weblog #8..Family photos, assorted other photos, stories, music and more...

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Howard Hughes---

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Photo of me at age ten----

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Scene from the 1932 film "I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" with Paul Muni----------

2008-05-16T16:08:00.000-07:00

Very early photo of The First Presbyterian Church in Pomona, Calif, corner of Gibbs Street and Holt Ave..Built in 1907, the main church building was destroyed by fire in 1981 and was later rebuilt..This was the church that my family belonged to when I was growing up in Pomona..My mother and grandmother both sang in the church choir and attended the prayer meetings every week and never missed a Sunday going to church and also made us kids do the same------------

2008-05-14T11:59:00.000-07:00

Me on home leave from Brown Military Academy, at age thirteen, in the backyard of our Alvarado Pomona address-------------------

2008-05-14T11:53:00.000-07:00

On the beach at Newport Beach, Calif..My mother laying in the foreground, next in line is my grandmother, then my greatgrandmother, my sister on the end and me standing with the board at age eight..My grandfather was taking the photo-----------

2008-05-14T11:44:00.000-07:00

My older brother on the right with his wife`s brother and I think it`s his son in the middle..Photo taken in Hawaii where he has been living for some time-------------

2008-05-14T11:35:00.000-07:00

My sixth grade class photo..Lincoln Elementary School, Pomona, Calif..I am pictured in the top row, fourth student from the left---------------

2008-05-14T11:26:00.000-07:00

My older brother in the Air National Guard----------------

2008-05-14T11:19:00.000-07:00

Me at age eight in the Cub Scouts and in front of our first Pomona address on Kenoak Drive..My grandfather was taking the photo------------

2008-05-14T11:04:00.000-07:00

I took this photo at eleven years of age while the family was visiting Knott`s Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif..My mother is on the far left and the two lady friends are looking into the jail at Sad Eyed Joe, who is actually a dummy figure of a man in jail..You can tell the person at the front booth what you want Joe in jail to say to your friend when they go up to the bars of the jail and that is why everyone is cracking up in this photo..Just one of the attractions of Knott`s in the 50s---------

2008-05-14T08:13:00.000-07:00

From the Warrior Yearbook, a photo of the auditorium building at Brown Military Academy (no longer there) where I spent one school semester as a boarding student, or cadet rather, in the eighth grade-----------------------

2008-05-14T07:59:00.000-07:00

Me, on the right, with my older brother..We had just gotten out of church is why we were all dressed up..My brother looks sort of disgusted in this photo..Location is in front of our second Pomona address on Alvarado next door to the Holm Family---------------

2008-05-14T07:47:00.000-07:00

My late grandmother with my Aunt Mildred in downtown Pomona, Calif in the early 50s when it was safe to do some shopping at the Safeway Market on W. Holt Avenue(no longer there, althought the store is still there and Chinese owned now)---------

ATV ASSHOLE!!

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My Kindergarten Class Photo, Dodge Elementary School, Council Bluffs, Iowa..I am pictured in the top row, fourth student from the left--------------

2007-05-20T01:59:00.000-07:00

Now Playing: It`s My Party--Leslie Gore..I`m Hurtin--Roy Orbison..Dedicated to the One I Love--The Shirelles..I Don`t Know Why I Love You, But I Do--Clarence (Frogman) Henry..Bosa Nova--Elvis Presley..Watermelon Man--Mongo Santamaria..Underwater--The Frogmen..Every Breath I Take--Gene Pitney..You Belong To Me--The Dupres...Talking with Harvey about USC Assholes, etc. on The Phil Hendrie Show over KFI-AM Los Angeles autostart="true" loop="false" volume="50%" height="20" width="145">

2007-02-04T11:01:00.000-08:00

Neighborhood friend Arthur Seagren, Jr., older brother of Bob Seagren who first excelled in the pole vault in high school and who inspired his younger brother, Bob, to compete in the event..1960 Pomona High School graduation photo

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Neighborhood friend Bob Seagren (1959), age thirteen, San Bernardino Road, Pomona, California..Olympic Gold Medalist Pole Vaulter at age twenty-one..1968 Mexico City Summer olympics

Me, on the right at age eleven with neighborhood friend Marshall Turpin, in front of garage at 404 W. Alvarado Street, Pomona, Calif.

Pomona High School, 1959, after the 1956 fire destroyed the main building students have to attend school in make shift portable classrooms

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On the far left are my grandfather holding my mother next to my grandmother and my greatgrandmother is standing 3rd person from the right..Phillipsburg, Kansas..1911

------------------------------------------------I took this photo at age eleven while the family was visiting Knott`s Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif...The two ladies in the center are my mother on the left and my grandmother on the right, and the other two ladies are family friends

------------------------------------------------------Mel`s Hamburgers once located at Palomares and Holt in downtown Pomona, Calif. back in the 1950`s..It was a popular hangout for school kids..Looking at Pomona today you would never believe how it once was..It was completely the opposite of what it`s like today..The change, I`m afraid to say, has been for the worse!...

-------------------------------------------------------------This photo, made out of tin, taken in the late 1800`s, is of my greatgrandfather Stinson on the right next to his brother on the left..

----------------------------------------------------Pomona Valley YMCA as it looks still today, built in 1922, it replaced the Palomares Hotel which burned down in 1911..Construction could not begin until after World War One had ended..

---------------------------------------------Me at age three

-------------------------------------------Me at age ten

--------------------------------------------Me at age eleven while the family was visiting Knott`s Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif...My mother was taking the photo--------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------Family photo..from left to right: my grandmother, my sister, my mother, me in front and on the far right is my grandfather next to my brother in front of our first Pomona address on Kenoak Drive

-----------------------------------------------Tampa, Florida, Clearwater Beach, Me on the left, at age twelve, next to my older sister..My brother-in-law was taking the photo..He was stationed at MacDill Air Force Base at the time and I was down there living with them for about six months at the time------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------My third grade class photo, Lincoln Elementary School, Pomona, Calif..I am pictured in the top row, third student from the left---------------------------------------------------------

From left to right: me at age eight, Sandra Hackler, my older brother, John, Rosalind Hackler and Ladd Hackler in front..The Hacklers were friends of the family out here from Nebraska where we also came from (actually Iowa)..Photo was taken by my grandfather in downtown Pomona, Calif..

-----------------------------------------ELECTRO-SHOCK TORTURE (ALTHOUGH THEY CALL IT THERAPY)...A barbaric invention of torture from the 1930`s..It destroys people`s lives and turns them into vegetables..It destroys brain cells..IT IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND AGAINST THE SPIRIT!!

-------------------------------------------The 1956 Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan Assn employees..
Photo was taken shortly after this new building was built on North Garey Avenue in Pomona, California, and replacing the old building at 260 South Thomas Street..
My mother was employed as an insurance clerk here and she is pictured in the second row from the front, the fifth person from the left who is seated behind a desk and she has a white sweater on and wearing glasses...
I might also add that Pomona was a much different (and better) city than it is today at the time of this photo...Today Pomona resembles downtown skid row Los Angeles more than anything else

------------------------------------------Johnny Otis who had a number of hit records from the 1940`s to the 1960`s including Harlem Nocturne, Hey, Hey, Hey, Willie and the Hand Jive and many others..Johnny Otis, who is of Greek decent, came before Alan Freed and other disc jockeys who played Black Music..Johnny Otis started the music careers of many well known artists such as Jackie Wilson, Little Richard and many others..Frank Zappa fashioned himself after Johnny Otis and actually met Otis in 1958..Born in Vallejo, Calif. in 1921 Johnny Otis is still going strong at 85 years of age...

------------------------------------Pomona High School, built in 1923, being destroyed by fire, May 14, 1956..My brother was in his junior year at this school during this time..Today the high school is located on North Towne Avenue and a shopping center stands in this spot where the old high school once stood and this area is now comparable to downtown Los Angeles Skid Row---------------------

-------------------------------------------Pomona High School once located on East Holt Avenue in Pomona, California as it appeared before the 1956 fire----------------------

-------------Post Card of Knott`s Berry Farm, Buena Park, Calif. how it appeared in the early 1950`s-----------------------------

-----------------------My sister holding her newborn baby girl, Sandra alongside my brother-in-law, Ontario, Calif.------------------------------------

A problem we still face today that never gets any better

Me at age eight in Jane Russell`s swimming pool, Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Me age 16

Haunted Camarillo State Hospital..You can actually see the ghost images in the foreground caught on film

My fourth grade class photo, Lincoln Elementary School, Pomona, Calif...I am pictured in the front row, second student from the right-----------

My father took this photo of Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in the 1930`s..Photography was his hobby and he would always take the family to go camping in Yellowstone before I was even born..I was the youngest of three of his children..While my brother and my older sister were born in Amarillo, Texas, I was born in Fairbury, Nebraska after my mother and father had already split up------------------