Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

My daughter, River, and I were  teaching at Rancho La Puerta last week Afterwards,. I met my son,Colin, who is at UCI, and we walked Corodado Beach and Balboa Park. Many of you were in my thoughts as I rerminisced with him. Wonderful, embedded childhood memories.

I stayed with one of my favorite cousins in Hillcrest. She recently renovated a Cratsman home there. It is dismaying to see history dismantled.
 

Bruce Wilson

Hey Karen:

Thanks for the Coronado carshow tip.  We've attended before, but I thought it had been discontinued. Still, "couldn't make the scene".

Coronado_wise, DC and I and a cast of thousands of others ran across  the bridge October 14, 1978 in the inaugural running of the Heart of San Diego Marathon. A completely chance meeting for the two of us  and unfortunately the last time I saw Mr .Chalmers. 

I still have my shirt and that is the likeness of Michele. .

There are two upcoming opportunities to get on the bridge outside your car.

More later.

George Bracey Gillow

The destruction of historic homes and buildings is indeed very sad.

Fortunately, there are over 70 homes, in Chula Vista, that are designated historic sites. About 30 homes are original orchard houses. Most have been restored and are well taken care of.

Some of the Craftsman homes, in Chula Vista, are Sears and Roebuck home kits. One of them is Dr. Drew Kohler's office at 236 F Street. It is a Craftsman Bungalow.

If you own a historic home or know someone who does, this website tells you if the home is a Sears Kit:

http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/kithome/rt-searskits.shtml

Here is a page from the Sears Home Kit catalogue of a larger Craftsman Bungalow:

Bruce Wilson

Great research George.

The price is(was) right.

Bruce Wilson

Another mural for y'all. NOT CV, but south of HWY 8.

Bruce Wilson

Link to historic photos of Charles Lindbergh in San Diego (just north of National City). Thirty-three rarely scene photos.

Scroll down about half way and click on "photo gallery".

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/local-history/sd-me-lindbergh-photos-20170507-story.html

Linda L. Keating (Keating)

May 7, 2017 ~ Thank you Bruce Wilson for posting (# 2647) historic photos link of Charles Linbergh's Spirit of the St. Louis.

Bruce Wilson

Anybody recognize the neighborhood.

HOT ROD LINCOLN ?

Roberta Ann (Robin) Chavez (Groefsema)

Robinhood homes off brandywine and between main and orange ave

Bruce Wilson

Righto Roberta!

Right down the street from the infamous Toothpicks (Los Palillos) kidnapping/murder gang house.

Approximatley 1 mile from us.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-los-palillos-leader-gets-life-prison-no-parole-2014oct15-htmlstory.html

Barbara Sindelar (Seagren)

When I filled out my profile on this site, several people responded to John's and my community theater involvement. If any of you Lancers out there would like to join us at 2:00 on Sunday, June 11th, to see "Nana's Naughty Knickers," we'd love to see you. Senior tickets are $20 each and you can get them online at PowPAC.org or by phoning 858.679.8085. We've reserved the lobby for an after-show schmooze and can give everyone a backstage tour!  Bring whatever you'd like to drink and munchies to share. Andie Harvey will be there. (She and I have been all over San Diego seeing shows.) Gypsy and Gordon won't be able to join us but they attended an earlier show with us and (I think) were favorably impressed with PowPAC, Poway's Community Theatre. "Nana's Naught Knickers" is about a young woman who decides to spend some time in New York with her grandmother and is shocked to find that Nana is selling sexy lingerie to senior ladies in all five boroughs. We can all appreciate these little generational gaps, can't we? Hope to see you there.

Bruce Wilson

​Thanks Barbara! Hope they worked in some Velvet Underground into the show.

My first show venue 

ACT - San Francisco

Next.

Then

And then. South Coast Repeertory - Newport Blvd.

George Bracey Gillow

US GRANT JR. HOUSE IN BONITA

The South Bay Historical Society has an extensive history of the US Grant House in Bonita.

Here is a summary from the Society and a link to the full article:

The historic home of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., son of President Grant, is being restored by Jeff Phair and will be the centerpiece of the Carriage Hill Estates development on the 7 acres surrounding the home on Sweetwater Road. The architect of the Dutch Colonial Revival house was William Sterling Hebbard who also built the Caretaker's Cottage near the house in 1894. Anna Held lived in this cottage when she was governess to the Grant children. Later in 1894 she became founder of the Green Dragon Colony of artists in La Jolla. The Grant house was owned in the 1930s by Hollywood mogul Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios. In the 1960s owner Louis Farrington built a large equestrian ring and hosted the Westwind Riders riding club. Farrington also allowed John DeBello and Steve Peace on his property to shoot their first version of their film that became "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." For the history of the house, see the SBHS web page at http://sunnycv.com/southbay/exhibits/grant.html  

George Bracey Gillow

"EBBY" THE SOUTH BAY DRIVE-IN DONKEY

I worked at the South Bay Drive-In the summer of 1965 as I described in my post 1079 (about page 44).

The manager Mark Modine's children had a donkey that became the theater mascot. Below is a Chula Vista Star News clipping from August 1965.

Ebby would come to the back door of the snack bar for treats. I don't recall if we gave Ebby fried frogs--see post 1079.

Every afternoon the projectionist had to repair and replace speakers on the lot. He had the additional task of keeping watch on the Modine kids as they rode the donkey around the lot.

Bruce Wilson

Ah, the Famous Farrington Farm. 

Both Michele and Georgia have spent time in that house and so too Michele's father. Rumour has it that Georgia' sister was involved with The Tomatoes.

It (the house, not the tomato) has hidden passageways.

Bruce Wilson

Next on the theatre tour, Shubert, Pantages, and Dorothy Chandler in Los Angeles (technically, Century City, Hollywood and Los Angeles). Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena?)

Off-hand question. Did anybody ever go to the Four Muses (San Clemente), Golden Bear (Huntington Beach) or the Ash Grove (Hollywood))/

Bruce Wilson

I don't think Hank done it that way, or maybe he did.

Bruce Wilson

Hank preferred regular doors to the suicide ones, or did he?

Bruce Wilson

BACK TO and/or from THE FUTURE!

Now I realize many folks who watch this channel are not quite into music in the same way I am, but just checkout Chuck and especially the audience back in 1965.

This ain't no Michael J. Fox, my friend, it 's the real thing.

Compare Michael's performance in Back to the Future with Chuck starting at about 11:00.

Bruce Wilson

Shubert Theatre - Century City

.. and that's the way itt was ..

'Sunset Blvd.' to Be Closed; Dunaway's Singing Faulted : Theater: Actress, reportedly 'flabbergasted' by ouster, was to replace Glenn Close. Refunds could total $4 million.

I used to work on the 38th and 42nd floors in the South Tower

Bruce Wilson

Farmer Farrington asked me to post this for her. Who knows, maybe some day we'll see some photos of those hidden passageways.

 

 I visited Farmington Farm just recently with my sister the last time she came into town. It was so sad!!!!! The house is still there but nothing else!!! Everything else is in piles!!!! They tore down the barn, the Quonset hut, the garage, the riding ring  and all the trees. There were beautiful eucalyptus trees when my parents bought the place in 1945. Other trees my mother carefully planted and nurtured are gone. It is all dead!!

 

From what we understand there are plans for the Carriage Hill Development. It has been sold 2 or 3 times and plans have changed but the sign announced Carriage Hill coming. We are hoping the actual house will be used as a clubhouse. The outside of the house is in need of work- paint, etc. The inside looked like they had repainted and it looked nice from looking in the windows. When Roger Morton owned it he had redone the inside and it looked really nice. We were so happy he had kept it the same.

 

A lot of memories are there. A carefree country life!!!! Riding horses in the river bottom collecting bottle for some candy at Sunnyside store. Yes Michele was part of them!!! Pam Bellevan too!!!! And way back Jennifer Beenfeldt at the horse shows we had in our riding ring!!! A long time ago but you never forget.

Georgia

Note: I looked into that development quite some time ago, so  the idea has been around a long time. I'm skeptical that it will ever come to fruition. IMO it should be declared a historical landmark and returned to it's original (or something close to it) state.

Used with permisssion. Whose? I ain't saying. I will point out that someone was trespassing on private property to take this photo.

Bruce Wilson

RANDOM WALK

Take the bus

Q-huts came up a while back

Somebody mentioned hi-tech Japanese toilets. Michele says they were not like this when she lived there.

Chicken bus- most likely  Philippines

Bruce Wilson

BTW I saw a notice somewhere that someone is writing a biography of Yacui (post #1570).  There is an (awful?) lot of  stuff contained in these pages, no?

Chip in if you can and can we get her youtube views up to a more respectible number than 213?

"YACUI YAPURA, AN AMAZING BRAZILIAN SNAKE CHARMER WHO CHOSE CHULA VISTA TO LIVE THE LAST YEARS OF HER LIFE Yacui Yapura Sampaio Bailey lived in Chula Vista between 1970 and 1985. She was Brazilian and acted on stage dancing with snakes. Yacui Yapura was also fakir. She was long fasts, contained in a glass box, lying on nails, with her snakes. She was born in Brazil in 1917 and was called originally Georgina Pires Sampaio. In Brazil, she used the stage names Diva Rios and Suzy King. She was a cabaret singer and starlet. Yacui Yapura was also witch and was premonitions using snakes. After a scandalous career in Brazil, whose peak was her horse parade, half-naked, in the main avenue of Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she went to Mexico. Before that, in 1966, she adopted a false identity - she became Yacui Yapura Sampaio, supposedly born in 1934. In 1970, Yacui Yapura married Weldon Jackson Bailey and left for Chula Vista. There, she lived in trailer parks until 1985, when she died. She resided at 352 Broadway and 568 Palomar St, among other addresses. In August 1985, Yacui Yapura died alone in her trailer. Her body was found days later. Yacui Yapura was an exotic woman who left the company of humans by snakes."

Could it be Dr. Wilson on trumpet on the sound track? Naw, more likely John Romero.

Bruce Wilson

I have mentioned the role of piperine (black pepper) in increasing the bio-availabilty of curcumin (active component of turmeric). 

It can be further increased by adding oil (below).

I'm back on the turmeric trail because I have developed what is apparently bursitis in my shoulder.

Anybody have good experience with an ortho doctor in CV/San Diego or for that matter LA?

It is called golden paste.

• 1/2 cup turmeric powder (125 mls) – Use organic powder.
• 1 cup water (250 mls) or a bit more to get desired paste consistency
• 1 teaspoons ground black pepper (7.5 mls) (or even 1/2 tsp. if pepper is too irritating)
• 1/4 cup (70 ml) cold pressed Olive or un-refined Coconut oil – enhances the bio-availability of curcumin another seven to eight-fold

Add turmeric to water in a pan. Heat gently along with stirring. Do this till you get a thick paste, approximately 6 to 10 min. Adjust thickness by adding some water or adding a bit more turmeric.

Finally, add the pepper and oil. Keep stirring to ensure that all ingredients are mixed properly. Allow it to cool.

Bottle in clean jar with tight-fitting lid and refrigerate it for 4-5 weeks or more.

Bruce Wilson

Since my left arm has turned into something of a vestigial appendage, I'm doing a lot of one handed driving. So I'm thinking of getting myself a new suicide (aka "Brodie") knob. My old one is looking a bit down in the mouth.

On the good news front, it appears that I have problems with my supraspinatus and infraspinatus (both treatable without medical intervention) rather than bursitis.