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Post by songsmith1950 on Oct 9, 2009 11:33:16 GMT -5
I was born there! When I was born the little town was called Muroc Dry Lake California. When my sister was born there a year and a half later in the same hospital the Air Force Base had taken over and it was then called Edwards Air Force Base.
Judy was born and raised in and around Sacramento in Orangevale. So we both have ties to Cal!
Anybody else got inside info on Cal???
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Post by chilipepper on Oct 9, 2009 11:45:37 GMT -5
Not me except that next week I go out to Sacramento/McClellan for our national dog show. Leaving Friday 16th, home on the 19th. Will have to watch Charlotte from hotel room. Plan to get dinner to go in a box and prop up the pillows and watch the race. My husband has family in the area out there and I have a high school classmate who lives in Roseville. Looking forward to spending time with her.
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Post by songsmith1950 on Oct 9, 2009 14:14:02 GMT -5
Judy also lived in Roseville! Her sisters Nancy and Barbara still live there.
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Post by ricklou on Oct 9, 2009 14:32:43 GMT -5
While in the Navy, early 80's I was stationed at Lemore California in the san Juacin Valley about an hour or so south of Sacremento. Lemore is the largest Naval Air Station in the US.
During the Summer it gets over 100 but with low humidity it was bearable and the Navy had coin operated beer machines in the barracks ! I couldnt beleive it.
The second Terminator movie (T2) was filmed where the track is in Fontana. The big round stack in the infield is all that remains from what used to be a steel mill.
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Post by pmossberg on Oct 9, 2009 14:49:13 GMT -5
So rick, how could anyone in the Navy, stationed in California, not do everything they could to get themselves transferred to San Diego?!
Probably my favorite city in the USA. Best friend lived there for twenty years and we made every excuse we could to visit often!
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Post by ricklou on Oct 9, 2009 16:13:52 GMT -5
Paul, I was in the reserves and did not pull a full stint. I have visited San Diego and San Fran, both are beautiful cities but I love home and that is in Frederick MD.
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Post by maj45 on Oct 9, 2009 21:21:48 GMT -5
Ahhh! California, the land of fruits and nuts. Relax, the best man from my wedding lives in San Jose and he'd say the same thing!
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Post by revilo on Oct 9, 2009 22:05:37 GMT -5
Paul, I was in the reserves and did not pull a full stint. I have visited San Diego and San Fran, both are beautiful cities but I love home and that is in Frederick MD. Rick, I was just in your state last night. My son and his fiancee were driving home from the shore on I-83 and got run off the road at a merge near Cockeysville. I made the trip from home to pick them up. Left at 4:30 and got home around 11:00. I have driven in Philadelphia and NYC, but those Baltimorons are just crazy. I almost got run off the road myself. Where I live a traffic jam is more than five cars at a traffic light. |
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Post by pmossberg on Oct 10, 2009 1:21:23 GMT -5
And talking about good assignments, my mom's maid of honor married a naval air corp pilot. For the last ten years of his career the poor guy was stationed in Pearl Harbor. Now granted, he flew during Korea and Vietnam, and people tried to shoot him down...but it was not a bad way to end his active duty!
Back on topic, my best California memory, summer of 1993, having bloody mary's and steak & eggs at some real dive open air bar in Pacific Beach with my wife and my best man and his wife, then heading on to the giant Dipper, built in 1925 and restored in 1990. All before 10:00 in the morning. I wish I could remember the name of the bar. But at 8:30, there were already a couple guys sitting at the bar nursing their scotches.
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Post by chilipepper on Oct 10, 2009 12:54:44 GMT -5
maj45: The "fruit and nuts" is a saying we've used for years! Glad to see someone other than us uses it too!
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Post by dstanbery on Oct 10, 2009 13:50:29 GMT -5
I was born there! When I was born the little town was called Muroc Dry Lake California. When my sister was born there a year and a half later in the same hospital the Air Force Base had taken over and it was then called Edwards Air Force Base. Judy was born and raised in and around Sacramento in Orangevale. So we both have ties to Cal! Anybody else got inside info on Cal??? Hey Tom I was born in ElCajon,being that you are into music thought maybe you have heard of a place called The Bostonia Ballroom in El Cajon? My grandfather Smokey Rogers owned and had folks such as Johnny Cash Tex Williams Patsy Cline and a lot more perform there.He also had a TV show back in the day and was in many old country western movies. Check Smokey out online,he was pretty big back in the day. Do you by any chance remember a song called "Gone" famous country song back in the day he wrote? Also if ya feel like it pull up the Bostonia ballroom,I lived in a house on the same property as the ballroom there are some pict of Johnny and others that played there. |
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Post by songsmith1950 on Oct 10, 2009 16:01:15 GMT -5
Wow! I will surely look them up! That is impressive. I do think I remember hearing that song before a while back!
Man I didn't know you were a star! Gosh Brett!!
Very seriously though that is really neat. It is fun talking about family history and stuff. Even more fun studying it and looking it up and all. The internet sure does give us ways to learn about nearly anything or anyone who ever lived.
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Post by Ryount45 on Oct 10, 2009 23:35:29 GMT -5
well it appears Hippys are allowed to smoke pot any time anywhere in Cali but Michael Jordan isn't allowed to smoke a cigar on a public gold course. Cali is so back ass words it's not even funny. Frankly those liberal crocks can jump into the ocean .
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Post by donmoos on Oct 13, 2009 14:39:51 GMT -5
Anyone can survive in the the land of 70's............lets see how many pot smoking hippee's can survive in norhtern Minnesota during a mild norwester that is creating a windchill of of -60-80 degrees.
We have a huge amount of unused park benches from November to March every year.
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Post by chilipepper on Oct 13, 2009 15:50:21 GMT -5
I understand beautiful northern Minnesota was quite white yesterday! How were the park benches?
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I have Richard petty cars 1/18 1/24 scales! Etc...
