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Skriven 2007-08-20 00:58:22 av Wendy of NJ (4105.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: jms historical reclamation project
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:08:42 -0700, "jmsatb5@aol.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
>
>

I'm starting a short term writing gig in Holmdel, NJ in September. I
think I've driven past St Benadict School before...

-Wendy
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