This is what I like to call “Rustling up the Leaves” or, more literally, stirring up some old, forgotten memories. The Massol Dragstrip post got me these comments which I thought I might share:
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Submitted on 2013/07/24 at 7:40 pm by BobR
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What a great Blog. Brought back many memories of the 50s. My friends and I would also drag up and down Massol, and wait until the two cops were busy at one end of town. Then we would either play ditch at the other end, or, as I did once, drive my car backwards the length of Santa Cruz Ave. Those were truly the good old days.
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Submitted on 2013/07/24 at 12:13 pm davidn
Interesting story Mr. Bellezza. It brought back a memory of a “right of passage” pact that my buddies and I had in the middle 1950′s. (If you are familiar with the San Jose Police Station back in the 1950′s you can skip to the last paragraph.)
The San Jose Police Station was located in the middle of what is now Casar Chaviz Park on North Market St. The park is a large oval surrounded by southbound Market on one side and northbound Market on the other. The park is across the street from where th Fairmont Hotel is today.
The Police Station had a tunnel running underneath it that connected the two sides of Market St. The police would go down through this tunnel to unload prisoners. It was not open for the public to drive through.
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