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Our Parents Brought Us Here Regarding, “People Here Just Do and Just Are” (July 14 cover story), I can give you a little perspective from someone who lived in Linda Vista during the war years, particularly 1943, when my parents brought my brothers and sister, and me out here from Illinois because my father had gotten a job with Consolidated Aircraft. Linda Vista had been


built shortly before that to accommodate war workers because there was a big hous- ing shortage during the war. I think Eleanor Roosevelt was there when they dedicated the place — that was before we arrived on the scene. I was in fifth and sixth


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grade at Linda Vista Elemen- tary — Miss Egan and Mr. Dawson, respectively. Every- body in the school was white. All our neighbors in Linda Vista were white. We were all native-born Americans. On the street where I lived people were from Arkansas, North Dakota, Illinois, Min- nesota, Utah, Kentucky, and other places I don’t recall. There was one Hispanic lady and her daughter, and I think she was from San Diego but


the rest of us were from all over the country. Our parents were war workers. A lot of us hated the place


because it was really a dump and we had left nice homes elsewhere in the country to come to San Diego — not that we had any choice; our parents brought us here. I lived at 3016 Comstock.


I used to go play in the can- yon down below, although that was probably danger- ous. I was lucky I didn’t get eaten by a mountain lion! One boy from Kentucky, his father whooped him for going down in the canyon. Other than playing in the canyon, there wasn’t much I liked about the place and I was happy when we moved back to Illinois. Anyway, just some per-


spective, for what it’s worth. Name withheld via voicemail


That Rose Stinks Re: News Ticker, July 14, “Bike-Share Program Bunk?” It is not a bike-share pro-


gram. It is a for-profit bike rental business. A rose by any other name still stinks. Name withheld Uptown


People’s Health over McDonald’s Profits On Thursday, July 7, Rady Children’s Hospital took the important step closing its on-site McDonald’s store (Neighborhood News, July 14, “McDonald’s Packs up the Fryer”). In ending its decades-


long relationship with the burger giant, Rady Chil- dren’s has joined the grow- ing movement of hospitals and health institutions that are improving their food environments by showing


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