Landmarks
loop the town on a path drawn by donkeys
Vista Ca is my hometown. A fellow artist in the map show and long-time collaborator Brian Black picked this map for me, and it was a real surprise to find all the significant places and long-lost landmarks that filled my world as I grew up in this small town. This page illustrates these landmarks, or at least how I remember them.
Muffler man
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Yellow Deli
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The Muffler man of Vista was a fantastical road site attraction that was once located at near the site of the Vista Wave Water Park. As a kid when my great grandmother and I would cruise the town, a must-see was this larger than life fellow.
The Yoga Vista is a well know menu item at the Yellow Deli. If you visit the is 24 hours a day 5 day a week establishment (They are closed for teh Sabbath) t, try the yoga vista and some Herba mate.
Boney's Bison
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On our loop, My great grandmother and I would enevetably stop at Boney's market. The image I remember most was teh Large Bison Head hanging at the end of the meat Market.
Fort Bulis
Angus Beef and Dairy
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My fort was equipped with all my cool stuff. Listed in order of how much I wish I still had it: Tasco Periscope, Military Canteen, Aviator Cap, Big Bird wind up swimmer.
Items I still own: Swiss Army Knife, Compass, die-caste car, figurines.
While on our loop of vista, my great grandma would always loop out to see Angus the bull. His pastoral home was in front of a grand yellow farm house lactated on foothill Dr.
Red Brick Road
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I have continued collectng brinks as an adult. I will see them discarded as part of roadside depree. I have found them on teh beach, softened and rounded by the surf, and I collect unusual brick shapes form the hardware and garden store.
Finding your Frog Legs
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I recall all the animals we dissected including shrimp, squid, grasshopper, earthworm, frog and fetal pig. My cousin and I were in the class together and he and I convinced the instructor to let us preserve the feral pigs heart and head. I kept the heart and he kept the head.
Elks Lodge Coaters
Alpha Beta Bakery
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I would order a Sherlkey temple, until I was told a Roy Rogers came with a sword. from then on I was a Roy Roders Man. At Christmas they would hang a Christmas ornament from the Elk Bust that dotted teh room. It always looked like they were trying to each a cherry. Like teh one form my Roy Roger.
On our loop, my great grandmother would sometimes stop to say hi to family friend Chuck Otool the manager at the Alpa Beta market. He always gave me a ginger bread man cookie before we would go a round a shop.
Brengle Terrace Park
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Growing up my parents played soft ball in a coed legate. One of the main fuels was located at one of Brengle terrace parks’ several diamonds. On nights they both played I would sit in the bleachers eating sunflower seeds, chewing double bubble, and or wandered the adjacent areas of the park find lost treasures. It was at this park I first started collecting discarded and lost tennis balls.
Broken Comb Must Part Ways
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"Coming out of it with only a few scars. He and I lost touch over time, but I still have the comb. "
Marbles
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I can’t remember how this started, but it may have been a child like attempt to help the crazy house “find its marbles”. I think about how many marbles we must have thrown out the window and I image myself digging and hunting for my own long lost marbles.