Hans Remembers- News Headlines from Saturday August 2- Sunday August 3, 1969.

• Saturday August 2, 1969- another unpredictable Bob Dylan move- he turns up at his 10th class reunion in Hibbing, Minnesota. But he doesn’t even make it to the reunion- just the before reunion gathering at the local Moose- with his wife Sara. Of course his appearing- and being off in a corner-there was a line of folks going over to talk to him- which some didn’t like because it made him seem special… and some jaggoff tried to start a fight with him so Dylan left before it actually began. I wonder if they had a 60th reunion of his class this summer? Dylan Lives!

• President Richard Milhous Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit the capital of a communist country arriving in Bucharest, Romania. He was the guest of Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. Nixon’s presidency of course had a poor ending but it wasn’t as bad as Ceausescu’s turned out to be.

• Sunday August 3, 1969- California’s  Governor Ronald “Dutch” Reagan dedicated the 2.1 mile long Coronado Bridge over San Diego Bay- which is high enough at 224 feet to allow the U.S. Navy ships to travel underneath it. The toll bridge was opened at 12:01 AM for traffic- with the toll being .60 cents to cross. In 2002 it became the last bridge in California to discontinue tolls.