Welcome to Balboa California EDITORS NOTEViewer Email & Memories are published as soon as possible after they are received. Mornings would be donut holes and fishing with dropper loops from the dock.

After dinner it was Balboa bars and skee ball. We fished from the Pavilion dock on special occasions. Thank you, Martypremierestateservices@verizon. Hello! Do you have information on when the Playland Arcade opened and then closed it's doors?

I am now making jewelry charms out of them and would like to have a bit of information on the Playland when I am selling them. Megan Kishimeganlkishi@gmail. Is this blog still running? Born in 1. 94. 2 at 1. Surf (now Ocean Blvd)kb. As a small child back in the early / mid 6.

I also remember them having a raft shop , bar & snack shop on the other end of the block. We would help out in the restaurant & snack shop ( frozen chocolate dipped banana’s ) earning money so we could go play at the “ Carnival Area “ that my brother & I use to go to ? My memories seem to be fading more the older I get but I also remember there was an above ground swimming pool that was in front of the apartment building that was down the same street. If anybody could give me the name of the street & any more information I would certainly appreciate it .

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I will be planning a trip to Balboa & would love to go back to “ Memory Lane “. I have never had so much fun as a child & great memories. My Grandparents , Don & Marie Ball. And George & Nila Fatino. Nedre Graynedragray@cloud. To all of my good friends.

I apoligazise for the live ams being down for so long. I'm having unbeleavable techinical problems with everything from the cameras and the website. I'm doing everything I can to restore service. Thanks. Jim Fournier. Don't know.. please tell us the story so that posterity can have it forever. I am originally from OC, first water park I went was Newport Dunes in 1. I'm sure it's just an oversight.

PJ Wheeler- island resident from birth (1. I got disgusted with the overcrowding, as well as with the plastic people who need to say they live in Newport just because they have no self esteem (and guys who have small penises, too!). I guess I don't need to mention the Hummer drivers with size 8 shoes. I'm thinking Eastbluff, Cameo Shores, and where there used to be cows (Newport Coast). PJ Wheelerpj@birdsinsuburbia.

I used to enjoy seeing the enlarged, full screen, old postcards on this site. Can it be fixed to show them larger? It always makes me feel happy to see it when I can't be there in person. Thank You !!!!!!!! From Arizona !!!!!!! Anonymous. Thanks to all for getting the Boardwalk cam up again, missed it, and for keeping the Ferry cam running.: )Anonymous. OOPS - found the Ferry cam....

Anonymous. Wow, the U- Drive cam is back up, who installed it? Walter Quigleyquigleyontop@gmail. Are we not going to have the view of the ferry on this cam? Much more interesting than this view. Anonymous. I am trying to contact Shannon Parks, a long time friend of the Tunstall family.

Shannon had enormous respect for my father and I have the sad news of informing Shannon about the death of Harry Tunstall. Can you please send her the following link for his obituary? Harry- Tunstall/#!/Photos. Videos. Deepest regards,Christopher Tunstall. I was ten years old living on Balboa Peninsula in an apartment behind and back of an italian restaurant - Gandolfo's, with Dad, Mom and Sister. Bob said he managed the Rendezvous and Greg (Zombie)Nicholson always told me he was a bouncer or doorman or something to that effect. Some names I remember are Doug Worley and Kathy Rogers,Kathy Madely Greg has a photo album of sorts from that ballroom.

Thanks for all the wonderful stories you posted. Josie also known As the Mexican Surfer Girl Anonymous. Hi Jim and fans! I notice a lot of folks asking for personal memories, so here's my two cents: -the Mayflower house at the corner of Park and Coral on Balboa Island..

The gum trees are still there. And the old wooden gates to close off the end. The guys on duty had to walk down to our house, as the truck was getting new brakes! Out I came, right then and there!- Parking before the street sweeping thing.. Remember Ozzie? I will love you forever, dear boy. Will you remember you and I as well?

So young an sweet.. The beginning of the crap being built all over the Island now. Munching mushrooms straight from the cow patties before surfing.

Hey, what was, in the sixties? Sadly, I would never want to go back. TOO MANY PEOPLE. I believe the owners were Jim & Bobbi. Also a place called Wheeler's Trading Post. There used to be a fellow that sold audio stuff there named John P. He called himself . But now I can only look at the ferry ride and that's no fun at all its just not kind to know the cams are down.

Austinaustinhill. Hello, definitely a interesting Balboa site, and for me a cruise sailing down memory lane in Balboa, I was born in upper Newport Heights, lived on Palisades roadm which later became bristol street and eventually the whole area was covered by the corona del mar freeway and a huge industrial area, macarthur blvd to red hill to bristol street, when i was a kid, that was all farms and John Wayne airport was just a small airfield and storage for relic WW2 aircraft,, PBy's and other assorted planes we played in as kids,, my 1st job was at the Balboa Pavilion/ Daveys Locker. Lying about my age as a young teen, i got a job at Tale of the Whale restaurant, and Daveys Locker, starting as a busboy in winter and a baitboy on the dock in summer, by the time i reached puberty i worked my way up to position of masterbaiter, lol, and worked on the docks during the day and in the Tale of the Whale at night, a young workaholic, eager to learn, i worked for Mike and Evelyn Gross, baiting up skiffs and private boats as well as baiting up Davey's 1/2 and full day fishing fleet, the Westerner , Thunderbird, and the Del Mar. C, Marshallendoline. It appears to me, after following the 'Surfline' cam at 'The Wedge' for over a year and watching the wave formations there, that 'The Wedge' is not what it once was. Gail Wilson. 09gwilson@comcast.

Jim, you should save and put all these comments in a book and save them for posterity. The histories of people's lives and mine in Balboa are so charming to read and remember.

Rafferty. Mr. Rick. The seashore around the Balboa Peninsula is the medicine which is particularly good for my soul. One way or the other, we're gonna have a great time. Walter Quigleyquigleyontop@gmail. Steve (nitro. dull@verizon. Dating Sites For Anglo Spanish here.

I asked about Balboa Peninsula gas stations of 1. Your info posted below definitely helps! You nailed the apartment complex that I was looking for dead on. I have checked all the old environmental websites for .

I had ruled out the location(even though it looked feasible from Google earth views) because I did not know a gas station used to be there. Also, I was searching through the Newport Beach City website where you can read old building permit applications and I confirmed your info.

Feels like a 1. 00 LBS bag has been taken off my back to finally figure out where it was! There is something magical about Balboa Peninsula every time I go There, hard to explain! Actually, I want to move there this spring when my Huntington Beach lease is up, but I'm not sure how I'm going to find a reasonably priced apartment that actually has parking.

Also, its been pretty cold this winter so its gunna be tough convincing my wife to move there. I wish I knew someone that owned an apartment complex there.

At 5. 0 years old, I figure if I don't move there now, I never will. A. Johnsonsuperfort. It's wonderful to hear from you Dick and thanks for setting us straight on 'The King Gillette House', but I will always refer to it as 'The Dick Dale House'. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THE STORY THAT THE KIND LADY TOLD ME AFTER I BOUGHT THE MANSION.

SHE LIVED OVER IN CORONA DEL MAR. I HAD THE MANSION PAID OFF IN FULL BUT I ENDED UP IN A HORRID DIVORCE AND HAD TO TAKE A LOAN FOR A MILLION DOLLARS AND THE 2 BANKERS RENAGED ON MY CONTRACT AND I LOST THE MANSION. BUT IN THE END THEY BOTH ENDED UP IN JAIL.

ONE DAY I WILL WRITE ABOUT IT.. DICK DALEdick@dickdale. Well.. that should satisfy Mr. Diligence on the Gillette House, thank you kindly.

Anonymous. According to an article that appeared in the LA Times by author- historian Jim Sleeper this should clear the Air on the Balboa Peninsula's King Gillette Mansion and hopefully satisfy Mr. Newport Beach has a mythology all its own. The town's capacity for myth- making is nearly as predictable as the tides that bathe it. And nearly as changeable. A fine example was encapsuled in a Times article (April 1. Balboa peninsula known as the .

Ellsworth took out a building permit for a nine- room (not 2. In a feature story last year, Beatrix Padway, whose father- in- law once owned the place, opined, . Jones (not the Padway brothers), of Hollywood, for $7.

It likewise falls. In November of 1. Jones (not Gillette) sold the residence to Barney Padway, president of a Beverly Hills mortgage company. It was Barney (not Martin and James) Padway who immediately remodeled the three- story spread into two Mediterranean houses. Far from any . When completed, each half contained 1. Alas, it was the Army (not the Coast Guard) who commandeered the mansion for a base from which two 1.

After sprucing it up, the Baileys sold in 1. Dr. Jim Diffley for $1. As is well known, the purchaser was aging guitar- twanger Richard Anthony Monsour (also known as Dick Dale), . Then in considerable disrepair, the place passed to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. But the title (under the shot) says live. Which is correct? PJ Wheeler.. Island resident from birth in '6.

Anonymous. You should probably do better diligence on your stories before you publish them.. Walter Quigleyquigleyontop@gmail. Thanks so much - nice surprise to see the ferry!!