happy birth day doonesbury!

that morning, my first quarter at cal, woke up in our tilted-brick apartment on warring, shared with three other kids, just south of tri-delta house. random fall saturdays (surprise!) the street was mobbed.

neighborly memorial was of course left wide open all the time [pooower to the peeeople, right on], so now and then we'd run laps on the field before breakfast.

about a year later finally saw a first game from tightwad, all other particulars long gone bye-bye.

2308 warring street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.869035,-122.250873,3a,90y,270h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1ssKPl9mJBAeSIc69utt69dg!2e0

comic strip 1.1 source: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2014/03/03

Ha! I can see Bancroft Steps from there. :p

BancroftSteps;842288563 said:

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Ha! I can see Bancroft Steps from there. :p

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You nailed it, my friend, right across the street..
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.869305,-122.251042,3a,90y,90h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s_SR6t3CdtVbIu1z-1EOHLw!2e0

on a serious note, w/regrets forgetting who posted this on growls last month, the PattyHearst kidnapping (iirc from bancroft steps??) happened ~40 years ago, feb 4 '74.

I was 15 days old.

SiniCal;842288559 said:

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happy birth day doonesbury!

that morning, my first quarter at cal, woke up in our tilted-brick apartment on warring, shared with three other kids, just south of tri-delta house. random fall saturdays (surprise!) the street was mobbed.

neighborly memorial was of course left wide open all the time [pooower to the peeeople, right on], so now and then we'd run laps on the field before breakfast.

about a year later finally saw a first game from tightwad, all other particulars long gone bye-bye.

2308 warring street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.869035,-122.250873,3a,90y,270h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1ssKPl9mJBAeSIc69utt69dg!2e0

comic strip 1.1 source: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2014/03/03

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How un-PC of the Tri-Delts. Oh, the horror, the horror (to quote a movie of the times)

I was not even a thought in my parents head...

I was busy trying to recruit people to my cult, at the corner of Bancroft and Telegraph.

I don't remember where I was most of that year

We managed to convert 1 future Bear Insider poster -- guess who?

I was in Basic Training at Ford Ord. The view was not very good from there.

In 7th grade at King Jr. High in Oakland.......

Probably returning from an extremely isolated & boring (albeit classified & astounding) mission, somewhere in the South Pacific...

... a journey during which four Thor Heyerdahl-inspired dudes, trying to cross from Ecuador to Australia on three balsa logs, needed helpfood, water, batteries and teeth pulledall duly provided courtesy of U.S. taxpayers...

... and the biggest thing going were the games of a Strat-o-matic football league, nightly held in sick bay with crowds so big they had to dangle from overhead vents...

All the while dreaming of Berkeley...

wifeisafurd;842288592 said:

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How un-PC of the Tri-Delts. Oh, the horror, the horror (to quote a movie of the times)

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In 1970, three quarters of the cars you would see on the streets of Berzerkeley were VW's.

In class... Coming down the homestretch - only 5 months from graduating

Starting my Junior year at Bishop O' Dowd High School and thinking about how in two years I wanted to go to college 15 minutes or so down the freeway and check out some of this action:

Cal_Fan2;842288625 said:

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In 7th grade at King Jr. High in Oakland.......

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Jerry Quarry and his brother, Mike, both died of causes related to pugilistic dementia. Jerry never went down. He always lost by cuts.

In first grade at my Catholic grade school, wearing salt and pepper pants and dealing with Sister Paulita. I don't have a pic, but I remember it looking something like this.

86Oski;842288753 said:

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In first grade at my Catholic grade school, wearing salt and pepper pants and dealing with Sister Paulita. I don't have a pic, but I remember it looking something like this.

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Are you sure she wasn't more like the one on the left?*




[SIZE="1"]*Out of respect for nuns I didn't post the other picture of Kate Upton from the Three Stooges movie.[/SIZE]

Cal_Fan2;842288625 said:

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In 7th grade at King Jr. High in Oakland.......

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Ha... I was in 8th grade at King Jr High in Berkeley. Actually, The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Junior High School. Try saying that in one breath.

Some years later I ended up going to the same law school as Joanie Caucus.

SiniCal;842288559 said:

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happy birth day doonesbury!

that morning, my first quarter at cal, woke up in our tilted-brick apartment on warring, shared with three other kids, just south of tri-delta house. random fall saturdays (surprise!) the street was mobbed.

neighborly memorial was of course left wide open all the time [pooower to the peeeople, right on], so now and then we'd run laps on the field before breakfast.

about a year later finally saw a first game from tightwad, all other particulars long gone bye-bye.

2308 warring street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.869035,-122.250873,3a,90y,270h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1ssKPl9mJBAeSIc69utt69dg!2e0

comic strip 1.1 source: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2014/03/03

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Let's see. October 1970...I would have been in 5th grade at Columbus School in Berkeley. Columbus School is now known as Rosa Parks School and has been rebuilt since I was a student there.

In those days, busing was common for elementary school kids. I lived in North Berkeley but was bused to Columbus School in West Berkeley.

I also recall reading Doonesbury in the SF Chronicle.

P.S. October 26th was only 9 days after the infamous 1970 Cal vs. UCLA game where Dennis Dummit was awarded a phantom TD after crawling into the end zone from the 2.

http://daviswiki.org/Hickey_Gym

I was a few months into a 6 year stint, living in Medellin, Colombia.
(7 years out of Cal).

Yes it was most interesting.!!! Plenty of stories to tell.

We could hear Cal football live on the Armed Forces Station on short wave radio.

To answer the questions below...

Colombia has a ton of very gorgeous women.

That big drug kingpin in those days lived with some extended family just down the street. One of his nephews about age 10 hopped the fence to our yard and stole my 3 year old son's choo choo train toy....about 18 inches in size.
Our muchacha/maid went after him yelling and got it back.

Later on, one nite she heard noise in the kitchen, and our Doberman was going crazy....we adults were not home.....she yelled my husband's name making it seem like he was on site...and the thief ran.

so we moved across town some 10 miles away to a large finca/farm...AND acquired two very vociferous dogs. German shepherds no more trouble.

Inserting wood disk in the septum/lip was a practice in the Amazon Basin area. Long way away.

MSaviolives;842288765 said:

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Ha... I was in 8th grade at King Jr High in Berkeley. Actually, The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Junior High School. Try saying that in one breath.

Some years later I ended up going to the same law school as Joanie Caucus.

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Also an 8th grader, across the bay, at the generically named "Central School" (in San Carlos). Interesting to see the various vintages of Bear on this board.

I think that is me on the right (between classes, of course). :-) Now that I am closing in on retirement, I plan on letting my hair grow again (something akin to a George Carlin ponytail).

GB54;842288597 said:

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I don't remember where I was most of that year

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The police were watching you.

oskigobears;842288776 said:

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I was a few months into a 6 year stint, living in Medellin, Colombia.
(7 years out of Cal).

Yes it was most interesting.!!! Plenty of stories to tell.

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Two questions:

1) Did you escape with your septum?
2) Did you find, as I did in Cali, that Colombia is chalked full of smok'in hotties?

In 10th grade in Republican Ventura County. Doonesbury was so counter-culture to us back then.

Unborn

SiniCal;842288559 said:

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happy birth day doonesbury!

that morning, my first quarter at cal, woke up in our tilted-brick apartment on warring, shared with three other kids, just south of tri-delta house. random fall saturdays (surprise!) the street was mobbed.

neighborly memorial was of course left wide open all the time [pooower to the peeeople, right on], so now and then we'd run laps on the field before breakfast.

about a year later finally saw a first game from tightwad, all other particulars long gone bye-bye.

2308 warring street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.869035,-122.250873,3a,90y,270h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1ssKPl9mJBAeSIc69utt69dg!2e0

comic strip 1.1 source: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2014/03/03

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Where was I?
I was a young 2d LT, Admin Officer of the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 15th Support Brigade at Fort Lewis, Washington.

The H&HC provided logistical support to the training facility at Ft. Lewis.
One of my primary jobs was to process troops to Vietnam and back to Ft. Lewis before their discharge from active duty.

As a graduate of that Commie, Pinko University - Berzerkley, I took a lot of cr*p from the "Lifers" stationed at "Lewis". Never mind that I had been ROTC, all Berkeley students were the same - Pot-smoking Dirty Hippies.

okaydo;842288799 said:

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The police were watching you.

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Like the man says, "you got the right string but the wrong yo yo."

I was a senior at Berkeley High--probably taking advantage of the optional attendance policy in effect at the time

Senior at Pacific Grove High. Probably had just sent in my college application, little knowing...

Yearbook editor, so I was probably stressing over getting some decent football pix.

Hanging out at Laney College, grooving with the hippie chickies.

FiatSlug;842288769 said:

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Let's see. October 1970....P.S. October 26th was only 9 days after the infamous 1970 Cal vs. UCLA game where Dennis Dummit was awarded a phantom TD after crawling into the end zone from the 2.

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...of Larry Zeno's mystery crawling TD a couple of years earlier. You can thank Earl Boles for that one. Boles was an "unlikeable" PE teacher at Portola JHS in 1956. Zeno was arrested for burglary (not to be confused with theft of the game).

And here I thought at 32 I was getting old.