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63 years ago tomorrow -- June 6, 1963 -- President John F. Kennedy was the Commencement Speaker at San Diego State College. I was there and took pictures. Later in the day he flew out to the USS Kitty Hawk for a Presidential Fleet Review. I wasn't there, but my late friend "Hap" Hill WAS there and took pictures. Click HERE to see them -- and links to a lot of other events from that day.
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Sometimes you can't see the trees for the forest. All these
years I've been sharing historic San Diego photos, it never
occurred to me to feature Jack Minteer's iconic 1972 color shot of
Maynard's Bar at the foot of Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach. I
know, it doesn't LOOK like an old photo, but at 54 it's no
youngster. Wanna see it enlarged? Click HERE.
One of Owen's Spanish Omelets and a Red Beer on a Sunday morning.
Good times!
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I’m still not sure why a firm in Minneapolis is interested in ephemera on my web site having to do with Boney’s Market. They want to blow up the Little League photos sent to me by my ’62 classmate Dan Lewis. I told them the images were too small to blow up very far but I would cross over to the Dark Side and experiment with Artificial Intelligence — i.e. ChatGTP.
Here's the original photo.
ChatGTP gives a little more detail.
Look what happened when I said "Colorize the photo". Amazing!! I wonder if the uniforms were actually blue.
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COLTS IN THE NEWS
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65 YEARS AGO
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From the San Diego Union • June 8, 1961
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From the Evening Tribune • June 10, 1961
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60 YEARS AGO
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From the Evening Tribune • June 7, 1966
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55 YEARS AGO
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From the Evening Tribune • June 5, 1971
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50 YEARS AGO
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From the Evening Tribune • June 7, 1976
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Thank you for including the May 29, 1971 Evening Tribune article/picture on my 1971 San Diego CIF Championship in the long jump. Although I never held a Crawford High School record in the event, I set the UCI long jump record at 23’ 7 1/4” the next year as a freshman. That wasn’t too much of an accomplishment, however, since my freshman year was the first year that UCI fielded a track team! I retired from track the next year because of severe shin splints — Dave Crouch (You were a "Leaping Anteater?" -- JF)
