Chino man compiles vintage memories from San Gabriel Valley's
boomer days  Despite the region's rich history, few historical
and cultural icons remain from life in the San Gabriel Valley in
the 1950s, '60s and '70s.   It's an era that has come and gone.
While the places may have disappeared, Chino resident Gary
Cliser wants to make sure the vivid images of those decades past
don't. And he is using modern tools in his effort.  Cliser has
made it his mission to document the cultural icons of the era -
a time he calls "The Sandlot" years - with vintage photos on his
website,  "Maybe it's the perception of the world by children,
they experience their world through a different set of eyes and
only remember the fun times and the fun places," said Cliser,
who was born in 1957 in West Covina and grew up in La Puente.
"I have always had an interest in our life and how things were
when we were kids," Cliser said. "Perhaps it's an aging Baby
Boom population that realizes the fleeting (passage) of time and
of those fon