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Rick Farris wrote:Phil Barba . . .

Hey Frank, did you see Phil Barba last night? He was with Frankie Duarte. He's a great guy, I always enjoy seeing Phil when I stop by his barber shop to visit Frankie in Venice.

-Rick

No, Rick, I missed Phil...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nJLO9QVTNc

Lupita Palomera

Perfidia

dagosd2000 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loqc2o_3e3A

Lucho Gatica

For Hap and Frank

Thanks, Rog...

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Lucho Gatica

For Hap and Frank[/quote]

I had some of his early recordings, "Reloj", "La Barca", "Usted" years ago. My son, the musician struck up a friendship with one of Lucho's nephews some time ago. Thanks.

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I think some of my best stuff is the work I've done with ceramic tile.

kikibalt wrote:Hap, look what I found, Ruben Reyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8FK9UjSaXc
Mi Cancion De invierno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugdtP3Vsw4
Amor De La Calle

For you, Hap...

Rog:

We shopped the Claremont area for a home when we first got to San Diego in 1973. There was a shopping center being developed there but it was going to take too long to build our store, so we opted for Parkway Plaza with its 100 locations.
Your district was really a nice area and I remember having the best hamburger of my life at a rustic-looking restaurant at Claremont Center called Hamburger Haven. Growing up in L.A. we considered San Diego to be a small town, but I have to admit I miss that great city terribly nowadays.

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kikibalt wrote:

kikibalt wrote:Hap, look what I found, Ruben Reyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8FK9UjSaXc
Mi Cancion De invierno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugdtP3Vsw4
Amor De La Calle

For you, Hap...

Thanks, Kiki. Do you remember Ruben looking something like Fernando Valenzuela? That's how I remember him.

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Dongee wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

kikibalt wrote:Hap, look what I found, Ruben Reyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8FK9UjSaXc
Mi Cancion De invierno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugdtP3Vsw4
Amor De La Calle

For you, Hap...

Thanks, Kiki. Do you remember Ruben looking something like Fernando Valenzuela? That's how I remember him.

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You're so right, Hap, thats how Ruben looked...

Rick Farris wrote:

Randyman wrote:

Guys, this is an early photo of Jeri and I, in fact, this is the the first photograph we took together. This was 1975. I was about 145 pounds when this photo was taken. It was in my parents backyard. It's a little fuzzy.

Mel never met Jeri but he always gave a hard time about her back then. When it came to women, Mel hated them all. Whenever I tell Jeri what Mel would say about her, she says "That jackass" (sorry Mel).

Randy

JACKASS!!!! Tell Jeri, yes, he was!

Randy,
Great picture!
Maybe all trainers were like that, when Foreman was training for the Ali fight he had a closed training facility at the Pleasanton Fair Grounds just across the bay from S.F. Well I was in the gym one day and my trainer who also was training Henry Clark at the time came over to me and told me he was taking Henry over to Pleasanton to work with Foreman on Saturday and did I want to go? Earl knew I not only loved to box but I loved boxing, the history of boxing and anything that had anything to do with boxing so I would get some privledges others didn't get, but I was "in love" for the first time and when he asked me I said, "Sure, can I bring my girlfriend?" his response was, "do you want to come or not, I'm not inviting your girlfriend I'm inviting you, it's not open to the public!" Ouch! he was pissed! Of course I went and have some great pictures and memories of going and I don't have the slightest idea of whatever happened to that girl!

Frankie & Frankie
El Monte amateur boxing show...3-6-09

Michele is a beautiful person. As soon as she seen us last night she sat us at a VIP table... [/quote][/quote]

Of course she sat you at the VIP table she knows good people when she sees them, good boxing people. I am so jealous of you guys down in SoCal you still have a boxing community that you see the guys; here in NorCal we have nothing, really it's damn sad. We never did have what you had down there but this area was a pretty good "fight town" but now it's pretty much down to one lunch a month and one dinner a year which are scantly attended. Maybe that's why I am so addicted to this thread, it's when I feel happiest when I reading all of the great posts from you guys and you look around my little office at my house and I'm surrounded by stacks of Ring Mags, and old Referee Mags. Maybe I can talk my family into moving to SoCal!
Thanks for letting me vent!
Bobbin & Weavin
Bruce

Bobbin & Weavin wrote:Michele is a beautiful person. As soon as she seen us last night she sat us at a VIP table...

Of course she sat you at the VIP table she knows good people when she sees them, good boxing people. I am so jealous of you guys down in SoCal you still have a boxing community that you see the guys; here in NorCal we have nothing, really it's damn sad. We never did have what you had down there but this area was a pretty good "fight town" but now it's pretty much down to one lunch a month and one dinner a year which are scantly attended. Maybe that's why I am so addicted to this thread, it's when I feel happiest when I reading all of the great posts from you guys and you look around my little office at my house and I'm surrounded by stacks of Ring Mags, and old Referee Mags. Maybe I can talk my family into moving to SoCal!
Thanks for letting me vent!
Bobbin & Weavin
Bruce

Bruce, just pick up your tooth brush and hitchhike down to L.A., you can move in with Randy, or one of the guys, you can't move in with me as there is no more room under the bridge.

Dongee wrote:Rog:

We shopped the Claremont area for a home when we first got to San Diego in 1973. There was a shopping center being developed there but it was going to take too long to build our store, so we opted for Parkway Plaza with its 100 locations.
Your district was really a nice area and I remember having the best hamburger of my life at a rustic-looking restaurant at Claremont Center called Hamburger Haven. Growing up in L.A. we considered San Diego to be a small town, but I have to admit I miss that great city terribly nowadays.

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Hap
Too bad I never got to visit your store. We live up the hill from Sea World. The area is very nice. Let me know when you and your family are going down our way. My wife makes the best Mexican food. Estilo Michoacan. Rog

Bobbin & Weavin wrote:Michele is a beautiful person. As soon as she seen us last night she sat us at a VIP table...

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Of course she sat you at the VIP table she knows good people when she sees them, good boxing people. I am so jealous of you guys down in SoCal you still have a boxing community that you see the guys; here in NorCal we have nothing, really it's damn sad. We never did have what you had down there but this area was a pretty good "fight town" but now it's pretty much down to one lunch a month and one dinner a year which are scantly attended. Maybe that's why I am so addicted to this thread, it's when I feel happiest when I reading all of the great posts from you guys and you look around my little office at my house and I'm surrounded by stacks of Ring Mags, and old Referee Mags. Maybe I can talk my family into moving to SoCal!
Thanks for letting me vent!
Bobbin & Weavin
Bruce[/quote]

Bruce:

To climb out of that mood the current state of boxing in NorCal places you into... you might want to try what all of us who extoll the fight scene in the southland do.......we simply think back to the days that were and try to enjoy the best of whatever is served up to us here today, slight as it may be in comparison.

Your area has a wealth of great boxing lore. Think of the number of champions that the north produced; and of the early days when fight promotions were staged a step or two ahead of the authorities which were quick to board a barge or storm a barn to stop a prizefight.....Colma, Benicia, Martinez, and in modern times boxing at a man-made Treasure Island (matching the south's first "island" fight staged on Catalina, in 1935.} Look into the archives of boxing as it was held in nearby Vallejo, San Mateo, Santa Rosa. San Jose, San Rafael.

Our first ever Olympic Games boxing champ was from the north.....Al Young (1904) and he became one of the finest friends the game ever had, promoting in his cracker allegedly Hall continually up until 1940. I don't think the southland ever enjoyed the neighborhood rivalries that were commonplace in the San Francisco area......North Beach, Butchertown, Barbary Coast, etc.

The south had to dip into the wealth of talent across the border to really develop as a fight center; the north did it best by developing its own attractions, home growns who either excelled in baseball or beak-busting.

Think about it.

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kikibalt wrote:A Classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbP4sWWxWM
"Hoja Seca"

Salvador Garcia

Frank 'ol Pal
Those girls in the cantinas taught me a few other things than rollin' around in the sack. They'd always be hittin' me up for quarters for the juke box. That's where I learned to appreciate Latino music like "Hoja Seca'. Always made sure I had plenty of change on me.

Maria Callas

(painted on ceramic)

Dongee wrote:

Bobbin & Weavin wrote:Michele is a beautiful person. As soon as she seen us last night she sat us at a VIP table...

Of course she sat you at the VIP table she knows good people when she sees them, good boxing people. I am so jealous of you guys down in SoCal you still have a boxing community that you see the guys; here in NorCal we have nothing, really it's damn sad. We never did have what you had down there but this area was a pretty good "fight town" but now it's pretty much down to one lunch a month and one dinner a year which are scantly attended. Maybe that's why I am so addicted to this thread, it's when I feel happiest when I reading all of the great posts from you guys and you look around my little office at my house and I'm surrounded by stacks of Ring Mags, and old Referee Mags. Maybe I can talk my family into moving to SoCal!
Thanks for letting me vent!
Bobbin & Weavin
Bruce[/quote]

Bruce:

To climb out of that mood the current state of boxing in NorCal places you into... you might want to try what all of us who extoll the fight scene in the southland do.......we simply think back to the days that were and try to enjoy the best of whatever is served up to us here today, slight as it may be in comparison.

Your area has a wealth of great boxing lore. Think of the number of champions that the north produced; and of the early days when fight promotions were staged a step or two ahead of the authorities which were quick to board a barge or storm a barn to stop a prizefight.....Colma, Benicia, Martinez, and in modern times boxing at a man-made Treasure Island (matching the south's first "island" fight staged on Catalina, in 1935.} Look into the archives of boxing as it was held in nearby Vallejo, San Mateo, Santa Rosa. San Jose, San Rafael.

Our first ever Olympic Games boxing champ was from the north.....Al Young (1904) and he became one of the finest friends the game ever had, promoting in his cracker allegedly Hall continually up until 1940. I don't think the southland ever enjoyed the neighborhood rivalries that were commonplace in the San Francisco area......North Beach, Butchertown, Barbary Coast, etc.

The south had to dip into the wealth of talent across the border to really develop as a fight center; the north did it best by developing its own attractions, home growns who either excelled in baseball or beak-busting.

Think about it.

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You're going to defer to who? Rog

dagosd2000 wrote:

kikibalt wrote:A Classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbP4sWWxWM
"Hoja Seca"

Salvador Garcia

Frank 'ol Pal
Those girls in the cantinas taught me a few other things than rollin' around in the sack. They'd always be hittin' me up for quarters for the juke box. That's where I learned to appreciate Latino music like "Hoja Seca'. Always made sure I had plenty of change on me.

Bring out the Patron...

kikibalt wrote:Chucho Martinez Gil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KRJ1MK0Mgw
"Dos Arbolitos"

Christ Frank
My wife came in while I was listening to this. She was smiling. Me, the big sentimental slob, starts getting weepy.

Hey fellas',this is how I eat chicken soup. My wife is making it right now.

F---k that Campbells crap.

For you Rog.
Chavela Vargas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvUwn7may5Q
"Paloma Negra"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rvt4SW-2P4
"En El Ultimo Trago"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIMH4k2fJCs
"Que Te Vaya Bonito"