David Davis:
CLASS OF 1976
Mission Bay High SchoolClass of 1976
San diego, CA
Berkeley High SchoolClass of 1976
Berkeley, CA
Pacific Beach Junior High SchoolClass of 1973
San diego, CA
Mission Beach Elementary SchoolClass of 1970
San diego, CA
Martha Farnum SchoolClass of 1970
San diego, CA
David's Story
Born in Berkeley, lived there five years before Dad took us to Tennessee for a year, and Kansas for another year. Work beckoned my Father to San Diego in 1965. Mission Beach Elementary, Martha Farnum, then a move from Mission Beach to Pacific Beach and Pacific Beach Junior High. Though shown as class of 76 MBHS, I moved to Berkeley while in the tenth grade because of marriage issues between my parents. Boy, was that ever a culture shock going from San Diego to Berkeley!!! I found solitude visiting my cousins out in Pt. Reyes, their having the only house on 25 miles of National Seashore about three miles north of the Pt. Reyes lighthouse. Dealt with the craziness of Berkeley as best I could, graduating at Berkeley High School 1976. Floundered for a while, but had a lot of fun cruising hot rods on East 14th in Fremont on Friday and Saturday nights, as well 3rd street in San Rafael and the main drag through Petaluma when out with the cousins. Cousin Ben had a 67 Chevelle SS with a 396 and a four speed a fire truck red that would make your eyes water, and his sister, cousin Patty, seen in the pictures, had a 68 GTX with the 440 magnum. Mine was a 73 Roadrunner with the 440 and a Pistol Grip four speed. Those really were the days. Those cars were practically new, then, and you would be amazed at how litte we paid for them then, and how much they go for now when you see them on Barret's auctions. It makes a grown man want to cry. That nonsense for a couple of years, then I finally got tired of floundering and joined the Navy in '78. Ended up BACK in San Diego at NAS Miramar working on F-14's in the Airframes Division as a Structural Mechanic. Got high power qualified on the F-14A and became a troubleshooter and final checker working the flight deck and catapults. Two cruises on the USS Ranger, on station in the Persian Gulf when Reagan got elected and the hostages in Iran got released. My Squadron provided escort. Then it was time to reenlist. A few Navy schools later and a change of specialty to Avionics and I was married and stationed at Barbers Point Hawaii for the next 6 years working on modified C-130's. Sorry, can't tell you what we did, or I'd have to kill ya. ;P Can't say I didn't like being in...Expand for more
Hawaii, but we had detachments that put me BACK in the Bay area for a few months at a time, right next to "home". Another reenlistment, more schools to become a Calibration Tech, and then BACK to the Bay Area with orders to NAS Alameda. That lasted seven years total, as I finished shore duty at Alameda and was assigned to the USS Carl Vinson homeported at Alameda. When that came to an end, since my wife was from Florida, I put in for final orders to anywhere Florida. Unbelievably, I GOT a set! Took last set of orders to NAS Jacksonville. Wife had planted down at Panama City Beach where the rest of her family was, and I played the part of a weekend husband and father for the last tour, Jacksonville being 300 miles away. Retired and stayed in Panama City Beach, Florida. Survived a few good Hurricanes, but the marriage became a casualty after 22 years. Have two great kids, Jake 19, and Shareen 16. Still work for the Navy as Civil Servant. Couldn't have a better job, still surrounded by my Shipmates. Miss California sometimes, but not too much. California is decidedly not the same place it was when I was a kid in the 60's. Of course, no place is. I'm now in the Redneck Riviera, but the fishing is pretty good. It can get hot and humid, but that's why we like our "go fast" boats around here. Admittedly, we have to wait for storms in the Gulf before we have any surf to speak of, but the water is crystal blue, the sugar sand snow white, and the water as warm as a bath. All things considered, living in Florida can have it's perks. They get a little spooked around here when once every ten years they have a tremor about 2.0 on the richter scale, but we're on the edge of tornado alley and I've seen a few good water spouts. I've never seen lightning like what they have around here, though. Especially disconcerting when caught up in just such a storm while canoeing in any of our fine creeks in an ALUMINUM canoe and watching trees on either side of the creek getting vaporized. Well, you have to have SOMETHING to put a little spark into your life. Anyway, I'm good. I hope all my friends from my schools and duty stations are doing well. Heck, that pretty much goes for everyone, friend or not. Take care, all.
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