August 29, 2025

I got this from Arcadia Publishing, the folks who did my two Pacific Beach books, but thought it was a joke.  Apparently shagging in The Carolinas is not the same as shagging in the United Kingdom, re: Austin Powers.  You may have to look it up. Something about whites embracing Black culture.  I'm guessing music and dance.

This photo took me back.  Now, I look back and wonder if girls had fun with gliders, too.

I hadn't seen this stunning photo of the Arboretum, now known as the Botanical Gardens, before.  I've enlarged it and added some newer photos. Click HERE to see how I did.

I saw this photo on Facebook and recalled correctly that I'd shared it before.  Not a GREAT photo, but it's fun to look at the mid-'50s cars and see the old May Co building.  I think, in our youth, we decided that color was (I'll clean it up) Baby Diaper Yellow.  Click HERE to take another look.

My sweet sister, Nancy Burrell Williams, passed away July 10th, just seven days shy of her 81st birthday. She lived a good life, raising two incredible sons, and had four grandchildren that she was so proud of.  Throughout her life she had many dear friends.  She loved hosting parties where she got to prepare literal feasts for her guests.  A kiss goes to heaven — that’s for sure — for she will definitely be missed by me and those who knew her — Joanne Burrell Guffey ‘69

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August 22, 2025

 

This is obviously a fake -- but it still put a smile on MY face!

Julie Newmar turned 92 this week.  Check out that pay phone!  Remember when you didn't have correct change and had to ask a friend?  Just looking at that dial makes my finger hurt.  I never DID have a girlfriend whose phone number had a 9 in it.  I couldn't get the spring-loaded dial all the way around.

Well, THAT'S a relief.  I guess they can go back to REAL dyes.

Here's a great old photo, looking up 5th Avenue from E Street, around 1925.  I've added a 5th Avenue snippet from an old City Directory so you can see what you're looking at.  Click HERE to check it out. 

I'm up to December 1959 in my Clairemont History research, which is how I stumbled onto this obituary for Monty Hall.  Wait a minute -- I've got a Monte Hall Page!  Click HERE to take another look.

My classmate Mike Cheshire made the paper 65 years ago this week.  I wonder what happened to the possum.  I wonder what happened to Mike.  We were pretty good friends at Crawford.  Click HERE for "the rest of the story" in the San Diego Union.

  

Gail DeWoskin Hofer Halinka ’60 died June 24th, surrounded by family and loved ones. She married Bill Hofer (Lincoln High ’59) shortly after graduation, and they had two daughters before divorcing in 1970.  She graduated from San Diego State and eventually went on to get her Marriage and Family Counseling Degree in 1997.  She remained in private practice until 2020.  After a move to Memory Care last December, she was diagnosed in the Emergency Room in June with Abdominal Cancer — Lynn DeWoskin Covarrubias ’66

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