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      I dropped out of Hollywood High at age 15, thinking I would become a professional artist or a cartoonist - and figured that I didn't really need a diploma as long as I knew how to draw.
      I ended up being a sign-painter.

      CBS Columbia Studios was diagonally across the intersection at Sunset Blvd. and Gower St. (aka Gower Gulch) where I had my after-school newspaper stand.       My favorite customer, Chet Huntley, had his office on the top floor.

  • 1940s Hollywood - Exciting time & place
  • Live radio - Couldn't believe what he said!
  • Love at First Sight - Norma Jean Salina
  • Norma Got Me a Blind Date - So She Could...
  • Zelma Wanted to Sharpen My Pencil
  • First Date - First Kiss?
  • LA's Very 1st Stereo Radio Broadcast
  • This new thing called "Television"
  • Ken Murray's Blackouts - Marie Wilson

  • Chet Huntley - My Favorite Customer
  • 1st Job & All Those Pretty Girls!
  • The Starlight Ballbroom Mystery
  • Maybe I Shouldn't Have Dropped Out
  • Fun with MAGIC
  • High School Dropout to High School Teacher?
  • Midnight on the Ocean - Not a Streetcar
    Was in Sight...

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