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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bosko69, post: 4514755, member: 16283&quot;]Drew-We lived in Santa Rosa,CA back then.My folks were would-be suburban &#039;beatniks&#039; .Our podunk town was abt 30-40 minutes from Sausalito.</p><p>&nbsp; My Great-Gramps (born 1864),saw Pres Lincoln as a babe-so the lore says. Well Grandpa Richard Quintrell (sp?) was the Master/Foreman of the Tiburon NWPRR Rail Yard &#039;bout a century ago.</p><p>&nbsp; Tiburon,Belvedere &amp; Sausalito was a beloved destination when i was kid.</p><p>Your Dad,Sally Stanford,Lenny Bruce at the &#039;No Name&#039; Bar,Spike,Alan Watts-&#039;christ on crutches&#039;,it was a tad like Hemingway and Henry Millers Paris !</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The thing about Sausalito and Tiburon back then was that all the&nbsp; economic strata intermingled-Beats,welders,poets,insurance peddlers,plumbers talked,drank and ate together.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; People,real people could afford the rent back then in most of this nation-&#039;This Land Is Your Land,this land was made for You &amp; Me&#039; as Mr Guthrie said.</p><p>&nbsp; Now economically we&#039;ve gotten &#039;ghettoized&#039;-rich/poor,etc.</p><p>&nbsp; The thing about a red state &amp; a blue state person livin&#039; next door to each other and sharing a beer,is the sharing &amp; the TRANSMIGRATION (sorry abt the big verbiage &amp; the caps) of ideas,of &#039;thought&#039;, sharing&#039;s&nbsp; part of the evolutionary process-we all grow/evolve from it.</p><p>&nbsp; P.S.-Drew,yr old man was a hell of a picaresque cat-battle Marine,sailor,actor-good lord He worked w/ Houston,Nick Ray &amp; Kubrick !</p><p>Yr Dad would prob been happier staying a Mariner,but life gives Us what it does.Thanks for sharing bro,the treasures of our human narrative.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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