Bruce Wilson

That dairy must have been the Unimart Fourth Avenue Dairy.

For a while I lived within easy running distance of the Hollywood Bowl (interestingly enough Michele was born in Hollywood), so here's the first known musical performance at the bowl (about 1920).

Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

Hi Madeline, I remember getting our milk from that dairy.  I think it was the Golden Arrow Dairy, and it sits where the Target (now closed) is now.  There was also a dairy out Bonita Road where the 805 & Bonita Road intersect.  We could see it from our house.

Okay, all you Lancers out there.  I want to hear from band members -- some of your good memories.  You all looked like you had so much fun.  Also art guild -- didn't you make the pep ribbons and design the dance invitations?  And the other clubs -- Spanish, debate, Lance and Pennon, Pep Club, Latin Club, etc.  What are some of your fond memories?  I posted a few of the programs from the banquets and variety show below.  Maybe it will jog some memories.  I wrote in the fall sports banquet MVPs, etc.

Bruce Wilson

Regarding the dairy, it's hard to tell where NC leaves off and CV begins (likewise Highland vs North Fourth), but Rosie named it correctly.

GOLDEN ARROW DAIRY 3460 Highland Avenue - 422-3773

I had forgotten this, but there was another Oscar's

OSCAR'S DRIVE-IN COFFEE 1344 Palm Avenue, Imperial Beach

There was more pool playing than just Chub's Club

SILVER CUE 368 "F" Street - 420-9631

 The music store across from La Bella, where my trumpet came from

MELHORN MUSIC 380 Third Avenue - 422-4405

Who could forget Kantrud's

TONY KANTRUD'S CHEVRON 401 Third Avenue - 422 STATION-1316

While a cute kid, this guy doesn't rival me in the family photo back upstream. On the other hand in 1964 I don't think I would have relished being a 'Dairy Boy'.

The infamous Golden Arrow Dairy boy (1964)

Bruce Wilson

Thanks for the Senior Banquet Program  Rosie - my first and last date with Michele until 45 years later. Now I'm really beginning to wonder whatever happened to Suzanne Phillips.

Robbie Bartlett and I spent alot of time in his red VW convertible.

. Probably the worst night was sleeping in it down at San Miguel. Ouch.

Bruce Wilson

Does anyone remember what the actual day-to-day regimen was back in  1962-1964.

BTW, does Jim look a little bit crabby yonder -------> (Wouldn't you be, if you had to stand next to BW?
 

I recall the day beginning with the ringing of a bell and having to freeze in your tracks while the Pledge was done even if you hadn't made it to class yet. What was the first class of the day? Homeroom? How much time between classes. Did anyone get a hall pass to use the restroom (very common in high schools today). Wouldn't you have been very embarassed to ask Martha Hassler or Tom Rice if you get step out of class to use the facilities? Did people really smoke cigarettes in those restrooms? Were all the classes 50 (or was it 55) minutes?

Bruce Wilson

Anyone lose a skateboard?

Back when fishing was permitted on Third Avenue and the Post Office was right next to Dock's.

Fishing to commence soon at 535 acre bayfront resort  -  “one of the last great waterfront development opportunities in California.”

In November 2008, Tennessee-based developer Gaylord Entertainment abandoned a $1 billion plan to build a 1,500-room hotel and convention center complex on the waterfront.

Six years later it's going back out to bid.

Richard Thor (Dick) Holmes

Rosie, I'd forgotten about the talent show - thanks for posting the program.  I had zero talent and the best I could do was fall down "shot" in the opening scene.  I think it was Jim Longer one who shot me from across the auditorium.  Some talent, huh!

Barbara Sindelar (Seagren)

Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

Hi Dick, I remember you having lots of talent -- that falling down was very convincing, and laughing my head off when those senior boys did the Can Can.  I also remember being so impressed with Dan Grindle's guitar and singing performance.

Hi Barbara, you are still in the theatre business, right.  Maybe the Variety Show was your big break!  Have fun in Wales.  What a great trip with your family.

Hi Bruce, thanks for all the cool memories.  What a lot of fun this site is.  Like Gail, I am having a walk back memory lane reading all our classmates' postings.  Keep them up, everyone, and plan on coming to the reunion in September to continue the conversation.  So far we have had a great response.  However, some of you (no names mentioned) have not yet committed.  Come on!!!  The last hurrah and all that. 

Here's another memory.  I'd like to do a memory board at the reunion dedicated to surfing.  All you surfers out there -- how about e mailing me a photo of you riding the waves, and I'll put it together in a collage.  My e mail is:  dennisrosie@cox.net. Here are a few of my surf memories. Our family did a lot of camping (and surfing -- especially my brother Mike) down in Mexico.  I had a Gordon and Smith board, but I was never a very good surfer.  Last picture is at a place called "Outhouse" in Mexico -- I think K38.  It looks a little different today.  Then you could just camp on the beach.

Christine Elaine (Kris) Hoover (Sweet)

I have certainly enjoyed the "walk down memory lane" that this forum has engendered.  Thank you.  I remember getting milk at the Golden Arrow Dairy, my dad getting paid in silver dollars, and the Fiesta de la Luna parades.  I dug out some old scrap books and found this picture of the other sixth grade class at Hazel Goes Cook - Mr. Crumley was the teacher.  (Also found my first through fifth grade class photos from Lillian J. Rice.  Good grief.)  Small world:  the sixth grade went on a field trip to the USS Kearsarge and I now teach (well, did until last Thursday when I retired) in the Kearsarge School District. 

Help - how do I post a picture?

Bruce Wilson

Right around 1962 or so surfing knocked cars out of ascendency in my mind (and apparently many others). Similarly, Michele's dad knocked her out of my park in 1964.

I've got more to say on this later, but the 3rd image below demonstrates how things tend to "come and go" and then come back again. The Dell Vikings said that. "I'll let you be in my dream, if I can be in your dream" T.S. Eliot while reputed to have said that, actually didn't. It was that other guy "just a guitar player".

Mr. Eliot, shown at age 15, passed on in 1965.

Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

Hi Bruce, T.S. Eliot is one of my favorite poets.  "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table."  -- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.  Our son's name -- Blake Eliot Mason -- my two favorite poets at the time -- 1969.

Christine Elaine (Kris) Hoover (Sweet)

Bruce Wilson

Thanks Kris, I hope this alternate view helps. Wow! Top left, Piety making an appearance without me and lo and behold, the infamous Billy Burger (bottom left). This is a revelation for me. I haven't seen a photo of the little devil in years, if ever. It is possible to manipulate photos here, but the process is cumbersome. It is probably easier to make edits elsehwere, then post the photo/picture here.

Rosie, great surfing material. I just finished rereading an article on the origins of the California surfing craze where the author tracked down the real Gidget and others who became "famous long ago" in the early sixties. It's enlightening. I'll track down the reference and post it up here.

While I'm familiar with Eliot's writings, I don't recall much Mason.

Bruce Wilson

Regarding the dairy area down on Highland. What I recall being down there prior to the building of the Unimart store which occurred in the early sixties was the dairy, a driving range and a more primitive Eucalyptus Park.

Anyone recall anything else?

Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

I thought the dairy was called Cloyd's...It was a drive thru and they also did home delivery of milk bottles with the little cardboard pull-tops.  Down the hill from the DMV, right, the favorite CV landmark of anyone near his or her sixteenth birthday?  With all the wonderful things the last posts have given me to think about (I loved working in the Variety Shows), the main thought in my head is, "I gave the invocation at the Sr. Banquet??"

Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

Does anyone remember Mr. Benjamin's Junior Cotillion?  I was in it in sixth grade or junior high, and I think the cotillion building was catty-corner from the dairy /Unimart /Target.  We learned social graces and ballroom dancing. 

Another building on Highland Avenue was Mrs. Miller's Dance Studio.   It was in National City on the same side of the street as Sweetwater High School.  Gail Dillion and Michele Walters and I took tap and "acrobats" (no gymnastics then) from Mrs. Miller.  We had recitals, wore fancy costumes, and sewed lots of sequins on lace.  I think it is a real estate office now.

Also in National City -- The Sweetwater Roller Rink.  I know it was on a side street off Highland. Dennis and I tried to find the old building the other day.  Anyone remember what street it was on?  Was it 24th??

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Hi Rosie, I think the roller rink was on sixteenth.  They closed it not that long ago.  They were having hockey games there for high schools.  I remember getting my skating bag for girl scouts, also my sewing badge since we had to make those cute little skirts ourselves that we had to where.  Oh boy remember the days, restricted clothing.

Bruce Wilson

I'm inclining towards Gail's memory on the dairy. I did find Golden Arrow listed in 1965 at the Highland Avenue address though. I wonder if Golden Arrow bought out Cloyd's?

I remember two bowling alleys in CV (the one on F near Third and the one on E near the freeway), but no roller skating rink. Come to think of it I don't remember any ice skating anywhere in the South Bay, so I never got the chance to fall down on a real cold hard surface until I went to the rink in Costa Mesa when I was at UCI. Obviously, this lack of a training facility prevented me and many others from aspiring to ice hockey careers.

Rosie/Madeline: I think the roller rink in National City was right near the old/closed El Juan Restaurant. So the closest "big' cross streets are National Avenue and 24th Street.  700 E24th Street seems to be the address. It appears to have become Skate San Diego at some point.

 Could the Sweetwater Rink have moved? Were there two?

Skate San Diego was converted to the Social Security office  to support that security blanket we are all coming to terms with in one way or another.

From the South County Economic Development Council announcement 2012-2013

http://www.sandiegosouth.com/images/National_City_Profile_w.o._facts_FINAL_.pdf

The new social security office will be converted from the existing Skate San Diego building on 700 East 24

th Street. The office building will be 12,540 square feet

Did I mention that although I was born in CV at the hospital on F Street we were actually living in National City at the time.

Madeline Bazzel (Hooper)

Going down memory lane again.  Does anyone remember our parents weekend babysitter the Vogue Theater?  We would get a bag of popcorn at Sprouse-Reitz across the street and spend the day at the movies.  Save your ticket you might when a prize halfway through the day.  It was fun at the time, kept us out of trouble, sort of.

Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

Hi Madeline, you are right about the location of the Sweetwater Roller Rink, as we called it.  I also don't ever remember an ice skating rink in the South Bay at all.  I remember spending lots of Saturday afternoons roller skating though.  They had a live organist playing, and occasionally they would announce "all skate" or "backwards skate" or "men only" or "women only."  We wore those short skating skirts.  They also had skating competitions, such as fastest around the cones.

The Cee Vee Playdium bowling alley was on F Street in Chula Vista.  It was opened by the same guy who has the giant marlin on the front of his car in the picture Bruce posted -- Doc Spice.  Here are the articles from the Star News:

1943/06/11 - Cee Vee Playdium of Doc Spice will soon open ( Chula Vista Star, June 11, 1943. )
1943/06/25 - Cee Vee Playdium bowling alley to open July 1 with 8 Brunswick Centennial lanes,
owned and managed by Dock Spice and his son-in-law Bill Ham and his brother-in-law Mack
Pennigar, built for $20,000 at 318 F St -- big full page ad on page 4 ( Chula Vista Star, June 25,
1943. )

I have a picture of it sent to me by Kate (Drummey) Gunderson, whose parents owned it, but I can't get the picture to copy to the website.  Kate is looking for more pictures if any of you might have them.  If you can help her out, let me know.  She wasn't in our class but a few years after.

Karen Etsuko Tachiki (Savel)

Trying again to get this message posted and my apologies if this appears more than once. My younger brother in the HHS class of 1966 saw one of the photos of the Jarrettes and identified some of the girls. They are: Candy Ward, Charlene Ralphs, Jan Creaser, Susan Roden and Terri Waits. Perhaps some of you who were members will recognize the names and be able to connect them to the photo.

And Bruce he remembers the school day beginning in this way: it included a trumpet reverie and the pledge of allegiance.  One reason I remember this is because when I was a senator one year, you had to lead the pledge for a week over the school P.A. system.  You had to go to the school office very morning, stick a microphone out a window where the trumpeter was playing under the flag pole , and then pull it in and lead the pledge into the microphone which went out to all the rooms.  You’d say, “Ready, begin.  ‘I pledge allegiance . . .’” And he also had one of those original skateboards from the 1960's.

Karen Etsuko Tachiki (Savel)

From a mini reunion two days ago, this will be a test for all. The person on the right will be obvious, but can you guess the other two from our class?

Bruce Wilson

Rosie: I discovered that browser version can prevent the uploading of pictures. Also, the screen display sometimes gets sized strangely and all the buttons do not show. If you/she wants to email it to me I can take a look at it. I guess the burning question of the day is, Was Mr. Spice also the owner of Dock's? If so then who owned the Silver Dollar, Fred Rohr?

CV to acquire OTC and use as attractant for Four Year University?

http://www.10news.com/news/south-bay-city-may-use-olympic-training-center-to-attract-four-year-university-07022014

Karen: Even though I'm an ex trumpet player I do not remember one being played everyday. I guess that's the way it goes.

I recall Advanced Algebra with Cap'n East being right before lunch and Martha Hassler's class being in the afternoon (fifth period?). I'm pretty sure there were only six periods since Fred Workman and I got in trouble for ditching sixth period, "borrowing" Rick Hardeman's car without his permission and getting stranded on Main St. in Otay when the car ran out of gas.

BTW, I have never been able to locate a photo of the old Otay General Store, despite doing a lot of seaching. Everybody keep eyes peeled. Maybe some of Rosie's private contacts will have one in an archive.

Bruce Wilson

(Verne H."Doc" Spice) Dock's Dutch Lunch (1937). Right next door the Dutch Lunch Liquor Store.

Census data indicate that Mr. Spice was originally Mr. Spica and perhaps Vern not Verne.

Post Office @ 315 & Dutch establishments @ 317 & 319

Swordfish photo 8-16-1940.