PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY

Education:

Madison Elementary School
4H Club - Projects included electricity, home improvement, animal husbandry (raising sheep and fryer chickens)

Central Union High School
College Prep, Wood Shop, Math, etc.

Fresno City College
Electronics and Architectural Drafting (A+ grade level)
 

General Background and Employment:

Manoa Valley, Hawaii, 1960
Electrician on the Reef Tower Additions in 1960

Photographer, doing business as Color Unlimited.
I built my own color processing lab in the back of our house on upper Kahaloa Drive in Manoa Valley. One assigment was to take professional photographs of the Boyoden Temple on the windward side of Oahu.  I waitied for the sun to clear the Ko'olau mountains. As light rain showers moved on, I finally got a good shot on the forth day.

San Anselmo, California
Tonica Studios - Commissioned photographer of families at home. It can be hard to get several kids to smile all at the same time.

Noe Valley, San Francisco, California
I rented a flat on Noe at Alverado, with several other young friends and did a lot of hiking, camping and backpacking with the Sierra Singles. After some leadership training I became a bike leader. I like single track of road bike riding.

Upper Noe Valley, on 25th Street, San Francisco, California
After a brief stay in Rockridge in the East Bay, We rented an apartment in a new building on the top of 25th Street and got married. It was here that I invented a roller skate back brake for quad skates.  I sold productin rights to Sure Grip Skates.

Santa Rosa Avenue in the "New Mission Terrace", San Francisco, California
We bought a house. I bought Brookline Electric for $40K in 1994 and merged it with my own 17-year old Aries Electric Co. We became Brookline Aries Electric. I liked the name Aries Electric Co., but it had kind of a hippie tone so we started doing business as Brookline Electric.