Get your popcorn ready...some old videos

Okay!

I was rearranging my video shelf when I found this little gem.
I had some super 8mm movie film put on video a while back. Since I have no inkling as to put these on the computer or on a CD, I simply played the videos on my TV and hand held the camera and filmed it.

So the quality is piss poor...who cares...haha

Start with the one on the bottom.

This was taken right after I came to the States. I worked for Iggy's parents who had a breakfast/lunch restaurant. This is them coming out after closing. My uncle drove a red VW station wagon which he bought in Germany.
Incidentally, ihat was the very first car Iggy attempted to teach me to drive in.

It shows the house they/we lived in, the dog (Pucky) playing with Iggy's mom; some of my paintings, and my other auntie Willy (the one holding up a jar of syrup as she walks towards the camera (must have been pancake night, haha) She was the auntie I took care of till her death, already three years ago.

Then a short show of Iggy coming home from school, dropped off by his friend Lew Mason.
How young he was there...
Also on this clip a short visit to Puri (reading his Racing Form, of course) and my little cottage. We had the finches outside, the Australian sheepdog's name was Hey You. He belonged to our land lady.

This was in 1968.

The second video, the one above, was taken during one of those weekends Puri and I "had the kids" They were 4 and 5 years old at the time, truly beautiful little munchkins. It was a wonderful day. This was at the San Francisco Zoo some time before were were married. I recall that weekend we couldn't take the kids back into Berkeley because of the riots there and the National Guard wasn't letting anyone in.

The first clip is our wedding in 1969.

Oh how young we all look. All the old 'record' friends. My mom and dad, so tanned and smart looking and YOUNG. Me so damn thin and my hair so pretty. Puri with his ridiculous outfit. He hated it, but a suit was even more out of the question. Again the kids, so sweet and little, Maureen and Dick, who stood up for us, who so graciously let us have our wedding at their beautiful home in the Oakland hills.

Quiet here this Saturday. My back is acting up so I am hoping that Boo will take a long nap.

I keep thinking it's Sunday...

SGMKJ!