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Roxy

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About Me

MY HOME TOWN:
Pre-Roxy History of surrounding cities:
Point Richmond History
DowwntownCity of Richmond (and East Bay)in the 1940s
City of San Pablo History
This page was made to represent the Era in which I was born into, and grew up in which makes up a huge part of who I am today.
Growing up in the 50s was a great time in life. Millions of baby boomers were born during this time and most of us are still alive and well today.
The 60's were a mixture of enlightenment, sadness, and true discovery of self. I survived the 60s right smack in the middle of the Berkeley/Telegraph Avenue hey-day, having gone to school just blocks away from the University and a bus ride away from the all too popular Telegraph Avenue. My best recollection is cutting class to take my friends to Haight & Ashbury in San Francisco. It wasn't as glamorous as I expected the experience to be, especially since I got my ass in trouble when I got home. I never got hooked into the drug culture, it just never appealed to me. I was too busy concentrating on getting a boyfriend!
The 70s were a blur, as I left home in rebellion for the strictness of my grandparents (who raised me) and not to mention the fact I found myself in the "family" way, as any normal stupid teenager does when she believes all the "I love you" hype from a guy who just wants a "pieces of ass" because he's so horny he can't wait any longer.
The birth ended in tragedy since the baby's lungs were not developed enough to survive beyond a few hours. Then after that whole fiasco was over, I "jumped" as they say, "out of the frying pan, into the FIRE!" I got involved with someone whom later turned out to be the worst man I could have ever met...abusive and alcoholic. What was I thinking? I know what I was thinking, I just wanted someone to love me, but didn't have a clue on how to pick a boyfriend, since I was NEVER allowed to have one growing up...well, that lasted until 1976, when I found another idiot to mis-treat me and I finally left him in the early 80s.
Which brings us to the 80s and towards the end of the Disco era. I was a DJ in a small cocktail lounge for a few months circa 1981-82, where I developed a taste for "al-kee-haul" (with which I drowned all my previous sorrows). Only to lose many another man because of my drinking. However, I did come away with one skill that I still possess today; how to do a good music mix and beat blend transition. Well, I survived enough through the years to dig myself out of one hole after another, until I found myself giving birth to my wonderful daughter in 1987, (who is now 21 years old and the best companion I've ever had). I gave up on trying to find someone; besides, I can do everything myself; change a tire, work on my car, fix the plumbing, do some electrical work, put together that cabinet without the instructions and go where I want without having to ask permission, or get home at whatever hour I want without having to explain why I'm 2 minutes late because of traffic, etc., etc. I think you get the picture. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate men, I love them...but never the right ones!!
I did a lot of stupid things in the 90s which I'm still paying for and regretting to this day. One of them was ending a relationship with someone I should never have let go.
Then the Millennium came...people were ready for the world to come to an end, while I just laughed at how ridiculous the whole issue became. Computers everywhere were supposed to crash, banks would fail to operate and your accounts would be frozen, or worse, obliterated in that great data bank in a Neo Matrix type of world?!? Well, so much for that theory. In 2001 (much like a space odyssey) men-o-pause kicked in (at age 50). I did ring in that 2001 New Year in the best possible way ever...with an old friend. I had the best time ever! I still have those 2001 commemorative champagne bottles to this day! Then in 2002 I met yet another loser, and after a few years of constantly trying to explain myself to him and what I was going through, I had to get rid of yet another man, since he didn't understand what I was going through and thought I was cheating on him, (as I no longer wanted anything to do with sex or anything remotely related)...the NERVE! Thanks to menopause, I no longer have to suffer in "Bitch-mode" every month. Now I just suffer in "Bitch-mode" on daily basis...(just kidding). My theme song should be the Gloria Gaynor song, "I Will Survive," since I HAVE!!
That little drift down memory lane was very gratifying. Now, on with the show...
The 50s:
I was born in the year 1951
Here is a copy of a magazine on the stands the very day I was born: February 26, 1951
The 60s:
My Graduation picture
My Graduation Pic - June 8th 1969:
What I care about most:
Sunsets, Family, and True Friends ~
Still me in 2003

My Interests

This is the first movie I ever saw
at the downtown Richmond Fox Theatre
that scared the holy living ba-jesus crap outta me
at the very tender age of 4 years old,
which gave me terrible nitemares.

This is the only other movie
that scared the wholly living crap outta me,
and to this day I cannot watch alone
or in the dark...The Exorcist!

I'd like to meet:

All the little people who came to my birthday party around 1957.
You know who you are!

I'd also LOVE to meet Mr. Lucas »-(¯..v..¯)-»...
Take me back to the 60s!

Music:



Movies:

This is what we were taught in the 50s:
"Duck and Cover"

60s 'Colormation' Screen Test

Television:


This was a big thing in the 50s:
Lots & lots of Cigarette ads:
Beer commercials:
"From the Land of Sky Blue Waters (Waters),
From the land of pines, lofty balsam,
Comes the beer refreshing,
Hamm's the Beer Refreshing...Hamm's!"
The first beer I ever tasted at 8 yrs old:
This was a BIG thing in the 60s ~ Color TV:
Yet more TV-Radio RCA commercials:
I watched this program EVERY Sunday
along with the neighborhood kids
in my auntie's living room
since she had the only Color TV at that time!
The world of the "future":
Classic TV Commercials:
More Classic Beer Commercials (running time approximately 60 min)
Remember this one about corn chips?
An old (defunct) cereal commercial from the 60s...
At the end of this video,
there is a commercial for floor wax
...where are these mothers now?
Probably glad their not around anymore!
A Mickey Dee commercial for the 24th Century...

Books:



Heroes:

Underdog
TV heroes from the 50s & 60s
Johnny Jupiter
Crusader Rabbit

My IDOL, Marilyn Monroe ~

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. -Marilyn Monroe

My Blog

My daily bitchings about life in general

http://hispanitech.blogspot.comclick above for the latest...or not so latest.
Posted by Roxy on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:43:00 PST