Category Archives: California

Microsoft Team 1978

June 26, 2012 – 1:14 am

There were still hippies in 1978. Find Bill Gates. Clue; He’s wearing glasses. The kicker on this photo is WOULD YOU HAVE INVESTED IN THIS COMPANY IN 1978 If you had, you are richer than Croesus.

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Where Have All The Flower Children Gone?

June 26, 2012 – 1:10 am

I was last in San Francisco in 1974. I stopped there en route to Bangkok. My cousin lived in a Nob Hill Mansion, which was light years away from the crash pad at which I had slept back then. Ty drove me around the Haight and Golden Gate park. I felt like Hippie Van Winkle. […]

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EL TEN ELEVEN by I Like Van Halen

May 16, 2012 – 11:45 am

In 2004 my cousin Sherri called before my planned departure from Bangkok. She was living in LA with her fiance. Michael seemed like a nice man. Anyone was an improvement after her last husband, a speed freak bank robber. “I want you to meet him.” Sherri considered me her closest cousin. We weren’t family, but […]

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Buff Naked At Black’s Beach

May 9, 2012 – 7:28 pm

In the summer of 1974 I visited Black’s Beach in San Diego, which was the most popular nude beach in the United States. While nudity remains against the law in the city of San Diego, the Torrey Pines State Park has allowed ‘clothing optional’ for sun-worshippers from the Torrey Pines Gliderport north to the steel […]

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BLACK ROSES by Clear Light 1967

May 9, 2012 – 4:17 pm
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