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Skriven 2014-07-01 11:12:16 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 16485 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
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Greetings TIM!

 RW>>> Reminiscing one day, I drove through the neighborhood where I first
 RW>>> stayed in SD, back in the 60s; There used to be a rooming house at
 RW>>> 6th and Laural. Imagine my surprise to find faggots running the
 RW>>> streets and little else there. Nancy and I split the area, post
 RW>>> haste.

 TR>> Yeah...I drove for Yellow Cab in mid-to-late 1979 while I was
 TR>> waiting to get my paperwork to go through so I could go back to
 TR>> interstate trucking.

 TR>> What an area! All those sodomite bars along El Cajon Blvd or
 TR>> University from about 30th on west to downtown.

 RW>> Well, before that happened, there was a piano bar there that was run
 RW>> by a couple who made a great entertainment team. He played piano
 RW>> while his wife sang as she roamed the floor. It was like being in a
 RW>> turn of the 20th century barroom; Mickey (her) and Finn's, don't
 RW>> recall his real name.

 TR> I remember that place. My stepfather was in the Navy during WWII with
 TR> a guy who tended bar there, and took me there the year I went to
 TR> Vietnam. `Mickey Finn's?'

Yeup.

 TR>  or something like that. It had a sort of 1900 atmosphere. I never
 TR> saw the place again after that.

It moved to L.A. a little later. I remember the hoopala about that move in
the media. I'm not that sure about it, but that same place became the
'Female Impersonator' place I mentioned earlier.

 TR>> I used to carry a briefcase for my trip sheet, money log and hack
 TR>> license, as well as a Colt .45 auto. Even the cops carried a
 TR>> hide-out pistol in that area. The place was crawling with street
 TR>> people, petty criminals, hookers and sodomites all over the place.
 TR>> It was like 42nd & Broadway in NYC!

 RW>> One of the best entertainment places we've been to in that area was
 RW>> a female-impersonators restaurant with a stage show. My innocent
 RW>> 40yo cousin came in from the farm in Wisconsin and we treated her to
 RW>> that place. She was so impressed with it, she didn't stop talking
 RW>> about it for about a year after. Her mother used to come with my
 RW>> parents to visit CA and she told me about it. I was just as
 RW>> impressed that my cousin was impressed with the place.

 TR> That place still goes, although it may have a different name now. Its
 TR> a sort of a `drag' resturant/bar/floor show place in North Park. That
 TR> the place you mean?

Yeah, but it was on University about where Micky Finn's was.

 TR> There were several `tranny' bars along El Cajon Blvd east of
 TR> Fairmont, but most of them are gone now. All th ecard rooms are gone
 TR> now, too. They went with the opening of the first few casinos in the
 TR> local reservations.

I never did have much use for the card rooms. I preferred the bars,
especially the one next door to where my GF at the time worked as head
hunter.

 TR> They renovated the entire freeway complex in that area where I 15 and
 TR> 94 East came together not long after Archie Moore died and they got
 TR> his property from the family. The entire area has greatly changed.

As I recall, that area got the freeways covered and it was one big
community area.

 TR> Many of the businesses and bars that used to be around the freeway on
 TR> both El Cajon Blvd and University Ave are either gone or changed from
 TR> the pawn shops, bars, massage parlors, etc etc, to Vietnamese or
 TR> Korean food markets, resturants, used car lots, or apartment
 TR> buildings.

That's how SD progresses over time. A foreign faction moves into an area
and before you know it, it is transformed into something that reflects the
origins of the people who live there.

 TR> The black and hispanic street gangs are still around, but have to
 TR> compete with the oriental street gangs now. Its not as dangerous
 TR> an area in the daytime as it was anymore. But at night its a lot
 TR> different.

I'd sometimes go to SE San Diego and visit with a 'car nut' like myself
who had a garage and sort of club house in the back yard (lots of beer
and brats, etc.). As always, just after dusk you could hear firearms being
shot and a rowdy noise that wasn't there before nightfall. Rather than
drive back home via SESD, I'd head east and exit thru Lemon Grove, then
north to Mira Mesa.


    Have a day!

         R\%/itt - K5RXT

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