About
  1969  To  1970

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Hobbit and Bear's litter


At our home in
Costa Mesa, CA

February, 1969










A girl named Carol modeling for my photo assignment
Orange Coast College

Linda


Nancy




OCC




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Newport Beach, CA


















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OCC
March, 1969





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Patty





My new home
April, 1969



Got a full time job in Laguna and attended
programming classes at night in Santa Ana

389 Loma Terrace
Laguna Beach, CA











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I built this gate from an old discarded OCC
fence to keep an obnoxious landlady out

View from my house


A random drive one weekend brought
me through Mammoth Lakes


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Someone else's negative



Someone else's negatives a photo lab returned to me






Know anybody? Leave a note in the Comments above.










1970






















My 10 acres and trailer
in Joshua Tree, CA

Then bought 2.5 acres in Mojave
January, 1970




















Mohave neighbors




























I-5 construction near Palmdale, CA
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Lake Palmdale
near Mohave



Bought this hand carved eagle in Baja, Mexico




Inside the Branstrator trailer


February, 1969









































Just moved the trailer to my land







Found this tank at a renovating laundrymat





Bought this '49 Willys Jeep to tow the trailer



























Bought this Chevy Nova so i could return
east to find a programming job.






























































Saying goodby to housemate
Doug Perske, fellow Marine




Mesa Automotive agreed to store the Jeep
since they had rebuilt the engine a few times
Talk


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The Colorado River

I met a girl, Debra J Hildebrand, on my new job

She agreed on a weekend's trip to the Cape
July, 1970







This woman was also visiting my folks.









Tom Blakeman and Winston Kellogg
sailing Win's boat

Megansett Harbor





Martha Douglas and friends quahogging
Squeteague Harbor











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Winston, Deb, Ginny and the owner in this steamboat
Woods Hole






Elizabeth Leal Giebel

Liz Giebel






Erich Martin Giebel

Above Squeteague Harbor




Erich in a tree























Lizzy Giebel sitting at the natural spring


On the Cataumet dock



Erich boating

Hobbit meets a lobster

Liz inside her grandmother's
driftwood sculpture

Deb Hildebrand and her folks are
visiting friends in Enfield, ME



















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The Desert of Maine in Freeport






The Lincoln Theater in Maine







Andrew and Josephine Monteleone






My stuff in my folk's carport waiting for a place to go

I find a place in the local paper, buy it,
clean it and move in.

For $100 down, Adele Dexter agrees
to carry the $25K mortgage



On the corner of Route 1 and Richard Rd

1 Richard Road
Monmouth Junction, NJ


August 11, 1970





















Even my folks helped clean the place and
my dad dug a trench for the new water line


























My new home includes a cottage









A trap door in the kitchen goes
to a full sized basement

This is exciting























Brother-in-law Kaare Karstad flys me overhead













At one time, this was a rock crushing plant.



My girlfriend Deb and I fly west to visit California
March 31, 1971



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