Life Magazine 1966

[Steven]

	I was twelve in '66 and read Popular Science closely -- it also had  
a futuristic bent back then.  Do you recall all the promo for the  
rotary combustion engine?  It was supposed to hearken a new age of  
efficiency  --  I don't think smog was even an issue then.  I went to  
the UC in Riverside in the early mid '70s and had a friend from  
Altadena, lovely town.  It's all in the hills, isn't it?

	And isn't the San Narciso Pynchon web page maintained from the  
Pomona Colleges?

	Steve-- were you brought up something like Frenesi?

	
On Aug 26, 2006, at 2:31 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> The window is between 1966-1967. I had my subscription to Popular  
> Science (a birthday gift from my grandmother[was, for some slimy  
> reason, really hoping for Scientific American. I figured it would  
> probably be over my head, but I'd be able to fake it anyway.])  
> while living in this really cool house on an incline in Altadena,  
> Ca. We had a huge open space as the kids collective bedroom (with a  
> few Japanese screens to separate the genders and a huge floor- 
> standing Edwardian Lamp to brighten the place up), featuring  
> different colored/styled carpet samples on the floor (along with a  
> general overhang of toxic vapors from the airplane-glue like cement  
> used to connect those samples to the concrete) and a tube-driven,  
> tabletop AM radio generally tuned to KRLA, firmly planted on a  
> dirty red square of inch-long shag. Spent the summer of '66 in  
> Watts. As I recall, had an interesting discussion of things  
> lysergic with one of the volunteers from the CCC, the daycare  
> program for the WLCAC (the Wat
> ts Labor Community Action Committee). So, most likely 1966.

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