Do you ever get maudlin about your childhood?

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:37 pm

I'll check it out for you. San Diego to where?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:12 pm

I brought my golden poppies here with me to plant, I loved those as a child.

Prettiest wildflower there in So. Cal.........................

I know our favorite field to play in, with a tree house and all, is that Irwindale Speedway now.................................

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:50 pm

Snooze I can assure you it has probably been developed big time..

But there are still some pretty canyons left.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:14 pm

Carla, we could check it out when we go to picket the Monday Night Footballers. . .

oh, that's right , we don't have to do that, do we?

Crème brÃ»lée · Post by **Crème brÃ»lée** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:10 am

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:20 am

I moved around alot growing up. :rolleyes:

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:32 am

Snooze Mission Valley is all condo's now and a stadium. There are still a few canyons around but not many. If you were talking about Adobe Falls, gone as well condo's. San Diego State come all the way down to the freeway now massive and a trolly line runs from downtown the Encanto.

The other canyon by Mission Valley that we as kids called the HOLE, is gone as well now highway 15 with condo, and house all the way to the checkpoint. Plus any number of shopping center Walmarts you name it.. The Chargers taining camp is in the canyon I use to play in.

Let me know where else you want to know about.

Zapata we must get together ...!!

;)

[QUOTE]Another canyon system was near my friend's house near Mission Valley, but I can't remember exactly where.[/QUOTE]

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:21 am

Carla, is that the trolley I saw along the highway or a train? Or are there both? I used to go to San Diego a lot, 15 years ago. Now that I've moved back to the area, I'll be taking the drive over. I stopped at Viejas (sp) on this trip. And Trader Joe's and Soup Plantation.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:26 am

SnoozeControl wrote: I was just thinking how much I miss the canyons of Southern California. I used to walk to school way back when along this long stretch of canyon in San Diego and found the most fascinating things... I was always late to class.

I wonder if those canyons are still there or if the land developers have filled it in for more real estate deals.

It used to smell so nice. *sigh*

I grew up in Kansas and then moved to Pennsylvania. I always dragged my relatives and friends around on a nostalgia trip. The longer I was away, the worse they got. I'd ask the new tenants or homeowners to let me come in and look around. THEN with the advent of camcorders, I took videos, which now sit in my cabinet. Before my mother moved from Kansas I took her around so I could video tape:rolleyes: her in her old houses. Talk about EXTREME nostalgia!

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:59 am

I'd like to be a teen again for a day.....young and free and hanging out with my friends....:-6

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:00 am

sunny104 wrote: I'd like to be a teen again for a day.....young and free and hanging out with my friends....:-6

That's a great idea. What's the first thing you'd do?

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:09 am

Zapata wrote: That's a great idea. What's the first thing you'd do?
sleep until noon....:yh_giggle

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:55 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: I went to elementary school at Hamiliton Elementary... it used to be a big two story brick building that I heard was torn down quite a while ago. Anyway, there was an extensive canyon area all around the school that completely fascinated me... my friend and I would hear the class bell go off to mark the beginning of class and we'd still be wandering around exploring. Another canyon system was near my friend's house near Mission Valley, but I can't remember exactly where.

I think about it now and I'm surprised we never met Charles Manson's brother or something.:-2

Sneeze, one of the 1st things I did when I moved back home was go to my elementary school. Its not a school now but some type of community center. But nothing has changed. I mean nothing. The walls, the floors, the smell, even the little itty bitty drinking fountains. I just walked in and walked the halls looking around. *sigh* It was nice.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:46 pm

I wish I could go back to Torquay where I lived as a child. In those days, there was so much to explore and find. Even school was interesting.

But when I did go back there, the place was so small to what I remembered and I felt like some kind of giant intruder.

Torquay, days of sunshine, seashells, crabs, mussells. Winters of deep snow, sledges, snowballs.

Sigh. It all went downhill when we left Torquay.