Hughes, 1960s

Hughes, 1960s
For 1960s Sunny Hills Lancers only please. This photo appears elsewhere in the Internet.

I don’t remember those houses above but that’s OK. Remember the road off Warburton Way that went west and made 2 turns to end up in the Building 600 parking lot, banked above the sw corner of Malvern & North Gilbert? The second story there was Mahogany Row, where Dr. Begovich, Dr. Yaru, Mr. Andelson, Dr. Enenstein, Mr. Capper, Mr. Stamison, Mr, Gonsior and others worked, with the technical library headed by Mr. Demes where Dennis Read, ’62 worked, and I worked 1 summer. Dr. DuHamel, Mr. Tsuda and others had offices near by and were often in the labs with their engineers. Mr. Naff was in 600 and many, many more from SHHS families. Mr. Maluy’s office was “down the hill” on Gilbert in a manufacturing building. Geoff Slack, ’67 lived on the west side of Gilbert.

See SHHS at far right? The angle of view is toward east by northeast. The airport is to the south.

Remember the old eucalyptus windbreak 50 or 75 yards west of SHHS, specifically from our corner Speech and Debate room?

Boy, memories are flooding back for me. My mom was Dr. Yaru’s secretary for 30 years. Nick, Tommy and Susan’s dad, up on Terraza near the Althouse, Bradbury and other families.

Well, by about 2005, HAC-GSG was torn down and Amerige Heights was built. The Hughes property, including the park where company picnics were held, is now fully developed and then some with homes, condos and apartments that border SHHS on the west and north. That’s the largest Asian and Asian-American neighborhood in Fullerton.

Several technological companies sit directly below SHHS now, too.

An era passed.

We were 1946-1970, or more properly, about 1920-1970. The Bastanchury Ranch era was 1890 or 1900 to about 1935 when ranch ownership was divided.

By 1940, the first lots on what was known as Valencia Mesa Drive were placed on sale ,,

Two of the first residents were Dr Bill Scott an osteopathic physician in the Chapman Building– and Dr Red Pettis MD

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