You and your guest are invited
Newport Harbor Cruise
Hosted by Gail (Holton) Berk
June 25, 2017
This event has already taken place.
Thanks to all who joined us.
MV Hornblower
Photos Courtesy of Gail (Holton) Berk
My apologies for the overly blue photos. I was not aware that my camera color overcompensated with blues during the entire weekend. It is very apparent in the photos of this event
Foreground: Kathy Ragazzo, Joe Ragazzo,
Background: Cheri (Lessley) Watson, Mike Gallo,
Jack Gerstkemper, Connie (Bretz) Cole, Nancy (Duff) Fournet
Cheri (Lessley) Watson, Dennis Huntley, Kathy Ragazzo, Joe Ragazzo, Gail (Holton) Berk, Jack Gerstkemper, Gentry Edes,
Jan (Crone) Jensen, Mike Gallo, Linda (Perret) Brumley, Debra LeForge, John Davison, Connie (Bretz) Cole, Nancy (Duff) Fournet, Linda (Wright) Shadel, Katie (McArthur) Fitzpatrick
Foreground: Kathy Ragazzo, Joe Ragazzo,
Background: Mike Gallo, Jan (Crone) Jensen, Jack Gerstkemper
Dennis Huntley, Jan (Crone) Jensen, Cheri (Lessley) Watson, Mike Gallo, Jack Gerstkemper
Jan (Crone) Jensen, Jack Gerstkemper, Cheri (Lessley) Watson, Connie (Bretz) Cole, Nancy (Duff) Fournet
Foreground: Kathy Ragazzo, Joe Ragazzo
John Wayne's Yacht, Wild Goose
Left table clockwise from bottom left:
Jack Gerstkemper, Jan (Crone) Jensen, Joe Ragazzo,
Kathy Ragazzo, Terry Fitzpatrick,
Katie (McArthur) Fitzpatrick (hidden), Mike Gallo, Fred Shadel, Linda (Wright) Shadel
Right table clockwise from bottom left:
Cheri (Lessley) Watson, Connie (Bretz) Cole, Debra LeForge, Gentry Edes, Gail (Holton) Berk, John Davison,
Linda (Perret) Brumley, Clarissa Cerolini, Nancy (Duff) Fournet, Dennis Huntley
Balboa Island
Balboa Pavilion
This is where the scenes were shot for the opening/closing credits of Gilligan's Island.
See two sets on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmBIWMA0ex8&t=35s
There's the American Legion. Can you see it? Me neither.
John Wayne's Wild Goose again
Little story. Jack toted five of us from the hotel to this event in his car. I had my handicap placard so he could get a handicap place to park (there were two of us who are handicapped). None of us noticed where we parked until end of event.
More Tidbits About the Area
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John Wayne's Wild Goose" yacht has been restored and you can rent it for a mere $25 per person with a 10-guest minimum (per the website) -- over 30 the price changes and the max is 124 guests.
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John Wayne's home was demolished (according to a cruise director) because of termites, and the new owner (Conroy's flower empire) build his home on the site and has a 3-foot-high memorial to the "Duke in the side yard.
Nicholas Cage sold his home on the island after waking up to a nude man at the end of his bed (according to a cruise director) who wanted an autograph.
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Published facts were not found for the following tidbit, but the story goes that Roy Rogers (living on Lido Island) had Trigger stuffed and standing at a window so people would stop and take photos. Roy encouraged this even to the point of putting Christmas lights on the horse and a tree around his neck. The community voted to ask him to leave the island and sell the house and the story goes that the island has voted that no celebrity can live there. Apparently, this island has an association that the majority rules on who can and cannot live there and what they want to keep low key.
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