Jim Thrasher:  

Now photo: Lost Hills Motel 6 2003? Then photo: Jim in Fall 1968 guitar on Mike McTiernan's sabot. W/Dave Des. (photographer). Flash: recently discovered suitcase with old Rajastan documents and even the Preamble to its Conftitution...suitcase filled in 1969. Rediscovered in Nov 2010. A real time-capsule. ... An absolutely TRUE story... 1963-1966 6th Grade had just started at Fairview School and the heat was incredible. 107 at Newport Pier in Sept 1963. I got a thermometer at Western Auto and recruited Steve Dies to assist in recording temperatures. Decided to become a meteorologist. Immediately shelved that idea until I learned the word "meteorologist" a few years later. (By then I was distracted with other matters--girls, probably) 1963 was the same year I paid 98 cents for a new 45 with the hit SkiStorm by The Snowmen at the record store near Western Auto. Side A had the hit. Side B had the hit with simulated storm wind in the background. (When Napster first came out 35 years later, I found a sound track of SkiStorm...) Invented line of Egg-Cars in Oct 1963...retired from that line of invention in early 1964. The classic model was 1935, balanced on one big wheel. The vehicle line was named for the characteristic hen-egg shape of that year's car body, even though a prehistoric prototype was constructed in 1,000,001 BC with a square wheel. Finally, in 1890, the current line was started with two tiny wheels, evolving to the...Expand for more