LaBerta King (Forys)

Just wanted to say "hello" to everyone before I fly back to Australia on Sunday.  I have been traveling up the West Coast - LA to Seattle meeting and learning from artisan cheesemakers.  Since retiring from Dietetics in March I have been running cheesemaking workshops for fun and to earn $$ to support my cheesemaking habit. Below is my  workshop website that my son, Tully, put together for me.

http://grinnerycheese.wix.com/grinnerycheeses#!home/mainPage

Cheers!

George Bracey Gillow

Those are great pictures on the link that Jim posted in message #1564.

There are some rare color pictures taken in the 1950s and 1960s that I have not seen in the various history books. Note, also, pictures from the HHS 1964 Yearbook.

The picture of a Bay City Ambulance brought back memories.  I thought those Cadillac ambulances were "cool".

The company was owned by Steve Ballard (father of the young men in the picture).  Many years ago he ran for School Board. 

He made many speeches to community groups. At the beginning of each speech, he said that he had a speech impediment and had gone to a speech therapist.  The therapist made him practice talking with a bunch of marbles in his mouth.  As he improved he would remove one marble at a time.  Ballard then told the audience, "when I lost all my marbles I decided to run for school board." 

Strange how I remember these types of comments but little about the school issues of the day.

BTW, he won the election.

Bruce Wilson

Some I found interesting.

Gas Station at Third and E. (Pre-cigarette machine, but I think they had cokes).

Golden Arrow Dairy - 3480 Highland

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Melhorn Music 380 Third - where my coronet came from

Bruce Wilson

Dave Schuller and $17,500 dollar houses in the Country Club.

The 'other' housing project in which I did not reside.

Bruce Wilson

YACUI YAPURA

"YACUI YAPURA, AN AMAZING BRAZILIAN SNAKE CHARMER WHO CHOSE CHULA VISTA TO LIVE THE LAST YEARS OF HER LIFE Yacui Yapura Sampaio Bailey lived in Chula Vista between 1970 and 1985. She was Brazilian and acted on stage dancing with snakes. Yacui Yapura was also fakir. She was long fasts, contained in a glass box, lying on nails, with her snakes. She was born in Brazil in 1917 and was called originally Georgina Pires Sampaio. In Brazil, she used the stage names Diva Rios and Suzy King. She was a cabaret singer and starlet. Yacui Yapura was also witch and was premonitions using snakes. After a scandalous career in Brazil, whose peak was her horse parade, half-naked, in the main avenue of Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she went to Mexico. Before that, in 1966, she adopted a false identity - she became Yacui Yapura Sampaio, supposedly born in 1934. In 1970, Yacui Yapura married Weldon Jackson Bailey and left for Chula Vista. There, she lived in trailer parks until 1985, when she died. She resided at 352 Broadway and 568 Palomar St, among other addresses. In August 1985, Yacui Yapura died alone in her trailer. Her body was found days later. Yacui Yapura was an exotic woman who left the company of humans by snakes."

Bruce Wilson

Youth Center Building Park Way 1950's

Bruce Wilson

Hilltop Drive & L Aerial from paper route days.

This seems to vailidate Jim's analysis.

Bruce Wilson

Mystery Location - 1957

Bruce Wilson

Inside of decrepit San Onofre plant before old age set in.

Bruce Wilson

Dr. Dean (RIP  6-16-2015). I saw his show exactly one time.

Susan L. Frise

Hey, Hi LaBerta.  Saw your info on the cheese making.  You are into so much!!  So interesting.  I read the recipes too and love the differences in wording and measures.  

Sue F.

Bruce Wilson

MORE SURFING - JOHN SEVERSON, HUNTINGTON BEACH 1960'S (just before the advent of the short board era). Can't do a knee-paddle take-off (@1:07) on a short board.  The red board looks like it could be a Gordon & Smith.

Bruce Wilson

How can anybody ever forget the Del Mar pier?

Or, for that matter the Third & K Dairy Queen?

The Third & F St. Safeway?

Bruce Wilson

More Third & F. Must be pre-drought, because that sure looks like a water fountain, but what kind of car is that in the intersection?

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Bruce Wilson

Who says there's not much to do in Chula Vista?

Not far from that Dairy Queen was the camera-shy Jack in the Box. Roger Schmidt recommends it.

Jim Hawes

Bruce,

....car at intersection, my guess a 1960 (or so) Datsun Bluebird! I guess I've been a car guy too long! Glad everyone is enjoying the old photo link. Nice seeing all our classmates in the pic's from our annual. There was a pic of Julie Murtough, I thought she had moved back to Australia prior to graduation. Maybe it was the summer after?

Bruce Wilson

Hey Jim:

Your guess is better than mine. Thanks again for the photos link.. I have some cars for ya, that I've misplaced. They are from IB. Remember when there used to be MC races down in IB (1965 or so). I think that is where my nephew, who turned out to be a pretty good rider got his start.

Anyway, as far as IB goes, here's the mystery man himself. John passed in January of 2011 and as far as I can tell Richard Joly died in 1987. 

John is linked to HHS. Anybody besides me know how? 

John Carleton Cowherd

My guess for the car in the intersection is Renault (beep beep) Dauphine.

Bruce Wilson

Hey John:

That was my guess also, though I remembered them as more rounded. Here's a 1960's R8 that a bit more square.

Bruce Wilson

The Del Mar pier. An interesting case study. I do not recall ever seeing it and I'm pretty sure why. It was built in 1913 and demolished in 1959. I'd bet at least a few of us surfed up in Del Mar and I recall that early IB surfer Mike McCombs and HHS student John Wier lifeguarded there. As I recall it from McCombs, the loud speaker system (below) survived the pier demolition.

Bruce Wilson

So what does this have to do with the Del mar pier? Remember when the Underwater Demolition Team (UDT - predecessors of the Seals) used to run from IB to North Beach and back? They were camera shy, but here's a 1964 shot of a few. Notice, one guy with what certainly appear to be Converse high tops. I had a pair just like them. 

Anyway, some of the UDT Frogmen used to come to the CV gym and we played two-man volleyball with them.

Oh yeah, the pier. In 1959 the UDT group is the one that blew up the pier. No film or photos (yet).

Bruce Wilson

I ran into Ken Anderson at the YMCA a couple of days ago. He's still doing his regular swimming routine.

I was looking for something  regarding Ken in the yearbook and this photo kind of jumped out at me (will scan later to getrid of flash). Notice the excellent form of Piety and Holmes. I'll have to give the nod to Dick for intensity. Check out his expression. Mike looks a little too high, perhaps he was distracted by what caught my eye, the woody upstairs.

Note: that is not Vernus Ragsdale in the lead. Anybody recognize him?

Bruce Wilson

Webcams seem to have undergone some dramatic improvement since I looked at them a while back..

Samples:

OB:    https://obhotel.com/webcam

Coronado: http://hoteldel.com/live-webcam/

La Jolla: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/piercam

A whole bunch of them: http://www.sundiegolive.com/

Obligatory trivia: OB is the longest pier in SoCal, longest in Cal is Santa Cruz.

Third Avenue (1936) Fiesta de La Luna parade and Piggly Wiggly.

Work in progress.

Bruce Wilson

Hi John:

I  was in email contact with Officer Bob about a year ago. 

Here's one from about 1974  and Another view of The Vogue

George Bracey Gillow

John,

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