Jim Hawes

Andie,

WOW, nice picture of a true classic! The "Bug" . Usually only see those at Pebble Beach or the vintage races. Looks like a Type 35C...but w/o the headlights..it could be a very rare Type 35B...WOW again! Visit your sister and ask for a ride!

Bruce,

I think the store Finis worked in in South Bay Plaza was Bill Gambles. Remember the "AB" campaign and the campaign buttons!

I remember seeing an earlier entry with teachers listed for our Sr. class. Wasn't Karen Wright still teaching English (?) or did she lwave after our Jr. year?

Jim

George Bracey Gillow

Bruce, I don't see any Stallings and Hindman in the 1952 CV directory.

Andie, the 300 block of Alpine/Minot circle (between F and G) is not listed in the 1952 directory. I see that the circle did not exist in 1952 or 1953. What year did you move there?

Below are aerials of the 300 block of Alpine/Minot circle in 1953 and 1964. Notice that the northern Alpine/Minot circle was there in 1953.  It is also in the '52 directory. I looked at Google street map and the houses look older in the northern circle.

Bruce Wilson

Wow George, right on top of it as usual.

We moved out of the project and into 633 Minot in 1948 

Jim:

Right about Bill Gambles. I do recall Finis on Third Avenue, so I guess he "upgraded".

I was taught  "sweater folding"  in National City though.

His trick for beer chugging was to open a hole in the bottom and put his thumb over it. He'd then turn it right side up and put in another hole. Then invert it and chug. I think it was only a second or two for a 16 ouncer. 

He was indeed using a church key tool.

Andie (Joan) Ault (Harvey)

Jim: It's a 35B, and has been at Pebble Beach, as well as European races like the Mille Miglia. David also has a 1953 Jaguar XK120, an Aston Martin, and about a dozen other European classics...he restores them in great detail. The "Bug" looks to me like it could have been in a very early Mickey Mouse film. Jay Leno has a 37A. Fun hobby! Here is the link to David's: http://www.fantasyjunction.com/cars/1731-Bugatti-Type%2035B%20Recreation-2.3%20Litre%20Supercharged%208-Cylinder

George: Right, the A/M circle between E and F was built a bit earlier. Ours - "Kuebler Terrace," as in Nancy's dad, I think - was supposed to be completed in summer of '55, but a cement workers' strike delayed it for many months. We had already sold our little bitty house, so we rented a house in Nat'l City until we were able to move in, January '56. We commuted to CV in the interim so Judy and I could start at Rosebank in September.

Bruce Wilson

For all of the Hilltop Drive Elementary School kids. They took down the wall and put up a fence where we went to our first 'real' school.

Don't let Terry tell you that this is Tom Hall.

Bruce Wilson

Another CV/Hilltop guy. Never owned a clothing store, but Butch likes him.

Dedicated to Mrs. Hassler.

Bruce Wilson

A twofer? Sure, why not, it's a slow Friday night and The Vogue is closed, right?

Remember turntables and scratches on your vinyl? This has to be dedicated to Carolyn Coombs and her horse and Lanette, wherever she is.

Anyway, the whole congregation could be gathered on the banks of the Otay River for all I know.

Bruce Wilson

Some Hilltop girls? Sure we got 'em.

Dedicated to Putsy.

Top row:  Mary Cotton,  Kaye Kronzer, Patti Jenkins, Jennie Russ, Susan Crouch, Susan Davis. 
Bottom row:  Valerie Pietruszka, Sara Pettit, Sandy Putman.

"Wholely trifecta"

-Al McGuire & Dick Vitale 

Bruce Wilson

Terry mentioned Coach Sisk recently which got me to wondering. So far:

This appears to be from 1969.

Hilltop’s A.J. (Art) Sisk resigned about a week before the season to take a job in the publishing business…Byron Meyers replaced Sisk, who was 29-24 in six seasons…

Christine Elaine (Kris) Hoover (Sweet)

Am enjoying all of the memories from Chula days.  Thanks to all who post theirs.  Find myself saying, "Oh, I remember that too" as I read about the dairy in the valley, parents getting paid in silver dollars from Rohr, the Vogue theatre, and others. 

I was told that land where our (Andie's and my) houses were built had been a lemon orchard.  There was a Myer lemon tree in our back yard that I think was left.  Mom always said that they were the sweetest kind of lemon.

Bruce Wilson

It would be kind of interesting to look through the aerials and see what percentage of CV was not lemon groves at different points in time.

I read recently that this has been torn down preparatory to building the new SEAL facility. I haven't been out there in a while. Also, the development at 13th and the bikepath has broken ground.

Any guesses?

Bruce Wilson

This is more Eastlake the the real CV, but keep on rockin' in the free world.

Bruce Wilson

CV 1946. It was a good year.

1935

Lane Field. Year unknown. 

Jim Hawes

Bruce,

The radio antenna array in IB as you turn onto the strand! How many times did we drive by that and wonder what it was for!

"Some Hilltop girls? Sure we got 'em"....you're not playing fair my friend! Who are all those young women?

Bob Beckwith,

Not sure if you're still hanging around here, but hope you are fully healed from your bike injury. The kids and grand kids race BMX (NOT me...too old!), but I was in Eagle a few month ago and have some friends that live near the BMX track on Old Horshoe! Though about you when we drove by! We did a family raft trip a few years (okay a couple of decades) ago in Boise. If I remember it was a day trip on the Payette River. Love the area, but probably wouldn't like winters there!

Andie,

Loved the info on the "Bug". Fantasy Junction deals in some beautiful machinery! They restored a Brabham BT-8 that I had worked on in the 1960's!

I did see the Type 37 that Jay owns. I was very lucky to visit his collection last year!  (the Type 37 was the White one!). I've seen quite a few collections both public and private but Mr. Leno's is the most eclectic collection I have ever seen. He just loves cars!

He showed me a 1950 Nash Statesman that he has just completed. Not a car everybody would get excited about, but my parents owned one when I was a kid (okay, I still am!) so I knew a little bit about them and we had a great discussion. If you have, or do, get a chance to visit his place, do it!  He is truly a renaissance man!

Cheers,

Jim

Bruce Wilson

Well somebody reads this stuff I guess.

The big controversy is now who is going to supply sewer service to the new SEAL facility, IB or Coronado.

"Some Girls" - HHS Class of 1965 in 2015. Guesses?

I knew some, didn't know others.

I do not recall whether Tom  Waits graduated in what would have been 1968, the same year as b-ball man John Tschogl..

Robert Eugene (Bob) Beckwith

Jim

Jim- thanks for chiming in.  You were within about a mile of our House in Eagle.  If you get out this way again give me a call.  The ribs are healed and I have been out quite a bit.  I actually went back to the BMX Park and did something very tame riding.  Right now the Park can’t be used because of winter mud and snow.  This spring the Grandkids will want to go back.  And I have been out a bunch at summers end and through the fall.  Winter has slowed outside stuff.  Last week I did get to go on Grandson’s 5^th grade field trip to Bogus Basin ski resort; A day in the sunshine on snowshoes.  Great discoveries were made.  Students figured out how snow water would get to the Pacific.  And answered the questions where is it warmest; on the snow service or at bottom of snow pack, next to ground?  They were excited to learn it was warmest next to the ground.  Of course all temperatures were freezing or slightly warmer (at ground level).  I still haven’t met snowshoes that I like yet!!!  A reason skis were invented.  And the float on the Payette is possible in the winter, if ice doesn’t get in the way.  I did float the Snake River in early January. Felt good to be on the oars.  Friend and I had a good day in the winter sunshine; cold clear day-fresh air with every breath.

Actually I was just in Chula Vista/Spring Valley.   Mother Margaret, 97, passed on the 18^th.  She had a great life and will be missed by all. I was hoping that there would be time to catch up with some of the class of ’64 but time just ran out.  I can’t wait to be back for some get togethers.   I liked the notion of the 70’s b-day party.  Afraid mine has come and gone, still be fun to join in.

Bob

Bruce Wilson

Love that old pedal steel just like I love MC.

Like Johnny and Waylon too. Mr. Cash just had a tarantula spider named for him.

NO kidding. Aphonopelma johnnycashi

Waylon, The Man in Black and the Rhodes Scholar (not Bill, Kris) and a camera-shy Willie (not Bill agian)..

Bruce Wilson

Sorry to hear about your mom Bob. Our condolences.

My mom made it to 90. Nobody else in my family (exceptin' me of course made it past 62.

Michele's grandma made it 107.

Bruce Wilson

Just in case you forgot how Hank used to do it.

Pancakes, sure we (me and my aunt) got em.

Aunt J couldn't make either the '64 or '65 reunion.

Bruce Wilson

Port staff asks to extend talks on Chula Vista convention center project

-Fox San Diego

A lot of people don’t have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks ’n’ knives
And they gotta cut somethin’

-Bob Dylan

Jim Hawes

Bruce,

Loved the earlier posting about the Chula Vista Bay Park and the photo's. Great sculptures by Ken Capps. If you like his art you can see more at: http://www.kennethcapps.com/

Ken is a personnal family friend. His children Hoey and Banning were best friends with my kids throughout school. His mom Katie was instrumental in making surfing a high school sport. Hoey and Banning were pro surfers, we lost Banning in a tragic accident at 25. Great loss to all, but his dad's work is timeless.

Jim

Bruce Wilson

Hey JiM:

Here is what I've been told is the official 1964 Faculty List.

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

Happy Birthday Rosalee May O'Day

Love to You from all of us

Bruce Wilson

Does anyone have the date of the 45 year  reunion get together @ La Bella handy?

Gypsy Baumgartner (Wayne)

The Hilltop 45th reunion at La Bella's was Friday, September 18, 2009.  The following day we gathered at Rohr Park.  BTW, if plans go forward for a 70th Birthday Party for the Class of '64, the offer to use my La Mesa home for the celebration is still open.  I have a very large backyard and because it's a corner property there's considerable parking on the side street.

I will be out of the country in May but back in town for the summer.