Bruce Wilson

Garfield and Hancock I remember, but Hamilton?

Bruce Wilson

Michele and I encountered Ms. Duberg a couple years back while out running in Lynwood Hills. She said she'd lived there since when there was only Fossil Canyon and no development below her.. 

She was very nice and offered that we could sit on the bench under her big tree anytime we wanted. There's the tree down below. Civilization essentially stopped at the tree BITD.

1961

Bruce Wilson

Very few photos of Third Avenue at night. Perhaps this is why. Pretty sure this is Third & F. Pharmacy on NorthEast corner.

Third & F. 1903 (upper left)

One guy (from IB) swears there was an Oscars in IB. The way he talked about the location it sounded more like it might have been George's. Palm & Thirteenth area.

Bruce Wilson

Bill Burger's stepfather worked at Caliente. We went down and did some betting once. Did not see Jayne Mansfield though.

1961

Bruce Wilson

The remains of the circular building are still out there.

Sharon Collins (Alford)

Hi!  Just thought you all might like to know that our own sweet Rosie has had surgery on her feet and will be rather immobile for the next 6 weeks, so easier to catch.  I am sure she would love to hear from you....  Let's do what we can to help keep her spirits up!

Sharon Collins (Alford)

Hi, again,

The following is a message I received from the Class of 1966:

We are currently planning our 50th reunion and would greatly appreciate if you could post an announcement on you site for help in finding our 'missing classmates'. Obviously, our classes share sisters and brothers and of course, friends. Thank you, so much

Please let your younger sisters, brothers, and friends know about this!!!

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

Thanks Sharon. I will email and call Rosie.

My parents used to go to Tiajuana to the Jai a Lai games.

And I babysat for Jim Duberg.

John Carleton Cowherd

RE: Oscars

My wife moved to California in 1968 and lived in IB.  She remembers going to Oscars on Palm Ave after her classes at Southwestern.

John

Bruce Wilson

Hi John:

George's  was on the north side of Palm. I wonder if Oscar's was on the south near 13th?. [Apparently this is reversed - see later comment George's south, Oscars north].

Postcard..

Bruce Wilson

In the words of the immortal Sonny Boy Williamson.

"Don't start me to talkin', I'll tell everything I know"

Did anyone ever have a cocktail at Oscars?

Bruce Wilson

Can't bring up Sonny Boy without a photo, right.

Bruce Wilson

Speaking of music and haircuts. Did any of our male readers carry a comb in his pocket in Junior High?

Yes, I did.

Bruce Wilson

1941 
Robert Oscar Peterson opens his first drive-in restaurant called Oscar's. (He later founds Jack In The Box in 1951.)  Photo of Charles Schneider doing Oscar as setup.

1951 
Jack in the Box gets its start. Robert O. Peterson opens first drive-through restaurant at 63rd Street and El Cajon Boulevard. Peterson had previously operated Oscars.

This is reputedly from around 1963. No CV? No IB?

Maybe CV is the Mexican Border Oscars? I'll also have to observe that Buena Park is not in L.A.

Bruce Wilson

AZTEC

Bruce Wilson

San Diego Bay, 1950's. Not an Oscars in sight.

This is said to be a photo of Oscar himself. I believe it was Carl Bandelin who said it.

Andie (Joan) Ault (Harvey)

Oscars - re: George's post, #1463 - Bob Peterson, the founder of Oscars, had a son named Gary. I dated him in college when I was at UCSB and he was at Santa Barbara CC. He was from La Jolla, a surfer, and a REALLY nice guy. Tall....about 6' 4".

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

Andie, I moved to Santa Barbara after graduating from UCSD,  worked at Devereaux School and lived in Isla Vista on the beach. There was an empty lot across the street from our house and every sunset there was a ritual of  gathering there to watch the sun go down, waiting for the green flash. I saw it once, in the Carribean.

And Bruce, Kookie,,(or was it Cookie, with that pronunciation?), on the t.v. show "77  Sunset Strip" inspired all of you guys in your Sir Guys to carry a comb in your pocket. There was even a record with a girl imploring, "Kookie,lend me your comb". Hair was big, in every sense of the word, in those days.

Which drive-in had the waitresses on roller skates? Oscars?  Carrying trays full of  tall drinks seemed daunting.
 

Bruce Wilson

George's carhops. There is some controversy as to who is in the photo Vander, Susie?

You were beginning to think that Bandelin was the only one with carhop photos, eh.

I never dated her, even whilst watching the sun go down over the Golden Gate Bridge from the Rad Lab.

Doesn't seem to be any controversy about this being Kathy.

Bruce Wilson

The theme song was catchier than the comb song (IMO). I hear from Bandelin that the T-Bird may have belonged Linda Boal's father.

When I lived in Hollywood, I ran, biked and drove by 77 Sunset Strip many times. It did not look all that different. The comb song was catchy, but there are just too many reasons not to include The Killer and Kookie in the same article.

Bruce Wilson

Michele looks for that flash all the time too. We've never seen it. I don't think I ever even heard of it until Michele brought it up.

So many Rad Lab photos to choose from, why not pick a different perspective?

Bruce Wilson

One Oscar photo (fake or not) warrants at least a real one of George (with sidekick Vic Murayama, Mar Vista class of 1957).

The Mar Vista site had a "dream date" feature where they put up pictures and the viewers vote on how to pair them up.

I have no idea who or where this is. Pretty though.

Philadelphia 

Bruce Wilson

Did I mention American Graffiti was my choice?

Here's another clip. Madras shirt, Edsel,  T-Bird, Del Shannon, Chula Vista local Wolfman Jack (for guv'nor) & Secret Agent Spyscopes. Who could ask for more.

Did any one of our readers date Suzanne Somers? Why do fools fall in love?

Bruce Wilson

Can't confirm this, but Ronald Reagan is said to be the first one to drive across the bridge.

I also read that carhops at Oscars on University Avenue roller skated and 

Oscar's used to be THE place to go hang out after MVHS football games. It was on the northeast corner of 13th & Palm. George Nicoloff had George's Drive In on the southwest corner of 13th & Palm for many years prior to Oscars. I think Oscars finally drove him out of business and he opened George's Family Kitchen in the shopping center up at 9th & Palm. I worked for George the last summer before I left for college. He was a wonderful man and helped out a lot of kids as they went through his employ. 

Mission Beach 1926

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

They took the cigarette from Efrem Zimbalist Jr.in the subsequent promo clips. Great title song.