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A LITTLE BIT ABOUT RICHARD

By JAABLOG

Everyone knows Richard from his great work with 1st Step Sober House, but most folks probably don't know about his incredible past.  Richard, 58, was born in the Richmond District of San Francisco, minutes from Haight-Ashbury, undoubtedly the right place at the right time.  Caught up in the genesis of the SF Hippy/Psychedelic culture as a young guy, Richard had already been through quite a bit of heady stuff prior to shipping off to Vietnam in 1965 for the first of two tours as an Airborne Ranger (the 101st), and a stint stateside jumping into football stadiums as a Golden Eagle (there was a lot of cross-pollination going on in the Bay Area in the early 60's due to the last vestiges of the North Beach Beat movement, the student movements at SFSU and Berkeley, and the Ken Kesey weirdness going on near Stanford, until the thing exploded and changed completely in '66/'67)...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on January 27, 2008 (boomark / email).