and you know you’re an old timer when you remember when the following didn’t even exist!

Rancho Bernardo (or it’s high school)
San Carlos (or it’s high school)
Penasquitos
Tierra Santa
Scripps Ranch
Fashion Valley (there was a ball park there, and bison next door)
The Community Concourse (NOT the convention center)
Sea World
The Wild Animal Park

in comparison, you’re practically a newcomer if all you can remember is when the following didn’t exist:

Carmel Valley
La Costa (the community, not the country club. The country club belongs in the category above.)
anything called East Lake
The first EVER Price Club (now Costco) on Morena
Horton Plaza