Bruce Wilson

One of my dogz, Ruby, taught me how to play catch.

George Bracey Gillow

VOGUE THEATER A POSSIBLE FUTURE??

Allan Cassell's AC Business (www.theacbusiness.com/ ) is in the process of purchasing the Vogue Theater building. There are some legal issues that came up in escrow, but he is hopeful that the purchase will be completed. It will be used as a dinner theater and for community events.

He currently owns the old Highlander store which is now the Thr3e Punk Ales Brewery (http://www.3punkales.com/ ), the old Leader Department Store and the building on the southeast corner of 3rd and Davidson.

Below is the first rendering of the Vogue done in 1945; an article on the opening and an ad that lists the first movies shown on opening day on January 19th, 1945.

Terry Lee Maple

I take issue with you, Jim Hawes. Pugs are the best of all dogs. Our puppy Maisie replaced our twelve-year old male Darwin who died during the Christmas holidays. He was a wonderful dog. One thing about pugs is their tendency to look deeply into your eyes. For further discussion on that behavior read the book The Art of Racing in the Rain. A dog named Enzo narrates some of the early chapters. Fictional Enzo gave me insight into Darwin. My daughter Emily introduced us to pugs. She has owned many and they were all wonderful. Pugs love to play and they love to eat and sleep. They are friendly and endlessly entertaining. So, Jim be proud of your pug. We will never buy another breed (although they are getting a little pricey).

Bruce Wilson

Well I'll be doggone. I did not want a Yorkie, but ended up having three. Very pricey indeed.

Prone to  lots of problems due to the way they're bred. 

Though, I'm catching up, with the eye surgeries and all, at one point in time I'd spent way more on canine medica lthan on my own. Omitting of course insurance premiumms.

Yorkie Encephalitis has benn "bery, bery bad" TO YORKIES AND OTHER SMALL BREEDS.

George Bracey Gillow

A question for Dick Holmes: Are you related to Chula Vistan Dr. John Holmes who worked on the atomic bomb during WWII?

This article appeared in the CV Star News on August 17th, 1945:

Bruce Wilson

The City of CeeVee in it's infinite lack of wisdom has chosen to rename Plaza Monumental de Frederico Rohr de La Playa Chula Vista with the rather mundane sounding Bay Boulevard Park, but here it is on the west side of the freeway at the foot of F.

Notice that they do not even include the monument in their ad literature.

The Vogue as it sits today. (well as of 6-20-2017 anyway)

Jim Hawes

Terry,

We have a Pug (Betty) and a Pugwawa (Lucy) (Pug/Chihuahua). They are 10 and 9 yrs old. Yes, they both are very good at eating and sleeping. Betty is fully papered, and since she has "Marty Felman" eyes you can only look into one at a time . She plays deft but can hear a box of treats being carried in from the car at 200+ feet. Always surprises the grandson with a "wet willie"!

Since Pugs are an alien species we always hope that with the current surge in space exploration that we will be able to find out which planet (or at lease which system) she is from! ......and like the grandkids....YES....we spoil them.

Jim

Jim Hawes

I found this picture in an old box of photo's! I do not know how I ended up with it. From 1958. The young lady is from our graduating class. The young man, Henry ("Pepper") Smith is not an HHS alumni. Maybe the young lady watches this site. Any guesses?

Bruce Wilson

Betty Lukasik?

Laurel Lucille (Laurie) Webster (Holmes)

To answer George Gillow's question, no, I'm not related to Dr John Holmes who worked on the atomic bomb.  But I did recently find awards from my father's service in WWII.  He never talked about it, but was in many of the famous landings in the Pacific theater.  And he was the military liaison for John Wayne's "Sands of Iwo Jima"and is in the film credits.  So that's about as famous as we get.  He passed away 48 years ago, one more of the Greatest Generation no longer with us.  

Bruce Wilson

Did you say Cuyamaca?

First cut not always not necessarily the deepest?

Bruce Wilson

The old Lucky Market is rapidly going the way of the packing plant that used to be at Third & K.

The Fall salt harvest started early this year. Was it the drought?

Terry Lee Maple

Jim - We lost our wonderful pug Darwin (image) at Christmas. He was a great friend. To fill the void we purchased Maisie, our first female pug. She is now eight months old. Like Darwin she looks deeply into our eyes trying to communicate with us. We've never had a pug that liked to fetch like Maisie. I'm getting a sore arm throwing her toys. We visited our two daughters in South Florida this past week and she played with Emily's two pugs, Dexter and Trixie. Aliens? No doubt. Sent by the Creator to amuse us.

Jim Hawes

Terry,

I always kid around about Betty and Lucy! I have many friends that have Pug's. The pic below is from a good friend. I don't think mine would ever pose like this! Sorry to hear you lost one last Christmas. Never easy to lose a close pet. We tried to teach Lucy to play catch...didn't work out!

So I have a question (from the small world department). When I was young (1958) my "cousin" and I spent a summer at his family farm in Longmont, Colo. Spent some time stacking hay with an older cousin (Donnie Bruning). He later worked at the Bronx Zoo in NY (Dr. Donald Bruning). Just curious if you ever met. His cousin Arlynne mentioned that he recently retired and moved back to Colo.

Oh, and thanks for the tip on the book! Delivered by Amazon yesterday. I will start reading it to the girls this weekend!

Bruce,

Chick in the pic is .............................................. Dorcy!

Bruce Wilson

Interesting that of 9 HHS-64 graduates reputed to  be living in Washington (Dorcy being one), 5 have checked in here and 4 haven't.

As I recall, Robert Chase, who lived on Halsey right next to Wilkes and was also a patrol boy, worked for Boeing up there.

His mom and mine stayed in touch for many years. 

This could be Robert  back then and now.

I can understand the no beards, but  I wonder why flip-flops were not allowed in the patrol boy dress code.

Bruce Wilson

Everybody probably remembers when Officer Bob got promoted to Sergeant, but just in case, it was right around the time Will Hyde was mayor. Which reminds me, I found out what happened to Gloria Haider.

Terry Lee Maple

Jim - Don Bruning is a very good friend of mine. He was a very important zoo biologist with many important assignments over the years. As Curator of Mammals, he was the right hand man for William G. Conway, the iconic director of Bronx Zoo. I had a lot of contact with him when I was doing research on African antelopes on St. Catherine's Island, one of Georgia's barrier islands. Bronx Zoo operated an endangered species breeding center on that site for many years. Don still attends meetings of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums from time to time. I understood he retired to Florida but I could be wrong. BTW should you want to know more about the state of America's zoos, check out my new book on Amazon.com. The title is Professor in the Zoo, but just enter my name and Amazon will take you to the book.

Bruce Wilson

More to follow, but here is wha it used to look like.

IB

Never knew it was billed as "Adult".

Terry Lee Maple

For Jim and all other pug-lovers. This is a portrait of our new puppy, Maisie. She is more fun than a barrel of monkeys and I should know about monkeys. Enjoy!

Bruce Wilson

"Millenia" Development for CeeVee. Roughly 2 miles from the shore of  Lower Otay

Robert Eugene (Bob) Beckwith

To one and all-happy eclipse 2017.  It should be a show.  I have set up Camp Eclipse in the Sawtooths.  It will be a good base to get full sky view.  The Salmon River Flows not more than 50 feet away. 
 

It’s been a time warp, spent last week floating the Lower Main Salmon.  River meanders and has formed huge sandy beaches.  Great place for grand kids and kids of all ages to run, jump, and swim.  How many ways can youngsters launch themselves off the end of boat??  Takes time for answers.  Big beaches, big swimming holes. Our float ended at the confluence of the Salmon with the Snake River.  It’s powerful spot on the planet.  We came off the river last Saturday, unpacked- packed for the eclipse and was in Stanley Monday.  Had to get here to find a spot before all were taken.  Now back on the Salmon Riveer headwaters.

The eclipse is going to be event.  Hope all of you find a spot to watch.  Next one around of this kind is 200+ years away.  Probably miss that one.

P.S.  I never owned a pug, but did own Tilly, the German short hair pointer.  She loved to run and hunt.  I didn’t pretend to keep up.  She was a good dog to have in the field.  She pointed a bird one time, I thought I would see what she was pointing.  I looked right down her nose into a big clump brush and grass.  I saw nothing.  Moments later a huge peacock exploded from the thin cover.  The bird’s catalogue was so effective.

Cheers to All

Bob

Bruce Wilson

Well it took a while, but I finally located a photo of the Otay General Store.(1960).

Right there behind the stop sign is where Freddy Workman and I were in the back of a police car, having ditched sixth period gym and "borrowing" Rick Hardeman's car (without permission) and running out of gas down there in the Otay River Valley near where we live now.

Danny Bussel came walking by and offered to let us out while the cop was in the store shopping (for donuts?. We thought better of it but thanked him nonetheless.

Rick forgave us.

The church behind the store has been there a long time. It's still there today.

Bruce Wilson

Trying to stay in context here, another patrol boy and his two dogs. Any guesses? I went to Junior High with his younger brother.

And, two of the smallest Yorkies you'll ever see.

Bruce Wilson

Not the old red barn.

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Jim Hawes

Bob,

This is one of the reasons I like Idaho and Montana!