Wednesday, October 7, 2015

October 7, 2015


October 7, 2015

I lived in southern California in the early 60s.  It was my favorite place of all the places we lived.  The early 60s were great years to be there.  The weather was perfect, the communities and roads were not yet overbuilt and overcrowded.  We lived in Camarillo which is north of L. A. and near Ventura.  In those days it was a quiet little place.  My mother once sat next to Hermione Gingold in the beauty shop (bet most of you have to look her up.)  And Mom was a census taker for the 60 census.  In those days the census takers went house to house recording the information.  She took the census at James Arness’s and Eve Arden’s homes and Eve told her to bring the kids over to swim.  (We did not do so.)  A classmate of mine lived next door to Steve McQueen.  We would jump on his diving board trying to peek into Steve’s backyard.  And I was a Beach Boy’s fan and had to include one of their songs.  I decided on Surfin’ U.S.A.  I have depicted a beach with surfers, as it might have been in the early 60s. This painting brings back a lot of memories for me.  And even if you did not visit the California beaches in the 60s, the Beach Boys and surfing songs were popular all over the country.

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