DRAG STRIP MOMMAS FROM HELL!!

August 21, 1960 -- Police stop a Corvair on El Cajon Blvd. The women were part of a group protesting the closure of Hourglass Field, near Miramar after an August 8th accident that injured four people.

Tonight I opened the newsletter for March 2004 and to my shock there was a picture of my husband on the front page. He is the police officer on the left — Michael Tyler. He was also known to Crawford and Hoover kids as the “Shadow”. He was an officer for 32 plus years and really enjoyed working with the kids on his beats. In our personal life he also worked with teenage boys. We owned our own business in Alpine and hired the boys in our town to work for us -- Judy Boyle Tyler '62

Click HERE to read Richard Crawford's "The Way We Were"
article about the riot in the July 12, 2008 Union-Tribune

Police filled a van near Menlo Bakery with people arrested during the El Cajon Boulevard Riot in 1960. More than 100 were hauled away after a protest turned into illegal street racing between 35th and 40th streets, drawing police with tear gas and batons. (San Diego Historical Society Photographs)


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