Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

So, Kay, I'm accepting your challenge. Some of the names I can add here are guesses, especially as to spelling but all of these faces remind me of years which were for me very happy ones. My apologies to those classmates whose names just escape me. An X seems a little cold...

Sixth grade, left to right by rows:

Tim Fritcher, Mike McCreery., Michele Adney, XX, Kay Ochi, Tommy___, XX, XX, Marilyn Langford

Richard Gonzales, Doug Beckett, XX, XX, John Cowherd, John Vredenburg, Susan Zimdar, Diane Leoni, Sandra Mickshyl

Martin___, Johnny Marsh, John Narcisco (?), Gail Dillion, Mike Shadoan, Patty Leckman, XX, XX, David Huneke

Steve Brown, XX, Anne Chenoweth, Mike Swift

Additions or corrections welcomed. Cheers.

Bruce Wilson

Hi Gail

In high school I knew Sue Zimdar who lived in Pont Loma 

I wonder if it could be the same person

Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

George Bracey Gillow

Vogue Theater 2019 Proposal

Tecture company has now taken over the remodeling of the Vogue theater. The plan is for it to be used for concert, outdoor dining and movies.  The outdoor part is on a parking lot next to the building that Tecture purchased from the City.

Here is a plan from the San Diego Union Tribune:

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Bruce Wilson

I ran from almost in  National City to Otay and vice versa today.

Passed the Vogue twice. It looked the same, both times, and compared to years ago.

The Highlander is unrecognizable now that it is a brewery/bar.

E Street & Third Ave is a changin'

There are now two empty lots

Southeast and Northwest corners

They took down the Ray's Shoe store sign that I had tried to buy. :(

No sign of Lanette.

Andie (Joan) Ault (Harvey)

Gail, harkening back to your 4/19 post, I have a couple of fill-ins on the 6th grade pic:  third from the end of the first row is Martha Kilcrease, and the first person in the third row is Martin Austin. So many of the others look familiar, and it makes me cuckoo that I can *almost* remember their names, but not quite. I count these among my "senior moments."  <sigh>

Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

Bruce Wilson

Well it turns out it was Zimdars not Zimdar.  

Class of 1964 Point Loma High School.

OK - end the suspense -  she was an underage arrestee (along with yours truly), at the "Fun Nest" on G Street  popularized by The Star News. 

Jennifer Beenfeldt took the newpaper to task quite elequently, bless her heart.

Funny thing, the kid whose father instigated the raid, was not even there that night.

Bruce Wilson

So back in 1964 still.

I was talking to a young clerk at the store and noticed she was wearing black Converse low cuts.

I seem to recall paying about $3.00 then.

Am I right?

She said they go for $50.00 now.

Mine were close in size to the guy on the viewers far right. I also had a pair of hi-tops.

Extra credit if you can name all these guys.

Bruce Wilson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh9CXnoDua4

What good is reminiscing without a little music, eh?

Bruce Wilson

And skiing and dogs

The late great Ruby and equally great Steve McKinney

Steve was likely the best speed skier of all time. Shown here at Mammoth. No turns. Point 'em downhill and go.

Kay Kozuye Ochi

Hi Andie and Gail, Thanks for adding names to the Rosebank class photo! I hope that others will chime in. And, Bruce, Your Ruby was a beautiful gal! And, please name those basketball players . . . Allstars? And, Greg Witherspoon: Hope you are well. Thanks for your last message. This has been a rough first quarter of 2019 (!).--Kay

Bruce Wilson

OK Kay O. - basketball shoe models

1969 photo of (viewers left to right) 

Bill Walton, Avery Clark, Wilbur Strong, Phil Edwards, Bruce Menser

You may notice that Bill's knee problems had an early origin. No basketball player I know of has the medical history of Mr, Walton.

Bruce Wilson

The bed still needs some cleaning.

Bea did not teach us this, but she provided encouragement

My mom loved them

Bruce Wilson

Sticking with basketball for a moment. In December of 2018, the 42nd annual Hilltop Invitational boys basketball tournament was played. New to me.

If my calculations are correct, HHS had just started it's tournamentbabout the  time former Hilltop attendee, Tom Waitswas over in Germany waltzing Matilda

So mine was actually an old '53 (Chevy) and I am not saying whose house I was driving away from.

Bruce Wilson

Remember these from kindergarten?

Especially how they were made!

My mom saved my sister's and mine (at least).

Jim Hawes

I have a 14 month old grandson who enjoys having Poppa read to him. Yesterday while reading the June/July 2019 edition of NATGEOKIDS (a magazine published for kids by National Geographics) I found this bit about Terry Maple and Willie B! Cool! 

Jim Hawes

Good day to check out Tom Rices' FB page! 

Bruce Wilson

Nice ones Jim.

I assume you saw the news about Butch. You are the one to be thanked for setting the record straight on him.

Butch was no angel (only Willie Stallings was as far as I know) and neither  was I and even some other folks who we always thought were.

This guy is the scariest person I ever met, when Leon took us down to his house one time. 

Hells Angels CV

Jim Hawes

Bruce,

Sad about Butch. He did have a kinder side, just don't mess with him. He was younger than I thought, but didn't look it. He probably had some interesting stories to tell about his life after Chulie Jr. High!

Only saw (met?) Willie once. Riding in the 55 Chevy that he built for Leon. Street racer with no inner door panels. I wonder if it was the basis for this guy! Hollywood "Two Lane".

Your comment about Richard Wehmeyer's surfers stomp made me chuckle! Easy to visualize him moving across the floor at the youth center dances. Years later I met a French lady who had been raised in Africa (parents were on a religous mission), She had spent a number of years with the Maasai and could do a great Maasai adamu. I wonder if that is where the "Surfers Stomp" originated?

Years ago (maybe decades?) I read Richards name in our local paper. I guess he is an atty and had gotten into a spot of bother in Oceanside and was defended by Jan Ronis. Good to see HHS brothers sticking together.

Jim Hawes

Oh, and then there was "this Guy". Not a big fan of Mr. Nader but don't feel like expressing my true opinion of him here. Got a couple of dash plaques and trophies at his events. Without him I know 2 things that probably wouldn't have happened:

I probably would not have met Juan Fangio!

We would't have many 250+mph 1000+HP super cars! I think Shelby started it, he said $&*$# this guy we'll stuff a big V8 into an AC Ace and look where we are today! 55 years of torque and recoil later!

Bruce Wilson

Hey Jim:

I agree! When I rode around with  him Leon drove a 55 Ford.

There were some characters in my sphere of operation that were indeed unsafe at any speed.

One of my favorite profs in college was Ralph's sister Laura Nader (anthropologist - UCBerkeley) who studied Law and Warfare.

My project for her class, which she by the way, praised, was a study of Civil Commitment proceedings in Contra Costa County (1960's - recall - the world was different).

Did not see Wehmeyer, either of the Stallings or really anybody that I recognized. Jan? Oh what can I say without getting in trouble?

Anyway:

Both Jack Kent (of HHS Golf team finger pointing  fame) and the lovely Cheryl Chase drove Corvairs (red and white respectively).

I was never hurt in either car and I should not tell, but Terry trained an ape to drived a Corvair. He (the ape I mean, not Terry) was never hurt nor did he hurt anybody in the automobile.

Here's another Cheryl, lived right up the street on First Ave, became famous long ago in Las Vegas (can you say Pike's Peaks here without being too offensive?).

I can name the other two (of three), can you? Could the shoe lady be Sharon Boyer?

Cheryl Chase (twice) and the girlfriend Butch and I shared Ms. Carolyn Coombs

I have tried and can find neither of them.

Bruce Wilson

In Martinez, Contra Costa County

Bail is an absolute right

Pay phone?

Bruce Wilson

My dad's University of Detroit Law School foto (lower left)

Note they published your address

REMINDS me of two stories: 

One re my father

and another re Jan Ronis, me and our two lawyer fathers

Stay tuned