Tidbits excerpts and miscellaneous from 1978 Crashed Memories (the book)

Darby’s ghost kept hanging around the Cheramoya Ave apt. Freaked out, Amber and I moved to Clark St several blocks up from the Whisky. Emil, showed up at my door with Paul and Brian Cullen and a few others. Paul my best buddy, said, “Come on Todd, just give back the bass.” I slammed the door in their faces. “-1978 REST IN PEACE Paul and Darby. Love you bros. You both died way to young.

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CRSIII Installation. (MOCA) Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles, California.

Angels Flight the funicular  a refurbished and renovated antiquity of turn of the century technology and transportation provides the vehicle to physically move me from South Olive Ave up across Bunker Hill. I rise in elevation and disembark walking briskly to  a shinning and brilliant house of  reflection, expression and emotions, a place the new world order attempts to extinguish with the agencies of regulation and acronyms of oppression. Who knew?  A place where free thought lives! Dig this you gone daddy, the museum known to Angelenos as MOCA.  Standing before the  kaleidoscopic of text, colors and images from Los Angeles’ past mounted in relief, suddenly a Roughneck yells hoarsely “Clamp off that pipe” Other shouts and whispers echo of a  bygone and buried era burst into life as the director in riding crops shouts, “Action!”  Hey, where is that director anyways?

CR Stecyk III’s  combinations of letterpress printing, serigraphy, photography, airbrushing, printing, and relief painting based on architectural fragments from Bunker Hill provide the mental vehicle to the strains, heartache, triumph, corruption and modalities of life Los Angeles cica 1925! Faith,Hope,Charity. Not just a your average streets,CRSIII not just your average artist.

American Guide # 32 Big Allan Sarlo (the mural).Wave Killer!

” Allan Sarlo aka “Big Al”, is one one cat who actually lives up to the often over used term iconic! Big Al has always been larger than life since high school days. Physically imposing, he was the first shinning star out of the former ghetto by the sea, (Venice,CA) I was aware of and indirectly a part of my life since the early 70s having grown up in the same neighborhood. Allan possess a flair for the flamboyant and he blew minds rolling up to the Venice Breakwater in the mid 70s in a Rolls Royce!  A real surf hero! Aside from theatrics and showmanship the guy can flat out surf and earned the nickname Wave Killer as he literally destroys the wave with his powerful surfing style. Allan has also been dubbed The King of Malibu Point taking that title from Robbie Dick (debatable) and has not been dethroned in three decades. Well I happened to be cruising  on 4th street at Ashland in Santa Monica , CA and there is Big Al,  the Wave Killer, 50′ tall and larger than life, doing what he does best, getting tubed!