Life Magazine 1966

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 26, 2006, at 8:45 PM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> Altadena's in the hills (it started to get steep where I lived),


You didn't happen to go to Eliot Jr. High School did you. High up on  
Lake Avenue. Ot was that still in existence.


> 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.
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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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> From: Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net>
> Date: August 26, 2006 3:46:48 PM EDT
> To: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
> Cc: Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de>, Pynchon-L <pynchon- 
> l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: Life Magazine 1966
>
>
> 	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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