Getting In The Mood For The 1960s By Enjoying Baron Wolman’s Photos

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Baron Wolman was the top photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine in the 1960s and this book contains terrific photos of our favorite rock ‘n rollers. That’s Jimi Hendrix on the cover….

When I worked at Time magazine in San Francisco, i got to know Baron–he owned a plane which came in handy for shots we needed taken from the air…

Waiting in the Jury Assembly Room

No……..I can’t talk about any cases…I’m just waiting in the Redwood City Jury Assembly Room.

I didn’t know ’til this morning that I had to drive from the Coastside to the courthouse–and I wasn’t looking forward to it–but I must praise (and highly praise), Sara, whose job it is to organize the jurors and tell them which papers to signed and exactly where– and who answers all questions efficiently and kindly.

BTW: There’s wi-fi in the room. I brought my computer and worked the entire time. There’s also several computers available to anyone who want to use them. (And for soap opera lovers–one of the tvs was switched to a “Guiding Light” type show…some of the potential jurors who had brought books to read became riveted, instead, to the unfolding script on the screen.

Update: I wasn’t chosen.

Woke up, it was a fairy tale morning…..

I got up this morning, opened the front door and was transported into a fairy tale book, the kind we used to read when we were kids. The sky was baby blue with soft white streaks, the sun felt warm on my skin and the shadows were in the right places.

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Back When: I Took A Photo of HMB Photographer/Artist Ralph Putzker

The Coastside had always been a magnet for visual artists. Photographer and painter, artist Ralph Putzker, born in San Francisco, taught at San Francisco State, taking the Devil’s Slide route to work. When I met him, he lived south of Half Moon Bay in an old farmhouse on the Higgins-Purissima Rd. I took this photo of him in the late 1970s.

Yeah, Ralph’s dog doesn’t seem to be cooperating!

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