For people who attended Crawford High School or would have attended if they hadn't
moved -- or just have fond memories of San Diego in the '40s, '50s and '60s.

Check out the Crawford High web site.

Friday, April 30, 2021

April 30, 2021

 


Courtesy of Sandie Robbins Knox '61







If you did the crossword on Page 162 of last Sunday's Union-Tribune, you might have spotted a familiar name in Shelby Lyman's Chess column on the same page.  Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield '64 is the author of Learn to Read & Write Chess.  Click HERE to read the article.



Jeff Garrison '73 shares his 2nd and 3rd Grade class photos from Hardy Elementary.  Click HERE to check them out.  (Miss Torchia is hot!!)



Stan Duffield '73 submits his College Park Little League photo, which by the looks of the scoreboard at the rear, was taken in the middle of the 6th inning.   It's the Harbs Upholstery team, circa 1967.  Click HERE for an enlargement and some of the names.



Click HERE to read the 6-page edition of the Pacer from April 28, 1966 -- just about 55 years ago.


Friday, April 23, 2021

April 19, 2021




Courtesy of Henry Noble '60



Things are opening up!!  Gathered at True Foods in Fashion Valley for lunch on Wednesday were 1964 grads Janis Irvine Ricards, Jane Newberry Smith, Kris Gjerde Flynn, Laurie Koosed Ratner, and Bev Bachman Fritschner 


Paula Kimmerling Daniels '62 checked in.  She's looking for classmate Sarah Shea Arnold -- or Sallie as you may have known her.  Sarah was active on our reunion committees, but two different emails for her have gone bad.  

Doug Smith '69 has dropped off the radar.  He was always a part of the Campus Lab School min-reunions and now they can't find him.  Maybe you know of a friend or sibling who might be able to help.

Apparently there was more than one 6th Grade class at Andrew Jackson in 1956.  Larry Slayen has asked me more than once to find the one he was in.  His sister says he was in the photo shared by Tom Cassie las4t week.  He apparently thought it was his twin Ron all this time.



Jeff Garrison '73 submits his 1966 College Park 7/Eleven Little League team photo.  He's standing at left.  Click HERE to see the photo enlarged and to read a fond recollection of growing up next to San Diego State. 




Click HERE to read the April 27, 1961 Pacer from 60 years ago.





Shirley Roemmich Beyer ’59 passed away March 13, 2021.  She was born in Mott, North Dakota, moving to San Diego as a teenager.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from San Diego State University in 1963.  She married Crawford classmate Marv Beyer the same year, and they created a home and family in San Diego. Shirley worked as a school secretary for San Diego Unified School District until she retired in 1998. In the year 2000 she and Marv moved to Julian. They found a house on a beautiful piece of land in Pine Hills and both she and Marv took a lot of pride in creating a beautiful home. Shirley enjoyed being active in her community and volunteered for her church and the Julian Woman’s Club, writing both their newsletters for more than 10 years.  She is survived by her husband of 57 years Marv Beyer, daughters Tracy and Tammy, their husbands Mike and Steve, as well as sister Carole Roemmich Wilson ’62.




Ilja Weinrieb ’63 died June 13, 2020.  He was born in Amsterdam, Holland, nine months after the end of World War II.  His parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Dutch countryside. They came to Buffalo, New York in 1949 to be near relatives in Toronto.  He attended Bennett High School, where he met Pamela Stecker, who was one class year behind him. When his family moved to San Diego, he graduated from Crawford.  When he returned to Buffalo, he enrolled in the University at Buffalo and married Pam in 1967.  He was accepted as a fellow at Harvard University, where he served his residency and clinical fellowship.  He took his post-doctoral fellowship in gastroenterology at Yale University’s Yale New Haven Hospital.  He served in the Army with the rank of major at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he was head of the Immunology Section in the Department of Gastroenterology and an attending physician.  He was one of the physicians aboard Walter Reed’s medical bus at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in 1977.  Dr. Weinrieb returned to Buffalo in 1978 and began a solo practice. More than 5,000 patients visited his office before he retired in March.  A voracious reader, he spoke and read Dutch, German and Yiddish.Ilja Weinrieb ’63 died June 13, 2020.  He was born in Amsterdam, Holland, nine months after the end of World War II.  His parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Dutch countryside. They came to Buffalo, New York in 1949 to be near relatives in Toronto.  He attended Bennett High School, where he met Pamela Stecker, who was one class year behind him. When his family moved to San Diego, he graduated from Crawford.  When he returned to Buffalo, he enrolled in the University at Buffalo and married Pam in 1967.  He was accepted as a fellow at Harvard University, where he served his residency and clinical fellowship.  He took his post-doctoral fellowship in gastroenterology at Yale University’s Yale New Haven Hospital.  He served in the Army with the rank of major at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he was head of the Immunology Section in the Department of Gastroenterology and an attending physician.  He was one of the physicians aboard Walter Reed’s medical bus at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in 1977.  Dr. Weinrieb returned to Buffalo in 1978 and began a solo practice. More than 5,000 patients visited his office before he retired in March.  A voracious reader, he spoke and read Dutch, German and Yiddish.


Friday, April 16, 2021




Here's what you see when you walk into the Dave's Hot Chicken franchise at Cass and Garnet in Pacific Beach.



I LOVE this 1956 color shot of two sailors at Horton Plaza posted on Greg May's Vintage San Diego Facebook page.  Click HERE to see the photo enlarged, plus some other stuff.



The first Del Taco opened for business in Yermo, California in 1964.  That would have been the year I turned 21 and made my first trip to Las Vegas.  I always saw the sign for Yermo on the way but don't think I ever stopped.



Greg Thomas '69 sent me this 1952 Jack-in-the-Box photo and wondered where it might have been taken.  He sent it to the right guy.  Click HERE for the details.



Guess I should have sent this out last week.  It's the KGB Boss 30 tunes for April 9, 1966 -- 55 years ago.  Click HERE to take a look.



I actually recognize some names and faces from Tom Cassie's 6th Grade Andrew Jackson class photo from 1956.  Hold on a second!  Who's that next to Ed Gabrielson?  It's Nancy Watson Wingo!!  Click HERE for an enlargement -- and a look at Tom's other Jackson class photos.



 

Friday, April 9, 2021

April 9, 2021



Perhaps I should have mentioned that the first Jack in the Box was at the corner of 63rd and El Cajon.  Click HERE to read more about it.



A & W Root Beer opened in Lodi, California in 1919.  Actually Roy Allen opened a root beer stand in 1919.  The following year Frank Wright became his partner.  They called it A & W Root Beer.


Click HERE to check out the 6-page Spring Fashion Issue of the Pacer, published on April 13, 1961.  See the article about April a la Mode?  You can click BELOW to see the invitation to that function.




Friday, April 2, 2021

April 2, 2021



I couldn't find my old favorite Easter Bunny cartoon of a rabbit making the "V" sign behind the ears of the rabbit next to him, but here's a selfie stick upgrade.



Courtesy of Sandie Robbins Knox '61




Tom Isom, husband of Vivien Messick Isom '63, posted this image on Facebook.  I've enlarged it and placed it on the San Diego Photos page.  Click HERE to check it out.



I've been sitting on an email that tells the origin of fast food restaurants around the country.  Perhaps I can share a couple each week in the Fry Day email.




There are Mat Men and Bat Men on the Sports Page of the March 31, 1966 Pacer -- published 55 years ago.  Click HERE to take a look.