{"id":15325,"date":"2014-02-06T01:41:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T09:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2014-02-06T01:41:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T09:41:43","slug":"tribute-to-del-mar-legend-bill-arballo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/tribute-to-del-mar-legend-bill-arballo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Del Mar Legend Bill Arballo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/billarb.jpg\" width=\"666\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Left photo: Former Del Mar Mayor Bill Arballo with his daughter, Teresa Arballo Barth, mayor of Encinitas, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Right: On New Year&#8217;s Eve 1940 residents of Del Mar were in a festive mood and there were parties everywhere. Around 8:45 p.m. a freight train plunged down an 65 foot embankment when a bluff collapsed. &#8220;By mid-morning, Ninth and 10th streets were crammed with onlookers, and not long afterward, there were hot dog wagons, popcorn vendors and souvenir hawkers at the scene.\u00a0The carnival atmosphere prevailed for several days until giant cranes were able to remove the locomotive and freight cars.&#8221; &#8211; \u00a0Bill Arballo, &#8220;Del Mar Reflections&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He ran into the likes of Bing<strong> <\/strong>Crosby, Jimmy Durante, President Nixon, Raquel Tejada (later Welsh),\u00a0Seabiscuit, and Desi Arnaz. Mayor Bill Arballo once made the deciding vote against a construction variance that Desi Arnaz wanted for his home on 18th Street. \u00a0Arnaz approached Bill afterwards&#8230;read \u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/bill-arballo.html\">Tribute to Del Mar Legend Bill Arballo<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by C. MacDonald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left photo: Former Del Mar Mayor Bill Arballo with his daughter, Teresa Arballo Barth, mayor of Encinitas, Calif. Right: On New Year&#8217;s Eve 1940 residents of Del Mar were in a festive mood and there were parties everywhere. Around 8:45 p.m. a freight train plunged down an 65 foot embankment when a bluff collapsed. &#8220;By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}