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#DEL MAR FAIRGROUNDS ISNAP BEER MAC#

I understand the Chargers practice facility was more or less a farm field. Built in 1914 Balboa it was outdated, the seat where just stepped concrete (as I recall) you could rent cushions to sit on for about. The old Balboa Stadium was the only stadium available to play at. Shea was motivated to make the team and was known to work very hard in the gym & in practice.

#DEL MAR FAIRGROUNDS ISNAP BEER PRO#

AFL teams gave a lot of players a chance to play pro that would not have gotten a chance, (With just the NFL), Pat had played for USC.

Shortly after the Chargers moved to San Diego, SD’s first & only pro-football team. The NFL didn’t like the competition and the survival chance of the AFL seemed slim.

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Macpherson like to mention Pat Shea when he was interviewed about Mac MedaĪs Pat was sort of the real life Mac Meda powerful man image.Ībout 1960 the Chargers where formed in Los Angeles part of the new AFL. … but we will get into this groups later, and one of the reasons, Del Mar almost closed down the Beer Gardens. And besides, who is going to check IDs when there is money to be made.ĭuring those weeks of fair festivities, it became the general meeting place for La Jolla’s beach crowd.īeside Jack and his company, others that were known to have a good time was the Shores/Sea Lane group like Bill Canning, Beachball, Skip Wolff, Billy Humes and Steve Wyre etc etc … A great way to spend a Friday or Saturday night that many times ended up with a few fights, loud behavior and a ton of underage drinkers. The Beer Gardens became very popular with Mac Meda almost the day they opened. Well, the umbrella served a very important role during night it helped hide the underage drinker and provided a shield for some extra activity that kept one pounding beers down. And who cared about an umbrella at night.

A cute white picket fence surrounded a grass lawn with metal tables, chairs with tacky umbrellas that provided shade and supposedly a quiet time for an adult to have an ice cold beer that was fairly cheap, a $1 would get you a 16 ounce pour. Photo by Dave Osbornīack in the good ol’ days, the Beer Gardens were right across from Don Diego’s Tower. This is a very rare picture taken at the Beer Gardens from L to R, Dave Osborn, Pat Shea, Fat Art, Rent a Cop, Steve Gray and a rare shot of Robert Rackstraw. Oh yeah … you guess it, it was time for 10 mile road trip from La Jolla’s to Del Mar’s famous Beer Gardens.

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… for Mac Meda, the prime reason to go was not the excitement of the crowds, the rides that made you puke (which was bitchen to some), the carneys hacking butt-ugly kube dolls or the freak show of a a 600-pound lady, a two-headed mummified cow or a sword swallower or the conventional displays of cheap gimmicks that you buy, but never worked the way the hacker demonstrated and the delight of gut-twisting junk food. In 1936, the 22nd District Agricultural Association bought land at the mouth of the San Dieguito River for a county fairgrounds, and with that said, by 1984 it became one of the Nation’s Largest Fairs. By the 1930s, faced with fairs that struggled each year for survival, voters approved pari-mutuel racetrack betting to help fund the state’s agricultural fairs. In 1880, a group of San Diegans organized an agricultural Fair to bring county farmers together to share ideas, see who had the best citrus fruit, who baked the best pie, and who had the fastest horse. A Mac Meda founders sharing a good time at the Del Mar Beer Gardens: L to R, Fat Art (RIP) Pattie Brewer, Jack MacPherson, Dave Osborn, Bob Okey.

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