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Dwight Worden Craig Yerkes Cover Design: Chuck Schiele The San Diego Troubadour mourns the loss of our friend Marco Anguiano who passed away Wednesday, August 24, 2005. We will miss him. Upheld, encouraged, nurtured were we all By him whose kindness comforts in recall. — B. R. www.sandiegotroubadour.com 3 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2005 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR full circle y t e i c o S l a c i r o t s i H o g e i D n Desi Arnaz a S : o t o h The Mambo King of Del Mar P for the couple at 1920 Ocean Front. Even premise finding Ricky heading to San 1953 when The Long, Long Trailer ’s back - after the two split and Arnaz remarried in Diego to rehearse for a USO show with ers wanted the pair to concentrate on 1963, he and his new wife, Edith, Maurice “Thank Heaven For Little Girls” that film instead and Forever Darling, a remained. Arnaz loved the local scenery Chevalier, scheduled to take place on an light romantic comedy released in 1956. and was also a major race and horse aircraft carrier. Lucy and Ethel decide to Selling his half of Desi-Lu to Lucy in enthusiast, becoming involved in various go shopping in Tijuana, with Fred as 1962, he had formed Desi Arnaz aspects of the business. He could be chaperone. Needless to say much confu - Productions Inc. by 1965. While it didn’t found in the terrace at the race track sion ensues and Lucy ends up dressed as quite scale the same height of Desi-Lu, he Arnaz in his prime most of the summer. But it was encoun - a Matador fighting a bull at the local bull did score a hit with The Mothers-in-Law, by Bart Mendoza ters with Arnaz and his family outside of ring! And let’s not forget the pair’s won - which ran for three seasons on NBC the race track that delighted local resi - derful 1954 film The Long, Long Trailer , (1967-1969) and featured Arnaz, who dents the most. Natives still speak of the part of which was shot at the Anza produced as well as appeared in four Professor Desi Arnaz at SDSU, 1972 lthough Desi Arnaz is best known star-studded parties at the home with rev - Borrego State Park, the infamous Banner episodes as Señor Raphael Delgado. for the role of beloved entertainer erence, and stories of shocked customers, grade to be specific. Classic TV fans should also keep an eye return as a professor and soon taught ARicky Ricardo on the long running running into Lucy and Desi at the local Of course Arnaz was much more than out for a mid-1960s appearance of a classes on TV production as well as act - I Love Lucy TV series as well as spin-offs, grocery store or gas station abound. just the I Love Lucy show. It was while liv - slightly out-of-place Arnaz on an episode ing. The school became part of the Arnaz it’s sometimes easy to forget that the long y ing in Del Mar that he and Lucy founded of Bonanza . family life with his son Desi Arnaz Jr., of t e time Del Mar resident really was a world i c Desi-Lu Productions. Though the compa - He also hosted his own series, Desi the hit sixties group Dino, Desi & Billy o S famous Cuban band leader and really did l ny would be known for such hit TV pro - Arnaz Theatre, but by the 1970s he semi- (remember the 1965 top 20 hit “I’m A a c i have a hit record called “Babalu.” r The Untouchables, The Dick Van o grams as retired to spend time with his family and, Fool”?) enrolled as a student there. It was t s Arnaz was born in Santiago, Cuba on i Dyke Show and Star Trek , it was, in fact, of course, his horses. He did mange to H here that the younger Arnaz met his wife, o March 2, 1917, and eventually took up g e originally formed to manage Arnaz’s make a few prime time appearances, a member of the San Diego Ballet. i music, mentored by and singing with the D band. showing up in episodes of Alice (1978), Sadly, Desi Sr. passed away from lung n a Xavier Cugat Orchestra, beginning in S y Ironsides Perry Mason t , and , with his final : e y o i t t c 1935. This early stint with Cugat would e o i o on screen appearance in the 1983 film c h S o P l be the basis of a running gag in the sit - S a The Escape Artist, although none topped l c i a r c com later on. By 1939, his suave style led i o t his appearance as guest host on the first r s o i t him to Broadway where he starred in the s H Saturday Night Live i season of NBC-TV’s . A o H g Rodgers and Hammerstein production of o e i perennial in reruns, it’s clear from the g e D i Too Many Girls . When it was made into a D n footage, especially when he leads the a n S a film, he reprised his role and was on his : band during a musical segment, that S o t : o way to Hollywood, though first on a o t h Arnaz is thrilled to be in front of an audi - o P My Favorite Husband h radio show, , with his ence again. It’s a shame he didn’t pursue P Arnaz at the Del Mar Racetrack, 1957 new bride, Lucille Ball. Throughout this more music later in life. period he continued to record, now as San Diego played a key role in the I Not to say that he wasn’t busy. He was highly acclaimed leader of his own Love Lucy (1951-1957) TV show as well. It appointed Ambassador to Latin America orchestra. His biggest chart success was was at an early 1951 La Jolla Playhouse under President Richard Nixon. He wrote for the Victor label, racking up numerous production of The Voices of a Turtle that an autobiography, A Book , which was hits from 1946-1949, including such clas - the pair discovered Vivienne Vance, who published in 1976 and became a New York sics as “Babalu” and “Cuban Pete.” would be immortalized on numerous TV Times best seller. A second planned book He would go on to own several other series as Ethel Mertz, Lucy’s best friend. never got past the outline stage. He also Arnaz with Dr. Almy Harding, donating his films homes as business (Beverly Hills) or There’s even an episode of The Lucy-Desi At home in Del Mar, 1976 bred horses both at a breeding facility in to the Malcom Love Library at SDSU, 1972 hobby (Corona Breeding Farm) dictated Show (1957-1960) that takes place here. Corona and a ranch in Baja California. but his first love and main residence was Episode number six in that series, which There was also a pair of movies along - In 1971 Arnaz crossed over into acade - cancer at his Del Mar home on December Del Mar.