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took these photos in July 1973 from a plane my
brother-in-law, Lloyd Smithson (Hoover '56),
was flying. The photo at the top is a nice
view of San Diego State looking toward
Grantville. The photo immediately above looks
north from Campanile Drive and Montezuma. My
house is in it, along with those of
Crawfordites Brenda Beitner '60, Terry Milne
'61, Frank Lewis '59, Sharon Dennstedt '61,
Neil Cunningham '61, Carl Carlson '61, Steve
Campbell '60, Steve Quimby '59, and Steve
Kaplan '62. Well, Steve Kaplan's house is
already gone in this picture. It was where the
northeast corner of the new construction is.
Unfortunately my folks were forced out of
their house that summer, right after my dad
had retired, a victim of Eminent Domain. The
house remained there for quite a few more
years, but eventually made way for a parking
garage. The church along the bottom edge at
Montezuma and Campanile saw at least three
Crawford weddings. Polly Schunert '59,
Margaret Richardson '59, and Fritz Ziegenfuss
and Judy Marcotte '61 were all married there
-- Bob
Richardson '61
Our
old house is still there -- 5566 Lindo Paseo
-- stuck between parking garages! We lived
right behind Steve Quimby. My widowed mother
was forced out of the home that she and my
Dad had worked so hard for their whole life,
also victims of Eminent Domain. She carried
topsoil, one bag at a time, into the back
yard and made a beautiful garden, fruit
trees, boysenberry bushes, and veggies. It
was so sad when they took it. Now the back
yard is covered with cement. I think it is
parking for a fraternity --
Jeannine Berger Passenheim '60
I
lived in the house on the northwest corner
of Campanile and Montezuma from 1948 to
1957. A fraternity bought it from my parents
and we moved to 62nd St, where my 91-year
old mother still lives. I knew most of the
kids Bob mentioned. There were many canyons
and chaparral covered mesas to play in back
then
– Mike Fry ‘60
The
church in the southeast corner is College
Park Presbyterian. Many of my Class of '75
cohorts and I attended there for many years
-- Dotty Dyett, Brenda Duffield, Tom Tift,
Kim Smith and Geoff Smith (class of '73),
Sally and Carlie Scott. I have really nice
memories of that area
-- Karen Kessler '75
It
was College Park Presbyterian for many
years. I married the youngest son of the
Minister and was married in the church in
1965. It is now Faith Presbyterian
Church, as it merged with East San
Diego Presbyterian Church. Also, my
sister-in-law, Ruth MacInnes Sweet ‘59, was
married in that church. I grew up on
Montezuma Road. The area has really
changed! There were a lot of families
in the area in the 1950s and 1960s. I
remember watching the SDSU Homecoming Parade
from my front porch with my Mother running
around passing out coffee and cookies to our
neighbors and my Dad, with his movie camera,
taking movies of the passing parade!
-- Judy Lyle MacInnes ‘62
We
moved to 5704 Lindo Paseo from the Talmadge
area around 1953. We had a beautiful fruit
garden in our back yard, two avocado trees
being the center piece to many organic
treasures. My father said he intended to die
there. Fortunately he didn't. Sadly, my
mother did. What I find interesting in this
picture is that the sidewalks had not been
poured. This area was still considered
somewhat rural. I believe this was taken in
1953 --
Bill “Cappy” Paxton ’66
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