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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 5, 2009 - 02:26pm PT
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Don't let Colorado have all the fun and laughs!
John Bachar is coming to the south Bay Area...
WHEN: Thursday, July 9
WHERE: Los Gatos High School Auditorium
Now, before you start asking, "Why Los Gatos High?" Perhaps the best reason I can think of is that Yabo walked these hallowed halls and he will be there in spirit! Oh yea, plenty of free parking, micro brews nearby and perhaps a tour of the buildering FAs Yabo, Blanchard and I put up at the school!
Tickets are $12 IN ADVANCE (Think "SOLD OUT!"... so plan accordingly!)
John will have posters available for signing. The full-size poster is Phil Bard's shot of John free-soling Crack-A-Go-Go. It makes your palms sweat just looking at it.
Tickets here:
http://www.shop.vershke.com[/b]
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sully
Trad climber
CA
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Steven Speilberg and Mark Bingham (911 "let's roll" United 93 hero) also attended Los Gatos High.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2009 - 03:19pm PT
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There is actually some rivalry over the Speilberg thing... Some will claim he went to LGHS and others claim another school in the same district, Saratogo High. These schools are rivals. Even Speilberg has written conflicting stories, claiming to be at one school or the other. All he agrees on was that the experience was , "Hell on earth" due to the anti-semitism he experienced at (whichever) school.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Say how bout an address or where the heck is Los Gatos High ? Since the Mammoth Mountain dudes didn't follow thru AFTER a group of us made arrangements to see jb there....maybe we can go here. Looking for an excuse for a short vacation from So Cal.
Peace, lynne
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sully
Trad climber
CA
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Lynne, take Highway 1 to Santa Cruz, then Highway 17 toward San Jose. Get off on the Los Gatos/ Santa Cruz Avenue exit. L.G. is a cute, non-Starbucked mountain town, but expensive in places. Was the most athletic town in the US about ten years back. Peggy Flemming can be seen on the running trails sometimes.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I saw this show in Oakland, it would be worth a re-veiwing.
Almost in your Hood, Scuffy!
Sully, have you been following that famous bay area HS Grads, thing in the SF Chronicle? Pretty fun...
Anyone going down from the greater Easy Bay/Contra Costa, er Wolf city metropolitan area? I might give myself this as a 2 day early birthday present.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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i'll be hosting a pre-bake down by the creek for all interested parties.
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sully
Trad climber
CA
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Jaybro, I must have missed it. Can I go to SFGate and see the HS grad piece you're talking about? I don't get the paper Chron anymore.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Hey Ron Gomez, friend ....
MMSA was to have a bachar slide show June 19/20. Say, it's close to us, @ 6 hours so I can get a bunch of friends to go and put us up in Bishop. Now I just found out that it's not confirmed. Sheeeee !
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Cool, this is practically in my neighborhood :)
(well, not really -- Los Gatos is where the rich folks live, heheh)
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2009 - 10:04pm PT
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Ya beat me to it Lynne, JB told me the Mammoth thing was turning flakey...
Oh well, now you have a solid reason to visit LGHS. It is a beautiful school (Los Gatos has... money. I mean, the guy who invented the Pet Rock lives there and Woz has his office there and (last time I heard) the Ferrari dealership was the most successful on the west coast.)
Here is a snap of the school.
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Oh yes, lots of expensive cars and homes in LG ..
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2009 - 10:12pm PT
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My parents bought their house for... wait for it... $12,000. They sold it for... a tad bit more.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Ihateplastic, do you have any LGHS buildering shots to post?
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Just want to clarify that it was not Mammoth Mountaineering that went south with the show. Life goes onward, Peace, Lynne
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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trying to find the details out, and the boys at Mammoth Mountaineering DO need our bizz so keep sending em orders as they serve that community well!
Peace
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 6, 2009 - 02:33am PT
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And just so there is no confusion and to keep my image clean with all I am trying to do for the community at the moment, I want to make it clear I was not involved with the Mammoth show.
Having said that, I applaud whoever was trying to put it together... these things are not easy to do!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sully, I was just wondering the same thing, I read the Chron on BART, but missed it today.
here is today's installment
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/06/BAK017VPOT.DTL
I'm sure the rest can be accesssed through this one, it's generally, like; Joan Baez, Clint Eastwood, Member n of the greatful Dead, Huey Newton/Lewis, etc
6/6/9
Ursula K. Le Guin
Berkeley High 1947
IMAGES
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MORE BAY AREA NEWS
Ancient sea life thrived in Central Valley 06.05.09
S.F. accuses church of dodging taxes 06.06.09
From the archives: Robert Kennedy assassinated 06.06.09
Science fiction grand master (wrote the "Earthsea series," "The Left Hand of Darkness" and others)
Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson
Galileo High S.F. 1965
Football Hall of Famer, convicted felon
Curt Flood
Oakland Tech High 1956
Center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals
Merv Griffin
San Mateo High 1942
Host of "The Merv Griffin Show" (1965-86), creator of "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune"
Courtney Thorne-Smith
Tamalpais High Mill Valley 1985
TV actress, played Alison Parker on "Melrose Place"
Dan Hicks
Montgomery High Santa Rosa 1959
Bandleader for Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Sr.
Lowell High S.F. 1923
California governor, 1959-1967
Pierre Salinger
Lowell High S.F. 1941
Press secretary to President John F. Kennedy
Peter Ueberroth
Fremont High Sunnyvale 1955
Former major-league baseball commissioner, former chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee
Jess Jackson
Lincoln High S.F. 1947
Founder of Kendall-Jackson Winery, Sonoma County
Luis Valdez
Independence High San Jose 1958
Playwright and film director, "Father of Chicano theater"
Jose Antonio Vargas
Mountain View High Mountain View 2000
Washington Post reporter shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2008
Rhett Hall
Leland High San Jose 1987
Former San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman
Daniel Handler
Lowell High S.F. 1988
The author Lemony Snicket
Margaret Jenkins
Washington High S.F. 1960
Choreographer and artistic director of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
Steve Cozza
Petaluma High 2003
Eagle Scout who exposed discrimination against gays
Tony Anselmo
Peterson High Sunnyvale 1978
Disney animator and voice of Donald Duck
Ernie Nevers
Santa Rosa High 1921
Pro football Hall of Famer
Demian Austin
School of the Arts S.F. 1988
Principal trombone for the New York Metropolitan Opera
Richard "Dick" May
Acalanes High Lafayette 1953
Fly fisher who is largely responsible for California's Wild Trout Program, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the saving of Mono Lake and restoration of Rush Creek
Peter Raven
St. Ignatius High S.F. 1953
Noted botanist and environmentalist
Robert Menist
Lincoln High S.F. 1960
Army general who twice received the Bronze Star for military service in Vietnam and earned the Army's Distinguished Service Medal
Bob Lurie
Menlo School Menlo Park 1945
Former owner, San Francisco Giants
Bob Sweeney
Balboa High S.F. 1936
Actor and director of "The Andy Griffith Show" and producer for "Hawaii Five-O"
Nanette Asimov, nasimov@sfchronicle.com
This article appeared on page B - 2 of t
Jaybro Campolindo, Moraga,'74
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sully
Trad climber
CA
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Who knew about Jesse Jackson? Great list. My dad grew up with Merv Griffin. Other grads not included: Tom Hanks and Dana Carvey (both San Bruno), Woz and Jobs (Cupertino/Sunnyvale), Journey and Dead Members (San Mateo) and a cool climber my mom taught at Carlmont High, Belmont - Ron Kauk.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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platinum blonds, and platinum credit cards, thats gatos.
used to have a pharmacist that handed out qualudes like candy, right there at santa cruz and 9, now a real estate office.
pizza my heart is the only reason to go downtown.
big slice and a t shirt for 5 bucks.
drive your car up nicholson hill if you want to see what a tough criterium is like.
Fast Freddy Markham:
"In 1974 the LGBRC put on it’s annual races which then were the Hollister Road Race on Saturday and the Corrolitos Road Race on Sunday. My first win came in Corrolitos, as a Junior, that year which was then a 50 mile race Before 1975 almost all bicycle races were held on the open roads and as the field size increased so did traffic problems and by 1975 open road races were essentially banned. That is what mostly that made criteriums so popular to put on. So in early 1975 the club started searching Los Gatos for a suitable location for a crit. When it comes right down to it, it’s not easy finding a suitable crit location in Los Gatos, at least downtown. I started looking around the Bachman Park area and doing so started to think about going down Cat’s Hill or Nicholson then left onto Massol and then left up Bachman. Thankfully Bob immediately saw the attraction of going up Nicholson and around the Park. And with that we had a course. It’s always been a tricky course in that the whole circuit has some serious cracks and seams running up and down the pavement. Ready to rip the tire off of your rim. I was initially a little bummed with the course because I knew being a sprinter type, it wasn’t really my type of course. However, time would tell that I was actually very competitive there. Maybe because of the home town advantage thing!
The 1977 Cat’s Hill raced was moved to May instead of September. I was a little more prepared for this race than in 1976. 1977 is the year I dropped my chain on Nicholson (Cat’s Hill) and was able to keep going. This is what happened. My race strategy at Cat’s Hill was to try and make the climb as easy as possible. I would do this by being one of the first few racers as we turned to go up the hill. By the time we hit the top of Belmont I would be mid field and would then pass most everybody by the bottom of the hill in time to do it again. So on this particular lap I turned onto Cat’s Hill started up and then bang. 1n 1977 we still had down tube shifters ( there are people who probably don’t even know what those are) and I probably made a bad shift and the chain fell to the inside of the chain rings. The second it popped out of gear I turned hard left hoping nobody was there and made a u turn and started down the hill passing racers still coming up. That was thrilling! I hit the bottom and it took me several seconds to get the chain back on. By the time I started up the hill again the tail rider was just going over the top. I chased like mad and caught the tail enders at the bottom of the hill and then rejoined the leaders a lap later. A lap later I won the mid race prime which was a trip to Hawaii. This left me a little whacked for a few laps and I was just riding it out hoping for a field sprint, which it was starting to look like it might be. Unfortunately for me Marc Brandt, a Junior racer no less pulled a fast one and got away with a dozen laps to go. I don’t think anybody thought he would make it stick, but he did and took the win solo a few seconds up on the field. I learned another important lesson that day about Cat’s Hill. It’s hard to make a pass after you turn from Bachman unto Tait. In my case I got beat to the line by Mark Van Pringle by inches. A complete non sprinter held me off. Live and learn and I did.
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