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4:43 am
March 22, 2010
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Poster from Mountain High V, timberline 1985, what were you doing in 1985.
My son Gary and I were there, moose steaks, snowed in August, was younger then.
Gene C.
7:05 am
March 21, 2011
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I was doing concrete work back then. It was harder on the body than swinging a hammer.
12:40 pm
January 18, 2011
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I was helping a buddy do demos at the Colorado Ren Fair, apart from my shop work. Our booth was shoulder to shoulder to a beer concession, I was dating maids half my age, and the work was fun too!.........:dance:
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
9:31 pm
March 22, 2010
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I was starting the 9th grade, had just got my drivers licence and my first truck, a 1979 chevy Luv that was baby blue...
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
12:34 am
July 25, 2011
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I was there. Do you remember putting balls on the elephant?
1:44 am
April 21, 2010
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Let's see now. I was a "roady" in the construction trades - working on a hot nuke in Wisconsin, coal fired boilers in Illinois, pulp mill in Georgia, power plant in Wyoming and several other places. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do to make a living.
3:48 pm
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April 22, 2010
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I was living in LA, doing fancy flooring for rich movie stars, along with some architectural and ornamental ironwork as well, although I didnt have a forge quite yet- bought my first forge a couple years later, from an insurance salesman in Beverly Hills, who had previously been a farrier, til a horse kicked him way too hard in the arm. He had hung on to all his stuff for 5 or 10 years after he quit, but finally sold me a forge, a vise, tongs, and a bunch of horseshoe stock for $85.
That year, I was probably making fencing for a reclusive TV star, or making a sign for a french boutique owner's store in the Beverly Center, or making bars for a storefront on Pico Blvd...
1:04 am
July 10, 2010
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Welding aluminum skylite frames in Tucson, Az
2:30 am
August 14, 2010
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That would have been right around the time I first got exposed to blacksmithing in my Design and Technology class in London. We were over there for a year while my father was on sabbatical from Penn State.
3:55 am
April 12, 2010
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I was still swiming! 😀
5:19 am
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June 8, 2010
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Ries;11371 wrote: That year, I was probably making fencing for a reclusive TV star, or making a sign for a french boutique owner's store in the Beverly Center, or making bars for a storefront on Pico Blvd...
Wow:playfull: How did you sell it?? Your work that is?
3:46 pm
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April 22, 2010
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Simple- you price it too cheap...
Actually, I have never figured out how to sell. I am terrible at it. But I just keep making stuff, and people keep finding me.
In LA, I kinda got passed around by a group of youngish movie people who were buying their first houses, and I did a whole series of em.
My wife is actually really good at self-promotion, I just kind of hang on her coat-tails.
7:09 am
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September 6, 2010
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We were living a much quieter life then in the same house, and with the same job as now, just a whole lot fewer hobbies. Our daughter was a whole 4 yrs. old and a riot. We were about 10 yrs. away from blacksmithing. Where ever we were it wasn't snowing...
Harold & Beth
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