follies.  It was located at 8th and Harbor Drive, not far from today's Petco Park. 



Live and Let Die topped the chart on the KCBQ Top 29 for August 17, 1973.  Click HERE to see an enlargement.



Mary Ellen Wilson Lares '61 passed away April 30, 2020