Nat Pendleton |
Nat PendletonProfessional wrestler, film actor and my friendby Frank BrandesWhen I first met Nathaniel Pendleton in 1961, he was living with his wife, Barbara, in a beach house on the shore of Mission...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:59:00 GMT |
A birthday oddity |
It was my 46th birthday and I was working on the Alaska pipeline at the Fairbanks office of MK Rivers. It was 6am when my secretary and I boarded the little shuttle bus for the ride from our...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 12:10:00 GMT |
Building roads in Montana |
In August 1960 when I was 29 years old I took a job in Montana as a dump truck driver helping to build Interstate 15 that runs North and South across the state. I lived with a co-worker in a small apa...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:28:00 GMT |
Driving a welding supply truck |
In 1956 I took a job driving a welding supply truck for Bay Cities Welding Supply Company in Venice, California. My job was to deliver tanks of Oxygen, Acetylene, Nitrogen, Helium and other gases to m...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:25:00 GMT |
The day my cabin burned down |
In 1955 when I was 24 years old, I was driving a dump truck for a road maintenance company and living with my wife, Irene, in an isolated two room cabin along the Alaska Highway near the Canadian Bord...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:27:00 GMT |
The Haircut |
In 1955 when I was 24 years old, I was driving a dump truck for a road maintenance company and living with my wife in an isolated cabin along the Alaska Highway near the Canadian Border with Alaska. T...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:37:00 GMT |
Its a small world |
In 1959 my father, Frank R Brandes, step-mother, Marge and their eight year old daughter, Linda owned a house in West Los Angeles. My father worked for Douglas Aircraft Company and was transferred to ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:55:00 GMT |
The Alaska Bush Pilot |
During the summer of 1949 when I was only 18 years old and living in Anchorage, Alaska, I took a job as a truck driver at the coal mine near Healy, Alaska. On the first morning I found out the workers...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:04:00 GMT |
Fiery Car crash in Pasadena |
Late one night in the mid 1960s I was driving east on Orange Grove boulevard just west of Fairoaks avenue in Pasadena, California when the car in front of me collided with another car. Both cars erupt...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 13:51:00 GMT |
The Lumberjack |
In the fall and winter of 1948 when I was 18 years old, I worked as a lumberjack for a company at Portage, Alaska. The company had a contract to clear several acres of forest land for a government rad...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:27:00 GMT |
