I couldn't wait until Halloween to share this.
Click HERE for an enlargement of the best fireworks photo ever. It was taken last Thursday from Point Loma.
Here's a 1962 photo of a Rugby match at San Diego State. I didn't even know there was a Rugby team, but I loved the view of the college as I remember it. Click HERE for a larger view.
A recent Channel 8 News Throwback featured a long-ago interview with 1936 Hoover graduates Roy Engle and Walt Harvey on a return visit to the school. Coach Harvey was my counselor at Crawford. Click HERE to watch the interview on YouTube.
In 1950 some early models of the Convair B-36 were flown to San Diego to have jet engines added. Click HERE for before and after photos.
Turns out it was an autosuggest malfunction. I thought it strange that my childhood pal Ken Ptack -- a Naval Academy graduate who still lives in Maryland -- texted me to find out how old Annapolis was. Turns out he'd seen a recent Facebook photo of my friend Anna and wanted to know how old SHE was. Click HERE to see why.
