Casey Clifford:
CLASS OF 1970
Mira Loma High SchoolClass of 1970
Sacramento, CA
University of Alaska Class of 1986
Fairbanks, AK
Syracuse UniversityClass of 1986
Syracuse, NY
Juneau-Douglas High SchoolClass of 1973
Juneau, AK
Casey's Story
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Publisher's Development Corp.
Petersen Publishing
EMAP USA
Primedia
KBI / Charles Daly
Field & Stream Magazine
Police Magazine..man I can't keep a job
Oh yeah and now Beckett Media....maybe this one will stick
Okay okay...so I'm in a writing mood. My first job after graduating MLHS was...and I hate to say this... as a busboy at the Woodlake Inn in Sacramento. But shortly after that some friends decided we should go to Yosemite and get jobs, we went they were big hippies and I wasn't. Needless to say I was the only one who got a job. Worked at Badger Pass, the ski resort, first as a burger flipper then later as a janitor so I could ski all day and work, for a couple hours at night. In the Summer I worked in the south end of the Park at Wawonna. I even gave the snow report a few times live on KSFO or some other radio station in San Fran. Somewhere along the line working at Yosemite I met a guy named Rodger who was from Alaska. A place which had always seemed sort of dangerous to me. One thing led to another and Rodger and decided we would to to Alaska, work at Mt. McKinley and save enough money to buy a K-5 Blazer and work our way across the US working in National Parks...well. We drove from Sacramento up to Anchorage along 1300 miles of dirt road known as the Alaskan Highway. At one point during the trip I thought we had driven north for days and days and days I was pretty sure we were soon going to fall off the end of the Earth. Oh yeah, did I tell you ...Expand for more
that this was in late March '72 and we were driving in Rodger's '66 VW Bus with no heater....
Wow....more on the Alaskan Adventure later...keep watching these pages
Okay I'm taking a break from work..so here goes...if anyone cares! My friend and I arrived in Anchorage, we parked the VW Bus in front of a brother of a mutual friend in Yosemite and my friend Roger flew off to Juneau. Is stayed in Anchorage. He got this tremendous job in Juneau so I drove the bus down to Haines Junction...at least a one day trip..put the van on the Ferry, the only way to get into Juneau out side of air...and sailed the inside passage to Juneau. It rained form two months solid, but one day in June it stopped raining and it's the most beautiful place on earth with nature on over drive, killer whales, grey whales, bald eagles, brown bear, black bear, Terns...amazing place. As it's the Capital, Juneau has a good number of educated, talented people and I got know many of them. When I first got to Juneau the winter population was around 9K and in the summer it went up to 13K I swear I knew at least 1/3 to 1/2 of them. Why, because I was lucky enough to work at the only record/tape/instrument/Tv/ Music store for a thousand miles in any direction!!! It was heaven. And there were a lot of musicians to hook up with..times were good, pot was legal in Alaska...well, at least for a time. If you were driving after having had TOO much to drink sometimes the State Troopers would just take you home...it really was heaven.... More later..
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