Dana Eng:  

Life City College was the only place that didn't care if my total SAT score was a minus figure. So, I enrolled & registered in appropriate courses such as Bone Head English & PE. I watched John Brandenburg perform as a cheer leader for the football team while OJ Simpson played football for CCSF. Great piece of trivia: OJ played his first bowl game with CCSF after an un-defeated season in the "Prune Bowl", which was located in the high profile city of Fresno CA. After my second semester, I had a pretty darn good tennis game & could beat most anybody in a game of Chess while "studying" in the library or eating a cheap plate of spaghetti in the school cafeteria. Between 1965 to 1969, I was active with the American Youth Hostels & organized outdoor activities for the Golden Gate Council. During the Summer of Love, I used to bike from my apartment in Haight-Ashbury to North Beach. You could find me at the Old Spaghetti Factory where for $1.85 anyone could eat all the spaghetti & garlic French bread you wanted. After dinner my habit was to go across the street on upper Grant Avenue to drink coffee and listen to folk music at the Coffee & Confusion, or the Coffee Gallery. Sometimes I hung out at Vesuvio's Cafe on Columbus Avenue to play a game of Chess with the local regulars. My Military Draft Lottery number was #356. The only lottery I never won anything, but felt great about it. So, I hung up my skate board with steel wheels that Ambrose Curry gave me, & got a job as a restaurant manager on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Micronesia. My next job found me as a Post Master on Canton Island, American Samoa. After some fantastic diving, getting a tan as dark as a coconut, and hair that would have made Jimmy Hendrix look more conservative I got homesick. "Island Fever" got to me instead of the desalinazation water, so I hopped on a plane going towards civilization and the Bay Area. If you saw me get off the plane, you would swear I was competing with Ambrose, in the "Best Big Foot Look-a-like Contest". Ambrose has lived in Lihue, Kauai since 197?, married & raised 5 kids while selling stuff in his health food store. He is known by all the locals, and is a legend. He still has his wicked sense of humor, sells his art, custom made surfboards, and gives sermons to his customers with an extra-terrestial philosophy about life and surfing. Back to After I returned from the South Pacific. I enrolled in the Hotel Restaurant School at City College. Upon completion of the program in 1971, I worked in hotel management from the Mid-West to the West Coast areas. During my food service career, I held various management positions with major food service companies. My responsibilities ranged from opening new stores, developing concepts, restaurant design, purchasing, facilities management, and, multi-unit management. Since 1978 I worked at two careers simultaneously. Food Service & Real Estate Investment. In 1997, I got tired of the 90...Expand for more