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McCall's Ranch School and Summer Camp was a private
boarding school and summer camp formerly located in the eastern San
Diego County town of
Alpine.
McCall's Ranch was started in 1944 by Blanch and Carl
McCall largely to care for children of military members and defense
workers during the Second World War.
McCall's continued providing education to grates 1 through 8 until the
middle 1970s. I attended from the summer of 1959 to May 1965. If anyone
remembers,
my nickname was "Woody".
I will be embedding photographs that I have taken
during my time at McCall's Ranch when time permits. Most are black&white
and need to be scanned.
In the meantime, I have scanned an old McCall's Ranch
School & Summer Camp brochure. I had to divide it into four images and
each may
take a moment or two to download. Printing in the early 1960s was not
done with the Internet in mind.
McCall's Ranch School Brochure from the early
1960s:
(To see the full image, point & click on the respective thumbnail
image.
To return to this page, use your browser's back button tool.)
While in the image mode, you can click on the actual
enlargement itself to see a readable version.
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Side 1
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Side 2
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Side 3
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Side 4
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Unfortunately, in 2008, there is very little
left, if anything, to indicate where McCall's Ranch once stood. The
hill, where on top, once stood the ranch house (see the picture
above) has been subdivided into several "ranchettes" or, suburban
estates. The ranch house, class rooms and barn are no longer
present. In fact, many of the granite outcroppings where we used to
climb are no longer seen on any of the aerial photos. A year or so
ago, we went through Alpine looking for where McCall's used to be
located. The entire landscape is now unrecognizable. We then paid a
visit to the Alpine Chamber of Commerce and the manager there had
never even heard of the school & boarding camp.
Carl McCall passed away in the late 1970s/early
1980s. Blanch passed away in the early 1990s.
All good things must come to an end, I guess. In
the meantime, thanks to Google Maps, you can take a look at an
aerial photo of the hill at the intersection of Tavern and South
Grade Roads looks like now. The community is now known as "Alpine
Heights.
Google Map of Alpine Heights
Aerial Photo of the former McCall's Ranch
(You can slew closer up by using the scale at the left of your
screen
and slew toward any direction by pointing & clicking on the photo
and moving your curser.)
And, if you have
Google Earth loaded on your computer, open it up and copy and
paste the following coordinates: 32° 49'
05.45"N, 116° 46' 18.56"W
Photo Gallery If you will send me
a recent photo of yourself (plus a photo of you as a student at
McCall's Ranch), I'll add it to this gallery. Please let me know
when you attended McCall's. Note: To see the
pictures in their full size, point and click on the respective
thumbnail. To return to this page, click on your browser's "Back"
button.
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Mark Wood |
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Attended McCall's Ranch School and Summer Camp from 1959 to 1964. |
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Mark Wood |
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8 years old at McCall's Ranch (Green Valley Falls field trip). |
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Lanier Dockstader (Mary Lanier Toon) |
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Attended McCall's Ranch School and Summer Camp from 1961 to 1964 |
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Any former students or faculty and staff of
McCall's Ranch School & Summer Camp (and family members) are invited to
email me at mabwood@mabwood.org.
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