Scott Ellis:
CLASS OF 1974
Newbury Park High SchoolClass of 1974
Newbury park, CA
Thousand Oaks High SchoolClass of 1972
Thousand oaks, CA
Redwood Middle SchoolClass of 1970
Thousand oaks, CA
Madrona Elementary SchoolClass of 1968
Thousand oaks, CA
Ascension Lutheran SchoolClass of 1963
Thousand oaks, CA
Scott's Story
Hi everyone! While I was born & raised in T.O. and went to Waverly, Meadows, Timber, Madrona, Redwood Junior and Newbury Park High schools, my Dad left the Janss Corporation in 1972 and we moved to Alamo, CA (up here near San Francisco) in '72 and I graduated from San Ramon H.S. in '74. Fondly and naively I picture T.O. as still having Jungleland, E&K Market and The Plunge in town and I still laugh at the name of Whizzin's restaurant. Great memories of old Rex's Toytown, ditching cotillion at Los Robles Country Club, hanging out at the Conejo Valley Bowling Alley and all those years of Conejo Valley Little League at the old community center. It was a big deal when KNJO broadcast our little league games live! We watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon on an old black & white TV with a long extension cord there at our annual little league BBQ in July 1969. The old Fox Conejo Theater used to have cartoons, a Lone Ranger serial and a double feature on Saturday afternoons for $.75. I vividly remeber going to my 2nd grade classroom at Timber school in February 1964 the day after the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan and screaming "yea yea yea" in line after recess with Luke Sheard and Mark Howse. Fond memories!
In '79 I graduated from UC Berkeley where I played baseball, and went straight into commercial real estate. I had been with Grubb & Ellis for 20 years in Walnut Creek until 1999 when I left to open a new office for Colliers International, where I represent office buildings for lease and sale here in Walnut Creek & Concord. This month I just returned to Grubb & Ellis.
My wife Janine and I have been married for 20 years and we have twin 18-year old daughters Audrey & Kelsey. They got into Irish Dance 10 years ago and they still compete all over the US & Europe. They are both off to Chico State this fall.
I play steel drums and write tropical lyrics with my Coconut Boat Band that has two cd's (on amazon and iTunes) titled "Rum Is A Many Blendered Thing" & "Too Much Hands on My Time". Truly for fun (and therapy).
Despite it being 20 degrees cooler than good old Zuma Beach, the northern Sonoma coast near Sea Ranch is where I spend free time, diving for abalone, surfing and SCUBA diving in general. My other life has been working on various shipwrecks around the world as an archaeological diver in places like Malacca, Malaysia and Singapore plus the "Atocha" Spanish galleon wreck in Florida for two seasons in the '80's.
Again, many great memories of growing up...Expand for more
in the Conejo Valley. The parade for Conejo Valley Days, diving for golf balls in the lakes at Los Robles Greens, watching the Dallas Cowboys practice at CLC, going to Jungleland, getting those free Murph the Surf notebook stickers with your Teen Burger and root beer at A&W next to Von's market, going out to dinner at the old Conejo Lodge and Shakey's Pizza, getting my Saturday morning butch haircut from Joe and Tony at the Conejo Village Barber Shop, buying those oh-so flammable glow-in -the-dark halloween costumes at Newberry's. Who remebers that heavy incense smell from Seltzer's Music Emporium (hole in the wall) store on the far end of the Janss Mall in the late 60's? Remember driving through Giacopuzzi Dairy up by TOHS and getting purple fink popsicles? Riding my gold stingray bike around Lynn Ranch. The carnival in June at the old Janss Mall. The old John Strong & Son Circus coming to town(whatever happened to them?) Remember those rockets that circled the Talley Industries sign next to the freeway in NP? What a great place to grow up in the "good old days". Couldn't have been better.
There is an old urban legend about a real black panther that escaped from Jungleland in 1965. I can attest that it's true. Jeff Eichel, my Dad and I were out looking for arrowheads near my old house next to Los Robles and it menadered by along those same foothills west of my house that bordered the freeway and Jungleland. The panther was heading north toward Camarillo. My Dad tried to convince us it was just a large black house cat but years later admitted it was indeed an escapee from Jungleland but had to keep it quiet until it was caught. It never was, and this wandering panther was supposedly chosen as the mascot for the new NPHS.
Walnut Creek up here is a great place for my kids to grow up now, but T.O. will always be special and I have never really gotten over moving away. I understand now that our house on the old 7th tee of the Los Robles golf course (back when the course was on both sides of the freeway) is now the Cameron Visitor Center. Where are all of you from Madrona Elementary school, especially those in Mrs. Robinson's 5th grade class of '67?
Hope you all are doing well and if you're ever up here in Walnut Creek or the Bay Area let me know & lunch is on me!
scott.ellis(at)grubb-ellis.com
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925-274-2427 is my office number
Scott
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