I found this water slide decal quite a while ago and could NOT believe my eyes! How many of you really know what this is about? Well, if you were a San Diego or Long Beach sailor back in the old days, say 1962, you might know; in fact, you may have actually seen it with your own eyes like, ahem, me. I don't dare put it in water cause it will probably fall apart in a zillion pieces.
Hell yeah, you didnt have to a swabbie to know what that meant!! LOL Eat at the Blue Fox ... was a well known saying ... they actually had a bar in TJ called the Blue Fox and another , The Long Bar. "Big" was on hella cool person and certainly meant alot to me and my sanity in the early sixties.
I did "eat" at the Blue Fox. 1966. The main street of TJ wasn't paved back then. Lots of cardboard and tin shacks as soon as you crossed the border.
I seem to recall a song back in the 60's about that. It was an instrumental (mostly)but at the end of the 'verse' someone would say-"Hey seenor,is theese the way to the blue fox?" I think it was on an album,maybe Paul Revere and the Raiders? Anyone remember that?
ya, TJ is so upscale now you can hardly recognize the place - Ha! a taxi ride out to the BF would change your thoughts on Donkey Kong.
I had one of the T shirts of "Eat at the Blue Fox" and also "Smitty's Blower Service"-"we blow you where it counts", wore them proudly till they fell apart. Ed was a regular at the National Guard car shows put on by the Roadrunners and The Hustlers back in the 60's, many fond memories of those days !
Joker and others; my squid cousin brought me back a super 8 of that show in TJ and some spanish flies he purchased from the doorman. The super 8 was really "grainy " and had been spliced a few times. It did show what the SPCA would call cruelty to Rosa; that donkey was a drilling fool. Big Jim MCClennan ( sp ) and his crew used to bring a donkey to the drags; doub't it was the blue fox headliner though, great big graphics. The cous also had his 56 War Chief done in red and white "tucknroll" newspaper and trash i the seams for sure while in TJ
Not a ***ty bar but a place where ladies buck naked would sit on the face of anyone drunk enough to get up on the stage. You had to see it to believe it. There were fights almost nightly and stabbings several times a week. It was rowdy, raunchy, dirty and wild, something you would never see nowadays. I always laughed when I saw someone with those t-shirts.........I was sure they didn't have a clue what they were all about. Now, does that decal make more sense to youse guys? It was finally shut down due to all the violence.
Order a screwdriver and it was usually a nehi orange soda mixed with something resembling rubbing alcohol ... anyone that sat right at the girl's elevated dance floor had their hand over their drink gl*** to keep falling hairs from landing in it . Outside their was always a guy with a donkey painted up with strips like a zebra and you could get your pic taken sitting on it.
Been there, done that, wore the T-shirt out! Memories, memories, mammerys! Crow RM2 U.S.S. St. Paul CA63
Dang, I remember the St. Paul, almost as big as a battleship but much better looking. I was an RM on the U.S.S. Talladega APA208. And he was right about the hairs.....................LOL
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