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Remember When ....
Remember the Modoc Street
Massacre.
The Normal Heights Lounge
Lizards playing in the lunch area.
Mr. Donald playing Cheech &
Chong (self titled 1971) instead of lecturing
Michael "Moose" Layton on '50s
day
Digging the hole that would
become the outdoor Biology lab.
Jerry Adcock letting us choose
our own grade for American Government class
Remember when
Bay Park was considered the "slums" of Clairemont
Bradshaw’s, Lefty’s Pizza
and Pip’s became Jack in the Box in UC
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up
TV only had 3 channels...ABC, CBS and NBC
No TV remotes... You had to get up
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without
asking, all for free, every time
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
Being out from school sick and watching 'I Love Lucy' & 'Dick Van Dyke'
Soda machines that dispensed glass bottles
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Metal ice cube trays with levers
Roller-skate keys & skates with metal wheels
8 track tapes
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Gemco & Fed Mart
Bell Bottom Corduroys
Greg Brady stripped shirts
We listened to music on vinyl
Clairemont theater - one movie, one screen
We called it going to 'The Show' on Friday nights
'The Field' behind the Clairemont Theater
Speedy-Mart by Clairemont High
The Clairemont Square
The Quad
Shag carpet that mom raked (dear God)
Gasoline lines with odd/even days
Hitchhiking (Don't deny it!)
Fiesta Island parties & OTL Tournaments
Black's Beach
Hanging out at the store 'The Trip'
Sports Arena rock concerts... Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Kiss..
Getting paid $.25 to $.50 to baby sit
Girls could only wear dresses to Marston
Most of us that had part time jobs were paid the minimum wage of $1.25 hr
You could buy a nice car for $500 and pay cash
Having to run one mile every Friday in gym class
A gallon of gas was 40 cents
Every student had drivers training in gym class and it was free
The cost of car insurance actually decreased when it was renewed
You and your date could go to dinner and a movie for under $10 dollars
Friday night football games
All houses had rooftop TV antenna's
Phones were rotary dial and it was provided by the phone company
The average cost of a house in Clairemont was $25,000
A new car was $3,500
Thongs you wore on your feet... not under your clothes
Mark Gipe playing flute in the boy's room by the lunch court
The voting age dropped from 21 to 18 in '72 so we missed voting for
president by 1 year
The girls cruising PB at midnight in Bobbie's Impala....looking for
boys/parties
Going to the Warlock Shop and the Plebian in PB
Smoking tobacco and other things openly in the lunch court
Partying before AND after school on Modoc St. in front of CHS
Pull tab cans where the tab came off
Telephones had busy signals (no call waiting)
Boys had to tuck their shirts in at Marston
The first issue of the San Diego Reader Oct. 1972
Partying at what is known as Marian Bear Park
Riding in the back of a pickup truck
Driving to Julian to party and throw cow patties
Concert tickets were affordable!
Shopping at 'The Black' in OB
The Clairemont Bowl
Riding that yellow bus to Marston
There were no PCs, emails or dot coms!
Keggers in old Scripps Ranch before homes came
10 bucks for a 4 finger lid
Cigarettes at 60 cents/pack
Tu-Vu driven Kearny Mesa $3 per car
The A&W drive thru on Convoy
The 99 cent Taquito plate at Tugs Tavern in PB
Manual typewriters
Aqua-Net hair spray
Mom dressing up to go shopping
Stores & gas stations closed for Thanksgiving & Xmas
Xmas sales & music didn't start till after Thanksgiving
S&H Blue chips stamps
Baskin Robbins at the Quad on a hot summer day
De Falco's Grocery Store
Checking TV tubes at the five and dime
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