Places of Interest / cast of characters we will explore in future episodes (partial):
I will be pinning each one of these videos and their "show notes" to the corresponding locations on Google Earth:
EAST BAY
Dublin (Alameda Co.) My Dad maintained an office across the street from the Army base for 20 years. I worked full time for my Dad at that office for at least 2 years, during that time I was working there the base was a substation of Ft. Lewis, WA ( where Lt. Col. Jim Channon (Delta F0rce, wrote FEB manual). Dublin is the location where Army Lt. Col. Grady McMurtry resurrects Crowley's church of Thelema from near-extinction, J. Podesta's daughter, episodes of Mythbusters filmed on Army base
Livermore (Alameda Co.) DOE, labs, labs, labs including Lawrence, Sandia, GE, FCC listening post, and numerous other agencies, Edward Teller (real life Dr. Strangelove) and I would argue real life Stranger Things, Altamont free concert, husband's maternal grandfather worked at LL. Took mother-in-law to Altamont, Grady McMurtry's wife was a teacher at Livermore High School. Husband's maternal grandmother was also a teacher there during the same time period. Old town of Tesla and Carnegie near where Tesla Motors is now located. Shiva statue in LL, Shiva laser, Shiva temple nearby. Shiva on the Altamont poster. Was East Bay punk / 3rd wave punk created by the DOE?
Pleasanton (Alameda Co.) Sirhan seen three days before RFK , Hearst mansion at Castlewood, mystery of the East Bay walls
Sunol (Alameda Co.) David Silvey's book, Arthichoke, biker gangs, Sunol water temple
Niles Canyon (Alameda Co.) Hollywood before Hollywood, Secret Sidewalk
San Ramon (Contra Costa Co.) Jack Parsons' company Aerojet attempted to launch the US Space program in the town where I grew up, NIKE missile base, Crash of Flight 773 in the 1960s is important, my best friend in 6th and 7th grade was the granddaughter of U.C. Berkeley president (during the riots in the1960s) Clark Kerr
Blackhawk (Contra Costa Co.) One of my sister's best friends in high school was the granddaughter of real estate developer and Seattle Seahawks owner, Ken Behring
Danville (Contra Costa Co.) The time I almost accidentally killed James Bond (Pierce Brosnan), lol.
Alamo (Contra Costa Co.) Ssecret passageway in my high school friend's old money mansion..
Diablo (Contra Costa Co.) "arguably the highest of the high-end East Bay enclaves"
Walnut Creek (Contra Costa Co.) Joint Genome Inst., and where one of the members of the Grateful Dead lived for a long time. The location of some of their shows in that town are noteworthy..
Concord (Contra Costa Co.) Navy base, and all of the high strangeness surrounding it including, P. Hearst held within walking distance, SLA b0mbing, Paperclip community
Port Chicago (Contra Costa Co.) b0mb before the b0mb, A town wiped off the map by The Hidden Grove and the Manhattan Project magicians.
Byron (Contra Costa Co.) former POW camp
Martinez (Contra Costa Co.) Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, John Muir
Hercules (Contra Costa Co.) Jack Parsons employed at the Hercules Powder Co.
Berkeley and U.C. Berkeley (Alameda Co.) Natl. Lab, underground facilities, Alice Waters,
Oakland (Alameda Co.)
Lafayette (Contra Costa Co.) Sasha Shulgin, Glenn Seaborg, the Purple People, my second husband's grandfather, descendant of the Boston Brahmin Cooper family (invented the score mark on pharmaceutical pills. My second husband, is also a descendant of the Folgers and the Macys) my best friend in High School was the granddaughter of actor and composer Frank De Vol
Moraga (Contra Costa Co.) Tony Po (allegedly the real-life Col. Kurtz) graduated from St. Mary's College
Orinda (Contra Costa Co.) Stanley Owsley and Mellissa Cargill
Canyon (Contra Costa Co.) E. First headquarters
SOUTH BAY
San Jose (Santa Clara Co.) Sidney Gottlieb obtained a degree at San Jose State, Rosicrucian Park is the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, The Truth Behind the Winchester Mystery House Albino Cannibals of Hicks Rd.
Palo Alto (Santa Clara Co.) When I went to graduate school in Palo Alto we were studying qualitative versus quantitative research methodologies. One of my professors in research methodologies was Dianne Jenett. She brought her husband, Ed May, in one day to give a talk about qualitative research methodologies used at SRI.
Menlo Park (San Mateo Co.) SRI
Moffet Field (Santa Clara County, next to Mountain View)
Mountain View (Santa Clara Co.) G00gle, NASA
Stanford University (Santa Clara Co.) "Frenchman's Tower" on the land that later became Stanford University. Jack Parsons was accepted to Stanford but couldn't afford to attend. My sister died at Stanford on 11/22/73, the ten year anniversary of the deaths of JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis
NORTH BAY
San Rafael (Marin Co.) Personal anecdotes about Ram Dass and Susan Sarandon
Sausalito (Marin Co,) Billy Hitchcock, Fleetwood Mac, Shel Silverstein
Petaluma (Sonoma County) Polly Klass, W. Ryder
Santa Rosa (Sonoma Co,) Alfred Hitchcock film, Shadow of a Doubt, mostly filmed on location in August of 1942. Hitchcock's favorite film of all the films he had made. I lived there for 5 years.
Bodega Bay (Sonoma Co.) Where Hitchcock's The Birds was filmed
Monte Rio (Sonoma Co.) current location of the Bohemian Grove
(northeast Bay)
Vallejo (Solano Co.) Navy, Zodiac
Vacaville (Solano Co.) My husband's great-grandfather was the head of the Masonic Lodge in Vacaville.
Vacaville Medical Facility (C. Manson, B. Beausoleil, D. Defreeze, T. Leary), next to Air Force base
WEST BAY
San Francisco & the Peninsula
The Peninsula
Woodside (San Mateo Co.) Shirley Temple
San Francisco (San Francisco Co.)
The Presidio (Mikhail Gorbachev)
Marjorie Cameron
Jolly West
Hunter Thompson
Culturally connected areas just a short drive outside the BAY AREA proper
Big Sur / Esalen Institute I was in an experimental classroom in 6th grade and we went on a weeklong camping trip four miles down the road from the Esalen Institute)
Santa Cruz (home of the Human Genome Project, not to be confused with the J.G.P. in WC)
Scott's Valley (where Alfred Hitchcock used to live)
Monterey / Carmel (my parents met Clint Eastwood at his restaurant) Naval installations (NPS), (NRL), (FNMOC). Army (DLI, Presidio of Monterey), former Fort Ord
Davis / U.C. Davis (Yolo Co.) I lived in Davis for 11 years. My second husband got his bachelor's degree at UC Davis. My current Grandfather-in-law founded the economics department, aunt-in-law best friends with Ann Dunham. Ann Dunham is a distant cousin of my mother in at least two instances and the line that we are related through is in and of itelf significant in my opinion. SRI people, paranormal research, ties to DOE in Livermore, Jose Arguelles was a professor there and I would argue the most overlooked influencer of the '80s and '90s (Terrence McKenna got most of his stuff from other people including Arguelles),
Central Valley
Sacramento (state capitol)
Manteca (San Joaquin Co.) Back in the 1990s my sister was selected to be an intern for Dennis Hastert (although after arriving in Washington D.C. she quickly defected over to work for the Democrats).
Westpoint (Calaveras Co.) Crowley's named successor (1947-1962), Karl Germer,
Volcano (Amador Co.) Volcano Masonic Caves, I attended traditional tribal dance ceremonies just outside of Vocano for twelve years in a row.
Wilseyville (Calaveras Co.) Leonard Lake, Charles Ng
Sonora (Tuolumne Co.) Sonora Aero Club (secret s0ciety behind some of the mysterious airships of the 1800s)
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