This story came to mind the other day and since it relates to the Janice story, however tangentially, I thought this might be a good time to tell it.
In 1947 a group of New York artists (and the heavy-weight gallery operator Edith Halpert) decided to form an organization to protect artists’ rights modeled after Actors [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Gypsy de Diego
Posted in JaniceBldg, NameDropping on June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Opening the gate for the Gateway Singers
Posted in Folk Songs, NameDropping, San Francisco on June 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Starting in 1955 or ’56 my first wife, Terry, and I started going to the Hungry i, perhaps to see Irwin Corey who was a favorite of ours in our Greenwich Village days. Corey was a regular at the Village Vanguard which we went to on occasion. I do not know exactly when the following [...]
Above and beyond the call …
Posted in ComputingCareer, UC Statewide on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I had worked at Pacific Gas and Electric for about 11 months, Bob Rydjord, who had worked with me at the Naval Supply Center, told me of a new organization that he had joined in the Office of the President of the University of California and asked me to interview for a position there. [...]
Parties at the Janice studios
Posted in GreenwichVillage, Interesting characters, JaniceBldg, NameDropping, Parties on June 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My mother started studying art in the early 1920s at Hunter High School which was very advanced for its day not only in art teaching but in social attitudes. For example, the “young ladies” had life classes where they drew and painted from nude models (I don’t recall if both genders were used). She took [...]
A great folk music party
Posted in Folk Songs, Interesting characters, NameDropping, Parties on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the late fall or early winter of 1946 I was told of a party for Lead Belly. I don’t remember who tipped me off but my dorm mate Bruce Sagan seems like a good bet. I do remember that the hostess’ name was Ruth Kaplan and that the address was either 3300 North Sheridan [...]
Lollobrigida buffaloes Bill Brown
Posted in ComputingCareer, Inst Software Engrg, Interesting characters, Uncategorized on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From mid-1976 until spring 1982 I worked for Ken Kolence at the Institute for Software Engineering. My main function was to conduct week-long courses at various sites in the U.S.,Canada, the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Over time my specialization was the detecting and correcting of path contention problems in large IBM disk farms. One [...]
My pal Colonel So-and-so
Posted in ComputingCareer, Interesting characters, US Navy on June 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On May 1, 1959, I took my first job as a computer programmer working for the United States Naval Supply Center, Oakland. After one month’s training, we were thrown on our own and started programming a system that was very advanced for its time, being the first completely transistorized commercially available computer. The computer which [...]
