Ojai

[Keith]

Camarillo State Hospital was actually in Camarillo and is now the  
site of Cal State Channel Islands University. Bird was indeed  
hospitalized there.

Ojai is seen as an artistic/spiritual mecca. Kishnamurti taught there  
for many years. It's a center for Theosophy as well. There's a world  
class music festival there at Libbey Bowl every June. Caters to the  
avant garde. Messiaen and the like have conducted there. Pretty  
amazing actually, outside under the oak trees.


On Sep 11, 2009, at 7:28 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 09:08 +0200, umberto rossi wrote:
> I refer to the chapter when Doc visits the Kryskylodon or
> Chryskylodon, I mean the nuthouse in Ojai with a Greek name which
> should mean Golden Fang, I'd like to know from listmembers in the
> LA area if this is just a place where such sorts of insititutions  
> can be
> found, because the place is mentioned right at the start of one of  
> P.K.
> Dick's non-sf novels, Puttering About in a Small Land, and there is a
> private school with innovative teaching methods (the novel's set in
> the mid-Fifties, and it also talks about tv-sets).
> _____________
> umberto rossi
>

I remember in  my youth the word Camarillo denoted the place they put a
person with a mental condition (case of nerves). Later learned it was a
town up Ventura way where the state mental hospital was. Not too far
from Ojai.

Bird lived there a while.

Both given a spanishy pronunciation.

OH hi

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