Sep 22 1967
Long Beach State Dorm
First year of college I lived in the dorm with Byran Brooks as my roommate.
Aug 26 1967
Long Beach State College
Attended Long Beach my freshman and sophomore years of college. I was not happy there; my scheme of having two years at an easy beach college before transferring to UC was a mistake. LBSC was an impersonal, mediocre, commuter college. The beach was far away, I had no car to get there, and I had […]
Jul 1 1967
Road Trip with Lyndon Bittle to New York and the Montreal World’s Fair
Lyndon and I drove across the country in his red Volkswagen Beetle. We stopped in west Texas to visit his family and Dayton Ohio to visit my aunt and uncle. We continued to the Montreal World Fair and New York City.
Apr 17 1967
Won Debate Championship
Lyndon Bittle and I went undefeated through the 1967 debate season in Yosemite Forensics League.
Nov 26 1965
Lyndon Bittle
Lyndon and I were best friends junior and senior years of high school. We were roommates sophomore and junior years of college. We bought a Fiat Spyder together with the financial help of his father. We took a road trip together to the Montreal World Fair in 1966. Senior year of college we grew apart […]
Jul 1 1965
Jackson Hole Road Trip 1965
Drove from Lodi to Jackson Hole with Greg Kennedy and his Jackson Hole friend.
Sep 8 1963
High School Philosophy
Starting about sixth-grade I began a life-long project to figure it all out. The project went through many phases. I began with the question of god. Sometime when I was 16 the remember laying on my back in bed and realizing if the became an atheist I would never look back. For me it was […]
Feb 16 1963
Pocket Watches
Both my grandfathers used pocket watches. From about seventh grade through high school I too carried a pocket watch. I preferred baby bend watches that went for about three or four dollars and were sold at checkout counters. The baby bens kept poor time–off three to five minutes a day. They also broke often. Nonetheless […]
Sep 22 1962
Early Jobs
In junior high I worked a janitor at Foster’s Freeze. I also had paper routes for the Lodi News Sentinel and the Stockton Record. In high school I was janitor for Ward’s. The summer of 1965 I was a farm worker working a crew run by my Mexican neighbor woman. From 1966 through 1970 I […]
Oct 9 1967
Favorite Songs from 1967
The World I Used to Know Wonderful, Wonderful Sounds of Silence Day Dreamer Along Comes Mary Cast Your Fate to Wind Blown in the Wind Cherish Blown in the Wind I Want to be Free Elusive Butterfly Melody to an Unknown Girl Surfer Stomp Land of the Free Home of the Brave Broomstick Cowboy Hungry […]
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