[AGL] Trip

[Terry Dyke]

Sounds like a great trip, Gerry. I always loved Mendocino.

I hung out there for a while right around the time you are talking 
about. Liz and I were living together in a house on Francisco Street in 
Berkeley, and I'd taken over Nick's VW repair business, Liberation Auto 
Service. Nick was living in his VW camper and going back and forth 
between Mendocino and Berkeley, and we'd go up there in our converted 
'58 GMC panel truck and stay for several days at a time. We also hung 
out with Charlie, and I even auditioned for Cat Mother, although they 
eventually decided they didn't need a second guitar player. I remember 
the great little cottage he had with the whole Pacific Ocean in his 
front window. Of course, Jim Benson would show up now and then to spice 
things up with his latest one-step-ahead-of-the-law caper.

I left Berkeley in '71 and Liz moved up to Medocino a year or two later. 
She and Nick hung out with that same group there, but they were never an 
item, actually. I'm glad to hear he's still thriving -- I'd always 
wondered what happened to him. I still run into Barbara now and then.

Terry

Gerry wrote:


> I just returned from a trip to Northern Cal. Visited Berkeley, SF, San 

> Rafael (Terra Linda), Bolinas, and Mendocino.

>  

> The good news is that Nick Wilson, rumored to have committed suicide a 

> few years back, is alive and well. I didn't see him but I did have a 

> chance to thumb through a book of photographs he has recently 

> published. It is historical by theme and has lots of shots of young 

> hippies of the '70's in Mendocino. I saw Charlie Pritchard in one. 

> Published under the name of Nicolas Wilson and titled something like 

> Historical Mendocino??? Who is Nick? He and wife Barbara were part of 

> the extended Conqueroo family in the days of the Summer of Love. It 

> was at his house that I first heard Hank Williams while stoned on 

> acid. He was also a fine mechanic who rebuilt a Porsche 356 while a 

> student at UT and made a living tuning VW's Berkeley--'68 and '69. He 

> broke up with Barbara and took up with Liz Jacobson and they went to 

> Mendocino and never came back. I was relieved to find that he is still 

> with us and making fine photography.

>  

>

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