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| Mare Island-Vallejo-Sunnyvale | |||
| Mare Island and Vallejo (Aug1971-
May 1975): BEQ 930, BEQ 1296,
714 York Street, 815 Georgia Street Japan (May 1975-April 1977): Vallejo (May 1975-September 1988) : 169 Idora Street Apt#?, 32 Benicia Road. Sunnyvale (October 1988-May 1992) : Onizuka AFB parking lot, 1066 Sunnyvale Saratoga Road Apt 53, Onizuka AFB parking lot |
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| Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Combat Systems Technician Schools Command) | |||
| Bachelor's Enlisted Quarters BEQ 930 1971-72 | |||
| I arrived at CSTSC in August of 1971 and was assigned to BEQ 930. I attended FT (Fire Control Technician) BEEP (Basic Electricity and Electronics Program). It was a 5 week class taught by an instructor, many of the future DS's (Data Systems Technicians) were going through a self paced course in San Diego before reporting to Mare Island for A school. BM1 Hill | |||
| BEQ 1296 | |||
| Sky diving link | |||
| Vallejo 1974-75 | |||
| 714 York Street | |||
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| 714 York Street | Spoonman was from 714 York, his dog wasn't | ||
| When I first started hanging around 714 York Ted and Ed lived upstairs next to a male nurse, who called the cops now and then. Ed went to sea and Ted moved downstairs to the one bedroom apartment. Somewhere along the way I moved out of BEQ 1296 and into the apartment. Being junior I got to sleep on the couch. Working a night shift I was usually waken around noon by Ted and some of his classmates taking lunch a liquid and smoke lunch at the apartment. | |||
| 815 Georgia Street | |||
| Post Japan Vallejo | |||
| 169 Idora Street. We came back from Japan in April 1977, no job, no apartment and no car. (I just wanted to be a civilian again) We lasted one night with Patty's mother Beverly. We moved into a motel and bought 1963 Chevy Impala. Moved into apartment next to I-80 for about a year until buying a house on Benicia Rd. I commuted 70 miles each way from Vallejo to Varian Associates in Palo Alto 6 days a week for about 10 months until I took a job on Mare Island teaching Iranians for Hughes Aircraft Company. Near the end they cut the work day from 10 hours to 8 which made me commute during rush hours, which made the day almost as long as it was working 10 hour days. (It didn't take much more than an hour each way for the commute on off hours through Oakland and over the Dumbarton Bridge) | |||
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The Idora Street one bedroom
apartments (2 back to back) were in a cinder block building above a full
garage at the back of the lot with a house in front. Idora Sreet dead
ended on the east side of I-80 a few doors down. Even with the stereo
off you could hear CBs through the speakers from the cars on the freeway
with illegal linear amps. (At one time I thought it was the
Ham operator behind us) What I feel bad about was the apartment was free
of cock roaches until our furniture from Japan arrived. (They came with
the refrigerator and we never got rid of them)
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| 32 Benicia Road Bought in 1978 while working for Hughes Aircraft. Given to wife as part of the out of court divorce settlement. House foreclosed on Patty in 1996 not long after I finished paying alimony. ($900/month for 7 years) Small 3 bedroom about 800 square feet, 50' x 150' lot? Wall gas space heater in the living room. Paid $32,000 at 9.5% 30 year fixed rate about $320/month payments. Changed jobs from Hughes Aircraft to Sperry Univac in 1979 to avoid having to move to Fullerton, California and remain working on Mare Island until their third 3 year contract ended in September 1988 (Contract went away). I remained with Sperry (which had become Unisys) and moved to Sunnyvale after filing for divorce. | |||
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| Patty with Zandar (Great Dane with ears cropped) & Tinkerbell (cat) Mrs Hamn lived next store. Latter the chain link was replaced with wood fence (James West (Sky) & Jane eventually lived next door) | My room with VIC20 or Commodore 64? (Had both) When we left Japan in 1977, I got a Teac A6300 Reel to Reel. Patty got Noritake Moonlight China (Both about $400 each) | ||
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| I did a lot of work building decks and fences. A lot of varnish to maintain them (dry summers contracted the wood and wet winters expanded them, spar varnish worked the best) | |||
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| Princess Zira and Shadow (I spent a lot of time on the fence, covered the cracks and varnished yearly) | |||
| Sunnyvale Originally I lived in the Lockheed Parking lot next to Onizuka Air Force Base where I was working. I was determined to live a cheap as possible to recover from the divorce. I had a 1977 Dodge van and had to get dressed laying down because I couldn't stand up to do it. It was relatively cold in the winter of 1988-89 and I got dressed in the sleeping bag. My boss from Mare Island showed up, they had given away is spot while he was on vacation. He got me transferred to San Diego and took mine. I only spent a month down there until they got me back at Sunnyvale. (I needed the per diem to help with the divorce. Collected $50/day tax free) While visiting my climbing buddy Mike in Ridgecrest I got rear ended and rolled my van. I ended up having to get an apartment (Studio $555/mo) | |||
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| Second floor middle one I think. During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake I thought it was going to become a first floor apartment. I was taking a nap on the floor waiting for the Giant's/As World Series Game, when I was awaken by violent shaking. I thought about trying to get to my feet but decided if I gained them I would just fall down. I crawled to a interior doorway and began to think "If this doesn't stop shortly this building will collapse." I have never had 15 seconds seem so long except when I was sky diving. Latter I went up to my corner convenience/liquor store and cried over all the broken bottles of booze. My power was out but their ice hadn't melted yet and their beer was still coldish. | |||
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