Showing posts with label Fillmore West. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fillmore West. Show all posts

We Went To San Francisco Starting in the Sixties because My Father Was Friends With a Family with Two Sons The Same Age as my Brother and I.

They took us to the Exploratorium, The Fillmore West, Chinatown on New Years, The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park... The De-Young Museum... The Academy of Sciences... The Arboretum (a Large Glass Greenhouse Painted White)... I've Walked Across the Golden Gate Bridge... Driven to the Top of Twin Peaks... The Ferry Building is Where there used to be an Accurate Scale Model of the Bay... used to study tides... Girardelli Square Chocolate, The Haight Ashbury... North Beach (We Went to see Exotic Dancers in Indian Costumes - Because we were too Young for the Topless Bars) - Grandpa Lived Between the Haight and Mount Sutro... I've Danced to the Drums on Hippie Hill, Heard the Grateful Dead Play at Winterland, The Rolling Stones, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Traffic, and ELP at Winterland, Led Zeppelin at Kesar Stadium, The SNACK Concert... I'm REALLY LUCKY to Have Been There, Done That and Got the Tie Dye To Prove IT!



Photo is Looking Down Market Street to the Ferry Building... San Francisco, CA
Photo is Looking Down Market Street to the Ferry Building...

We went on a Boat Ride Dance on the Bay... Red and White Fleet - with a Band and we Cruised Near the Docks of Oakland... Really Pretty at Night... Dined at Casa Valhalla in Sausalito... But I Never Toured Alcatraz! I Have More Adventures To Be Done!

READ MORE of my Autobiography AT:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

My Family Went Cross Country Skiing On the North Shore of Lake Tahoe at a High School Football Field. That way Some of us could Ski and the Children Could Saucer... and the Grandparents Could Just Stand Around... I Have found that Cross Country Skiing is Very similar to "Taking a Walk in the Woods" but You Can Travel TWICE AS FAR... Half The Time You are Going Down Hill and that Takes almost no effort... and you go a lot faster... and then going up hill is Just about the same as walking...


Our House 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos CA 95030 - gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
Our House 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos CA 95030
The New Owners Tore Down My Father's Custom 
Built House and Built a McMansion...
Then they Blurred Out Google Street View So
No One Can See What They Did... 
But They Didn't Blur Out The Satellite View. 
Two Houses to the Left is Victor Koman's House.

Fire Retardant House in Los Gatos - Adobe Walls Tile Roof
Fire Retardant House in Los Gatos - Adobe Walls Tile Roof
Located Right Next Door to Mark Diaz's Home.


The Last Thing I Ever Did With My Mom and Dad was... Visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Mom was rolling around in her wheelchair and Dad was pushing her. I figured they were fine and I went off on my own to Tour by Myself... Including the Giant Kelp Forest and the Outdoor Balcony overlooking the water. I Ate Some Magic Mushrooms... I figured that No One Would Know that I Wasn't "Just Eating My Lunch..." - Anyway, Mom Got Surrounded by a Flock of Screaming Elementary School Children and That Caused Her to Become Upset. As a Matter of Fact, That was the Last Time She Ever Left Our House to Go Visit Anything... I Had a Great Time... It's an Incredibly Beautiful Museum. 

On another Occasion, I Ate Mushrooms and Snuck into a New Car Show at the San Jose Convention Center on the Day before it Opened. I was Dressed in a "TECHIE" Uniform. White Shirt, Necktie, Ponytail and MADNESS IN MY EYES... Obviously, No One Challenged Me or asked What I was Doing There... On Mushrooms I Often "Channel My Inner Chewbacca..." and People Just Get Out of My Way... Sometimes It Bothers Me that I Frighten People... Like the Librarians at The San Jose Public Library... I Love Them and Absolutely Do Not Want to Do them any Harm... 

I saw the Brand New VW Beetle. The Next Day my Boss asked me What Color the Beetle was... and I Had to Lie because I Could Not Tell Him That it was Purple and Green Paisley and the Pattern Was Dancing the Macarena!

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Headline: Bankruptcy Is a Forgone Conclusion for Ford Motor Company... What a Tradgedy... I Owned a Ford Windstar Cargo Van and IT WAS A DREAM CAR... I Threw a Bed in the back and "Became a Turtle" roaming the West with my House on my Back!



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*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

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*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

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*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics