Bruce Wilson

Bike the Bay event is coming up 8-27-2017.  Cost $70. Circles the bay and includes a trip over the bridge.

This is not the Navyt event which was in May and is much shorter, but still crosses the bridge.

2012 course.

Bruce Wilson

More trivia for those inclined to trivial pursuits.

"Shacks" arguably the worst surf break in California, if not the world, was actually located in Fort Emory.

Fort Emory you say. Yep, right there on the Silver Strand in WWII.

There is now a contest under way to locate anybody who actually rode a wave there. Money paid for actual footage.

FROGS?

UDT-SEAL reunion was at Swiss Park last Sunday. 

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Bruce Wilson

There is a reson for this, later.

Bruce Wilson

Funny how just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, things you never knew existed start showing up. Fort Emory operated as an Army facility from 1942-1950, at which time it was turned over to the Navy. Most of it has now been dismantled to accomodate the $1 Billion new SEAL facility. 

http://www.militarymuseum.org/Resources/Bty124Current.jpg   (enlarged view)

Fort Emory: Battery Construction No. 134

(Battery Gatchell)        

Bruce Wilson

If you go here, you can stroll/scroll around the area as it is more recently.

And yes, technically Shacks wasn't on the fort's grounds, which perhaps explains why the MP's didn't come and arrest anybody in the water.

If you zoom in/out you can see a lot of labels. For example, the area just est of where the new condos are being build is "Dolphin Bay".

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.5915063,-117.1323774,3192m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Not very readable in this view but in the center of the image is Swiss Park, site of the recent UDT-SEAL West Coast Reunion.

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Just thought I would let everyone know about Mr Fetter.  My daughter went to school with his son and he just told her that his father is ill.  They gave Mr Fetter only a couple of months to live, so I'm giving anyone who is interested the email that messages can be sent to for him to read.  The email is Wfetter@roadrunner.com .  I really enjoyed him as a teacher and it was great seeing him at my grandsons basketball game.

Bruce Wilson

Thanks for keeping us uipdated Madeline.

Apparently the Farrington Farm was at one time a railroad station:

William Sterling Hebbard had designed the Aloha cottage and rail station of U. S. Grant, Jr., near the Sweetwater dam in 1895.

Bruce Wilson

Probably the only guy we might recognize surfing  in these days would be Geoff Logan

Bruce Wilson

Y'all remember Van.

He had some big ones around high school times (and thereafter).

This is just out now. 

Dedicated to whatshername and Sam Cooke

Bruce Wilson

It appears that Bob Bostad, Gail Gaynier, Terry Maple, Kathy Overton and Cheryl Chase may be in IRMA's path.

I hope you're all OK.

Terry Lee Maple

So far so good in the Jacksonville area, but two of our daughters are in West Palm Beach. Emily works at the zoo so she has to stay to protect the animals. We are praying for them. Since the system seems to have forgotten me, I'll remind y'all that I turned 71 today. My wife made my favorite potato salad and a banana cream pie for my dinner last night (also a nice piece of cod). I will eat pie for breakfast this morning as we hunker down in the wind and rain. All the best to my fellow Lancers in Florida. Thanks for thinking of us, Bruce.

Bruce Wilson

Well happy birthday Terry.

Glad to hear that the situation is not as dire as was being predicted.

Corinne McCall

Loved Van Morrison's

Miss Havershim's lament....

Bruce Wilson

Now ya might not follow Thin Lizzy (who does since Phil Lynott has permanently left the building, though he coulda been a contender - (20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986)), but here's another in the Sam Cooke tradition.

Bruce Wilson

Let the good times roll.

Bye bye Miss American pie. I drove my Chevy to the levy, but the levy was gone..

Regional officials unveil concept for Chula Vista bayfront plan

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/south-county/sd-se-cvbmp-update-0921-story.html

The public can remain [sic] involved in the bayfront development by attending meetings held by Chula Vista’s city’s bayfront cultural and design committee and wildlife advisory group, noticed on the port’s website.

Bruce Wilson

OK everybody knows Terry Maple and John Hamels, but who is the third musketeer? Don't guess that Porter guy who went to CV. It isn't him.

Terry Lee Maple

Number 40 is not me; the middle guy might be Tom White but I'm not sure.

Bruce Wilson

Basketball player photo:

Remarkable (to me anyway) resemblences though.

The guy in the middle is actor Tom Selleck and the other two are unidentified.

None of them were known to patronize The Hayloft on Broadway (foreground) even when it was called National Avenue.. .

Nothing like some bar-b-q after a hard day at the drags.

Bruce Wilson

Who cooked at The Hayloft?  I thought someone might ask.

June 29, 1910-Jan. 2, 2004 Eula Mae Sears, 93, of Chula Vista died Jan. 2. She was born in Quay County, N.M., and was a cook for Hayloft Barbeque Pit in Chula Vista

There was a murder at The Hayloft the evening of August 10, 1959. No names that I recognize.

Bruce Wilson

As I  recall, I only went to The Hayloft once, most likely with Lyle and Robbie. Went to Mel's more than once.

El Juan? Too many to count.

Bruce Wilson

I went back to Ohio 
But my city was gone 
There was no train station 
There was no downtown 
South Howard had disappeared 
All my favorite places 
My city had been pulled down 
Reduced to parking spaces 
A, o, way to go Ohio

Well I went back to Ohio 
But my family was gone 
I stood on the back porch 
There was nobody home 
I was stunned and amazed 
My childhood memories 
Slowly swirled past 
Like the wind through the trees 
A, o, oh way to go Ohio

I went back to Ohio 
But my pretty countryside 
Had been paved down the middle 
By a government that had no pride 
The farms of Ohio 
Had been replaced by shopping malls 
And Muzak filled the air 
From Seneca to Cuyahoga falls 
Said, a, o, oh way to go Ohio

Songwriters: Christine Hynde / Dave Brock / N. Turner

Bruce Wilson

Probably too late, eh?

'bout time to start winding this shindig down.

Bruce Wilson

Looks like Malibu to me.

Bringing it all Back Home

Bruce Wilson

I think she went to Sweetwater.

I could be wrong but I believe this outfit is what inspired some of the PSA attire of a few years later. Michele won't answer.

Terry Lee Maple

Ah Mels! I had many a fine burger there. There was a nice drug store about midway down Third Avenue in the early fifties. My mother used to take me shopping at Sprouse and Reitz (not sure the spelling) and we would stop at the drug store where they had a lunch counter. Great burgers there too. We took the bus from our house on Carla Avenue, walking to the bus stop on J Street. About the Hayloft, I suspect my uncle Graydeon must have played there. His group, the Texas Rythym Boys, played all over the South Bay. He played violin (never called it a fiddle) and was a vocalist. Grady introduced me to country & western music when I was a little shaver. My favorite song at the time was "Ghost Riders in the Sky". Those were the days.