Bruce Wilson

Hey Karen:

I'm sure this is up here already, but it kind of goes to your "farming near Kearney" comment. I'm trying to track down a date for when the church across from Dean's house was built.

NOwadays Kearney is the first street north of K and there are three streets beween Third and Second: 

Church, Del Mar & Twin Oaks.  How this syncs up with the photo eludes me at this point.

Geroge will figure all out.

Bruce Wilson

Amen Terry! I'd like to bring along Leon and Butch and maybe Charles "Striker" O'Hara.

It always pissed me off that Frank got jumped. I have no idea who the culprits might have been.

Another of my old pals from the neighborhood got jumped fairly recently when walking home from La Bella.

I started looking for Frank the next day after I heard about his circumstances at the 45 year get together. The first one I saw was Lanette, but she wasn't the one I was looking for.

It took a while to track down Frank

I wish I coulda ....

You know how that goes.

Bruce Wilson

Probably a few of the men here will remember this lady. Rumour is that she was in Spain to attend the tomato fights. 

I did not get a chance to meet her.

Bruce Wilson

reminder to Bruce - Jan Payne.

I guess the tomato fighting did not start across the street from Hilltop Drive Elementary after all.

La Tomatina, Buñol, Spain

La Tomatina started on the last Wednesday of August in 1945 (29th August 1945) when some young people went to the town square to attend the Giants and Big-Head figures parade. They decided to join the parade with a musician. The group's ^{[weasel words]} excitement caused a person to fall from the float. The participant flew into a fit of rage and started to hit everything in his path. There was a market stall of vegetables that fell victim to what soon became a furious crowd. People started to pelt each other with tomatoes until local law enforcement ended the battle.^[1]

The following year the young people deliberately repeated the fight on the last Wednesday of August, only this time they brought their own tomatoes from home. They were again dispersed by the police. The food fight became an annual event. In 1950, the town allowed the tomato hurl to take place, but the next year it was stopped again. Many young people were imprisoned but Buñol residents forced authorities to let them go. The festival gained popularity with more and more participants every year. In subsequent years it was banned again with threats of serious penalties. In the year 1957, some young people celebrated "the tomato's funeral", with singers, musicians, and comedies. The main attraction however, was a big tomato in a coffin carried around while a band played funeral marches. In 1957, demand for the popular festival led to its becoming official, with certain rules and restrictions. These rules have gone through many modifications over the years.

George Bracey Gillow

HISTORIC 3RD AND K ST AREA

Based on a 1953 aerial photograph of Chula Vista 3rd and K areas, I believe the streets are in the locations in the pictures below:

The Church at 1st and Kearney was not there in 1953:

Bruce Wilson

Thanks George.

The red star I believe is the block of Second Ave. where Lynn Iwashita lived later and may be our illusive tomato farm.

BTW - has anyone besides me ever wondered what ever happened to Lynn?

Andie (Joan) Ault (Harvey)

Backtracking a bit to George's bakery post (#1693), there was another bakery back in the 50s: McMains Bakery, owned by Stan McMains before he started Standlee's Cake Shop. His family were our best friends. His wife and my mom had been besties since they were kids. McMains Bakery was close to the Vogue, and on the same side of the street. He won many awards for his cakes, and decided at some point to let his son Bobby run the bakery, and opened up the Cake Shop across the street. He was an AMAZING practical joker. They lived on Guava Ave., the erstwhile "Candy Cane Lane," right next door to the Rindones.  ~  Aaaaaand....our phone # in the early 50s was "Chula Vista 1085M." Yup, party line. How DO we remember those old phone numbers from 60 years ago???? 

George Bracey Gillow

Andie, good history on McMains and Standlee's.

The McMains' store was located at 258 3rd as per the 1952 phone book. The picture I posted of Standlee's in message 1693 shows the store at 244 3rd. I remember, in the 1980s, they used 3rd Ave Redevelopment Funding to upgrade the storefront. It was located at 275 3rd at that time.

Interesting that today, there is a Standlee's at 284 3rd:   http://www.standlees.com/  They have the same phone number as the McMains' in 1952 and the Standlee's in the picture on my post 1693.

 I sent them an email asking if they are still owned by the McMains family.

As I mentioned, Standlee McMains was mayor of CV in 1958-1960.  

Notice one of their phone numbers as GReenley:

Bruce Wilson

Yo A:

My first CV phone is the only one I remember. Can't remember any others. I don't know if it moved with us when we moved.

A cake walk down memory lane and the lettuce, tomatoes and lemons of the field. No Lilys then, but my mom grew them so we have them now.

Stock photo. maybe Michele will post one of ours.

. 

George Bracey Gillow

Andie, Below is your family's listing in the 1952 directory.

Yes, it is amazing how we remember the numbers. Ours was GA 2-0307 and on a party line.

In the mining camp in Chile, where I lived until age 12, we had no phone numbers. I just lifted the receiver and asked the operator to connect to one of my friends.  She knew all of my friends by first name.

I thought it was great when we moved to Chula Vista to have a dial phone, until I discovered it was a party line. And when I dialed "O" the operator did not know who I was nor who my friends were.

Bruce Wilson

More local history. Vincent Price had a house in IB, right near the second jetty.

I do not know his phone number. Could be the 64 Thousand Dollar Question.

I did not know he went to Yale. I wonder if he knew Bandelin. I also wonder if either smoked Kents.

"I don't mean a pack or two I mean a whole carton"

Treasa Struble (Skiles)

Happy Christmas to all you Lancers. May the new year bring you good health and many blessings.

Bruce Wilson

Many of us have reached the point where 

Seasoned Greetings!

are in order..

Robert Eugene (Bob) Beckwith

Merry Christmas.  I'm offering Sage advice this morning.  If you ever need presents wrapped--I  wouldn't recommend me!!

Today I may just be heading for Stanley. From Boise to Stanley is about 2.5 hours when roads are bare and dry- now it will take longer. Some folks going out and some coming in at the Lodge.  It's a good time to make sure the Lodge is ship shape.  This morning it was sunshiny and a balmy -13 in Stanley. If you drive a diesal and stop it you plug it into an outlet. Four wheel drive is about the only safe way to get from one place to another.  But it is beautiful with blue skies. If inside, behind a window, solar gain is enough to dazzle.

To all best wishes for the New Year. 

Bob

John Moore

Bob, beautiful scenery!  As we have said since I was born, "MerryChristmas" to you and yours!  Also Merry Christmas to all of our classmates! 

Bruce Wilson

A group of us went out to dinner in Eagle Rock a number of years back. The restaurant owners had gone to great expense to have a nice snowy scene painted on the big window in the front for the holiday. It said:

Merry Chritmas!

Overnight low predicted for CV tonight is 36 degrees, which got me to wondering. It looks like I wasn't just thinking it was cold out there delivering those papers in the mornings.

Andie (Joan) Ault (Harvey)

George: Your access to everything pertaining to CV history is nothing short of amazing. Thanks SO much for entertaining/educating us with those gems.

Yo Bruce: Yeah, I'm with you --> I only remember the oldest number. Either our parents pounded those into our preschool brains in case we ever got lost, or....idiot savants?

George Bracey Gillow

Thanks, Andie.

And thanks to all of you who are interested in Chula Vista, Bonita, South Bay and San Diego past, present and future.

Happy New Year

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.  HOPE 2016 BRINGS EVERYONE GOOD HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND BLESSINGS.

Bruce Wilson

First 50 years.

George Bracey Gillow

Chula Vista 50 Years 1911 to 1961

The Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce publication on Bruce's post is available at: http://sunnycv.com/steve/local/docs/doc255.pdf  It is large and takes a while to download.

Also see my posts 1130 and 1131 (about page 46) on comments on the article on the future of Chula Vista that was in the publication.

Bruce Wilson

It looks like my previous post didn't get fully posted.

The document George points to is indeed a slow download and somewhat lengthy (70 pages). 

It is the source of my CV/Jayne Mansfield info. 

I was looking through it again and noticed I made a mistake. Jayne was not the Fiesta de La Luna Queen, but rather MADRINA DE LAS FIESTAS, a two-day event in Tijuana  held in conjuction with the CV 50 years anniversary celebrations (page 34 of the 70 pager).

TIJUANA PROGRAM
SE~QUINCENTENARIO ANNIVERSARIO DE LA FUNDACION
DE CHULA VISTA

Not CV. Some say NY 1961-62, seems more like 1965.

Bruce Wilson

It looks like I made this map of HHS grad locations some time ago.

http://batchgeo.com/map/dac7fb3bf04341ec048c74127ec21d5c

Probably before I looked at this:

https://www.classcreator.com/map_classmates.cfm?class_id=24156&iLI=1&year_id=1964&w=1050&h=600

Bruce Wilson

Anyone else have the actual social security card you were issued back in the day? Interestingly, the card has a form revision number, but does not contain a date of issuance.

When I worked for the XYZ Corporation we did the payroll in house and folks would disappear for a few months and when they returned come in and inform us that they had gotten a new social security number.

Terry Lee Maple

I still have mine. My father took me down to San Diego to get it when I was sixteen. BTW I'm looking for a Sweetwater High School yearbook for 1935. I believe that was my uncle's senior year. He was an Army Airforce paratrooper-medic who jumped into Normandy with the 82nd Airborne. He also jumped into the Battle of the Bulge and other big battles throughout Europe and North Africa. He is 98 years old and still living in Chula Vista. I'd like to find him in that yearbook. He was an excellent violinest who played in the orchestra and later formed a country & western band called The Texas Rythym Boys. He never married but he was a terrific uncle who never missed a football game that my brother Brian (CV 1958) and I played in high school.  .