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Old 01-15-2011, 06:50 AM
 
Location: So Ca
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If we're going to bump this up to the 60's:
The Duke yelling at Pilar that Robinson's was closing and the sales girls wanted to go home.
LOL. My aunt used to play tennis with Pilar Wayne.
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Old 01-17-2011, 01:21 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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One word: Hobie
Hobie was from Capo Beach where he learned his craft from Fontucky.
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Old 01-17-2011, 01:24 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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...besides Fontucky, that is.

Better yet, anyone have pictures?

Here are some places/things that used to be.

On Via Lido.

Vincent's Drug Store
old Bank of America
Richard's Lido Market
Lido Theater when it had Saturday matinées
Lido Toys
Bidwell's Mens Store
newcomer Security Pacific Bank
Atlantic Richfield station on the corner of Balboa Boulevard
The Cannery when it still was one
St. James Day School
Balboa Savings and Loan
The Blue Dolphin Restaurant

Other Memories

Rendezvous Ballroom
the Portuguese Dory Fleet
your first frozen banana at the Fun Zone
Prison of Socrates (maybe not ''til the 60s)
swimming across the bay
Flight of the Snowbirds
Shark Island
the Hurley Bell Restaurant in Corona Del Mar before it became the Five Crowns
there was no Newport Dunes, it was the Back Bay
when Huntington Beach was also known as Tin Can Beach

Anyone want to add anything else?

Can't understand why my wife says I have constant nostalgia, can you?
Mine would be from the 60s:

The Crab Cooker
Woody's Wharf
Berkshires
The Stuffed Shirt
Ruben E. Lee's
The Elks Club
Chicken Delight

I believe Shark Island became Linda Isle when it was finally developed yes?
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Old 01-17-2011, 01:37 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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Mine would be from the 60s:

The Crab Cooker
Woody's Wharf
Berkshires
The Stuffed Shirt
Ruben E. Lee's
The Elks Club
Chicken Delight

I believe Shark Island became Linda Isle when it was finally developed yes?
Excellent! The bay front Elk's Club. Ranks right up there with the bay front Girl Scout House on the Peninsula.

Yes! Shark Island now comes complete with attitude and was renamed Linda Isle. Never did ask who Linda was!

Rusty Pelican, anyone, or is that still there?
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Old 01-17-2011, 04:02 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Rusty Pelican, anyone, or is that still there?
That might have come along in the 70s.

I also remember a big, beautiful sailing yacht named The Sea Diamond that was slipped almost all the way out near the jetty. As I recall it belonged to some celebrity and someone was murdered on board.
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Old 01-18-2011, 05:33 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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That might have come along in the 70s.

I also remember a big, beautiful sailing yacht named The Sea Diamond that was slipped almost all the way out near the jetty. As I recall it belonged to some celebrity and someone was murdered on board.
Do you also remember the Goodwill and Pioneer, schooners moored by Balboa Savings and Loan?


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Old 01-18-2011, 05:54 PM
 
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No, I think the murder story was what captured my attention about The Sea Diamond. I do remember one could rent those cool all wood Chris Craft runabouts as well as sailing wooden sabots and being terrified of getting run down by one of the ferries.

Just found this interesting string of NB memories on Facebook you might enjoy:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=127667707271991&topic=171 (broken link)
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Old 05-25-2011, 12:09 PM
 
Location: newport beach
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Default vincent's Drugs

I remember it burned down, and was trying to recall what year. around 1960??
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Old 05-26-2011, 08:36 AM
 
Location: The Hall of Justice
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Is the Pilgrim still in Dana Point Harbor? Elementary schoolkids had sleepover field trips on the Pilgrim; I went in fourth and sixth grade.
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Old 05-27-2011, 05:16 AM
 
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Is the Pilgrim still in Dana Point Harbor? Elementary schoolkids had sleepover field trips on the Pilgrim; I went in fourth and sixth grade.
That sounds cool. You must be a bit younger as when I was that age we just took whale watching trips from the harbor. The first time I did that we boarded the boat from the pier as there was nothing else inside the rock jetties.
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