A Holiday Parade and All THat Jazz

EVENTS

The Mother Goose Parade floats through El Cajon today; telephone (619) 444-8712 for more information . . . The Great American Dixieland Jazz Festival toe-taps Friday in Mission Valley, San Diego; (619) 297-5277 . . . Ontario’s Christmas on Euclid, which includes life-size Nativity scenes, will light up Euclid Avenue starting on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day; (714) 984-2458.

CELEBRATIONS

Nov. 24-30 is Latin America Week . . . It’s also National Bible Week . . . Helen Gahagan Douglas was born on Nov. 25, 1900 . . . Ricardo Montalban was born on the same date, in 1920 . . . Tuesday is Sojourner Truth Day . . . Thursday is Thanksgiving . . . Jimi Hendrix was born on Nov. 27, 1942 . . . Caroline Kennedy was born on the same date, in 1957 . . . Busby Berkeley was born on Nov. 29, 1895 . . . And Nov. 30 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mark Twain.

ONLY YESTERDAY

Fifteen years ago this week, “Love Story” and “The Sensuous Woman” topped the Southern California best-seller lists . . . Beach City Dodge advertised a ’71 Dodge Van conversion for $3,988 . . . Top movies were “Airport” (the original), “Diary of a Mad Housewife,” “Ryan’s Daughter” . . . Leon Russell was holding forth at the Anaheim Convention Center, Don Ho at the Cocoanut Grove . . . Lace-up suede granny boots were $19 at Ohrbach’s . . . A seven-day, three-island trip to Hawaii, including air fare, was $269.