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Skriven 2007-08-19 12:20:40 av Richard Fallstrom (3995.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 17480 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (3957.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: jms historical reclamation project
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In article <1187489322.780770.70670@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
<"jmsatb5@aol.com"> wrote:

> Though in this case the historical entity being reclaimed is...well,
> me, basically.  I'll explain in a moment.
> 
> First, an apology and explanation for being absent for so long.  The
> last few months have been probably the most hectic in terms of
> deadlines and work in the history of my career.  The work has been
> great, but there's just been a bucket of it and it's all been due at
> once.  I've turned in the latest draft of World War Z and it's now
> going out to directors, I'm now on the third draft of the Silver
> Surfer movie which is also being fast-tracked, Changeling starts
> shooting in almost exactly two months, I'm hip deep in comics work and
> finishing the final touches to a TV project that we will be taking out
> to sell early September, and I've started the screenplay for They
> Marched Into Sunlight for Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks company.  All
> of this, in addition to a personal tragedy - the recent loss of my
> father in law - has put me way behind the eight ball of late.  But I'm
> finally digging out from under...which brings me to this note
> 
> While I was growing up, my family moved around a lot.  Sometimes as
> often as two or three times in a year, sometimes staying put for as
> much as eighteen months.  (No, we weren't a military family, it's a
> long story.)  Every six months on average we were in a new town, city,
> state, new school...it became a blur after a while.
> 
> So when I turned twenty-one, I asked for only one gift on my birthday:
> I wanted my past.  I wanted a list of where I'd lived and when so I
> could start putting together something vaguely resembling a sense of
> continuity.  It took a long time to get that information together, and
> some of it was still sketchy, but at least I had something in hand.
> 
> And promptly proceeded to lose it.
> 
> I literally just found the envelope with the information in a box that
> hadn't been checked properly and had been sitting around for
> years...simply years, I tell you.  I've gone on-line to try and find
> photos of some of those places, but obviously it's difficult at best,
> most people don't generally run around taking photos of the front of
> their houses or places of work and put them on the nets for all to
> see.
> 
> Then it struck me: invariably, at conventions and the like, I see B5
> fans and others who tell me what the show has meant to them, and is
> there anything they can do in return.  I've never had a really good
> answer to that question.  I do now.
> 
> So I put this proposition out into the ether to see what happens.
> 
> Appended to this note is a list of places I've either lived in, gone
> to school at, or in general am trying to get a handle on from my
> past.  I may, in time, use this information and these photos in an
> autobiography (yes, I'm giving it some thought, no promises).  If you
> reading this live in the vicinity of any of these places and want to
> take some good digital pictures of them and send them along, that
> would not only be great, but if I do write that book, and use the
> photos there, though there won't be a payment for them, I will be sure
> to give a proper photo credit with your name at the back of the book.
> (So BE SURE that the filename for any photos sent along has your name
> included for reference later.)
> 
> Honestly, I'm very curious to see what this turns up.
> Here goes.  Again, some of these are general, I don't have street
> addresses for a few of them, so just a photo of the residential parts
> of the street in those cases would be great.  These are all places I
> lived in (plus some schools and a couple of other places) from the
> start until shortly after I graduated high school,  in chronological
> order.
> I don't want anybody going out of their way on this stuff...if it's
> convenient and you're in the area and can grab a good shot, terrific,
> but honestly, this is an indulgence on my part and a favor on yours,
> so don't over-extend.
> 
> jms
> 
> Graham Avenue, Paterson, NJ
> 
> East 11th Street, Paterson NJ
> 
> River Street, Paterson NJ.  (Looking for not only a sense of the
> residential area, but my grandmother used to own a bar on River
> Street, don't know if it might still be there or not.)
> 
> Van Houton Avenue, Paterson NJ
> 
> Hamilton Avenue, Paterson NJ
> 
> 275 Dakota Street, Paterson NJ
> 
> Blessed Sacrament School, Paterson NJ (three blocks from River Street)
> 
> Clarence Street, Los Angeles
> 
> Utah Street School, 174 North Utah Street, LA CA
> 
> Grape Street, Los Angeles
> 
> St. Aloysius School, 2023 East Nadeau Street, LA
> 
> Pine Street, Napa CA
> 
> St. Stephen School, possibly located at 131 Midland Avenue, Kearny NJ
> 
> Butler Street, Paterson NJ
> 
> Our Lady of Lourdes School, 186 Butler Street, Paterson NJ
> 
> Clifton Avenue, Newark NJ
> 
> Summer Avenue School, 257 Summer Avenue (now Roberto Clemente) Newark
> NJ
> 
> Aberdeen East Apartments, L-11 Sutton Drive, Matawan, NJ (Now Long
> Brook Apartments) (Note: I THINK this is the right place, but the name
> change has thrown me and I can't tell from the online real estate
> shots...it was called Aberdeen East Apartments when I was there, that
> much I know for sure.)
> 
> St. Benedict School, 165 Bethany Road, Holmdel NJ
> 
> Lloyd Road Intermediate School  401 Lloyd Road, Aberdeen, NJ
> 
> Barrington Gardens Apartments, 129 Belaire Court,
> 
> Matawan, NJ (there are two apartments side by side there...I was in at
> the end of an apartment building that faced out onto a courtyard
> bordered by another building, and when I looked out my window on the
> other side I could see into a big forested gully)
> 
> Matawan Regional High School, 450 Atlantic Avenue, Aberdeen NJ
> 
> 323 Main Street, Matawan, NJ
> 
> Inglewood High School, Inglewood CA
> 
> Lennox High School, 11033 S. Buford Avenue, Lennox CA
> 
> 1250 Fifth Avenue, Chula Vista, CA
> 
> Chula Vista High School
> 
> First Baptist Church, 494 E Street, Chula Vista CA
> 
> 310 North Convent Street, Bourbonnais, Illinois
> 
> Kankakee Community College (especially looking for any shots from
> 1972)
> 
> 900 West Spring Valley Road, # 148, Richardson, Texas
> 
> Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road Dallas TX
> 
> 555 Naples #304, Chula Vista, CA
> 
> 65 Mitscher Street, Chula Vista, CA
> 
> Southwestern College, 900 Otay Lakes Road Chula Vista, CA
> 
> 3987 Debbyann Place, San Diego, CA
> 
> 
> 
JMS:

You sure did bounce around. I think I am blessed in having lived in one
place until I was 18 then 30 until I was 30. Not blessed for the 30
though. 

I hate moving. I think being a packrat contributes to that. Eventually
I will be downsized to where it will all fit into a medium-sized RV.

Rick (sometimes is a GentleRF and sometimes is not)
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