[MD] Waving goodbye to particles

[John Carl]

Bo,

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:22 PM, <skutvik at online.no> wrote:

> . At the moment I
> have no map or internet connection to see where Santa Cruz is
> located,


Then how are you reading this? :-)



> but the California coast  is strewn with "santa"s and "san"s.  I
> seem to remember that you recently spoke about Monterey, isn't that
> Salinas and Steinbeck "territory"?


Yup.  When I was in the 5th grade, I had a great teacher who took me once to
Cannery Row in Monterey, where we purchased some lab glass for making our
own test tubes.  That's right, a fifth grade teacher turning his students
loose with propane and hot glass.  Them were the good ole days.

It was also previous to Cannery Row being turned into a touristy trap of
t-shirt vendors and ice cream bars, but was a derelict skid row type place.
Anyway, the place we bought the glass tubes, I realized many years later was
the same place that Steinbeck had worked at when he wrote about Cannery Row
and where his  friend Ed Ricketts worked.

In later years I was grateful to my teacher, for exposing me to the literary
backbones of such an interesting novel.

I also visited with some distant relatives working at China Lake about that
time (1970).  I remember vividly a girl about my age who I got a crush on,
and my first and only tastes of peanut butter pizza.

Thanks for sharing some real memories with me Bo,

John