I guess maybe that Crawford Alumni Baseball Game scheduled for April 1st really WAS an April Fool's Joke. It's been rescheduled for April 29th at High Noon on the baseball field, where the football practice field used to be on Trojan.
Ernie Cowan has served as a US Forest volunteer fire lookout on Palomar Mountain. You can volunteer as well, if you think you can climb the 96 steps to the the top. Click
HERE to read Ernie's article in last Sunday's Union-Tribune.
Richard Lidbom wonders if anyone else remembers, in the late '50s, a father building a spaceship replica for his son. Richard visited it and there was an article in the newspaper, but he was unable to find anything on the internet. Neither was I.
Sometimes you can't see the trees for the forest. I didn't realize, with all of that talk about growing up on Mohawk Street, that Stephen Bishop has written an autobiography. Click
HERE for more details.
I guess big brother Denny Bishop was wandering through my web site when he came across Bob Richardson's Frontier Housing 1948 page. Denny has added some of his own Aztec Villa memories. Click
HERE to to take a look. It's worth it just to see the color photos of Peggy and Bob Richardson with their new J. G. Higgins bicycles.
Here's another shot of lower Broadway from Facebook, this one looking east from Harbor Drive in 1959. I've added a Google Streetview from October 2022. You're probably not gonna like what it looks like now. Click
HERE to see what I mean.
It's kinda beat up, but I still think you can read all four pages of the 65-year old Pacer published on April 22, 1958. Click
HERE and find out.
Virginia Irvine ’60 passed away April 4, 2023. We shared a childhood in Minneapolis and Alabama, and a summer in Montana before our younger siblings arrived in San Diego in 1955 and 1961. After graduating from San Diego State in1964, where she was President of Kappa Alpha Theta, a homecoming Queen nominee and Best Dressed Coed contest chairman, she embarked on an over-40 year career with Los Angeles County. She began as a Social Worker in Long Beach, moved to a supervisor in Los Angeles, then a Legislative Analyst. She became Chief Legislative Analyst for the county and was then selected to start their first protocol department. It was there that her fabulous wardrobe, engaging personality and organizational skills made her fit right in with diplomats, royalty and world leaders. She was a key player in the International Protocol group. In 2019 she was chosen Junior League of Los Angeles’ Volunteer of the Year. She was President of the Ebell Club, the oldest women’s club in California, for two years. We celebrated with the whole family at Thanksgiving and Christmas and the interaction invigorated her, in spite of her declining health. She is loved and will be missed by many -- Janis Irvine Ricards ’64
Danny Mejia '76 passed away April 11th. That's all I know.
