GEE, IT SEEMS LIKE just the other day Andrew Wilding was getting a lecture from his father for leaving his Big Wheel in the driveway. Last week he was back from college and, with his buddies, laying waste to his dad’s beer collection. “And they weren’t drinking the CHEAP stuff,” groused Papa John, “They went straight for the Belgian Ales.” I guess you CAN get a good education at Chico State.
IF YOU NEED TO SHIP A PACKAGE you might head over to Pacific Plaza II, where you have your choice of the UPS Store and, a few doors away, Kinkos/FedEx. I mention this only because the other day I noticed the UPS guy delivering packages to the FedEx store. Looked like they might have been copier parts or something.
Artistic Licenses: Turns out I was right about “SRF RLTR.” Paul Thackrey works for Coldwell Banker on Mission Blvd. What’s that ” about 200 yards from the surf? “STOHKED” adorned a BMW convertible, with its top down, crossing the Ingraham Street bridge on a gorgeous day.
50 Years Ago: The “Last Parade” at Brown Military Academy took place on Wednesday, June 10, 1958. Honorary Reviewing Officer was Col. Thomas A. Davis, who founded the school as the San Diego Army & Navy Academy in 1910. “Davis tried valiantly to stand to take the review,” said the Evening Tribune. “(Gen. John) Harmony gripped his right elbow to steady him, but he couldn’t make it.” The school population would move the next year to Monrovia, and the buildings would be torn down to make way for Pacific Plaza Shopping Center.
75 Years Ago: Captain Richard N. Thompson, of the Army & Navy Academy at Pacific Beach, motored (I assume) over to Ocean Beach where he was the guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club. In keeping with the Memorial Day holiday Captain Thompson chose as his topic, “Memories.”
100 Years Ago: The board of education, at its meeting on June 8, 1908, accepted the recommendation of the ways and means committee to raise the salaries of city school teachers for the 1908-1909 school year. Superintendent MacKinnon saw his salary soar from $2,400 to $3,000 “” per year. It was a fairly complex schedule. A kindergarten teacher who provided her own piano, for instance, was to be paid $65 per month. “Principal teachers is suburban schools,” which I assume meant Pacific Beach, were to receive “$800 per annum.” The janitor at Pacific Beach was penciled in for $10 per month.
John Fry may be reached at (858) 272-6655 or [email protected].