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Skriven 2007-08-20 14:48:31 av Neil Turkenkopf (4041.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: [B5JMS] jms historical reclamation project
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| From: "jmsatb5@aol.com" <jmsatb5@aol.com>
| Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:08:42 -0700
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| Though in this case the historical entity being reclaimed is...well,
| me, basically.  I'll explain in a moment.
|
| First, an apology and explanation for being absent for so long.  The
| last few months have been probably the most hectic in terms of
| deadlines and work in the history of my career.  The work has been
| great, but there's just been a bucket of it and it's all been due at
| once.  I've turned in the latest draft of World War Z and it's now
| going out to directors, I'm now on the third draft of the Silver
| Surfer movie which is also being fast-tracked, Changeling starts
| shooting in almost exactly two months, I'm hip deep in comics work and
| finishing the final touches to a TV project that we will be taking out
| to sell early September, and I've started the screenplay for They
| Marched Into Sunlight for Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks company.  All
| of this, in addition to a personal tragedy - the recent loss of my
| father in law - has put me way behind the eight ball of late.  But I'm
| finally digging out from under...which brings me to this note
|
| While I was growing up, my family moved around a lot.  Sometimes as
| often as two or three times in a year, sometimes staying put for as
| much as eighteen months.  (No, we weren't a military family, it's a
| long story.)  Every six months on average we were in a new town, city,
| state, new school...it became a blur after a while.
|
| So when I turned twenty-one, I asked for only one gift on my birthday:
| I wanted my past.  I wanted a list of where I'd lived and when so I
| could start putting together something vaguely resembling a sense of
| continuity.  It took a long time to get that information together, and
| some of it was still sketchy, but at least I had something in hand.
|
| And promptly proceeded to lose it.
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| I literally just found the envelope with the information in a box that
| hadn't been checked properly and had been sitting around for
| years...simply years, I tell you.  I've gone on-line to try and find
| photos of some of those places, but obviously it's difficult at best,
| most people don't generally run around taking photos of the front of
| their houses or places of work and put them on the nets for all to
| see.
|
| Then it struck me: invariably, at conventions and the like, I see B5
| fans and others who tell me what the show has meant to them, and is
| there anything they can do in return.  I've never had a really good
| answer to that question.  I do now.
|
| So I put this proposition out into the ether to see what happens.
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| Appended to this note is a list of places I've either lived in, gone
| to school at, or in general am trying to get a handle on from my
| past.  I may, in time, use this information and these photos in an
| autobiography (yes, I'm giving it some thought, no promises).  If you
| reading this live in the vicinity of any of these places and want to
| take some good digital pictures of them and send them along, that
| would not only be great, but if I do write that book, and use the
| photos there, though there won't be a payment for them, I will be sure
| to give a proper photo credit with your name at the back of the book.
| (So BE SURE that the filename for any photos sent along has your name
| included for reference later.)
|
| Honestly, I'm very curious to see what this turns up.
| Here goes.  Again, some of these are general, I don't have street
| addresses for a few of them, so just a photo of the residential parts
| of the street in those cases would be great.  These are all places I
| lived in (plus some schools and a couple of other places) from the
| start until shortly after I graduated high school,  in chronological
| order.
| I don't want anybody going out of their way on this stuff...if it's
| convenient and you're in the area and can grab a good shot, terrific,
| but honestly, this is an indulgence on my part and a favor on yours,
| so don't over-extend.
|
| jms
|
| Graham Avenue, Paterson, NJ
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| East 11th Street, Paterson NJ
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| River Street, Paterson NJ.  (Looking for not only a sense of the
| residential area, but my grandmother used to own a bar on River
| Street, don't know if it might still be there or not.)
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| Van Houton Avenue, Paterson NJ
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| Hamilton Avenue, Paterson NJ
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| 275 Dakota Street, Paterson NJ
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| Blessed Sacrament School, Paterson NJ (three blocks from River Street)
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| Clarence Street, Los Angeles
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| Utah Street School, 174 North Utah Street, LA CA
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| Grape Street, Los Angeles
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| St. Aloysius School, 2023 East Nadeau Street, LA
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| Pine Street, Napa CA
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| St. Stephen School, possibly located at 131 Midland Avenue, Kearny NJ
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| Butler Street, Paterson NJ
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| Our Lady of Lourdes School, 186 Butler Street, Paterson NJ
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| Clifton Avenue, Newark NJ
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| Summer Avenue School, 257 Summer Avenue (now Roberto Clemente) Newark
| NJ
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| Aberdeen East Apartments, L-11 Sutton Drive, Matawan, NJ (Now Long
| Brook Apartments) (Note: I THINK this is the right place, but the name
| change has thrown me and I can't tell from the online real estate
| shots...it was called Aberdeen East Apartments when I was there, that
| much I know for sure.)
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| St. Benedict School, 165 Bethany Road, Holmdel NJ
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| Lloyd Road Intermediate School  401 Lloyd Road, Aberdeen, NJ
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| Barrington Gardens Apartments, 129 Belaire Court,
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| Matawan, NJ (there are two apartments side by side there...I was in at
| the end of an apartment building that faced out onto a courtyard
| bordered by another building, and when I looked out my window on the
| other side I could see into a big forested gully)
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| Matawan Regional High School, 450 Atlantic Avenue, Aberdeen NJ
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| 323 Main Street, Matawan, NJ
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| Inglewood High School, Inglewood CA
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| Lennox High School, 11033 S. Buford Avenue, Lennox CA
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| 1250 Fifth Avenue, Chula Vista, CA
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| Chula Vista High School
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| First Baptist Church, 494 E Street, Chula Vista CA
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| 310 North Convent Street, Bourbonnais, Illinois
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| Kankakee Community College (especially looking for any shots from
| 1972)
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| 900 West Spring Valley Road, # 148, Richardson, Texas
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| Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road Dallas TX
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| 555 Naples #304, Chula Vista, CA
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| 65 Mitscher Street, Chula Vista, CA
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| Southwestern College, 900 Otay Lakes Road Chula Vista, CA
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| 3987 Debbyann Place, San Diego, CA
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Greetings from Kearny, NJ!

I live *right around the corner* from St.Stephen's, so that's one more to 
check off your list! :-)
(Where exactly do you want the pics sent, btw?)
-- 
Neil Turkenkopf
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