This is Walt sitting around Bud and Mickey’s coffee table at the close of the holidays in 1949. In front of Walt are the matches that he will use to light up his third cigarette since dinner. Next to him is Dondi, who clutches the doll she just received for Christmas. Walt is still getting…
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The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Here’s Walt, and he’s down at the job riding the rigging of a 100-ft boom crane. The cables he’s using for balance are reinforced steel, and run from a winch behind the operator’s cab straight up and over the crane’s boom and jib to this 300-pound hook, which keeps the cables taut even when there…
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Walt is enamored with Indians and their relationship with the land, and it’s exactly this Walt is thinking about as he bags an antelope, the first of the season. In Wyoming in the 1940s, hunting was a practical part of life—even for a drummer from Camden New Jersey. Home refrigeration was nothing to speak of,…