Memories built of butterfat
The recent death of the last owner of the original Haagen Dazs
Ice Cream brought back fond memories of Baywood Creamery in
Hollister. Haagen Dazs was the second best thing I ever licked.
Baywood Creamery in the 1950s in Hollister when Hollister still
looked like a Norman Rockwell painting was still the best. Baywood
was perfectly situated on Hollister’s main drag between Seventh and
South Street. The State Theater was on the same block. What a haven
for all of us wearing
”
husky
”
jeans. After a 10-cent box of popcorn and sitting on my fat butt
for three hours I would waddle a few doors down for their four
scoop sundaes. I got my first kiss in one of Baywood’s booths. I
always wonder who he was. Aye chee waa waa!
Memories built of butterfat
The recent death of the last owner of the original Haagen Dazs Ice Cream brought back fond memories of Baywood Creamery in Hollister. Haagen Dazs was the second best thing I ever licked. Baywood Creamery in the 1950s in Hollister when Hollister still looked like a Norman Rockwell painting was still the best. Baywood was perfectly situated on Hollister’s main drag between Seventh and South Street. The State Theater was on the same block. What a haven for all of us wearing “husky” jeans. After a 10-cent box of popcorn and sitting on my fat butt for three hours I would waddle a few doors down for their four scoop sundaes. I got my first kiss in one of Baywood’s booths. I always wonder who he was. Aye chee waa waa!
A better memory of Baywood though is when in walked Prince Dazs and his beautiful Princess Bride Haagen. They were on their way to their prize-winning dairy cows when the Hollister area had more fertile grass than Al Gore’s son.
Loved that story from Hollister in the Fifty Cent Lance police blotter about that guy they arrested for being asleep in his car while in the drive-thru lane of a fast food joint. Shouldn’t they really be arresting the ones who actually go to fast food joints who are wide awake and still choose to eat that stuff?
Am I the only one who didn’t know the Hollister Brewing Company is in Goleta? Goleta?
Last week I wrote you about my trip to Nashville in 1976 with my sainted mother and semi-sainted wife Nancy. Well a couple days after my column appeared in the World’s Greatest Weekly Boots Randolph of “Yakety Sax” fame rode off to Hillbilly heaven. Mom fell in love with him when we saw him perform in his little club which was located in an alley off of Nashville’s main drag. What Boots did with a Sax would inspire Linda Lovelace.
Another death, but what a life! Opera star Beverly Sills made opera appreciation easy for us Hollister Hayseeds. In the 1950s television exposed us to all kinds of cultural events thanks to the likes of Ed Sullivan. Thank you, Beverly, for broadening our love of heavenly music and thank you Ed. If we wanted to see Rock Stars we had to watch ballet, Broadway singers and yes, listen to opera first. We had only three channels back in the 1950s but somehow we had more variety than we do now with 133 channels. Que sad.
I love “J.G” of Hollister and won’t mention her name as she is a wonderful human being but sometimes says things that are absolutely hilarious but meant in all seriousness. Her kid asked her if she was going to see “The Fantastic Four” and without missing a beat she said “No, I didn’t like the first three.”
I am in Hollywood heaven as our son David is visiting us for two weeks and my brother Ray from Hollister dropped by for three days. Ray always brings me a great present. His wife Liz, the Tamale Queen of Hollister who brought me her world famous Progresso Tamales. Aye chee waa waa!
The rich in Hollywood have their needs and wear their hearts on their bumper stickers like most of us. I spotted this one on a 2005 Jaguar on Rodeo Drive “Momma needs a brand new Jag”.
Looking for a great little gem of a film? I have seen “Every Thing is Illuminated” on the cable channel 5 times in the last month but they are no longer showing it so I went to Hollywood Video and bought it. Still seems strange to go to a Hollywood Video that is actually in Hollywood.
I love to laugh at my Democratic friends who say they can’t lose the next election. Really? The last time war hero Senator John Kerry couldn’t beat the National Guard’s most unpopular president who is mired in a no-win unpopular war with the lowest approval rating since “New” coke. In 1972 another president was mired in another no win unpopular war and was the most hated president. But the Democrats managed to work hard to lose that race, too. Richard Nixon not only won the election but took 49 of the 50 states. God, how I love this country.
