[AGL] Marriage and LA in 69?

[michele mason]

Its a very fine thing to have that young'un so near.

Since '71 I haven't set foot over the Arizona line and not likely to,  
neitha ! Call me scardie, i don't care.  But, you're probly a great  
swimmer. At any rate, I sincerely hope all are well.  Michele

On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Jon Ford wrote:


>

> Michele-- The '71 quake! I watched it on TV in Berkeley with my  

> friends Michael Waddell and Reese VAughn. I remember us talking about  

> how we were "sure glad not to be in LA right now!" Have to admit I  

> still feel the same way. I'm doing OK right now-- happy to be retired,  

> still married, with a nice grandson who lives just a few blocks away  

> and talks in complete sentences at the age of 2 and a half.

>

> Jon

>

>> From: michele mason <yaya.m at earthlink.net>

>> Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the  

>> 60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the  

>> 60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Marriage and LA in 69?

>> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:15:02 -0500

>>

>> Jewell was a very nice lady, but the 60's in LA weren't so much. I  

>> had a friend named 'Doll Baby' who got a visit from the black muslims  

>> when I was spotted at her apt., bringing a minor threat for a 'grey  

>> gul' bein there. However, the jazz was good. I came back to Texas  

>> when the '71 quake hit—scared me damn near to death. Many paths.  

>> Hope yours is a happy one now.

>> Michele

>>

>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Jon Ford wrote:

>>

>>>

>>> No, but it would have been fun to have been there and  have been  

>>> married to a lady with the cool name of "Jewell." In 1969  I had  

>>> never been to LA. I was living on Church Street in San Francisco in  

>>> a room in a dingy flat, and working at the Post Office. Lonely time  

>>> for me, between girlfriends, applying for teaching jobs with no  

>>> experience, very few responses. Then, miraculously, in the summer of  

>>> 1970, my luck changed and I became a middle-class citizen of sorts,  

>>> but still  unable move to LA because I was teathered to my full-time  

>>> teaching job in Alameda, CA. I got to go  in 1972, but by then I was  

>>> married and went to LA  just to visit my in-laws. So I guess I  

>>> missed out on  the 60s in LA, and never even got to meet you or   

>>> Jewell!

>>>

>>> Jon

>>>

>>>> From: michele mason <yaya.m at earthlink.net>

>>>> Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the  

>>>> 60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>>> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the  

>>>> 60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Acrobat .pdf files are cross-platform Macs as on  

>>>> PCs.Oris it?

>>>> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:39:40 -0500

>>>>

>>>> Just wondering—Could you be the Jon Ford I knew in Los Angeles  

>>>> in '69?   Not likely, but had to ask, Oh, yes, and married to  

>>>> Jewell, at the  time?  Michele

>>>>

>>>> On May 24, 2007, at 10:22 PM, Jon Ford wrote:

>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>> Acrobat files are great in terms of detail; their problem is that  

>>>>> they  are very big as a rule and take a long time to load or open.  

>>>>> I tried   in vain to compress one the other day to send it to my  

>>>>> yahoogroup--  yahoo kept rejecting my post as it was just a bit  

>>>>> over 1 meg, and they  have strict size rules.

>>>>>

>>>>> Jon

>>>>>

>>>>>> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>

>>>>>> Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in  

>>>>>> the  60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>>>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the   

>>>>>> 60s"<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>>>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Acrobat .pdf files are cross-platform Macs as  

>>>>>> on  PCs. Oris it?

>>>>>> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:59:29 -0500

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Hans, thank you so much.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> It displays exactly as it is s'posed to. Acrobat .pdf really is

>>>>>> cross-platform. You relieved my mind considerably because

>>>>>> I have already sent the .pdf. file to the editor with a Mac.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Mike

>>>>>>

>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----

>>>>>> From: "hpo" <hpophotog at mac.com>

>>>>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

>>>>>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:51 PM

>>>>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Acrobat .pdf files are cross-platform Macs as  

>>>>>> on  PCs. Or

>>>>>> is it?

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>> > Hello Mike,

>>>>>> > here as attachment a screen shot of your document in question  

>>>>>> from  my Mac

>>>>>> > Acrobat Reader.

>>>>>> > all is well

>>>>>> > hans

>>>>>> > berlin

>>>>>> >

>>>>>> > >>> - - - - - - - - - - - - ->

>>>>>> >

>>>>>> >      Hans-Peter  Otto

>>>>>> >       Photojournalist

>>>>>> >      Reichstrasse 101

>>>>>> > 14052  Berlin, Germany

>>>>>> >

>>>>>> > Mobil   +49  172 321 5956

>>>>>> >  Tel     +49  30 667 75450

>>>>>> >  Skype            hpoPhotog

>>>>>> >

>>>>>> >

>>>>>> > On Thursday, May 24, 2007, at 08:40PM, "Michael Eisenstadt"

>>>>>> <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>> > >Dear friends and fellow ghettoites,

>>>>>> > >

>>>>>> > >I have a favor to ask of those of you who use a Mac to access  

>>>>>> the

>>>>>> Internet.

>>>>>> > >

>>>>>> > >The favor is this. Please click on   

>>>>>> www.charlesumlauf.com/eisenstadt.pdf

>>>>>> > >to see if the Greek words in this document display in a  

>>>>>> legible  Greek

>>>>>> font.

>>>>>> > >If they display in roman letters or machine characters or as   

>>>>>> outlined

>>>>>> > >rectangles, then I need to go back to the drawing board, so to  

>>>>>>  speak.

>>>>>> > >

>>>>>> > >I need an editor to see this document on his Mac. Nancy Byrd  

>>>>>> at the

>>>>>> > >Central library was kind enough to convert my MS Word file to   

>>>>>> Acrobat

>>>>>> .pdf

>>>>>> > >on the staff computer. I am hoping that the file displays   

>>>>>> correctly on

>>>>>> both

>>>>>> > >platforms (it displays correctly on PCs).

>>>>>> > >

>>>>>> > >Thanks in advance for your help.

>>>>>> > >

>>>>>> > >Mike

>>>>>> > >

>>>>>> > >

>>>>>> >

>>>>>>

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