Bruce Wilson

PhotoO'Day (cousin of Mike & Rosie?):

This looks mighty familiar to me, but I'm not going to say.

Bruce Wilson

If anyone gets this I'll be amazed. I've got a good idea, but no specifics yet. Pretty sure it's the same street with about a ten year time differential.

Bruce Wilson

I've been asked where all these photos come from. There is no easy answer to that one. My record keeping is probably not what it should be.

I've also been  asked if they can be purchased. Some folks want to be paid for the photos, others don't seem to have that concern.

The San Diego Historical Society has a ton of photos and they all appear to be for sale. Check out this link to a page which breaks the photos down by various categories. All these photos appear to have "proof" embedded and all the ones I looked at can be purchased.

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/photostore/gallery/

There are a number of books which contain photos. George posted many of them back upstream.

Arcadia Press has a series of photo books in their Images of America series:

So, e.g. Images of America

Chula Vista, Bonita, Pacific Beach

http://www.amazon.com/Chula-Vista-Images-America-California/dp/0738556165

Bruce Wilson

Tijuana looking north, 1955. If memory serves the large building near the middle is  the Jai Alai arena.  Over right and up is the bridge, where late night border crossers (walkers) were often rousted by the policia for various amounts of money.

George Bracey Gillow

BOOKS REVISITED

Here again are books on CV history that I recommended in a previous Post (480):

• Images of America Chula Vista  by Peter Watry and Frank Roseman
• Chula Vista Then and Now by Peter Watry and Frank Roseman
• Chula Vista Centennial: A Century of People and Progress, 1911-2011 by Dr. Steven Schoenherr  (This is a very detailed history with great pictures and maps)
• Chula Vista Heritage 1911 - 1986 by City of Chula Vista
• Images of America, Bonita  by Steven Schoenherr and Mary E. Oswell

You can also find a number of books on San Diego History on Amazon.com and abebooks.com by searching on "San Diego History".

The Library of Congress has "tons" of historic pictures at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

There are lots of pictures at the San Diego Historical Society in Balboa Park.  Their archives are open to the public.  Their book store has many books and pictures.

Incidentally, my post 935 (about page 38) on the Historic Home Tour shows Corinne McCall and Peter watry, at the end, counting money.  Nice to be rich.

Bruce Wilson

Not the Third Avenue Jack, but as close as we're going to get.

Looking south from La Jolla back to TJ (about 1952)

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Not D.B. Cooper - I never saw Mr. Cooper, but do recall Mrs Cooper. She sold a lot of candy and cokes too.

Third and G  - West side.

Bruce Wilson

Birthplace of the stars.

Bruce Wilson

Inaugural event 1964 "Starlite Parade"

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Any guesses?

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Complimentary quick reference in case you need to call any of these folks.

Bruce Wilson

Montgomery Freeway?

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Rock Mountain is shrinking. Lyons Park is behind it. Otay Mtn. is far right. but peak not showing.

For those who haven't been out there, that is the 125 Freeway on the far right below Otay Mtn.

The gravel operation used to be owned by Nelson-Sloan.

Apparently pilots occasoionally use the HWY-125 for landing practice. I do not know what the toll charge is.

Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

Hi Everyone,

Sorry I've been gone so long.  Long story.  Thanks for all the great old photos, Bruce and George, and all the fantastic information.  Bruce, you mentioned the Theosophical Society on Point Loma (now Point Loma Nazarene College) -- my mother was a member of the Theosophical Society for many years and attended gatherings there.  The Theosophical teachings, including reincarnation and karma, were a big part of our growing up experience.  Mom and Ronnie Schuller were good friends and were always a bit bohemian in their thinking. 

Speaking of the Schullers -- We had a mountain cabin near Big Bear that my dad had built.  One year the Schullers went up to the cabin with us.  Here are a couple pictures of those experiences.  This first one is my mom with Ronnie Schuller.  The second is my brother Mike with David Schuller.  Great memories of a very happy time and a beautiful place.  Our old cabin burned down about 5 years ago in a forest fire.

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Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

I thought this picture of one of the early campaign meetings for Bob Wilson might bring back some memories.  That is my mom sitting in the chair by the TV and dad on the near left next to Bob Wilson.  You have to love the TV and the picture of Eisenhower (?) with the bow under it???

Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

Just a couple other memories.  The first picture is our family in front of the newly built Palomar Observatory.  I look about 2 or 3 here.  Do any of you remember visiting there?

The second photo is Mom and Dad in front of the Second Avenue house that Corinne McCall grew up in.  This was taken in 1946.  Shortly after this they sold the home to the McCall family.

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

Yes, Rosie, our Families had some great adventures together One of my most memorable Christmas was in your Big Bear cabin. My Great-Grandmother and many of our relatives came and we went caroling around the lake.and made collages out of pine cones and necklaces and drawings and crocheted items for gifts. The riches were its simplicity which made the truly essential and important things palpable.

We had many family and school  excursions to the Palomar obervatory.

I love seeing your family photos. Those faces are an indelible part of my heart and history.

And, yes, our mothers were explorers on the intellectual and spiritual frontiers. I spent time in Ojai where Madam Blavastsky brought Krishanmurti from India as a young man to be the main teacher at the Theosophical Society and was at  Oak Grove for some of his talks

Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

Rosie -- Great to see the pictures of your mom and dad.  I too have fond memories of the
Green Valley Lake cabin, based on at least one trip there.  I remember the sit-down paddleboards we used all day long.  One funny memory that sticks with me -- Apparently the planned dessert for the evening involved some pre-packaged cakes.  Your brother Mike was explaining to us how we could get your sister Joyce to select the vanilla, leaving the chocolate to us (or vice versa).  His theory was that we should tell her she could have to delicious, yummy, creamy, fabulous vanilla one, or this (other) boring one.  Don't remember whether his psychology worked or not.  I think some very very early morning fishing ventures were part of our stays there, weren't they? Happy memories.

Nick and I actually got in a day of skiing last week at Mammoth; perfect timing after ten inches of new snow had fallen the night before.  Otherwise California looks so bare where there is usually so much snow! Sad.

And Shayne, it's nice to see all your posts.  Like Rosie and Vicki, you're such a major part of my early memories.  One in particular -- Your mother had taken you and me (and maybe another friend) with her when she went folk dancing in one of her beautiful costumes.  We were very excited; it must have been shortly after we finished 6th grade because we were all allowed to wear lipstick.  You and I kept slathering it on, and during one break your mother said (and I remember this so exactly), "You have too much lipstick on, Shayne Maree; all of you girls do."  She handed us all tissues. . . I also remember one afternoon when we were in your living room rehearsing a song we were going to sing for something ("I did gaze into thine eyes and it seemed that thine eyes were truly as the eyes of a dove"  Remember?) and we were trying to make a letter look old by smearing it with dirt.  "We want it to look old, not dirty" was your mother's good advice.  Don't remember how that came out by I still remember the song, as well as the "I'm a little doll who was dropped and broken" number.

I was blessed to have my mother with me until she was just short of her 98th birthday, and in excellent shape in all ways until the very end.  I miss her.

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

I am so touched by your memories Gail.

Balboa Park was our playground, going every Sunday after church to explore the museums and canyons. The House of Pacific Relations, the little village with local people sharing their ethnic cultures with language, food and music made me feel as if I had traveled the world without leaving San Diego. And sharing my mother's love of folk dancing with my friends, including costumes, was part of experiencing that multi-culturalism.

You were fortunate to have your mother with you for so long.

Bruce Wilson

Thanks Rosie , Shaynee, and Gailee.

Based on family history Gail, it looks like you've got some substatntial looking 'forward to' left to do. Send me a postcard when you're hitting the slopes at 90.

I went to Patrol Boy Camp at Mt. Palomar and we visited the observatory. I believe Terry said he did not go, but I would think Colonel Sorenson probably did. Officer Bob and his son were both there.

Did I mention? ...  Yes Bruce, you've already told us that you spent your first night out of the hospital (pictured back downstream a few steps) at Bob Wilson's house. There must be some photos of my family and the 'other' Wilsons kicking around somewhere. I believe Francie (Bob's daughter) still resides over in Coronado. I'll have to look her up.

Mountain-wise, we used to go to cabins in Pine Valley. Does anyone remember them? I found a postcard from 1948 showing the main building where you checked in and I believe there was a restaurant.

Here's what the cabins looked like and some of the family (all deceased) and the family dog. Wish I could read the sign above the door. I recall all the cabins having names. Michele and I have been all over Pine Valley looking for traces, to no avail.

The other Family Dog (some of you may remember).

Bruce Wilson

Since nobody guessed, that's Sweetwater High School right after the 1964 (poor quality newspaper) photo of the 1964 parade. Treasa, are you holding back any real photos?

Apparently, not a lot is written about Cockatoo Grove, though I'm wondering if Shayne has some memories of tadpole collecting out there with David and Karen. We usedto  catch ours at Lower Otay.

Cockatoo Grove is located at latitude 32.643 and longitude -116.984. The elevation of Cockatoo Grove is 482 feet above mean sea level.

The hill scene street photos further back are not of San Francisco, but (awaiting confirmation) are Boston. The photo of the mountain lodge looks suspiciously like Mt. Laguna, but I think the photo is from Massachusetts. This is a postcard of the 'real ' Mt. Laguna lodge from the fifties.

The inside (due to Robert Altman) and what is claimed to be the outside of  The Family Dog at the Great HIghway. Long gone by now. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

Bruce Wilson

Bonita aerial 1954. Georgia 's house is way up at the top near Sweetwater Dam. Shayne hopefully will identify the tadpole spot in Cockatoo Grove (right hand side of frame).

Bruce Wilson

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Corinne's  mentors (1941)

Bruce Wilson

Plain to see this isn't gonna work.

Well this is a little better. Why the swastika? You got me. George will figure it out.