EL CAJON THEN & NOW #1 Vintage East County San Diego

[@CH3NO2Semonious]

At 5:10 Back in the early 70s, I used to live in the apartment right where it says The Elegant Man. My kitchen table was right in that corner where I could look out at the intersection.

[@memoryroom6388]

Wow, that's amazing.. I went there a lot in the 80s and 90s when it was 50,000 Books. I was always curious about that little bungalow house on the roof.

[@CH3NO2Semonious]

@@memoryroom6388 I was a cook at Sir George's Smorgasbord right down the street. ($1.75 an hour)

[@memoryroom6388]

@@CH3NO2Semonious my brother worked there as a dishwasher in the mid 80s... I worked at the Target next door at that time... my first job

[@jimmysapien9961]

Looked so peaceful back in tha day 😂

[@memoryroom6388]

It was pretty nice!.. I remember it from the late 70s...

[@memoryroom6388]

Remember 2nd Street on a Friday or Saturday night... All the muscle cars and hard rock and high school teenagers hanging out... Parked over by the Jack In The Box, where there was a Firestone.. Across from Thriftys and the Tiki Room... Or Stra-Van? Ha... A totally different place back then...

[@fourfortyroadrunner6701]

NAS Miramar, 70-74, you could not drag me down there now

[@midnyte6195]

😃 yayyyyyyyyyyy my home town!!

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

So happy to have grown up there. I loved El Cajon in the 70s. Is WD Hall elementary school still around? Now all of San Diego other than areas near where Machado lives are just a big trash pile

[@scandalousruminationsofani1306]

the cajon zone

[@memoryroom6388]

Thats it!.. Ha...

[@magprob]

It was great until the vampires moved in. I'm still out here in the Arizona desert where I will stay. Too many fruit pickers, picnickers and lollypop lickers there now.

[@memoryroom6388]

It is analogous to what is happening to the nation.

[@morosz1159]

Who are the vampires?