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 Every Now & Then STILL Getting Comments from My Post~(Scroll down)
Seems Like another World~~~  here are some more from my life... i Worked at The PUP HUT Van Nuys blvd (neer the Un employment office ... i would Play Guitar & Sing Out side (While not making hot dogs)about1963 ~( the owners financed a Coffee House for me"The Orpheus" on Lankershim  blvd about 1965/6 .Worked @"The House of Sight & Sound" about 1964/5( My specialty  was the"Folk Music".was working there when members of the "Grass Roots" Came in... Green Hair and All COOL!  i Remember when people came out from the listening  booths Really Mad... Because The Beatles went Acoustic ~Or Dylan Went Electric. Swimming @ Pops willow Lake Or Hanson Damn ~ Climbed  Pepper Trees Near my House on Lanark~ Latter was the Bus Yard) My Very First PIZZA @ "Meat Ball Manor"~i would walk to Nobel Ave Elementary school  Lanark~ Brimfield ...Cross Rosco Blvd Over The WOODEN Bridge  Horse Riding in the Wash...No Concrete then. Builders Emporium Free Hot Coco & Pop.  We Bought Meat at The Tumbleweed  Market ...Sawdust on the flour~ Does Anyone Remember a Candy Store in panorama city early & mid 50s ? (i cant remember Where it was ... They sold Lots of "Penny Candy" .we Built a Tree House in the Field ...By the tracks (Latter Lots of Apartments) My Early Years... it was Wide Open Spaces~ My Friend Paddi & i would walk To the San Fernando  Mission ...Just to Smell The Orange Blossoms Awe!