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DEL MAR — Every drug store had a soda fountain. Del Mar Drug Store was located at 15th Street and Highway 101, which is now the Americana Restaurant. Its fountain was one of two popular meeting pla...
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DEL MAR — Now there’s entertainment everywhere at the fair. Not so when money to put on the event was limited and it went primarily for community exhibits, agriculture displays and commercial booth...
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DEL MAR — At the fair when the carnival rides and game joints have been secured for the night and the midway lights are out, old-time workers, or carnies as they are commonly called, usually gather...
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DEL MAR — Opening day of thoroughbred racing has always been a great attraction. Hollywood personalities were a dime a dozen when a dime was worth a dime. However, for the media that covered the ra...
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DEL MAR — A couple dozen helicopters flying information en route to Miramar Air Station recently caused hundreds of folks to look up to the sky and observe the exciting spectacle. It was explained ...
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DEL MAR — Recent L.A. Times piece by Susan King featured Raquel (Tejada) Welch observing her 70th birthday and noted that she could be mistaken for a young 40. Very true. That would be difficult b...
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DEL MAR — There’s concern by some folks over a proposed tax on vacation rentals. A lot of homeowners don’t think it’s such a hot idea. Rentals have been a summer tradition in the village like gruni...
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DEL MAR — The racetrack at the Del Mar Fairgrounds has been the scene of several prominent racing events with little relation to Thoroughbred racing, the Sport of Kings. In the 1950s and 1960s, re...
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DEL MAR — In 1959, two years after Del Mar was incorporated, some residents and mostly the business community decided the city wasn’t cutting it under the Lakewood Plan and its meager 65 grand oper...
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DEL MAR — After making a modest investment for hooks, lines and sinkers, Depression-era kids could spend hours fishing off the pier for perch and the more combative Corvina. The pier stretched out ...
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DEL MAR — Obesity is the big buzz these days. That brings up the question — how come kids were not obese years ago? They were either fat or skinny because the word obese was not yet coined. Since t...
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DEL MAR — During the Depression era, the average kids had to do without a weekly allowance. Instead they made their spending money the old-fashioned way. They worked for it. Well, it wasn’t really...
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DEL MAR — In the 1930s and 1940s, during the height of the Depression, kids who drove pollution-spewing cars were also junior mechanics. Of necessity. There weren’t that many garages around. Paul ...
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DEL MAR — After World War II, the most active organization in the area was the San Dieguito Jaycees comprised mostly of war vets. Every project was doable, but not surprising the Jaycees were alwa...
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