Barrington Hall was a very large, 3½ floor apartment building on Dwight Way near the UC campus. It was bought by a student-owned cooperative and was run as an all-male boarding house. Some 350 men took meals there, of whom 175 lived in the building, mostly in 5-man, 3 room apartments. Fees in my time were $17.50 a month plus 4 hours of work a week, with an additional $6.50 a month for rooming. In my first semester at Cal (Fall ’36), I was unable to live there and stayed in a room in a private home a few blocks … Continue reading UC–BERKELEY, 1936 – 1941

I spent a lot of time as a real young kid watching movies and have a keen memory of the films I saw even from an age of 8-9 years, in them old days of the silents. My heroes then were Chaplin, Chaplin, Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Raymond Griffith, Lloyd Hamilton, Leon Errol [I particularly remember his “Clothes Make the Pirate” that I saw in Ojai when I was about 6!], and of course my super-hero, super-comedian Douglas Fairbanks. Then my family moved across the country to Tulsa, Kansas City and Chicago, and I continued to watch my heroes in … Continue reading A TEEN-AGER IN CARMEL IN THE 1930s – I Talk to a Movie Star

I was born in Los Angeles on 12 Feb. 1919. Until adulthood, my family celebrated my birthday on the 12th, but when I obtained an “official” birth certificate in 1944, it stated the 13th. Although I believe that I was born on Lincoln’s birthday and that the attending MD erred by one day in his filing, I have used 13 Feb. for many years for legal matters only. My father was Menifee (“Fee”) Jackson Logan: my mother, Margaret (“Peggy”) Francis Gard, and I’ll refer to my parents, below, by their nicknames. Although born in LA and having spent my infancy … Continue reading MY EARLY YEARS