THE TOP GUN HOUSE
Do You remember the first time you saw the Movie “Top Gun” ? I do, it was at the Lido Theater in Newport Beach CA. The opening sequence of the F 18 Jets on the runway, gave me goose bumps. No pun intended. The lighting on the scene, the Music, The roaring of the engines was unique in all of Movie Land.
Kelly McGillus is the daughter of my then Family Physician. It was kind of like we knew her, but in reality we did not, but for our place of residence, we were family.
Since then I have watched the film many times. In fact I own a YouTube download version. When the many houses on Pacific Street were torn down, to build Hotels The Top Gun House was spared. Boarded up, it spent several years in a decaying state of affairs, with periodic graffiti and repaint jobs, so it was in our collective consciousness, that some day it would just fall down.
The New Hotels had a plan. Move the Top Gun House to a new site which would incorporate the TGH into a courtyard in the Hotel site on Pacific Street. It is located at 201 N. Pacific St. at the Mission Pacific Hotel Oceanside. It is set to be an Ice Cream parlor and is a little jewel among the towering stories of the new Mission Pacific Hotel.
The Oceanside Public was adamant that it should be preserved. For it is a wonderful memory of what was in the 80”s. Now the Sequel is near depending on the Pandemic...I will be one of the first in line for a treat of yesteryear and memories of Kelly and Tom on the motorcycle roaring down Pacific Street in Oceanside Ca.
COME to Oceanside and watch the Movie Top Gun at the
Amptheater located on the blue Pacific coast, and see for yourself the New Top Gun House location across the street from the Oceanside Pier.
