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Bob Gilmore

Billy Turley

Yep. Sammy learned a truly valuable lesson that night. It is ok to chase somebody just don't catch them !! Especially if all yout possee dropped off about a half a block ago. It was funnier than hell. Looked just like keystone cop movie.

I don't remember any of the groups there, I must have been other wise occupied. Holdin' hands and pichin' woo as Meryl Haggard said in one of his songs.

I do remember seeing Glen Cambell at the meat house in Manhattan Beach ( the name of the place was Cisco's). And we saw Tina Turner in that place in Santa Monica I think it was called the whore house no it was the Oar House.. Easy to confuse given the clientele. Great galleries of gutter sluts.Except fot the two girls that Cal and Rex met from Roswell. 500 people in this place 1000 miles from Roswell and Cal and Rex found them.....ain't life strange.

It was burgers and fries and cherry pies.Life was simple and good back then!!!

Darrell Barnes

Billy Turley

Great post Darrell,

As you said most of us had family or family friends who served in WWII and there was very little talk about it. Just an occasional humorous story. J.W. Blair our family friend and neighbor told of once welding a part on a B29 with two car batteries and some bailing wire. He was a tail gunner on that plane.

Hail to the Greatest Generation !!

Don Ervin

Day before yesterday I turned around after I had finished my business ay the post office counter and there was a lady behind me about my age and to the side of her was a tall thin elderly gentleman  He had on a cap and as I walked by I looked at the cap and thought did that say what I thought it did.  I backed up and looked at the cap and it said, WW2 Vet.  I looked him in the eye and he looked back with a question in his eyes.  I snapped to, then saluted him and said ooh rah lound enough for every one to hear.  His face lit up into a smile and he saluted me back and I didn't drop my hand until he dropped his.

I felt good for the rest of the day.

Billy Turley

Very cool Cuz,

Hey I heard you change your mind and are going Jacque and Roy's party.

Wish I could be there so give my best(well maybe not my best but hello might be worth more ) to all the folks I might know.

Don Ervin

You would know a lot Cuz.

Kay Schrimsher (Shields)

Darrel thank you for the meaningful post. You too Don

Fred Miller

What Kay so eloquently said.....!!

Twice.......

Darrell Barnes

Bill Turley, you are right about the occasional humors story.  My step dad, Frank Gaddy, said when I must have been 14 or 15 years old that on D-Day + 5 or +6 after he had escaped from capture and after he had hooked back up with his fellow paratroopers that they ambushed a German convoy that was also a payroll convoy for the Germans.  He said it was loaded with French Francs….as it should be this was close to Normandy.  Anyway, his fellow soldiers were pleased; the French Francs were huge compared to America dollars and they saw a source of toilet paper for them..some kept a satchel full and when they got rotated back to England some weeks later; they found that the Francs were worth $$$$$! He said, with a laugh to me; I wiped my butt on tens of thousands of dollars.  LOL

Darrell Barnes

Don Ervin

Thanks Darrell I have used it before.  It's a good site

Rex Booth

Turley,

I'm almost sure those two girls from Roswell were tracking down Cal.... I just came to his rescue being the shy-southern gentleman and may have saved him from a double-shotgun wedding... It was the Oar House of Santa Monica.  But Mother's in Inglewood had to be the most wonderful college girl hangout.  The music was so loud you had to go outside to make contact/ phone numbers.   Ah Cisco's in Manhattan Beach was a great place to dance (dance contests every Monday and Thursday nites)  Met lots teachers vacationing back east and from NYC.  And French Canadian nurses from Quebec who gave excellent lessons in French... "Embrasse Moi" and "Une Bo Beck"!  Ah!   Then there was Nadine, the most friendly and efficient cocktail waitress west of the Pecos.  Merci Beaucoup!

Pat Sullins (Carpenter)

I had not heard of that site before, Darrell, so thanks for the info. Don, looking forward to seeing you at Roy's!

Bob Gilmore

Bill Leggett

REX: Yes Mother's in Inglewood had to be the most wonderful college girl hangout.  The music was so loud you had to go outside to make contact/ phone numbers.   Ah Cisco's in Manhattan Beach,

You are right about Mothers an the College GIRL's  I went there several times a week

Billy Turley

Rex or Bill L.

What was the name of that other place we went to in Inglewood ?  Mother's was on the street going to the airportCentury Blvd. I think, This one was more downtown Inglewood,They sold Red Mountain wine by the pitcher. Lot of stewardi in there !! It was a white building on a side street. There was a liquior store on the corner that sold a lot of Red Mountain.

Turley

Rex Booth

Turley,

You got to Mother's from Century Blvd, and turned north on Aviation.  Mother's was off Manchester just a tad.  Harry Atkinson, Bob G, you, and I met up with some girls partying in  TJ (Tijuana)  that we met at Mothers.  A couple of the girls were working their way through college.

Was the other club you mentioned closer to the Forum?   We did frequent a billiards parlor in the bowling alley in Hawthore.  So many places in the '60's... too little time.  I'm kin to Longfellow and that's my Dime Novel Rhyme... 

Bob Gilmore,

 How bout Pancho's right across from Cisco's... and The Frigate.  We used to go to the Players just down the street from Cisco's. play pool and listen to some guy that could do Dylan's songs better that Bobby Zimmerman his-self... He also played his guitar out of tune for a true dylanesque experience.

And not to forget The Pitcher House,  a dive on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach and the best topless hoochie-choochie joint "The King & I"  on Aviation Blvd.  There were a lot of engineers working for Hughes Aircraft  who were always broke from frequenting that heavenly place.

Bob Gilmore

Bob Gilmore

Billy Turley

Bob, I remember part of the trip there........we ran out of gas and you called AAA when he got there you did not have AAA, I think you finally talked him into taking $5 for a couple gallons of gas. I couldn't beleive that you didn't have AAA,after all you were the greatest AAA saleman in the histiry of New Mexico. I remember going off to the side of the highway to relieve myself and tripped over a barb wire fence....still have the scar. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. But are right Bob cause that's all I remerber. I hope I had a hell of a good time. I paid for it for 21 and half years. 

Bob Gilmore

Rex Booth

Gilmore,

Tsk, tsk, tsk...  So which card is in your billfold these days.  AAA or National?  Jest 'n astin'.

Yas,  Ah duz remember those Coors cans.  I thought it was a road side billboard with small coors cans we saw in the distance and like the ad, the closer we got... the better she looked.  That's what T.J. Ta-kill-ya can do to yer mind... 

I met a girl at Cisco's and after 7 years discovered I should have eloped with Nadine the bar temptress instead.

Bill Leggett

REX You are right  Mother's was off Manchester just a tad. The Bucket on La Brea, in Inglewood.

John Landess

WOW, it must have been neat, being a California Playboy, fresh from Roswell!!!! And there I wuz, knee deep in fresh dead fish, trying to make a living in the Great White North...... It wasn't anything like "Deadliest Catch", more like slimiest catch.......  with a possible evening in the Bear Den Bar.....no college girls there.