Here’s a nice shot of my paternal grandmother and a kitten. It was taken in Scotland in about 1898. For no extra charge, here’s a similar shot of me, taken in Hollywood in 1965.
Share on Facebook
Podcast Feeds
-
Recent Posts
-
Links
Categories
-
Category Archives: 1960-1969
Star Trek 2009 and 1968
Friday, May 8, 2009
Alexis and I went to see the new Star Trek movie. We loved it. I went into the theater looking for a movie that would deliver the idealistic creative spirit of The Original Series – extra-terrestrial green-skinned belly dancers! When a nearly-naked green-skinned woman from Orion made her appearance early in the movie, I knew [...]
Tuff Catt 1969
Friday, March 20, 2009
This is an old-fashioned street tomcat who understood the meaning of freedom. He would come and go at will, disappear for months on end, reliably doing exactly as he pleased. He was old in the 1950’s. By 1969, when this photograph was taken, he had cheated death so many times that death decided to go [...]
It’s Good to Have Nine Lives
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
This is a nice action shot from 41 years ago. You’ll notice that I am being photographed from above, with a cliff behind me and rocks about a hundred feet below. Nobody said it wasn’t OK to climb up the sheer face of an ice-covered mountain until after I had done it! If it was [...]
Joan Pearce July 1961
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
This is the fourth anniversary of my mother’s death. Here is how she looked in the summer of 1961. To see how she looked twenty years later, go here.
Share on Facebook
Happy Birthday Alexis!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Today my beloved spouse celebrates a birthday. To commemorate this event on-line, I offer a Spirograph flower I drew in 1968. Did you know that Spirograph patterns are hypotrochoids and epitrochoids?
Share on Facebook
Gardner Street School
Friday, October 31, 2008
Gardner Street School is a block north of Sunset Boulevard and a few blocks west of La Brea. I showed up here for first through fifth grade and I hadn’t been back inside the place since the last day of school in June of 1969. I used to walk half a block to buy the [...]
40 Years of Politics
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Forty years ago today, I did my first bit of political work. For a few minutes during the afternoon of Saturday, June 1, 1968, I handed out bumper stickers for the Bobby Kennedy campaign. I was nine years old, and I figured I was a late-bloomer, seeing as how much younger kids had been active, [...]
Mother’s Day 1961
Sunday, May 11, 2008
I met my maternal grandmother once. Here is Wilhemena Reaume with her daughter Joan and her grandson Scott. My grandfather, Robert J. DeLap, deserted the family in 1930, shortly after my mom was born. Wilhemena abandoned her daughter to be raised by her dad’s parents. Mother and daughter were reunited for a few hours one [...]
Scott Pearce March 1969
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The spring of 1969 found me in 5th grade at Gardner Street School in Hollywood. My dad had just picked me up from school in his Rambler Classic. He snapped this shot of me from the driver’s seat. My exuberant expression reflects my love of school and my enthusiasm for life.
It’s great to be a [...]
