Escondido Stories
About this original series
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# Episodes
25 episodes -
Rating
TV-UN
Episodes of Escondido Stories
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Robert Freeman "The Artist"
I was born on the Rincon indian reservation just east of Escondido here. I'm indian , I'm 1/4 Suiox, 1/8 Luseno, and 1/8 Yaki, so I'm half indian. As a young person, I was taken to San Diego during WW2. My father was a professional baseball player and he was drafted into the U.S. military. My father was a first lieutenant of the U.S. Army, a combat infantry leader. He was highly decorated in WW2, he had 11 combat ribbons and 3 bronze stars. But I never knew my father because once he came back ...
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Release date
Aug 2, 2008
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Runtime
07:33
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Nuke Goswick
My name is Harold "Nuke" Goswick. I went to Escondido High School and graduated in 1949. I lived in Valley Center, born and raised in Valley Center Ca. and came down from there to go to school in Escondido. I always call it that I'm from Escondido because that's where I was all the time. One of the main things I did during sports was during my softball days. I use to practice in Valley Center. I had an old tank, a tire, old springs, and a bucket. And a guy by the name of Steve Thompson started...
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Release date
Aug 2, 2008
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Runtime
05:34
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The Development of Howell Heights & the 1913 "Bi...
My name is Katherine Thornton and the story I would like to share is about my grandparent's development of their ranch called Howell Heights in Escondido, California, and the big 1913 freeze in Southern California. The following is from the 1953 writings about the Howell family by their son and my uncle, Dean Howell, 5th District North County Supervisor from 1940 to 1960. "My parents, Melville Leven and Caroline Howell moved to California in 1904 after selling our 720 acre farm in Admire, Kans...
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Release date
Jul 13, 2008
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Runtime
06:01
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The Development of Howell Heights & the 1913 "Bi...
My name is Katherine Thornton and the story I would like to share is about my grandparent's development of their ranch called Howell Heights in Escondido, California, and the big 1913 freeze in Southern California. The following is from the 1953 writings about the Howell family by their son and my uncle, Dean Howell, 5th District North County Supervisor from 1940 to 1960. "My parents, Melville Leven and Caroline Howell moved to California in 1904 after selling our 720 acre farm in Admire, Kans...
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Release date
Jul 13, 2008
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Runtime
06:04
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Ernie Liebman
My name is Ernie Liebman and I was born and raised here in Escondido. I became a cougar fan early on in my life. I was the water boy for the Escondido High School football team my 6th, 7th, and 8th grade years, so I developed a real love for cougar sports early on. I got to go on the team bus to a lot of the out of town games and just had a great time during those years. Myself and a fellow by the name if Wayne Murray were the water boys. We would take the water out, we had cups to fill up, an...
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Release date
Jul 12, 2008
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Runtime
06:54
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Ray Ruggles
Hello, my name is Ray Ruggles, I'm an origional Escondioan. I was born here in 1938. And my athletic story is reguarding the coach that I lived near and it turned out to be one of the most famous coaches and athletic directors to live in escondido, Coach Bill Duncan. As a youngster, during the war years Coach was in the Navy and not home all the time but he had a son David. I would go to Coach's house and David and I would play once in a while and this was as a kid, we lived right on 2nd Stree...
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Release date
Jul 8, 2008
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Runtime
08:06
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Jerry Smith
I'm Jerry Smith, I graduated in 1951 from Escondido Union High School. Sports was a very big part of my high school experience. I played football, basketball, and baseball. Participation in sports was very much encouraged at Escondido High School when I was in school. And it's a little different than today because, like in basketball they had A, B, C, and D and the determination of what class you played in was by your size and age. The D's were the smaller boys but they had a league just like ...
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Release date
Jul 8, 2008
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Runtime
07:18
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My Ancestors in the US
My name is Josephine Dominguez and I live in Vista, California. I grew up in Carlsbad. We just moved to Vista three years ago. I've been doing geneaology for five years now, and I traced my family all the way back to the 1700s, on both sides. I'm interested in doing it because I think ancestry is very important, and history, especially that, I'm Latino from the United States. I got interested because I had a few uncles that I saw all the time, they were alcoholics and I just, I wanted to know ...
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Release date
Jul 3, 2008
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Runtime
08:31
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Fred Mendenhall remembers "Old Escondido"
[SINGS "Clementine" SONG] FRED: My name's Fred Mendenhall and I'm 97 years old! TITLE: The highlight of living on Palomar Mountain was the roundups. They used to round up the cattle a couple times a year. TITLE: The fall roundup-when we took beef to market-was another big time. TITLE: 1919 Horseback Riding. The first year that I helped round up the cattle, I was eight years old. FRED: We drove the cattle down to Temecula, put them overnight in a corral at Pala. Next morning we drove them over ...
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Release date
Jun 7, 2008
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Runtime
04:03
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In Honor of Candelaria Maes
My name is Martha Dominguez and I was born in Raton, New Mexico. I now live in Vista California and I have lived in California since 1963. I love Vista, it’s a very nice city, but I miss New Mexico. It will always be a part of my family, and it will always be in my heart. One of the traditions in my family is making flour tortillas. My mother taught me how to make them, her mother taught her how to make them, I have taught my daughters how to make these tortillas and I have taught my granddaug...
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Release date
May 24, 2008
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Runtime
07:16
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