The first 18 years of my life was spent in Hawaii. Just before starting college, I flew to stay with my brother in Oxnard to work for the summer at the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme, California. Oxnard is 60 miles north of Los Angeles. In September of 1958 my brother drove me to the Stanford Campus, located about 35 miles south of San Francisco. I recall crossing from the west side to the East Bay area on Friday nights to the Garden of Allah, to dance and see entertainers like Bobby Preston and Marty Robbins. After I graduated in 1962, over the past 62 years, I've returned to San Francisco at least 50 times. Mind you, I don't really like SFO weather. It's almost always too cold for me. Something enchanting about the fog, which comes and goes. But bicycling to class at 7:30AM in the winter was not comfortable. Stanford is a bit warmer than SFO, but still much too cold in the winter. In fact, I remember on 21January1962 when it snowed so much o
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