Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Thirty-seven Years ago

It's Veteran's Day and there have been some postings from the distant past. In 1971 I was living in Houston, Texas, and working for Unisys at NASA. As I recall, Gino was getting out of the army (although it may have been a furlough) and he was on his way back to civilian life. He stopped and spent a few days with me and this is one of just a couple of photos that I still have from that time - 37 years ago. Incidentally the art work hanging on my apartment wall was a gift from a long ago girl friend and it has been lost to history. After his time in Texas, Gino went on to visit Santini (before she was Santini) probably in Fort Wayne, Indiana and then to St Paul.
Several gallons of water have passed over the dam since then.

It continues to look like late fall in the land of 10,000 lakes. Norm Coleman holds a 206 vote lead on Al Franken in the contest to be known as "Landslide Norm" or "Landslide Al" and to be Minnesota's U.S Senator for the next six years (barring jail sentences).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You guys had some interesting art work. You were a bit of a rolling stone there for a while -- I never made it to Houston while you lived there, and I don't think I ever saw that wall hanging. Though it does look little familiar -- was it in your St. Paul apartment on Grand?

Anonymous said...

Santini: The art may well have adorned my wall in St Paul. I just don't remember details like that very well. TT