Comments on: La Jolla Outrageous Parties, Drinking Beer and Wild Women

By: BK

BK — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:15:04 +0000

I saw Rakestraw in action at one of the conventions in Sorrento Valley. I think it was Sorrento Valley. Short story, Rakestraw had issues with some poor fool and went after him. It was 10 feet from where I was sitting. Rakestraw grabbed an antenna from a car and was going to beat this guy with it. His friends around him stopped the action. I remember him grabbing the antenna just as easy as picking daiseys. The strength was impressive, the use was not.

By: otisbgood

otisbgood — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:24:13 +0000

Ok I am overdue on this one about Jack and my grandma Dodie.
She got nailed in a cross walk on LJ Blvd and had a four pronged cane when we lived on Mesa Way near Brud McGowan.
Every day that Jack ran his route she would pace the sidewalk waiting to talk to him (she was 70). He would bring an 8 pack of Ole Stubbies in his mail bag and she and Jack would talk and solve the world’s problems every day. They hated big Gummint.

By: Jamie Nay

Jamie Nay — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:20:28 +0000

Jack had his fireworks brought in from friends who had moved to Tennessee and Alabama (still legal). Most of them went south of the border. However, occasionally, a streak of the Devil would hit him…as the midnight hour approached, he’d remark casually, “Uh Boop, have you seen my firework launcher?”. I told him to look in the closet. He’d throw out his umbrellas, an AK47, shotput, pool cues, a baseball bat from a 1950s pickup game with George Pinnell…and then he locate the firework launcher. Then he’d disappear.

15 minutes later, there’d be a big BOOM out towards the street.

The next day, some kids that lived at the end of Agate Street saw him walking home from the West End. “Jack…we know that was you last night,”.

65 going on 13.

By: chris celata

chris celata — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:34:15 +0000

Concerning the above picture of Jack and Tim in their MacMeda letterman jackets and the Girard/Coast Blvd sign: First of all that is Albie Cela’T'a, not Cela’D'a. Albie Celata, Class of 1958 at La Jolla High School, and long time friend and beer drinker with Jack, was also a constant bicylce alley cruiser in Pacific Beach and Mission Beach. One morning Albie spotted the street sign in a dumpster near Crystal Pier and brought it home on his bike, and then took the street sign down to our home south of San Felipe expressly for Jack and his MacMeda group that ventured to our home for New Year’s, and around March 18th for what we called “Winter Camp”. Lot of good times down there but milder than early Summer Camp adventures. Jack always brought lots of fireworks for New Year’s and we did have the best show on the beach. And the street sign definitely made Jack’s day when he saw it.
We now have a piece of LaJolla here in Escalante, Utah where the street sign now calls home. And, of course there is a MacMeda sticker in Albie’s workshop.

By: The Warden

The Warden — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:20:03 +0000

Does anyone have Mac’s pickled egg recipe?

By: John Pirie

John Pirie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:24:04 +0000

The crew posing with the Corvette at Windansea needs a positive I.D .Left to right:Dudly Diggs,John Pirie,Jack Macpherson,Bob Bernard,Mike McCartney,Julie “H”Johnson,Bob Baker,Bob Weinteer.Behind the Corvette:Blackie Hoffmann and Ronnie “Snowman”Hodges on Blackies shoulders.Also the Corvette,which I believe was a 60 or 61,belonged to Bob Moore who took the picture.As for shorebreak, Jack Mac,Bob Bernard and myself,were basically the only ones taking off at Windansea and Marine St.as we didn’t see anyone else trying the bigger waves. That was circa 1954.Thanks,John Pirie.