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 Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman getting a haircut
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 Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, CA March, 1968 |

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 Approaching the hill to Joshua Tree, CA on Highway 62
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 Van got a loan and bought this place on March 19, 1968
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 Hobbit providing some perspective
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 This $50 Branstrator trailer will become Van's home away from home
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 Hobbit and Tibboh
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 Tibboh was only with us for a few months
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 Passing through Indio
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 Back home in Costa Mesa rebuilding the trailer
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 Home at 240 E 15th St, Costa Mesa, CA. June, 1968
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 Van Blakeman
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 Van's big doors find another purpose
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 Dr Charles J Galbo. Newport Beach, CA Van's respected guide and mentor |
 Flying east around July 31, 1968
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 Thomas Ledyard Blakeman was told to smile Cataumet, MA
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 Jody Kerssenbrock
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 John Letchworth Church and Tom Blakeman August, 1968
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 Van's bedroom in the garage - full house
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 Van's folk's driveway at 10 Squeteague Harbor Road
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 A driftwood garden Cataumet, MA
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 A roof
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 Cars in the front lawn
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 A wind chime sculpture
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 A tree
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 Tom and daughter Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel
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 Dancing a boogie woogie at a weekend bottle party
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 Ginny and Tom Blakeman
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 These people could swing!
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 Their 'stink pot' in Squeteague Harbor Cataumet, MA
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 Van about to go spearfishing in Megansett Harbor
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 Flying west
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 Rebuilding his Branstrator trailer Costa Mesa, CA
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 September, 1968
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 His Willys Jeep
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 Good friends Bill Tinkey and Les Ingledue, two members of his writing group at OCC
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 Van's cool jazz chair. Yes, he was trying to make this pic weird
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 His bedroom. Note the jerry-rigged mike and speaker for talking on the phone
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 An Elephant Ear tree in his back yard
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 Experiments in photography
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 Float found on the beach was twice this long. Been adding candles ever since. Don't know why - peaceful, maybe |
 Made this lamp sculpture from scrap. The mural is by a previous tenant
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 David Walden Young at Hussong's, Ensenada, MX
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 The pretty girls ALWAYS zeroed in on Dave, the attorney |
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 The mens urinal at Hussong's
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 A loaner from Dave's court clerk
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 Horse riders on the beach
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 An Ensenada sunset
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 The Mexican Navy in Ensenada harbor
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 A Mexican soldier
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 Billboard for Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin San Diego, CA
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 Newport Beach sunset October, 1968
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 Foggy moon in a tree
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 A boulevard at night
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 Experiment in photography
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 A Willys Jeep towbar and headlight at night
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 An architectural cross on a chimney Probably Laguna Beach, CA
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 Photography assignment November, 1968
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 Experiments in photography for his class at OCC
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 He ripped old fence boards to make this sculpture
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 A dry pond on Laguna Canyon Road Laguna Beach, CA
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 Laguna Canyon Road from above
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 His Willys Jeep in a precarious postion
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 Willys Jeep tire on his house trailer roof vent
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 Hired to photograph Ernie's rock band Orange County, CA
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 Van's 1st photo job. Can't remember Ernie's last name
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 With Barbara December, 1968
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 Portrait assignment
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 Dr Charles J Galbo and names forgotten Group party in Van's home.
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 Sheila Goldes, Barbara and Hobbit. Need Names.
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 Flying east
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 Trains from NY to Princeton, NJ
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 Antique TriX camera shots
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 Beatrice Bruce Blakeman and dad Tom Blakeman December 25, 1968
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 Bebe and Hannah Hall Blakeman
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 Erich and Leal Giebel
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 Hannah Blakeman
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 Elizabeth and Leal Giebel
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 Uncle Robert Bruce Davidson reading Playboy
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 Beatrice Bruce Blakeman, Virginia Davidson Blakeman, Hannah Hall Blakeman |
 Bebe, Virginia and Hannah Blakeman opening Christmas gifts
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 A 95 Wilson Road Christmas Princeton, NJ
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 Antique copper cauldron
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 The Nassau Christian Church Princeton, NJ
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 Holder Hall Princeton University
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 A neighbor's dog 'Bear' had jumped the fence in September and impregnated Hobbit
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 Flying west. December 31, 1968
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