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I grew up in orange county in the 60’s and 70’s and it fascinates me that all these great places started out in San Bernardino. Back then San Berdoo and Riverside were thought of as backwater towns in east hell. I later lived in Riverside and really discovered a lot of great spots and interesting places in the I.E. Nice video.

Hi Bob, did you or your family know any Barrera's on Pennsylvania and mill st. Northside of mill st?

In the early 1970s, I would get up early on a saturday morning.The day before I did all my chores and the yard work. When my dad came home he would give me 10 bucks and all the change in his pocket (another 5 bucks in change).So on saturday morning I left my parents house on 17th st and walked south on Arrowhead about under 2 miles to the public library downtown. AND IT WAS SAFE!!! Later I would walk to the Central City Mall. Cutting through City Hall and that bridge over Est. And entering the cool AC was fantastic! I would frequent Waldenbooks and later take in a movie at the Central City 4. Great places to eat and I would grab a snack maybe but I'm getting ahead of myself. After buying a couple of .45s (records, children), I would exit JC Penny's and head north up Fst. Till I got to Art's Book Store. After an hour there I would head east toward Est. But before I got there. I would go into Taco Tia and eat 6 or 7 tacos drenched in the best hot sauce. Maybe a taco burger but always a large root beer. Then home. No muss, no fuss, no trouble. Good times.

I was 19 and clueless to what was going on although they were making a big deal on KCALfm. I got in my 1970 Malibu and went to work at the Central City Mall. I was not worried cuz we lived way on 17th St. Again, I was too stupid to think about what these people were going through. Once I got to the mall the sky was raining ashes and other debris. The wind was not strong. After work I got home and spoke to my older brother who was a Red Cross Instructor. He had been called there and helped. A couple of days later he said the fire was out. We smoked a joint in his room and he told me all about it. I was as high as a kite when he asked me if I wanted to see it. He had Red Cross credentials and could get through the police barricade which we did. The place looked like Nagasaki or Hiroshima. It looked medieval. I mean LEVELED. The Sun Telegram put out a Special on the Panorama Fire and I still have it.

Bakers, great burritos and fries.

I remember this. I was living in Riverside. The sky overhead was black, and raining ashes. In the northeast, a small section of the sky was crystal clear blue. It was weird.

Sprang from his left shoulder 😳? I need elaboration

Great story. I appreciate your sharing it.

OMG! I worked with John in the early 90s when I worked at The Sun. Great guy. Funny as hell an just a lot of fun to be around! Sorry forgot to tell you great video. LOL.

Berdoo is a dump. Tweeker City .

I lived off Mt Vernon and 13th….went to St Anthony’s and then to Aquinas HS…. Loved growing up in SB….my dad was an electrician at Santa Fe… Moved to Texas in 1973….

I was born and raised in San Bernardino at St Bernadine's hospital. I lived in Del Rosa and went to Pacific High.

I loved your story of San Bernardino. I grew up there too, and I'm about your age (born Nov 1945). When my family first moved to San Bernardino from San Diego, I was 5 years old, and we lived on a street that ran into the Mt. Vernon Drive In, pretty much across the street from Valley College. I think that was one of your neighborhoods. I see bobbender5858 below leaving a similar message. He says he graduated from Pacific in '65. I graduated from there in '63.

So he’s part of the reason why San Bernardino is a toilet 🚽 now ?

Thank you for your service

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McDonald's Bros First place was in Monrovia in Huntington and Mountain next to the airport. They moved to S.B. and redid their business strategy.

Yep some really good fast food history here in my local area. I'm in Rverside where the first Naugles was built!👍😎

Hey does anybody remember seeing like two strange planets in the sky that night they were both the same color of the fire except one had a ring around it like Saturn. I’ve been trying to find answers about that?

Hello, Was Moreno Valley part of the Serrano People tribe?

Blessu

But the Panorama fire didn't start until Nov. 24th.... What fire was this person in?

I also was born in Loma Linda the old one I lived in highland California Hernandez and Ybarra of east highland California

Thank you so much for sharing your history. The world certainly has changed a lot since those days. It would be nice to go back sometimes.

De casualidad la casa del mexicano es la casa ramona yo también soy de la 7 y J stret

Man you look just like the old Mac tool truck guy that came by my job at Sears Alhambra auto center. thanks for the info!

Mr. Robles, Homie, is an OG.

More stories of his family than stories of San Bernardino!

San Bernardino is a shithole now

Has a member of your tribe ever escaped to the East , somewhere around late 1700's ?

He reminds me of a Bob that I met at Bobs furniture. I walked into bobs furniture and asked an employee, is Bob here? She didn’t respond but a man wearing a Vietnam Veteran hat in front of me said, “I’m right here, I’m bob.” But I’m not sure if it was this Bob or another Bob but it seems close.

Unfortunately all the blacks and Mexicans moved and fucked everything up.

Buffalo Springfield played their first concert in San Bernardino.

I was a senior in high school then, and had already enlisted in the Army and was thus considered 'inactive reserve,' though I did not understand the implications of that yet. That day someone from administration called me out of class and said I'd been called up as a 'reservist' to assist with fighting the fire. I was directed to report to a staging area and go wherever they told me. I ended up standing on the rooftop of someone's home on North Mayfield Ave, a door or two south of Hill Drive. My job was to spray water on the roof with a garden hose and put out any embers landing there or on the yards below. I had no training, no equipment, and no means of communication. All I had was the garden hose with very low water pressure. If I had to flee it would have to be on foot as there were no trucks nearby and my car was back at the staging area. I spent most of the afternoon there choking on smoke and trying to keep up with the embers. By the time I was relieved I was black with soot and coughing nonstop. The house was still standing when I stepped away and I assume it survived. I never did meet the home's owner. The fact that they'd pull clueless high school kids out of class to help fight this fire is a good indication as to how bad the situation that day was. I'll always remember that day and the seeing the devastation the fire left. Now in Northern California, I'm reliving some of the same feelings these last few years with each new fire season. Paradise, Santa Rosa, Napa, El Dorado, all have the same sort of desperation and devastation I experienced in the Panorama Fire.

This was a very nice Video. I graduated from Pacific High in San Bernardino in 1965. I’m currently living in Newport Coast , but San Bernardino will always be a part of me .

Left in 1999 , I'm glad yet sad at what it's become. Cruising 'E' St. just wasn't the same after the late 60s early 70s . The 80s & 90s were not kind to the city , pity. Thank you.

Such an inspiring woman, with so much wisdom ❤

Serrano decendent trying to learn why my family went more than they should have

I also went to lytle creek elementary school and Richardson's Jr high , and valley college on mount Vernon too I was kinda raised in verdugo .cruised mount Vernon in the 60s , 70 s am 69 years old now and now live in Oklahoma but I miss San Bernardino very much, and I love your video Bob Robles .. hope to see more!!!

Burger and fries please.

Great story señor and i find it crazy that San Bernardino used to be a great place back in the day and was a normal area ,now it’s just a slum city ,it’s another Detroit or it’s own Detroit now you see crack heads there and cafe Madrid is closed tbh sadly and e street is the most scariest place and I went to colton hs it is not that bad in colton and your first job was right by my house in grand terrace

This take on San Bernardino is atrocious to say the least, I'm not even from San Bernardino and I know way more than this. And not a single black person on here or other athletes that have made real impacts in your city and lending to it. As the biggest county in the United States this minor history take is horrible although there's not many good things to say about the city there is a bigger history detail than this well hell if you don't know the rest of the history I know for a fact that you know about the citys' racial history and hatred of blacks so talk about that.Talk about all those old politicians that you named that were racist. The city is poor as hell and has zero attractions which is why the celebrities you did name that visited the city was way back in the 1930s and 40s and the guy you spoke on that's which happens to be the mayor of the city now Morris previously judge Morris I remember him and his brother one of them is racist and one is not or I should say appears not to be racist you're downtown Metropolis is a joke jobs are scarce only warehouse jobs low-level which is why no companies have home bases in San Bernardino the largest County in our United States is a joke all this was open land in desert to build so many things and do so many things with but yet and still open nothing's getting done , the water is horrible out here and leaders aren't doing anything about it and now the homeless and drug addicts have overrun the city it looks like 1982 Los Angeles the pandemic might have actually helped the city cause it actually looks slightly better than it did. Didn't mean to really rent like this cause I know this take was really on celebrities but you left out so many it just put my mind in the whole other space. But thee Biggest celebrity from San Bernardino is "McDonald's" and you gave them very minimal exposure not even no pictures and you have the original one on E Street and there's pictures of that everywhere and what about Baker's Burger the burger chain might not be at celebrity status but they're definitely success story

My Primos Grandpa

Love the city history #SB

You didn't mention CCR performed In San Bernandino ,that where John got he's idea of writing his song - tombstone shadow- it mention san Bernardino in the song.

Hi Bobby, I was born 1953 in San Bernardino lived there for 25 years. My dad worked at Santa Fe. Thank you for the memories 🥰

Why is this too short?

Thank you for your video. I, too, grew up in San Bernardino. My relatives lived right across the street from Fedco. I loved it when the circus came to town. Metcalf, Richardson, SBHS, Valley College and the University at San Bernardino were all my alma maters. Thanks, again!

Thank you for your service sir! And thanks for sharing a rich history.

...And why do we care?!!