Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

By the way, Jan and Scott Crockett and a few of their children came into my store in Aspen one winter over 20 years ago  Many years later I got on the lift with a friend and she introduced me to the woman next to her. Her name was January. We shared we were both from California, then more specifically San Diego, then Chula Vista, then Hilltop High and it was January Crockett, remarried with a new last name. I see her and her husband, Rolf, when they come to ski in the winter and hike in the summer.

Bruce Wilson

Hey George:

D²E - clever but sounds too robotic and kind of wreaks of power.

That said, on the Eisenhower Presidential Library site he is referred to as DDE.(http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/farewell_address.html)

Reading copy of the speech [DDE’s Papers as President, Speech Series, Box 38, Final TV Talk (1); NAID #594599]

This is the actual link for the "reading copy of the speech" which is interesting because it has cross outs and changes etc.

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/farewell_address/Reading_Copy.pdf

Hi Shayne: Next time you bump into Scott ask him if he remembers the Leslie Gano poem (I think it was MacDonald's (sp?) class.  

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

Remember when Ike came to Chula Vista?

Bruce Wilson

Ike arrived 10-21-1960 via helicopter from Balboa Park. He is one of 15 presidents to visit San Diego, but the only one  known to have come to CV. Some cynics claim that he came to play golf at the Country Club. Fortunately none was ever arrested for child endangerment whilst here.

It's hard to imagine a president visiting anywhere today without there being some video footage of the event. I have not, however, ever seen any for DDE's (now officiously approved) visit.

George Bracey Gillow

Shayne, there were posts on the Eisenhower visit to Chula Vista way back in this forum--pages 4 and 5.   The first was Post #93.

I have to believe there is film of TV coverage in those days stored somewhere.  Things like the Eisenhower visit, Johnny Downs and TV news.

There were media cameras at the Eisenhower visit.

Bruce Wilson

Yeah George if we could ever find that film cache, we could become famous.

You can readily find footage of the other Ike (Turner) who died in San Diego (San Marcos) in 2007.

He was a talented muscian, but he had some (very) significant anger and drug issues.

Tina is the greatest.

Bruce Wilson

Shayne: Just got it.

Bruce Wilson

Local high school class photo - guesses year, school?

I know there are some singers out there who tune in from time to time and I bet there are a few who remember Otis Day from Aninal House, so lets give a rousing welcome to my favorite interpreters of Shama Lama Ding Dong,

'Til Dawn, Marin County's a cappella group

Bruce Wilson

Mysterious goings on. Is that guy an FBI man?

Bruce Wilson

The old "cool'-llage.

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

Aawww Michele, I am touched you have kept these fotos for so long.

Bruce Wilson

SMSMS:

Please send your PSA and/or other doubles so that progress can proceed on this cool-lage.  Did anyone ever see The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada? Great film.

It seems that Michele has only gotten better with age. Dr. Wilson? Not so much, apparently has gone to the dawgz. Some one had asked about musical instruments a way back.

Bruce Wilson

Well I was thinking that I didn't bring it up, but on second thought maybe I did. Anyway death hasn't shown any mercy in my life thus far. I'm sure there are many others out there paddling along in the same boat.

Words and music by jB, performed by

"They'll write a reason you were alive, but you'll never know"

Bruce Wilson

I was gone, but did others see this?

The day(s) it snowed in San Diego.

 Jan. 12-14, 1882: El Cajon reports 3 inches of snow. Snowflakes seen in San Diego, but none stick.

 Feb. 11, 1946: Flurries across San Diego County.

 Jan. 9-11, 1949: Traces of snow in La Jolla, Point Loma and Spring Valley, but much more falls in Los Angeles County. Woodland Hills is hit by 14 inches, Altadena 6, Burbank 5 and Pasadena 4. Catalina Island gets 8 inches.

 Dec. 13, 1967: Snow that falls along the San Diego County coast and at lower elevations disappears by day's end, but Mount Laguna racks up 50 inches by Dec. 19.

 Dec. 24, 1987: Flurries in Casa de Oro, Fletcher Hills, La Jolla, San Carlos and Santee.

***

DEC. 13, 1967 The low at Lindbergh Field was 38 degrees at 9:30 a.m. Snow pellets fell from 7:50 to 8:50 a.m.

At Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, it was 33 degrees at 10 a.m. and 2 inches of snow was on the ground.

Other places where snow was recorded:

2 feet on Palomar Mountain

6 inches in Temecula

5 inches in Fallbrook

4.5 inches at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

3 inches in Borrego Springs

Snow was reported in Del Mar, Encinitas, Escondido, La Jolla and Vista.

Snowflakes were reported in North Park, East San Diego, Clairemont, University City, Mission Valley.

There were flurries mixed with hail in El Centro.

http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/metro/20071213-9999-1n13snowday.html

John Poe Moore, Jr.

On December 13, 1967 I had just returned from Viet Nam, and was at Camp Pendleton on the rifle range, requalifiying with some new weapons.  We were standing there a 6:00 am waiting to fire, freezing our rear ends off and they did not know what to do, as it had never snowed at Camp Pendleton for these guys!  So we were let go and I took off to Chula Vista, as that is where I got married three days later!  I once swore that I would not get married until Hell froze over!  Well, Chula Vista was froze over!  No wonder that one only lasted five years.  This second one is for thirty-eight years, but was done in the sun and not in Chula Vista! 

Sorry, just a small contribution to the trivia!  See ya later!  Surf's up!

Johnny Moore 

Bruce Wilson

America's Oldest Marine Corps Iwo Jima Survivor, days short of his 99th Birthday, Don Hinkle went to meet his Lord and Savior last Saturday morning.

Donald Hinkle, 05/26/1916 ~ 04/11/2015 ( BONITA )

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/utsandiego/obituary.aspx?n=donald-hinkle&pid=174644609

Bruce Wilson

Here is my letter to President Obama. Please feel free to contact him at the White House if you agree.

Dear Mr. Obama:

Please use your executive authority to correct an unjust situation that exists in:

Part 682 --- Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program:

§682.216   Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Which holds:

1. General. (1) The teacher loan forgiveness program is intended to encourage individuals to enter and continue in the teaching profession.

Yet also states

The forgiveness program is only available to a borrower who has no outstanding loan balance under the FFEL Program or the Direct Loan Program on October 1, 1998 or who has no outstanding loan balance on the date he or she obtains a loan after October 1, 1998.

This restriction unfairly penalizes those who meet all other requirements of the program, but happened to have an outstanding loan balance in 1998 and can hardly be viewed as an incentive to have continued in the teaching profession as the law intended.

Thank you for your consideration.

Bruce Wilson

On a personal note, once you leave The White House stop in for some basketball and a beer on me.

Bruce Wilson

Couldn't find a photo with long hair and a dog, but this does have the paper route bike and a selfie of my father's head in addition to short hair and dog..

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Hey Bruce I saw your picture of the amphitheater.  It's in such pour shape I doubt you'd want to jump the seats now.

Bruce Wilson

Hi Madeline:

Maybe I'll just ride my bike up them. Still no Lahaye. Last time I saw him was at the 20 year reunion.

FYIThe Magnificent Seven

April 27, 1990|JOANNA DENDEL

Have you seen "The Guys?" They're little face sculptures by L.A. artist-turned-jewelry designer Robert Lahaye. In brushed gold or antiqued silver with tie-tack backs, they are seen in the best company. Janet Jackson wears them all over a vest in her "Miss You Much" music video. They cover a bustier worn by Gloria Estefan. But "The Guys," with names like Tiki, Spike, Ziggy and Razor, aren't just for girls. Rod Stewart wears all seven of them on his lapel. The collection of tiny faces, each less than an inch wide or an inch high, looks good grouped together on a jacket shoulder. Individually the pins can be tie-tacks or lapel pins. Each one is signed by the artist. At $25, they are a way to begin collecting Lahaye art. They are available at Ice in the Beverly Center and at Fred Segal, Santa Monica.

 

Don't have "The Guys" (yet), but here is

 

Vintage 80s Robert LaHaye Pewter Earrings Display (signed)

 

Bruce Wilson

Enjoy the only such stage ride event in the country, a truly one of a kind experience! 

The Butterfield Overland stage transported thousands of passengers across the United States years prior to the Civil War as California's first regular overland stage connection with St. Louis. Here is your opportunity to experience a rare event, a stagecoach ride through history.

Your adventure begins at the historic Warner-Carrillo Ranch House museum. Built in 1857, the ranch house served as the Butterfield Stage Stop, although that is just one part of its multilayered history, it is one of the most important aspects of the site. The adobe home tells the story of the emigrant trail, the overland stage, and the prominent ranching history of the area.

Bruce Wilson

OK football fans, name that tune. Crowd estimate was 10,000. School should be ez, year? that's harder. Harder yet, name the combatants.

George Bracey Gillow

Sidney Cornell?

Some guy is doing some research about Friendship Park, and he ran 
across a item about an "activist about Friendship Park in the 1970s 
named Sidney Cornell."

Do any of you remember a Sidney Cornell?  Any relation to the 
Cornell Stationery Cornells?

I know there was a Sidney Cornell who was active in the community and assume he maybe the owner of Cornells.
 

George Bracey Gillow

Marston House Exhibit

There is an interesting exhibit at the Marston House of memorabilia from the 2015 and 2035 Panama-California Expositions at Balboa Park:

"Souvenirs & Keepsakes:
Memorabilia of the 1915 & 1935 Expositions
Exhibition runs until November 30
The tourism movement of the turn of the century as experienced by San Diego's Exposition visitors will be explored through the personal objects that were eagerly sought after and collected, such as buttons, pennants, postcards, coins, and jewelry. These keepsakes have been handed down through the generations as tangible historical mementos of the Expositions, and continue to be cherished to this day."

Marston House:  3525 Seventh Avenue, San Diego 92103.  Tel: 619-297-9327.

Here is a good video on the Marston House: 

George Bracey Gillow

SIR THOMAS M RICE --- VE DAY 70 YEARS

Tom Rice was recently knighted by The President of France along with 14 other heroes for their part in the liberation of France.  Here is an article.

Also Below is a good YouTube video on VE Day--70 years ago today, May 8th