I EXPECT THAT since my last column there’s at least one person who has moved to Pacific Beach and opened an account at Chase Bank, on the northeast corner of Cass and Garnet. For all they know, it’s been there forever. Depending on how long you’ve been at the beach, you can count backward and recall other businesses that have occupied the spot. On May 11, 1920 “the new paved highway to La Jolla” opened along with – I assume – the Pacific Beach Service Station on the corner where the highway turned north. A service station remained on the corner until the late 1950s, when Home Federal Savings opened the two-story brick structure familiar to most of us now. I’m hazy on the dates, but it may have been the 1970s when Home Federal Savings became HomeFed Bank. Around 1985 it was taken over by Great Western Bank. Washington Mutual was the next tenant and – last month – Chase Bank. DOWN UNDER PLUMBING, advertised on the side of a truck I saw in the College Area, might well belong to an Aussie, but I couldn’t help wondering if it was some sort of a mobile OB/GYN service. IT’S HARD TO KNOW who’s more excited about the monthly backyard movies at the Gerber residence on Diamond Street: the toddlers leaping out of the SUVs or the parents speeding away from the curb for a night on their own. Things went terribly wrong at the most recent screening. Someone forgot that Daylight Savings Time was going to keep darkness from arriving until around 7:30 p.m. Someone else didn’t know that “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” runs a full three hours. I’ll let you do the math. I understand that the event unraveled during intermission and many parents carried sleeping youngsters to the waiting family car. JILLIAN WILDING (that would be Doc and Mary’s granddaughter) was sitting in class at Cathedral Catholic when an office monitor dropped a detention notice on her desk. “Swearing!! Insubordination!! No way!! It had to be another person!!” Jillian did what any normal teenage girl would do; she sent her Mom a frantic text message. The teacher then confiscated her cell phone. Turned out the detention notice was delivered to the wrong person, but Jillian still had to stay after school for using her phone during class. John Fry may be reached at 272-6655 or [email protected].