I grew up on 60th
street, one block west of College. I used
to get my mom flowers for Mother's Day at
the College Florist. Went to College
Hardware with my dad when he bought stuff
for the house or some other project. I
remember going to the Campus Drive-In
quite a bit when I was a kid. Saw the
original Planet of the Apes with
Charlton Heston. What caught my eye in the
photo was all the wires on the telephone
poles. Don't see that very much anymore --
George Glover '73
From the 1958 City Directory
In
1955, when I began junior high at Horace Mann, I also began getting my
hair cut at a barber shop. Previously my dad was my barber. I
remember the head barber, and shop owner, was Al—his chair was the one
nearest the entry. He always cut my dad’s flat-top, and I always
wanted him to do mine, but was too meek to insist and often wound up in
one of the other chairs, with an inferior flat-top. There must
have been six chairs in all -- each with a barber -- and most afternoons
there was a wait. Back then men got their hair cut every three
weeks or sooner. Al knew my dad taught geography at San Diego
State and knew about his many travels. Because of several
coincidences between my dad’s travels and catastrophic events, Al would
tease my dad about what crisis he was going to trigger next. The
first of these was my dad’s sabbatical in fall, 1958. He was going
to spend most of it in Cuba but travel there had just been banned by
the US government because of the Castro regime. The next was when
we all were going to South America, summer of 1960, including a week in
Chile with old friends in Santiago, the Smiths. The huge (9.4-9.6)
Chilean earthquake hit two months before we were there. The third
was the huge (9.2) Alaska earthquake of 1964. In this case the
event followed my dad’s visit with mom the previous summer, but the
timing was close enough for Al to see a causal connection -- Bob Richardson ’61
