James Newton Perdue

That was also my patrol boy corner. Weren't we swift? Red sweaters, white pants, white shirt, shiny badge, candy cane pole or stop sign, so much power for a 5th or 6th grader!  Re: Toni Watts... my first introduction to a sexy beautiful girl (from a distance of course). What a star for a small kid to admire, and in our neighborhood. Wondering what happened to her?

Terry Lee Maple

Remembering memorable loves of my little life; there was a girl in my kindergarten class named Susan. She lived on Gretechen Road and I used to bike up there to play with her. In my neighborhood there was a cute little blond named Corda Hissong. We called her Corky. Anyone remember her? Of course, I had to get in line but I eventually won the heart of Kathy Kamps. Sadly, Corinne never batted an eyelash at me. She was always the elusive one. My first serious girlfriend in Junior HIgh School was Jeanne Booth. My friend Perry Cronin delivered my ring to her and she accepted it. Our romance lasted for three months and I thought about her every day. She was an incredibly creative person and a wonderful artist.

James Newton Perdue

Wow Terry, I didn't know you dated Jeanne. I  also liked her a lot, but was too shy to attempt anything as bold as giving her a ring. RIP..

Bruce Wilson

But Newt, hear that lonesome whistle blow, that's where we got our power.  One tweet down, two tweets up.

I'd say a reed is closer than a trumpet mouthpiece to a whistle, but it was good practice nonetheless.

This is Toni today at the College Grove shopping Center (hehe)! Right in front of Meryvn's and subsequently Kohl's.

Bruce Wilson

Jeanie and I got along wonderfully though she had a hard time figuring me out. We played a mean (in a nice way) game of Tom Swifties.

Corinne? What can I say that Sonny Boy Williamson hasn't already not said.

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

Bruce Wilson

Gary and I could say for sure, but like Sonny Boy, we ain't talkin'

Thomas Lee Bump

Yes Bruce, 707 First Avenue.  I lived there for about 5 years ('63 - '67) until I moved out on my own.  My parents and younger brother lived there until my dad passed in 1976.  I was also a patrol boy.  First at Brooklyn Elementary on Broadway in San Diego and then at Mueller Elementary in Chula Vista.

Bruce Wilson

Guesses? 

Hint: I worked somewhere in this photo and it wasn't my paper route.

Bruce Wilson

This Safeway at Third and F later relocated down next to a gas station which was right across the street from St. Rose of Lima school. My father used to shop there, but it was subsequently torn down and only know is there a plan afoot to build there.

I had a photo, but misplaced it. If anyone sees it please let me know.

It looked very much like this one in Everett  WA, where my parents, but not me lived.

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

Looks like Boney's Market on E  (and no lewd comments for the sake of decency)

Bruce Wilson

The only Boney's I recall is the one on Third and J, which replaced the Food Basket. Boney's is now Sprouts and yes it does have a [small] mural.

Garden Farms was, and still is on E between Third and Fourth

Bruce Wilson

Probably not the same Carnes, but Billy lived across the street from Toni. He was in somewhat of the tradition of Billy Burger.

Don't call him a chicken or he might punch you out.

Bruce Wilson

I swear I saw some future cheerleaders down here or was it Christine Macevicz?

Bruce Wilson

This isn't CV, but was one of my favorite rides at the Fiesta de la Luna. I remember them at Eucalyptus Park. 

The structure of the seats looks about right.

Bruce Wilson

Waaay back (can you believe it, 1-5-2014) I posted this photo and asked if it was Third Avenue. It's time to start wrapping this show up, so yes it was on Third. 

Built in 1919 by John Spreckels for the  SD&A, last passengers 1951. By the looks of the 1955 Buick on the left the photo was sometime after 1955.

It was moved to Industrial & Moss in 1958. All tracks on F and Third are reputed to have been pulled up in 1963. The buildimg was used for recycling until 1960 when it was abandoned.

Thereafter, it beats me.

Bruce Wilson

Michele and I were going to ride the trolley down to the harbor to watch the high speed catamarans over the weekend since neither of us has ridden it, but plans changed. It's a great deal. Senior price round trip for two is $5.00.

Anyway if you're out of town and haven't seen it and have about an hour to spare

But wait, there is  more,  just pay shipping and handling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve6dvsGdIHY

Bruce Wilson

Seems more restful, eh?

Less peaceful

Bruce Wilson

I have yet to find a photo of either of the two Mayfair Markets in CV, so here are Valley Girls Sue and Joy at the one in Malibu from the era.

I have some familiarity with Eagle Rock, so here's Eagle Rock's Mayfair

Terry Lee Maple

My father served Mayfair Market on H Street and Broadway as I recall. He delivered the dairy products as Arden Farms owned Mayfair at the time. In 1966 I briefly worked at the market as a box-boy and part-time checker; a job that I greatly enjoyed. It was the first time I had a little money in my pocket and it felt good. Regarding Billy Carnes. He was a very bad boy. I remember him well. He was big and as you say willing to fight. I didn't like bullies then and I don't like them now. Burger was a different kind of cat. He wasn't a fighter, but he had a large entourage of defenders. He had a magnetic personality and owned more Sir Guy shirts than all of the rest of us combined (I owned one). He should have been successful in life. I wonder what happened to him?

Bruce Wilson

Carnes was mean as I recall, never to me, but mean nonetheless.

Burger was not mean, but he did not go out of his way to avoid larceny. His mom was a bit of an entrepeneur owning, or at least operating, a little shop on Grand Avenue in PB. I would attribute his lack of meaness to his mom. As to the larceny, I don't really know where that derived from. One source was probably two [unamed] older guys who lived across the street from him.

Bill acquired some off his mother's skills and operated a water bed store at some point. I believe it was in Point Loma. He saw there was more money to be made elsewhere and got involved in the evolving marijuana trade, as did a number of folks from the South Bay**.

The last I heard (and I looked quite a bit) is that he was living in Baja, the sight of one of his most notorious escapades, a helicopter escape from a Baja prison yard. Contemporaries have confirmed this ro be true.

**Easily the nost successful and notorious was the "Coronado Company" which had a couple of CV boys on it's periphery. Government estimates (probalby low) put their gross income from the endeavor at $100 million.

These are not the CV boys, but it does give an indication of the boldness of their enterprise.

BTW, marijuna becomes legal in California in January, 2018. Start polishing up your "defensive driving" skilss.

Bruce Wilson

Downtown CV 1965 and 1980.

Videos seem to cycle once at normal speed  and once in slow_mo.

You can see by the opening shot of 1980 that Chub's was no longer with us.

Look for Sprouse Reitz. 

This one from 1949 Portland looks familiar to me.

Bruce Wilson

Whilst employed by the CV Rec. Dept., one of the schools I worked at was Greg Rogers. Many of us went to Hilltop Jr.

The home of the Little League World Champion Parkview team was just a gleam in somebody' eye. It is located just south and east of the Oleander Ave. E. Oxford intersection.

I have to do some more checking, but it looks like some houses were torn down when the 805 was built.

This photo is either 1961 or 1962

Bruce Wilson

A bar in TJ. Not the Long Bar (well, obviously it's very short) and  because donkeys were not permitted, even if painted up to look like zebras.

Shayne Maree Schuller (Morgan Sledge)

I go to Sprouts whenever I am in town.

The mural looks like our Aspen T.R.E.E (Together Regenerating the Environment through Education). Farm Park, a non-profit STEM educational camp for children, a 50' Community Greenhouse, egg co-op and lots of animals: alpacas (not llamas, which Rosie and I rode in a CV parade) goats, chickens, bunnies,and a horse facility next door.

We also have a free, local, organic Thanksgiving Community Meal. It's our 10th year. The first meal we cooked at home and 150 came. Last year we had 1,200 people come.100 volunteers prepared the food in 4 local restaurant kitchens.

Have our historian check it out, but I think Garden Farms replaced a Boney's Market at a location I thought was on E.

Bruce Wilson

Shayne(ee):

Boney's got it's start in La Mesa in 1943 as a produce stand.

The first Boney family store was in Chula Vista (1950). It could very well have been on E St.**  I cannot recall what was on the corner of Third and J then. I was only four and was only allowed to go down to Second Ave. to Corinne's house.

Boney sold out at some point and founded Speedee Mart, which he also sold in 1964.

**1951 ad seems to indicate that it was on E. around 370 which would be right