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Welcome to the Hoover High Class of 1960 Memorabilia Page. Here you will find interesting facts of the era and the times we lived in. If you have any items that you would like to post send them to Laurence Doemeny at ldoemeny@cox.net. Enjoy this page and we hope to see you at the reunion on November 6, 2010. |
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Here are links to new pages: ATTENDING CLASSMATES REUNION EVENT PICTURES |
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Hoover High School today. What have they done to our beautiful school? |
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David Blum décor and music |
 David Willardson website, blog, all design work, décor, etc. |
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 Oscars Drive-in at Euclid and El Cajon |
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Campus Drive-In |
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Hoover High Class of June 1960 Commencement Program Courtesy of Charles R. Roberts
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The Drag-Strip Protest a.k.a. The El Cajon Blvd. Riots Just two months following our graduation and west of our beautiful high school was a seminal event in San Diego history. It was the weekend of August 21, 1960 and many of us were enjoying our summer and new status as “graduates.” Some of us may have attended this historic event, probably as on-lookers and fewer as actual protesters. All we wanted was a drag strip! There was nothing sinister about it – just a protest. The protest turned into a riot with more that 100 people being arrested. The following two links describe the protest turned riot the later being the most descriptive of the time. Union Tribune: '60 melee spurred creation of raceways and Wild streets: American Graffiti versus the Cold War. Little did we know. The movie 1320: A West Coast Story is a real look at the history of street racing and drag racing, as it began in Southern California in the 1950's. From an initial look at the early days and the parallels that are occurring today in the underground street racing subculture, it is obvious that things never change. There is coverage of the El Cajon Blvd. Riots in the movie.
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| Police filled a van near Menlo Bakery with people arrested during the El Cajon Boulevard Riot in 1960. More than 100 were hauled away after a protest turned into illegal street racing between 35th and 40th streets, drawing police with tear gas and batons. (San Diego Historical Society Photographs) | ||
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August 21, 1960 -- Police stop a Corvair on El Cajon Blvd. The women were part of a group protesting the closure of Hourglass Field, near Miramar after an August 8th accident that injured four people. |
Victor Perez Crawford HS '71 photo
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Links to the Past (After viewing use the back button to return to the Hoover Web Page)
The Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music El Cajon Blvd. History (photos and video, many links) Centrum Silver at Work - PG 13! Philosophy of Old Age (George Carlin) Advantages of Growing Old (George Carlin) We Have All the Time in the World - Louis Armstrong Jail House Rock 1957 - Elvis Presley 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford Dancing Queen - Abba (yes 16 years later but ageless)
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Our Kind of Phone
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| Acknowledgements: John Fry (Crawford Class of 1962). Save Our Heritage Organization. San Diego Historical Society. | ||
