Mountain View 1968-78

I lived in Mountain View on the San Francisco peninsula from 1968-78. The bay area was a wonderful place to live.

The Viet Nam War made those years tumultuous. The war escalated, LBJ announced he would not seek reelection, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, Nixon was elected and reelected, the Watergate break in occurred, and Nixon was impeached and resigned.

I was regional manager for Mosler Information and Automated Systems, then regional manager for CALSPAN (Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory).  Work took me to nearly every state in the U.S.

We belonged to Mountain View (later Los Altos II) ward in the Palo Alto stake. David B. Haight served earlier as president of our stake, and we got to hear from him. Henry B. Eyring was bishop in a neighboring Stanford student ward, and Ronald E. Poelman was our gospel doctrine instructor at the time he was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy.

I drove Triumph sports cars in those days -- first a TR3, then a TR6, like these. The TR3 had side curtains instead of windows, and 4 cylinders. The TR6 got roll-up windows and a 6-cylinder engine. Both were red, convertible, and a joy to drive.