Hello, One of my friends had a relative with some property out near Lake Elsinore in So Cal. He asked me if I wanted to go hunting. I said no. I did not want to shoot a big rifle with a scope and hit something. It was not fair. But, he knew my idea, so, he said the hunting we would do would use whatever we brought. No big guns or rifles, especially with a scope. The property was big, but not that big. For him, he had a very small single barrel shotgun that his dad had modified and did not shoot the normal 12 gauge shells. He said his dad would be fine if I wanted to shoot his rifle, too. He brought his own shells as we were walking around this private property. What did I bring? My brother and I had started shooting with bow and arrows in our long backyard. I had an old wooden bow and he had a modern, at the time, fiberglass bow. We used the same arrows in our own backyard area. Our property was long enough to have a full length extra garage area after we modified it to use with our hot rod builds. Now, it was set up with a target and from our back porch, a good distance away. The backyard property fence was 8 feet tall and made of cement blocks. When we were shooting our bow and arrow outfits for competition between two brothers, he always won due to his earlier skill in shooting arrows. All I got was a reddish set of fingers from the string pull and twang. Then the tall 8 foot wall and tall bush was a perfect background to keep the errant arrows in our yard. They never went over the tall fence or bushes. Jnaki So, on this adventure, we walked around looking for what? Fast jackrabbits or wayward ranch chickens? Ha! At least we brought a nice lunch and cold drinks. Yum! The first thing we saw was a jackrabbit down the rows of the plowed fields. So, my friend blasted his rifle and a puff of dirt jumped up and the rabbit ran away. The next row, I saw another rabbit and tried to shoot it with my bow and arrow. We had to get closer and as the string was pulled back, ready to shoot, it missed the rabbit by a foot or two. He also scampered into the rows for escape. After spending countless hot, walking around hours looking for “big game,” (ha!) we called it quits and thanked our hosts. We took off for the Long Beach journey up the coast after the big curvy road from Lake Elsinore area to the freeway. It was our old, surf road trip “return to Long Beach” path and it was a great long distance drive for a couple of “big game hunters.!!!” YRMV
In '65 the V-8's were 289's with the 6 bolt bellhousing. I have owned a '65 Futura since 1971, and it is a 4 speed.
WHAT? I spent the funnest years of my life in and around Anaheim/Orange County. We used to go to dances with live bands at a roller skating rink in Stanton. We rode our bicycles then later drove down Hwy 39 AKA beach Blvd to the beach. Wasn't there a drive-in movie in Westminster? I probably made out with a girl there. I can't believe I've never heard of Midway City. What is the intersection in the photo? Beach and what?
Hello, Sometimes memories fade or the fun part of cruising was there so much that little communities were there but, looked over quickly. Highway 39 was one of the most traveled roads and consequently, the zillion shops along the highway were mostly the same. So, one community led to another and so on. The other busy street was just South at Brookhurst Street. It had the same North/South route and the same zillion little stores that lined up both sides of the street. Today, it is still used as a direct route to the coastline, and yes, there are more stores and centers for the masses to get their lunches, gas, 7-11 fix or a mattress shop or two, let alone a ton of auto repair shops. So, the inland cities had a problem. It was usually hot and sunny and so a trip to the beach during May, June andJuly led to a fog laden beach and movement miles inland as most approached the coast. Yikes! Jnaki Beach Blvd is/was probably the most used highway to get to the beach from inland Orange County or farther inland deep into the foothills near La Habra. So, any folks living on short driving distance of Highway 39 had access directly to south Huntington Beach at the sand and beachfront. Consequently, it made for that location always crowded, but it led to the opening of the Huntington State Beach location and tons of parking. The good surf was located up the beach at the pier and south at the end of the state beach at the river mouth. So, there were miles of empty beach sand for everyone else to enjoy the ocean and not crowd the popular surf spots. Note: We used to drive to the Highway 39 drive in a lot, from Bixby Knolls and later on when we lived in Orange County. It was a large location that no one could miss from the freeway or Highway 39. They were the first ones to incorporate the skinny wires attached to the car’s exterior antennas, doing away with the heavy window clamp on speaker and wire poles.
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