Subject: Re: Just Three Months Ago
I was evacuated from elementary school in '61

Patty Davis (Reagan) and I were in the same class in elementary school. Her Dad was nobody to us in the 1950s. Just another B actor on the west side. James Arness impressed me though; his kid, Rolf, and I grew up on the same section of beach at Santa Monica Canyon (the edge of the Palisades). Occasionally he would come down to surf with Rolf. Marshall Dillon was tall, but his surfboard was HUGE!

https://www.surfresearch.com.a...

I just read that Monica Lewinsky went to school there too (many years later). Gotta wonder if she sat at my desk.

Most of the canyons and hills my extended family inhabited <Topanga, Malibu, Pulgas, Santa Monica Canyon, Mandeville, Sullivan> were 'red tagged' by the LAFD back in the 1980s. That means, if fire hits the canyon, they are indefensible.

Still waiting to learn if my tromping grounds is all gone.

In the 1980's, I asked a LAFD captain parked at a firebreak up above the Getty Museum where they would set up their defense line. He said "at the seaweed, high tide line."

Good Times.