Clifton`s Cafeteria, downtown Los Angeles...

Clifton`s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, California where they originated from...There are several of these cafeterias located around the Southern California area...A very good place to eat...I can vouch from experience...

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Brown Military Academy, San Diego...

An overhead view of the former Brown Military Academy in Pacific Beach, California where I only attended for a period of six months...I was sort of tricked into going to this school by my guardians, at the time, and I was quite miserable while attending this boarding school...Going from right to left as you look at this photo is as follows: The auditorium, the mess hall, the administration building, the infirmary and the chapel, "D" barracks (for the little kids), "C" barracks, where I was located (junior high school age), then "B" barracks for the older boys (high school age) and finally "A" barracks for the college age and ROTC cadets who were trying to go on to West Point..As a matter of fact, our uniforms were exactly the same as those worn at West Point..And after saying all that, I hated this school with a passion, and I was a miserable son-of-a-bitch while attending this boarding military school..My folks, or my guardians, at the time (my mother and grandmother) tried to get me to go back the next year..In fact, they insisted on it, trying to get rid of me...They were actually forcing me to go back, but I out-smarted them in the end, and I got to go back to public schools where I felt I belonged..I`m not a military type of guy anyway...

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Mess Hall and Auditorium area..Brown Military Academy...

I took this photo of the mess hall area while attending Brown Military Academy in Pacific Beach, California...The boarding school no longer exists...I was at the age of thirteen at the time...

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"Detour" (1946)

A scene from the film noir classic "Detour" (1946) with Tom Neal and Ann Savage...

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Clint Eastwood...

Actor Clint Eastwood who started out in "B" science fiction movies in the mid 50`s then went into Television starring in the "Rawhide" TV series and then got his big break the speggetti westerns and, of course, is still going strong today...

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Jon Provost on the Jack Benny Show...

Actor Jon Provost on the Jack Benny Television Show in the late 1950`s...Provost replaced Tommy Rettig as the caretaker of "Lassie" on television in 1957...Provost was living on East Lincoln Avenue in Pomona, California at this particular time, when Pomona was still a decent town that you could live in...I also was raised in Pomona, from age eight, onward up..

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Bobby Driscoll in 1961...

Bobby Driscoll in 1961....A news photo...he was getting into trouble with the law all the time because of his drug addiction and did a stretch in Chino Men`s Prison in California...This is the last known photo of him before he dropped out of sight completely until his death in 1968 at the age of 31....

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"The Window" (1949)...

Another scene from "The Window" (1949) where Bobby Driscoll is sleeping on the fire escape of his apartment building in New York City and listens in on a murder being committed....

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A scene from "The Window" with Bobby Driscoll and Arthur Kennedy (1949)...Driscoll had a tragic life...after he was tossed aside by Disney in the early 50`s he couldn`t find any more decent work so he turned to drugs..He was found dead as a John Doe in an abandoned apartment building in New York City in 1968 from a drug overdose and no one knew who he was at the time...the apartment building where he was found dead was similar the one in this movie, ironically....

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"Rear Window" (1954)...

"Rear Window" (1954) The Alfred Hitchcock classic with Grace Kelly and James Stewart, which was actually taken from the film noir classic "The Window" from a few years earlier...

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"Anchors Aweigh" (1945)...

Frank Sinatra and Dean Stockwell in the MGM musical "Anchors Aweigh" (1945) with Gene Kelly...

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Dean Stockwell today...

Actor Dean Stockwell today...Stockwell has a lifetime of achievements accredited to him, including many many films from his childhood to present day.....

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"The Champ" (1979)...

Child actor Ricky Schroder in his first starring role in "The Champ" (1979) with Jon Voight and Faye Dunaway...

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Jack Nicholson...

Actor Jack Nicholson whose first role was in a 1960 Roger Corman film about a man eating plant...

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"The Gay Divorcee" (1933)...click on this link for my 1st weblog

Classic musical with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, "The Gay Divorcee" (1933) which includes the excellent musical number "The Continental"...'

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Tommy Rettig...(click on this link for my 2nd weblog)

Child actor Tommy Rettig who appeared in many films during the 1950`s, but is best known for his "Lassie" TV role as Jeff Miller...

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"Citizen Kane" (1941)...

Classic Orson Welles film "Citizen Kane" (1941)...

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"Each Dawn I Die" (1939)...click this link for blog #3

James Cagney in "Each Dawn I Die" (1939) with George Raft...

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"Going Hollywood" (1933)...click this link for blog #5

Movie poster from "Going Hollywood" (1933) with Bing Crosby and Marion Davies (who was the mistress of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst)...Excellent musical classic from MGM...

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"D. O. A." (1949)...click this link for blog #6

A scene from "D. O. A." (1949) with Edmund O` Brien and Pamela Britton, a film noir classic...

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"They Drive By Night" (1940)...

"They Drive By Night" (1940) Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and George Raft...Excellent film classic from Warner Brothers...

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Bela Lugosi...

Bela Lugosi in his classic film "Dracula" (1931)...

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"The Big Sleep" (1946)...

Movie poster for the classic Warner Brothers film "The Big Sleep" (1946) with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...

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"The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946)...

A scene from the MGM film classic "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) with John Garfield and Lana Turner...

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Edward G. Robinson...

Another of my favorite non-living actors, Edward G. Robinson, who also did a lot of work for Warner Brothers....

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Humphry Bogart...

One of my favorite no longer alive actors, Humphrey Bogart, who also did a lot of work for Warner Brothers in the 30`s and 40`s...best known for his gangster type portrayals...

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John Garfield...

Another of my favorite no longer alive actors, John Garfield, who was another tough guy actor for Warner Brothers in the 30`s and 40`s...Garfield was Jewish and changed his name from a very Jewish sounding name which he was born with, "Garfunkle", to the more supposedly socially acceptable name "John Garfield"...Garfield, in real life, was a very decent person with high moral principals...

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"The Public Enemy" (1931)...

The "Grapefruit in the Face Scene" from "The Public Enemy" (1931) with James Cagney and Mae Clark...The film classic that put Cagney on the map as a gangster type actor for Warner Brothers.....

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James Cagney...

Still another of my favorite no longer living actors, James Cagney...

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Knott`s Berry Farm...

Knott`s Berry Farm in earlier years, located in Buena Park, Orange County, California...

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King Edward Hotel, downtown Los Angeles...

The Famous King Edward Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, California...A very historical landmark, built in 1905...It is said that President Theodore Roosevelt requested that this hotel be built in honor of King Edward of Great Britain, at the time...The Baltimore Hotel is located directly across from it on fifth Street, where a lot of movie location scenes were shot...

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Present day downtown Pomona, near Garey Avenue...

This is what downtown Pomona currently looks like with nothing but antique shops and art gallaries...This also used to be the main shopping district of Pomona, California around fifty-some years ago, and I might add, when Pomona used to be a decent city, or even a place that you could call "a city" and not "a cess pool" as it is today...A very unsafe place to be, as a matter of fact...

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Camarillo State Hospital...

Camarillo State Hospital..no longer in use since 1997...It was built in 1936 when the idea was to warehouse people with mental problems...The place really resembled a mideaval dungeon before it`s transformation into a state university after the hospital closed it`s doors...However, reports of hauntings still go on even with the present day college campus...a holdover from when it was a state hospital with all the cruel mistreatment that went on there and barbaric practices against the patients....

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Mendocino State Hospital...

Mendocino State Hospital in Northern California, and north of San Francisco, near Ukiah, which was shut down, also, quite a number of years ago..This institution was even much older than the Camarillo State Hospital, and it was built sometime very early in the last century..This photo is an actual post card from the hospital, itself, and it reads: "Mendocino State Hospital for Insane" right on the face of the postcard, as you can see..This, obviously, was before they changed the name of asylums to just "state hospitals"...

My third grade class photo, Lincoln Elementary School, Pomona...

My third grade class photo, Lincoln Elementary School, Pomona, California...I am pictured on the top row, third student from the left...


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Pomona Valley YMCA, downtown Pomona...

This the Pomona YMCA where I had a membership as a kid...It was built in 1922 and is located on North Garey Avenue in Pomona, California....

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My grandfather (early photo)...

Early photo of my grandfather, Joseph M. Fiske, who was born is a small town in Missouri called Moorseville...He was a long time conductor for the Rock Island Railroad which was based in the the mid west, mainly Iowa...


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This is Bob Seagren at age 13, this is the age when I knew him before he became a big celebrity and a Gold Medalist in the Pole Vault in the Summer Olympics when he was at age 21...However, it was actually his older brother, Art Seagren, who was my age and my friend from school...They lived only a few blocks from our house on Elaine Street in Pomona, California...

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Early photo of my grandmother, Berenice Fiske...She lived most of her life in the mid west before the family moved to California in her later years....

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My sister and brother-in-law with their newborn baby girl, Sandra...They were living in Ontario, California when this photo was taken...

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Me, at the age of eight years, Jane Russell`s swimming pool, Sherman Oaks...

This is me, at age 8 here, in movie star Jane Russell`s swimming pool...The family was at Miss Russell`s home in Sherman Oaks visiting with my cousin, Josephine, who was the actress` live-in maid servant, at the time...

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The two ladies in the middle are my mother on the left, next to my grandmother... And photo was taken not too long before my grandmother had passed away at the age of 89...Photo was taken in front of their apartment on North Towne Avenue in Claremont, California...

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From left to right: my brother, John Robert, at age 16 here, myself, at age eleven here, and my brother-in-law, Kenneth Hadley, at age 21 here, at Newport Beach, California where we used to go every August for vacation...

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My grandmother, Berenice Fiske, on the right with a friend visiting, in front of our second residence in Pomona, at 404 W. Alvarado Street...I was taking the photo at eleven years of age...

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My sister and brother-in-law, shortly after they were married, in front of our residence on Kenoak Drive in Pomona...I was taking the photo...What you see across the street is the vacant space remaining after all the houses had just been removed to make way for the San Bernardino Freeway...

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My mother in front of our residence at 418 Kenoak Drive in Pomona...I was taking the photo...

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My fourth grade class photo, in grammer school, Pomona, California...Lincoln Elementary School...I am pictured on the front row, second student from the right...

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Family photo in front of our first Pomona residence at 418 Kenoak Drive, Pomona, California...From left to right: my grandmother, Berenice Fiske, my sister at age 16 here, my greatgrandmother, my mother, myself (in front) at age 8 here, a couple of women, then my brother, John, at age 12 or 13 here, and my grandfather, Joe Fiske, on the end, and holding an orange...

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This is me, at age 12 here, with my sister, at age 21 here, at Clearwater Beach, near Tampa, Florida...My brother-in-law was taking the photo...



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This is me now...Photo was taken in Las Vegas, Nevada...

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