Terry Lee Maple

My grandma Carrie on my mother's Salazar side of the family took me on the bus from our home on Carla Avenue to downtown National City where, at eight years old, I saw my first movie "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms". She was a wonderful grandmother but had an interest in the macabre. She used to buy me comic books like "Tales from the Crypt". I liked it too, but I'm sure it was inappropriate for an eight year old. Due to her literary interests,  no doubt, I have always been interested in science fiction and monsters of all sizes and shapes. Don't know the name of that old theatre but I'll bet we could find it online.

Bruce Wilson

I wonder if Terry and Grandma went to the Bay. When we lived in National City around 1946-7 we weren't far from the BAY. I took my mom over to check out the old apartments around 2005, but they had been replaced by mini-mall and storage facilities. Roosevelt Street. 

We used to go there in college. Prices were good, the films were first class low budget affairs.

Aboiut 1952

Like our apartment building the Bay has not faired well.

Bruce Wilson

Another possiblity for the mystery theater could be the Carteri Theater on Adams in Normal Heights, which became a Discount Fabrics store at some point.

2008 Article on historic theaters

http://www.sohosandiego.org/reflections/2008-12/survivors.htm

Check out the floor patterns.

The Carteri, (1924). Its original terrazzo entry is still intact providing a colorful entrance to what is now a fabric store. Sewing notions and fabric are displayed in what would have housed movie playbills.

Loyola in Westchester (L.A.) near where I used to work.

Bruce Wilson

George Bracey Gillow

Happy Broderick Crawford/10-4 Day

Here is the 10-4 Day parade from last year (2017).  The 1955 Buick is like the one Dan Mathews drove.  The first part of the video is still pictures. The video of the parade begins at about time 2 minutes.

Here, again, is a scene from Highway Patrol.

Bruce Wilson

I can only say that I marched in the Maytime Band Review and I never saw Broderick Crawford there once.

BTW, after running from 1948 through 2004 and  then going dormant until 2016, it is now in it's third renewal year (the parade not the TV show)..

All this due to the Star News, who so rudely maligned us over the alleged "Fun Nest" incident.

Jerry Pedrotti

Have some fun memories of marching in the Maytime Band Review during the early 60's.  Nice to know it has made a recent come back.

Bruce Wilson

I only did the parade one time in Junior High. We didn't have uniforms.

It's nice that they've revived it.

There is a website. Hilltop won in 1966 and 1967.

IN ITS FIRST YEAR IN 1948, 11 BANDS COMPETED AT THE MAYTIME BAND REVIEW:

1. Vista Unified School Band
2. St. Augustine Boys' High School Band
3. National City Junior High School Band
4. Lemon Grove Elementary Band
5. Chula Vista Junior High School Band
6. United States Marine Corps Post Band
7. Chula Vista High School
8. Marine Corps Post Drum and Bugle Corps
9. Grossmont Union High School Blue and Gold Band
10. Chula Vista High School Drill Team
11. Sweetwater Red Devil Band

http://www.maytimebandreview.com/history/

Bruce Wilson

And, why not. The place where the Navy arrested me for trespassing. I signed an agreement that I would never again, and I haven't. Photo probably around 1960 or so.

Bruce Wilson

I haven't talked about Skeezix in a while, though I still think about him a lot.

Top photo - Danny right between Skeezix and I

OK - Stan and Freddy to my right with Don over Stan's  shoulder sorta half in and half out of row 1 . Who is on Frank's left? Extra credit, what grade?

Baldy and I separated (did we do something to warrant this?). Can't come up with a name for the guy beside me. Got every other name in the top row.

Baldy and I right there side by side.

Terry Lee Maple

Were these classrooms from the Hilltop Annex? I attended first grade there. I guess we weren't in the same class but I recognize some of these kids. Freddie Bunker and Bobby Sutton lived in my neighborhood. Do you remember the name of your teachers?

James Newton Perdue

To add to the puzzle solving of the MYSTERY THEATER, I suppose you have already figured this out, but I'll repeat in case you  haven't. Reversing the image you can see the name of the theater partially reflected in the windo. It appears to be The Yale, or The YA .... something. I'm not sure where to go from there unless someone can find a 1943 phone directory from San Diego.

Newt Perdue

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James Newton Perdue

Wow Bruce thanks for posting the photos from Hilltop Elementary. I didn't start until 3rd grade but I recognize so many of these kids from HillTop  Jr and Sr high.

Newt Perdue

James Newton Perdue

bruce, who is the cute gal in the first pic at upper left?  thats the photo with Dan Cassel in it.

Bruce Wilson

Newt and Terry:

The photos, which I recently re-discovered are all from Hilltop Drive Elementary. I do not recognize the girl you mentioned, for a second I thought it might be Corinne, but looking more closely clearly it isn't.

Re: the first photo where Gary and I are right next to each other, isn't that Gary Kennedy in the top row with Mickey Wright right next to him?

And don't we have bookends Dr. Link and Ms. Haffley in that middle  photo.

I believe the full set of photos is around here somewhere and I believe so also are all my report cards, so then I'll hopefully be able to ID all the teachers.

Maybe someone will recongnize them before then.

And thanks for that theatre tip, Newt.

Bruce Wilson

It's kind of rambling, but there is a bit of a thread tying it together.

Those report cards and test results I'm looking for haven't turned up yet, but I know they will. The earliest test scores (second or third grade?) proved to the admins that I wasn't slow or anything, just that I didn't talk.

Speaking of that sort of thing, my list of HHS Ph.D.'s never made it over here, I'll do it later. I believe Ernesto Ballesteros and possibly a couple more from the 1960 grad year started the club. I never knew Ernie but knew Bob reasonably well.

My 4-6 grade teachers were Ms. Fuller, Ms. Malecki, and Mr. Tom Hall, so the three photos are 1-3 unless K filtered in there somehow.

I almost stopped in to visit Butch Hindman one day, but I chickened out at the last minute. He lives down near CV High. He didn't get a Ph.D. as far as I know, but from what I've learned he did get maligned.

Leon Stallings really did hit the skids and I'm glad I got out from his sphere of influence. 

I think I mentioned that I met (he actually taught a graduate seminar - "Phenomenology of Shamanism") anthropologist/author Carlos Castaneda at UCI back in 1972. I lost track of him, but he went on to write more books and became more and more controversial. He got his Ph.D. from UCLA, but he passed away at ripe old age of 72.

As part of his quest relative to Shamanism, Carlos was notably concerned about his image being captured. He altered this drawing for example.

Anyway here he is as an older Brujo.

Bruce Wilson

I guess I didn't get too far on this. Probably not as interesting as old dairys and theatres.

This is my informal work-in-progress list of HHS Ph.D.'s from the sixties

B. Maple* - UCSD

E. Ballesteros - UCLA (from first (1960) HHS class - RIP June 20, 2006) 

P. Groves (62) - UCI

J. McCormick (62)

B. Wilson (64) - UCI

T. Maple (64) - UCD

T. Campbell (66)

B. McCausland (66) 

J. Harmon (66) - UCSD

*Technically this one Maple was CV (1958)

Bruce Wilson

It appears that Terry might be getting some rough weather from the hurricane.

Be careful out there Doc.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/hurricane-michael-what-damage-can-category-hurricane/h2n7jm0PxJlz7iUP2F8g3J/

Bruce Wilson

Those pictured are a little bit younger than us, but maybe someone will recognize a brother or other relative.

Funny the things you remember. I actually went shopping at Food Basket with Leon Stallings and Bill Burger. For a very strange trip to Green Valley Falls for camping. Huh?

Look behind the kids in uniform and you'll see the old wooden Youth Center, where after game dances were held and I worked at one point.

First place I ever saw the Surfer Stomp performed, by some blond kid named Richard Wehmeyer.

Extra credit if you can identify the "on deck" team and explain why one of them is smoking a pipe.

John Poe Moore, Jr.

Well I do not have a PHD, but I have a DD214!  It was not very popular back in day but went on to finish my batchelor degree and went on to make and save a few million $!!  Hope all is well with all those who only have a DD214!  God bless you all! Thanks for your service and sacrifice!  Maybe someone with nothing else to do will make a list of all those who gave up the time in their lives to get that DD214!

Bruce Wilson

I don't see any insurmountable obstacles to someone compiling such a list, if that, rather than some other axe grinding, were the true intent.

Terry Lee Maple

Tom Hall; I never had a better teacher. I've tried to find him to no avail. Maybe you can locate his whereabouts, Bruce. BTW the hurricane did not hit the Atlantic side. Our home on Amelia Island, just above Jacksonville, was just fine when we returned from a visit to Stockton, California.

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Bruce Wilson

These must be here already but I'm not going to look now.

Only known (to me) photo of Mr. Hall.

Notice stock photo of the school.

John Carleton Cowherd

Post 3315 on November 16 is the last one showing on my page.  Has anything been posted since then?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!