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Just Walkin' The Beach

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SBJULES	2012-07-21 11:09 AM
Great Video with Al Reese! I swam to that raft many, many times when I was young. Great memories.
COMMENT 300047	2012-07-21 12:16 PM
I love these posts! As someone who's only lived here a few years, I love learning more about parts of my city I don't know much about. I hear so much about the Miramar, it's interesting to see it up close.
COMMENT 300062	2012-07-21 01:04 PM
Oh, man. How I miss that raft. My dog and I used to swim out there. We met the nicest people, while sitting offshore, bobbing around in the clear waters and looking for fishies. Jacques was a real piece of work. I had some older friends, a group of German ladies. He used to fall all over them, dishing out the Euro schmooze. I well remember him "escorting" me (a guest) off the boardwalk, on a 100-degree day, all because my Redbone hound was lounging on the sand, under the floorboards. What a meanie. The actor shown here doesn't do justice to Jacques' tan and robust buffness. The red speedo. Who can forget that? He was a true oddball, but I respected his work ethic.
COMMENT 300076	2012-07-21 02:44 PM
I can't tell you UH's how much I LOVE the posts. This is my area of town and it is so much fun to hear about it in the "olden times" as my grandkids would say!! You're the main reason I read edhat, it's the only post that doesn't get nasty!!
COMMENT 300086	2012-07-21 04:03 PM
My great grandparents settled in Montecito circa 1900. My sons are fifth-generation residents from the Miramar neighborhood so some of us knew the Gawzners and/or Mr. Grover Cleveland Barnes. There was more to all of this than Jacques. And he was doing what his boss wanted him to do. But one time when I attended some thing at the Convention Center he was at the door and he was a totally different person. I say at least one prayer a day for being so fortunate to live in this Miramar Beach neighborhood.
COMMENT 300096	2012-07-21 04:36 PM
Is "Thanks Mary Colorado" and "Gumby" still on the seawall?
COMMENT 300122	2012-07-21 06:45 PM
Gumby is still there for sure! Not certain if Thanks Mary Colorado is though. Who is Mary Colorado, if you know? Thanks UH for another fantastic armchair adventure! I'm voting for the UH swim lesson photo for photo of the day. It made me smile!
COMMENT 300205	2012-07-22 09:01 AM
I don't quite understand what you mean by an "EXCLUSIVE" shot of the Miramar raft? I posted one about a year ago.
COMMENT 300373	2012-07-22 08:43 PM
My first job as a 19 year old was a housekeeper (maid) at the Miramar. Many stories, old actors, suicides, affairs.......and of course scary Jacques.
FLICKA	2012-07-22 11:05 PM
Grover was dearly loved by the neighborhood children, Jacques dispised. Grover was also loved by the Miramar owners, the Gawzners. Mark Bennett made the movie, premier at Westmont during a downpour rain storm. Mark grew up across the freeway from the Miramar in a beautiful adobe home his parents built; they made every brick (each weighed 45 lbs) and put an adobe wall around the property (took them 17 years). Mom still lives there. It's 11pm Sunday, hope the UHs get a chance to read this.
STACE	2012-07-23 01:11 PM
One of the UH here - thank you all for sharing your memories and sentiments about the Miramar...it was obviously a "big" place for many of us and is still very much alive in our hearts and minds. Thanks FLICKA for your valuable information. In our follow-up story we'll be sure to give Mark the credit he deserves for his wonderful video. If anyone knows who any of the actors are, let us know and we'll include that too. It's a very entertaining and clever video. And we know the house, although we don't know Mark. Great house, great story. That was Montecito "back in the day" - so glad to hear Mark's mom is still enjoying the home she put so much of her own blood, sweat and tears into!

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