Life Magazine 1966

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Altadena's in the hills (it started to get steep where I lived), Pomona's to the east, with LaVerne (where I also lived) being even higher in the hills and close to Pomona. I was bought up  something like Prairie. Yes, I recall that the rotary engine was the big thing and there also was a lot of promotion for "2001", which came out two years later.
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From: Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net>
> 	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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