Bruce Wilson

Thanks to Phil for the Pony League photo. I think we got most of the names a while back, but Danny Bullen is in there (third from left top row) and who can forget Arne who I batted against in Little League. Paul Hall is in there and it took a while to find out who was next to him, which I promptly forgot. Maybe someone can identify Number 8 next to Bullen. I think it looks like Kim Newell, but what do I know.

Thanks Jim. I've never seen Esh so dressup dressed. BTW, I was thinking of you just the other day.

Do you recall how fast Bob Hargrove's go-kart was? I got it in my head that it might have done 70 mph.

Jimmy E. labelled many folks with nicknames that seemed to stick for years.

He also told me this, hah!

• Labeled and labelled are both correct spellings.
• Labeled is the preferred spelling in American English.
• Labelled is the preferred spelling in British English.

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Terry Lee Maple

Frank's stepfather Mr. Kany is number 12. Tom White is pictured beside him. Tom was a great multi-sport athlete at Chula Vista. Some of the others I recognize include Dave Webb (number 8, I believe), Terry Parker, and Bill Miller (bottom row). Larry Arney was one year ahead of us. He was an outstanding first baseman in high school. /van Davis is beside him. This team photo was the all-star team from my first year in Pony League. The next year's team went deep into the playoffs, the first team in our area to do so. One of the star pitchers on our Community Hospital team was Dirk Van Dyke who was one of the three outstsanding junior hurlers on our Metro championship baseball team in 1964. The late Bob Litchfield was our best player that year.

Bruce Wilson

Hi Madeline:

Jimmy showed up in the  two team photos which featured Mike Hollister et al. I was thinking he mighr show up for Mike's memorial, but he didn't make it.

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Bruce Wilson

Righto Madeline - I stop in to visit him very occasionally. He did not make it to the memorial service for Mike Hollister which was put together on pretty short notice. I'll probably swing by today to give him the sad news.

Some attendees who might be recognized here:

Lyle Hitchcock (1972 surf film "Island Magic" creator - HHS 1963)

Sean Holder (from the surfing legend Dempsey Holder family)

Bob Hargrove (HHS 1962 class pres. Jim: the go-kart would go 60mph, but with changed gearing could have gone over 100 mph)

John McCormack (HHS 1962 - a Ph.D. omitted from my prior list, who like me turned to computers)

Mike Clark (Saints, 1963) - instructor at Southwesten College for many years

Mike Hollister, Lyle, Hargrove and Mike Clark introduced me to surfing. I never became all that proficent, but my most fun day was at a place called Stacks (or was it Pipes) just a\bove Ensenada with Lyle and Clark. (not Lewis & Clark).

Dempsey (1967) Anybody recognize the other two?

Buzzy Bent, Dempsey Holder , Bobby Ekstrom 

Bruce Wilson

Corinne - we miss you baby. If you want to read without adds , it is possible.

Jim Hawes

Bruce,

You're right Bob's kart could easily exceed 60 mph. (not the one in his picture but the later McCulloch race motors). I worked a Kart endurance race that went through the streets of Tecate Mexico in the early 1960's. (had to be 16 to race - I wasn't) and the karts were exceeding 100 mph on the run up main street heading to the Tecate Club!

Corinne, Don't leave us!  It could be worse, we could be seeing adverts for AARP or Senior Care Centers, which would mean we were getting old! 

Unless there were 2 "Pipes", the one I'm familiar with is the break south of Swami's. You could drive down the access road cut into the bank and park and sleep on the beach. Maybe a few beers! Never got hassled by the life guard patrol. Spent a few nights there during high school with Steve Williams, Harry Gauld, Donny Rice and some of the other guys.

The 1967 surf photo is probably the first reef at the "Slews", I would bet if it is Dempsey, then maybe Sean, and another local (Joly! ).

Bruce Wilson

Hey Jim:

The name was definitely Stacks. It is now referred to as either Stacks or Cannery. It still gets surfed.

It looks nothing like it did in the Sixties though. (Neither do we, well except for Michele and Corinne).

Speaking of Steve Williams (interestingly a member of the SDSC crew like Hargrove, McCormack, Clark and I***), the last time I saw him he was living in Point Loma .Does anyone know when he moved to Hawaii?

Speaking of go-karts there are some on display briefly in Lyle's film. Not Hargrove's though.

OK -  how about Alvin Austin the car guy of National City and CV? I'm inclined to believe that he also had his shop on Palm in IB at one time. My memory was disputed by the others .Any recollections?

* OK equal time for other SDSC folks, not inclusive:

Shayne & bro David, Virginia, Liz Eldridge, Rip Barrett, Dave Olmstead ... I think Fred Longworth 

a cast literally of thousands.

Bruce Wilson

For the good old days? The Long Bar where some of us spent some time. I had forgotten that you could get married and/or divorced right next door.,

Don't start me to talkin' about Mike Hollister at Hussongs.

Jim Hawes

The original Long Bar was on the east (?) side of the street. It ran parallel to the street and seemed to take up the entire block. We used to go in the north end, order a pitcher of beer and consume it before we exited the south door. Sharing with friends we met along the way, of course! I think they moved the bar across the street in the early 70's (?). I think the patrons in the photo must be from an earlier CVHS class, not HHS! 

Bruce Wilson

I recall going to the Long Bars on both sides of Revo.

The newer one, shown below with all the 1950's model cars, featured restroom attendants Victor and Victoria and a shoe shine guy whose name escapes me. I do know that Robbie Bartlett spent the night at his home one night. 

Anyone with photos or the name of the shoe shine guy?

The original Long Bar was replaced by Woolworths and parking lot. When we were feeling rich we'd pay the fee to park in the lot.

Bruce Wilson

Star News miscellany

Coronado Merchants vs. CV Recreation All-Stars. (Men's basketball game). ESHBACH NETS 56 Dick Eshbach scored 56 points 

Coaches (9-30-1976) with a few names I recognize.

Verne Dodds sure sounds familiar, but I don't know why.

Here now is a list of the coaches according to schools

Bonlta Vista Jan Chapman, Elaine Watt, Larry Roberts, Ed Teagle, Bob West, Bill Foley, Mike McCoy, Larry Fernandez, Jan Kimball and Patt Judd. Castle Park Gil Warren, Nancy Rinner, Dick Oliver, Richard Fox, Anne Gagnon, Olmos Marquez, Michael Hoffman, Ron Wey, Gray Elliot, Ralph Martin and Nancy Sass. Chula Vista Bob Kennedy, Margaret Sullivan, Bob Korzep, Firry Taylor, Mike Hovenic, John Hamels, Mike Morey, Mike Collins, John Head, Gary Chapman, Richard Barcus and Joy Andrea. Hilltop Jim Thompson, Janet Balsley, John Baumgarten, Ian Cumming, Ron Wagner, Joy Gritts, Don Helton, Randy Coutts, Tom Mercer, Dennis Bryant, Dick Logan, Peggy Smith, Sharon Sybert and Jerry Harvey. Marian Jerry Judge, Karen Day, Phil Bryant, Dick Eshbach, Mike Bajo, Ricy Duran, Paul Brink, Manny Silva, Jerry Matsumoto. ;" Mar Vista Everett Aubuchon, Sharon Day, Pat O'Neill, John Gibbs, Aaron Aubuchon, Larry Brockett, Thomas Schaaf, Verne Dodds, Bob Smull, Tamra Melone, Joan VanDycke, Martha Ries and Linda McCoy. Montgomery Mike Challis, Pat Samples, Jay Mack, Fred Ferguson, John DeVore, Rusty Cox, Bob Fultz, Dave Peterson, Olivia Pyle and Janet Ochi. Southwest Ron Pietila, Mike Davis, Dave Gonzalez, Fred Sill, Michael Mellon, Bob Arciaga, John Boone, Mary Stone, Alicia Gimenez and L. Hutchinson. Sweetwater Warren Keagy, Betty Fellows, Dave Lay, Bill Miller, Gerry Smith, Russ Shubert, Mark Anderson, James Hull, Gary Zarecky, Pam Lewis, Karen Anderson and Nancy Wise. The above is just a list of head coaches, many assistants have been left out. But it is a good portion of those who deal with high school athletics.

Bruce Wilson

This is a repeat, but I had always thought that it was shot on Main St. (right down the road apiece from us)

It was - Date & Main 

Bruce Wilson

Food and Cars

Anybody ever eat at Marcos in Imperial Beach (SINCE 1964)

Ellen Jo Ann James (Bell)

Does anyone remember the newspaper stand on 3rd avenue?   The guy that  ran it was blind.  I can’t remember exactly where it was located but I just remember being so fascinated that he knew what money you handed him and could make change.  

Bruce Wilson

Yes, I do Jo Ann. His name was Bob (and, I don't think maliciously, was called "Bob The Blnd Man"). I posted an ad for his stand on here somewhere. I'll look for it. It was on the west side of Third Avenue between Bill's Drive-In and Peters Feeds Store.

He could distinguish the denominations of bills by touch.

I've wondered before about the name of his dog.

Update sadly:

Robert Eugene (Blind Bob) Anderson 40

Robert "Blind Bob" Anderson of Chula Vista was apparently murdered in the summer of 1968.

Anderson, long-time; operator with his mother, Mary, of Bob's News Stand on 3rd - Ave., was brutally murdered  at their home at, 237 Landis . Ave.-  MRS. ANDERSON found Anderson's body on the floor in a pool of blood at 7 p.m., 

A Mr. Spross was developed as a suspect through a process of elimination among some eight or 10 people associated with the Andersons and was prosecuted by D.A. Don Keller, my father's one time boss in the District Attorney's office and one who was on hand at Rep. Bob Wilson's house on my first night out of the hospital after being born. My father was in Riverside or Bakersfield getting sworn into the California Bar.

Mr. Spross was found guilty July 16, 1969.

Seems there's always a subplot in CV crime stories (right Leon?)

The jury apparently chose not to believe Spross story of Mexicans trying to get back 125,000 that he claimed had been entrusted to Blind Bob. THE MONEY, Spross said, was to be used to buy stolen cigarettes that Spross delivered to the blind man. The accused man said directly from the stand that Mrs. Anderson knew nothing of the transactions of which there existed no evidence except Spross's word that involved Anderson. . In the attempt to get the money back, Spross said, he was attacked three times by agents of "the man," as someone was referred to and told to stop fooling around. However, as Deputy District Attorney Robert Abel pointed out, it was some 19 months from the time that Spross stopped stealing cigarettes until the first alleged attack.

Bruce Wilson

Based on last season’s figures, SDSU’s yearly payment will jump from about $150,000 to $1.6 million to use the stadium for seven regular season Aztec football games.

Sports and government don't mix well?

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/sd-fi-stadium-lease-sdsu-20180724-story.html

Makes me wonder if the City will ever get into marijuana sales other than taxing them.

I find it quite ironic that after all the hand-wringing and damaged lives over illegal mj, it is now for most intents and purposes legal.

Bruce Wilson

Sportswise, a rare photo of people at the gym

Bruce Wilson

Does anyone recognize this?

Roy E. Winchell

Top of Mt. Miguel?

Bruce Wilson

Roy, I've been up to Otay Mtn, but not Mr. San Miguel

Could very well be. This is Miguel, Otay looks very similar.

The photo is from 1963, probably gonna have to ask the guy who took it.

Bruce Wilson

Good salt harvesting weather

The salt works produces about 75,000 tons of salt every year from salt ponds that cover over a thousand acres of land

La Punta Salt Company. Records date it back to at least 1871, while another source states that the area has been used as a salt works as early as the 1860s. It has been in operation since the 1870s, when the city first experienced the effects of the Industrial Revolution. In 1883, the salt works were the only salt producer in the United States, supplying the salt needs of all of Southern California. Around the turn of the 20th century, the salt works were the only industrial employment in the Chula Vista area, other than produce packing plants.

Bruce Wilson

SDSC, South Mission 

News @ 11:00 maybe

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