Together in 1980

Andrea visited me in early 1980 and I asked her to come live with me later that spring. At first we stayed together in the room I rented in a house on 29th Street, Hermosa Beach, but then we found the apartment on the lower floor of Bob Wilson's house on Palm Drive in Hermosa Beach, across Longfellow from Bocatto's grocery.

Not sure but maybe February 1980, visiting in Hermosa Beach on the way back from a fashion sales show in Dallas.

Supposedly at 29th Street where we stayed for about a month or two before getting the house on Palm Drive at Longfellow.

Lisa, supposedly at 29th Street (the album photo was labeled that).

Cleaning the apartment on Palm Drive in Hermosa Beach, 1980.

Bill Johnson's stepdaughter Lisa on a visit to our place on Palm Drive, Hermosa Beach.

Bill's ex-wife Linda, Bill, Robert Wagner and friends visiting our place on Palm Drive.

Rick, Robert, Peggy, and Andrea at Palm Drive apartment. It was the lower floor of a house across from Bocatto's.

Not sure who or where.

Playing backgammon with Bill Johnson. Not sure when or where.

DSP solar paddle development test, stowed, September, 1980. Click the image to see the full resolution image.

DSP solar paddle development test, deployed, with test crew, September, 1980. Click the image to see the
full resolution image. Bill Murray was the measurements technician. Fred Schmidt was the lead mechanical
technician. Jim Dollar and Joe Scardina were mechanical techs. Pete Dejesus was the ordnance technician,
and Kem Rosenberger was my assistant test engineer. We also measured shock propagation from the ordnance
pin puller panel release.

My friend Dave with my new prototype boogie board. Dave graduated in EE from UH with me and was recruited at the same time
by TRW. He worked on TDRSS. Photo taken in the garage at our place on Palm Drive.

Andrea with my ultra boogie board at our place on Palm Drive, Hermosa Beach.

Working on a boogie board in the garage shop.

In the front room/kitchen of our place on Palm Drive.

The two boogie boards Ultra and Panda after testing in the surf.

A new prototype Super Panda.

Andrea with Super Panda.

Ultra with Churchill fins.

Ultra parked outside by the hibachi to dry.

Panda Bolt! It was actually kind of a slow failure, but I learned from it.

Andrea on the beach at Crystal Cove in the fall of 1980.

Dinner at Crystal Cove with Andrea, Don, Lenore, and uncle Jack.

Andrea petting Michi at Crystal Cove.

Cousin Don, Lenore, Rick, Don, and Jim at Crystal Cove.

I had invented a four pontoon boat that could be driven on top of the water like a sports car and in the summer of 1980
I built a radio controled model powered by a glow plug model outboard motor. Pollywog I (and only) on the bench.

In my garage shop with my model pontoon boat.

Working on my pontoon boat.

On the bench with pontoons on.

Almost ready for testing.

Pollywog on the table before testing. Rudder in the front, four articulated hydroplaning pontoons, fixed mid engine.

Andrea at Allondra Park, Torrance, where we tested my Pollywog pontoon radio controlled hydroplane.

It ran beautifully at the duck pond at Allondra Park. Neighbor Bill Majek holds the boat after three test runs.

In front of the Palm Drive house with Andrea, Pollywog I, and Donna.

Kimo Hoffman was from Hawaii, worked for Boeing Space at Seal Beach as a sensor engineer and liked to visit.

Andrea late at night in a double exposure, a trick that can be done with some polaroid cameras.

Andrea made new curtains for our bedroom on Palm DRive.

I had devised a new stiffness test technique using LVDTs and an automated data acquisition system to fill in a
six by six flexibility matrix. This is the brassboard A actuator test for a classified program. Click the image to
see the full resolution image.