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About this Blog
I have decided that I should record at least some of those stories. Some are humorous; some are pointed; some are factually or otherwise interesting; most are just good stories.
About the Author
My earliest memories are of the Great Depression (running a tab at the local grocer for instance). I grew up in Flushing, Queens, went to PS 32, the State Street School, for grades one through eight. Nearly all of the kids in my first grade class were with me all the way through and graduated with me. I went to Bayside High School from 1943 to 1946.
I went to the University of Chicago in October of 1946 and left without graduating in the spring of 1950. I spent a lot of my time involved with the University Theatre, which was not an academic program, which pretty well wrecked my university career. I do not regret any of it. I will tell of my experiences and associations in the theater some day. After three years in New York (one in Yorkville, two plus in Greenwich Village) I went to Mexico for six months and then to San Francisco. In 1970 we moved to Bolinas where I have been ever since.
I had a number of short term jobs in New York and San Francisco which culminated in a computer programming position with the U. S. Naval Supply Center, Oakland in 1959. I have been involved in computing ever since: eight years with the Navy, a little over a year at Pacific Gas and Electric, University of California for eight years, the Institute for Software Engineering for six, Boole and Babbage for twelve and Applied Expert Systems up to the end of 2006 when I retired a week after my 78th birthday.
Roger
Long time no see. Thanks for the blog link. You write well and I will enjoy reading some of your antics and life experiences. Not quite a year ago, I wrote my first line of java and am enjoying it a quite a lot. Still struggling to write products that could be useful to people.
You are right when you say you are famous and not just for “I have a good story about that.”
Hope to run into you sometime.
Many regards,
Jim
Nice to hear from you. Thanks for the kind words – all flattery gratefully accepted.
I was delighted to read about the Hotel Marik Plaza, my childhood home from 1950 to 1958. I’m the daughter of Herman Rothenstreich, who bought the hotel from a Danish couple, Maria and Erik (hence the name) in the late 40’s. My father added the “Plaza” for pizzazz. There were two apartments in the hotel, one of which my parents and I occupied. The other housed my half sister, her husband and their son. My father died in 1956 and my mother, who was Dutch, decided we move to Holland in 1958. The hotel was repossessed by the bank in 1963, after gross financial mismanagement by my half sister and her husband and the existing commercial center was built on the entire footprint. A parking garage is now where the lovely gardens were.
My husband and I currently live in San Miguel de Allende.
Thanks so much!
Jessica Rothenstreich Moyal