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Hobbit and Bear's litter
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Costa Mesa, CA
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February, 1969
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A girl named Carol modeling for his photo assignment
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
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Linda
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Nancy
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OCC
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Newport Beach, CA
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Where is this bridge??
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OCC
March, 1969
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Patty
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Van's new home
April, 1969 |
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Van 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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He built this gate from an old discarded OCC
fence to keep an obnoxious landlady out
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View from his house
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A random drive one weekend brought
him through Mammoth Lakes
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Do not recall this party
Probably someone else's negative
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Do not know these good people
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Someone else's negatives a photo lab returned to me
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Can you read any of these tees?
I got 'Cockpits', but in what context?
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Know anybody? Leave a note in the Comments above.
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1970
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Van's 10 acres and trailer
in Joshua Tree, CA
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Then bought 2.5 acres in Mojave, CA
January, 1970
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Mohave neighbors
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I-5 construction near Palmdale, CA
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Lake Palmdale
near Mohave
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Bought this hand carved eagle in Baja, Mexico
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Inside the Branstrator trailer
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February, 1969
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Joshua Tree, CA
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Just moved the trailer to his land
in Joshua Tree, CA
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Found this tank at a renovating laundrymat in
Costa Mesa. They let him take it away, free!
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Bought this '49 Willys Jeep to tow the trailer
from Costa Mesa up the hill to Joshua Tree
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Bought this Chevy Nova so he could return
east to find a programming job.
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Saying goodby to housemate
Doug Perske, fellow ex-Marine |
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Mesa Automotive agreed to store the Jeep
since they had rebuilt the engine a few times |
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The Colorado River
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He met a girl, Debra J Hildebrand, on his new job at
the Western Electric Engineering Research Center
in Lawrenceville, NJ |
She agreed on a weekend's trip to the Cape
July, 1970
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Deb Hildebrand, Elizabeth Giebel, Tom and
Virginia Blakeman, Van Blakeman |
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This woman was also visiting his folks.
Can't recall her name but she had a brilliant mind |
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Tom Blakeman and Winston Kellogg
sailing the Kittiwake
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Megansett Harbor, MA
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Martha Douglas and friends quahogging
Squeteague Harbor, MA
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Winston, Deb, Ginny and Need-Name in his small steamboat, Woods Hole, MA |
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Tom Blakeman digging
Cataumet, MA
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Elizabeth Leal Giebel
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Liz Giebel
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Erich Martin Giebel and Hobbit drinking from
a clear natural spring |
Above Squeteague Harbor |
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Erich in a tree
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Lizzy Giebel sitting at the natural spring
below her grandparent's home
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On the dock in Squeteague Harbor
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Erich boating
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Hobbit meets a lobster
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Liz inside her grandmother's
driftwood sculpture
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Deb Hildebrand and her folks are
visiting friends in Enfield, ME
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The Desert of Maine in Freeport
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The former Lincoln Theater in Maine
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Andrew and Josephine Monteleone
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Van's stuff in his folk's carport, waiting for a place to go.
95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ |
He finds a place in the local paper, buys it,
cleans it and moves in. Needs a little work. |
For $100 down, Adele Dexter agrees
to carry the $25K mortgage |
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On the corner of Highway Route 1 and ...
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1 Richard Road
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
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August 11, 1970
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Even his folks helped clean the place and
his dad dug a trench for the new water line
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His new home includes a cottage behind the trees
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A trap door in the kitchen goes
to a full sized basement
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This is exciting
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Brother-in-law Kaare Karstad flys him overhead
to get pictures of his 3/4 acre property
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At one time, this was a rock crushing plant.
Some of the concrete mounts are still in
place between the house and the cottage.
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Van and his girlfriend Deb fly west to visit California
March 31, 1971
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