tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post4261694746733933148..comments2024-03-26T12:44:30.308-07:00Comments on Blue Heron Blast: Truths and half truthsBlue Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516946085702606491noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-36419181829138745612019-07-21T20:02:20.499-07:002019-07-21T20:02:20.499-07:00It was a diannism. Who the heck is this? tap me on...It was a diannism. Who the heck is this? tap me on the shoulder and tell me if you see me in town.Blue Heronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13516946085702606491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-18578862726970638652019-07-21T19:57:41.796-07:002019-07-21T19:57:41.796-07:00no need to post this, just a follow up comment.
b...no need to post this, just a follow up comment.<br /><br />been thinking on your reference to fallbrook’s nickname for many being frogbutt. as i recall, that was a diann term and was limited to a small subset of the locals. the more common hipster moniker was funkbrook.<br /><br />the source being: in those days, where the los jilgueros preserve is now, there were a series of marshy ponds that were referred to as “anthony’s ponds” (being they were on land owned by donald anthony). in the late 60s, someone had an accident and had rolled a vw van off the berm on the east side of mission road south of town and it had come to rest on it’s side next to one of the ponds with it’s roof facing mission rd like a billboard. in the early 70s some hippies painted the roof of the van to look like an abstracted american flag with a peace sign and lettering between the red stripes reading (as memory recalls):<br /><br />welcome to funkbrook<br /><br />population 16,000<br /><br />15,997 birchy bummers<br /><br />1 rusty<br /><br />and 2 virgins<br /><br /><br />the birchy bummers, was a reference to the john birch society. the one rusty was local vigilantly leader, and owner of the “ammo room” pizza joint, oreste “rusty” fossati. as for the 2 virgins, your guess is as god as mine… <br /><br />for most of the 70s that painted hippy billboard served as the welcome sign as you approached fallbrook from south mission. i’ve been looking for a picture of it for years. i know someone out there has one. if we still had the archives from the old fallbrook enterprise newspaper, i know they ran photos of it. so much lost with those archives, (like documentation of the downtown fallbrook halloween riots of ’72 and ’73. who remembers those?).<br /><br /><br /><br />tamalɛ lamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-83935990082766286192019-07-20T18:00:20.413-07:002019-07-20T18:00:20.413-07:00Thank you. I am with you on the Vietnamese. I reme...Thank you. I am with you on the Vietnamese. I remember Depalmas. You ate what they cooked that night, limited menu. In the trees. We used to go to a Romanian joint in Temecula that served french food and had a wandering violin player. That was cool too.Blue Heronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13516946085702606491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-5434698271630880282019-07-20T17:42:52.415-07:002019-07-20T17:42:52.415-07:00i cook, so i eat pretty well. i’ve lived in many p...i cook, so i eat pretty well. i’ve lived in many places that had a much better selection of restaurants because there was better access to ingredients and kitchen talent. i’m old enough to remember when grandma’s was grandma’s and fondly remember drinking mason jars of granpa’s summer punch (which was vodka spiked lemonade) in the bar there which was called grandpa’s. of course i also remember that before it was grandma’s restaurant, it was johny and hisako konces’ house. and i’m old enough to remember that before the packing house was there that space was a short-lived prime rib/seafood joint called the dolphin (where i got my first job cooking). i could go on about what a great itallian deli we had in geovanni’s, and all the wonderful old school vegetarian eateries we once had in abundance in town. alas, waxing nostalgic feeds the mind but not the belly. what would i like to see here now? a good vietnamese joint would be nice, or a top notch asian noodle-house, or a better offering than the current gringo-chinese. good indian, especially northern indian, would add to the community. that said there is a lot of room for improvement, but as always, frogbut’s problem is a lack of patrons to support new businesses. anyone remember a pre-temecula place called depalma’s italian village up on old 395? man, that was eatin’...tamalɛ lamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-43938630750173384372019-07-19T14:08:06.391-07:002019-07-19T14:08:06.391-07:00I love Harry's. Especially the sliders and the...I love Harry's. Especially the sliders and the tacos and the macaroni and cheese,etc.<br />I wish it still looked like it did when it was The Packing House. <br />BarbaraNorth County Film Clubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683794164957833415noreply@blogger.com