Monday, June 04, 2007

JULY 1973 TIME CAPSULE OF MY FATHER

A TIME CAPSULE FROM JULY 1973/FROM CALI TO WASHINGTON..........
Here's my dad, probably at the Redondo Beach place, with a book - typical. My parents were extremely talented and brilliant folks, and even so, to my great regret, I was unable to bring myself to write a memorial for the local paper in Santa Cruz when my father passed on. Therefore, in the coming autobiographical book here we'll see a lot of my folks and their folks. These very personal pictures of my dad (in a period "lost" to my mother, thousands of miles of distance and difference between them at that point) show a pre-Watergate, pre-aids world of promise and hope. What bit of hope was left then for a hippified old-timey, more earth-connected existence.
Brookings, Oregon, above.......... Twisp, Washington, below.
"Dining area/ kitchen"
Bellingham, Wa.......
I love how much is going on in this picture, it's quite dense.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
another picture from this sequence was later recovered and will hopefully be added in soon.
Willits, Ca
I like the macrame' on the wall...all the little details.
"The Terrible Trio in Willits, Ca" (with Katrina the dog, I might add.)
"Cable car across canyon, Laytonville, Ca"
(this looks so fun!)
"Buzz & Jim's house in Laytonville"
(Wonderful shot- great sketchy dwelling, look at the pitch of that gorge! What a nutty place to build. You can't get away with houses like this very many places if anywhere these days.)

6 comments:

  1. Am wondering your dad's name & where that house in Laytonville was? I'm from there... 50 years... recently moved to Brookings, OR. Am a "70's child", too.

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  2. Robin, went to your page, couln't find a place to contact you, but, should you see this--
    His name was Phil Dobbs; I don't know where that house in Laytonville was, sadly he's passed away and all I have to go on is those photos and the scanty info written on them. I was born in 1961, and Phil had been divorced from my mom for several years at the time of his travels depicted here. Funny that you're in Brookings, now! Wish he was here to talk about that era. One never has enough time to chat and record all of the history contained in one's parents, as it is, I need to ask my mother more stuff about the past...

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