Bruce Wilson

Walking by the local park today,  it came to mind  that folks used to buy blocks of ice and sit on them and ride them downhill at Presidio Park.

Anybody? Maybe it was an OB-Point Loma thing.

Nobody I recognize.

Bruce Wilson

It's even on Youtube with the name "Ice Blocking"

Persistence pays off.

This is actually at the Presidio. It's not as easy as one would think and yes, that is Michele on the left..

Bruce Wilson

As far as I can recall she didn't go to HHS, but some of y'all probably remember Sloopy. Anyone  remember who first did the song?

Good Vibrations!

-Brian Wilson

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Bruce Wilson

Froggy actually did go to HHS (and got a Ph.D. like some of us)  and participated in the notorious "finger-poppin" golf team photo (will it make an appearance here? probably). So without anything further.

George Bracey Gillow

FAKE NEWS AT SEA IN THE 1960s

Fake news is nothing new. In the early days of the United States, newspapers were owned by political parties and they put out a lot of fake stories.

The video below is an interesting short story from the 1960s. Des Cox was involved in British music and TV including being a host of the BBC "Candid Camera".  Before that he was an officer in the British Merchant Marine (they call it the Merchant Navy).

One of his duties on a passenger ship was to produce the daily world news bulletin. When the ship was about a day away from Panama, he thought he would have some fun and published a story that there was a terrible earthquake in Panama and the canal had been destroyed. The ship would have to be diverted around Cape Horn which would extend the voyage by weeks. There was panic on the ship and he got into a lot of trouble.

Des has made some excellent DVD films on merchant passenger and cargo ships. These are mostly of ships in the 1950s and 1960s.  If any of you are interested in ships and the sea or cruising, I recommend his videos. His website is: http://www.snowbow.co.uk/  

This is a clip from one of his videos on passenger ships where he tells the story.  I put it on YouTube as unlisted:

Bruce Wilson

Interesting George. Could this have been the proverbial slow boat?

Bruce Wilson

Daily world news bulletin

Hmmmm ...

Gonna have to check out trademarking on that one

Bruce Wilson

Otay Daily World of Trivial News Bulletin

I'm finally tearing into the garage (the first of two).

Sent my mom's (quite rare, from 1962) Lady Kenmore Whispertone vacuum cleaner to a guy in North Carolina. Believe it or not (his words) he has over 800 vacuums in his collection and yes there is a Vacuum Cleaner Museum, right off, you guessed it, Route 66 in St. James MO. Get your kicks there.

Anybody remeber R&R Aviation (de Chula Vista, if you count Brown Field). What was R&R most well known for? That's the Daily quiz. Anser to follow.

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George Bracey Gillow

Bruce, on the passenger/cargo ships we traveled on in the 1950s the newspaper was called the "Daily Radio News". 

It was produced on mimeograph machines the same as used in schools.

In the 1950s and 1960s my mother often remarked "What is this world coming to" after reading or hearing news.

Bruce Wilson

Otay Daily World of Trivial News Bulletin

La Jolla (just north of CV) Country Day has been in the news recently. Grad Candice Wiggins (also Stanford*) "revealed" that somewhere between many and 98% of WNBA playewrs are lesbian and Kelsey Plum (also Washington) broke the NCAA scoring record (3397 career points).

Both are guards and neither is known to have knowingly used  steroids.

A large number of HHS students attended school in La Jolla at the UCSD. Without any favortism, I'll just mention the first two that popped into my mind: Dan Schweers and Becky Rule.

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*Disclaimer. Although my nephew attended the Stanford Law school (and unlike Bill Walton graduated), I receive no remuneration from Stanford, my nephew, Bill nor Candice.

Bruce Wilson

Otay update. Anyone ever wonder how much Otay Water District folks get paid and for what.

German Alvarez , Assistant General Manger got paid in 2015 the following:

Employee Name,Job Title,Base Pay,Overtime Pay,Other Pay,Benefits,Total Pay,Total Pay & Benefits,Year,Notes,Agency,Status

Manager,202634.00,0.00,97976.00,84706.00,300610.00,385316.00,2015,,Otay Water District,FT

What do these folks do? Doesn't water run down hill?

Interesting to see what's going on here. Don't get me started on how much time these people are in (or more correctly not in) the office.

http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/otay-water-district/

This is from 2011, but read why Mark Walton (no relation to Bill) thinks he is not the million dollar man, just a third of him.

Otay Water District GM Defends $300K Salary

http://www.10news.com/news/otay-water-district-gm-defends-300k-salary

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

Good am

How has the spill affected CV?

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Bruce I see the Otay Dams are both overflowing.  How is it going your way?

Bruce Wilson

Thanks Madeline & Shayne.

We got a lot of rain and puddles in the backyard, but I hadn't heard the dams were overflowing.

We'll go check it out.

If you go to this link, you can view a bigger image and  actually see some people. Remember when you could walk across the top of the dam (after a hard day catching polywogs)?

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/46696112.jpg

Bruce Wilson

San Diego’s Oversupply of Water Reaches a New, Absurd Level

Read about the politics and economics of water in SD County here (from 2/2/2016).

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/government/san-diegos-oversupply-of-water-reaches-a-new-absurd-level/

Bruce Wilson

The dam spill appears to be pretty minor. We may still go out and see what's happening.

According to city records, the reservoir can hold nearly 49,849 acre- feet of water, and on Monday was reported to have been at more than 93 percent of capacity.

The Olympic Training Center just changed hands  (to CV), so I'm curious to know what kind of changes they are making.

http://fox5sandiego.com/2017/02/28/lower-otay-reservoir-crests-following-record-breaking-rainfall/

Bruce Wilson

Nice aerial of Otay Lakes and OTC.

Somebody rode out to the little (substantially upgraded from BITD) park at Lower Otay

Bruce Wilson

Otay Dam

Bruce Wilson

Droning on.

If you tuned in looking for some Dick Dale music, this is the wrong channel. There is no sound on this one.

We've been out to the Lake quite a bit, hardly ever any people there when we've gone.

Bruce Wilson

Speaking of the airways. R&R Aviation is noted for using a helicopter, apparenly piloted by Richard Carter, to dust crops in the South Bay in 1982.

UC Davis caught on many years later.

Could this be the end of organic farming?

This is not Richard, but his was reputed to be a one man craft.

Bruce Wilson

What does a million bucks get you these days?  Three water district bureaucrats for a year.

Bruce Wilson

OK - Polio vaccinations.

I'm thinking there were three. First at Castle Park Elementary, second at Hilltop Drive Elementary, but I don't remember the third.

Michele recalls an oral dose.

1955

This is from 1963 

Some of the thousands of children who received free vaccine in the weeks following the announcement, waiting in segregated lines Courtesy of Memphis Commercial Appeal

There are two kinds of polio vaccine. IPV (Salk’s) is an injected shot used today primarily in the United States and Europe. OPV (Sabin’s) is given orally in drop form and used in global efforts to stop polio transmission.

Treasa Struble (Skiles)

Bruce-My first experience with the Polio vaccine was in Hawaii circa 1953-54, where my father was stationed. All of us kids were taken to the dispensery to receive the vaccine. It was not a pleasant experience, as it involved a shot in the rump. Many years later when I was an adult, my mother told me that the military kids received the vaccine before it was given to the civilian population (did that make us guinea pigs?). Bruce, you are correct that there were three doses given, but I don't remember the other two.  My children received the Sabin vaccine, and I believe my Grands also received the Sabin. The erradication of Polio is one of the greatest acheivments of the 20th/21st centuries. 

Bruce Wilson

Treasa:

Mine were all in the arm and as I recall the first time I had a shot except the one they give you around birth.

I'm wishing that my parents had kept better records. I cannot recall which, if any, of the mumps, measles, chickenpox I had.

Trying to decide whether to get the shingles vaccination.

http://www.chulavistahighschool1965.com/

Jim Hawes

I remember getting a polio vaccine but it was in a little cup and was on a sugar cube. If I remember correctly it was at Cook Elementary School? Anyone else from Cook remember that (4th grade I think but maybe 5th).

It also may have been at Balboa Navy Hospital, my favorite venue for early childhood visits for shots, stiches, etc!!!