mom, dad & me: 1965-'75
Mom and me catching some rays beside the swimming pool at Tyrone Terrace - 1965
In my crib at the Tyrone apartment at around 8 mos. old - 1966
Not the last time I would be dragged before the Superior Court. Me, Dad and Mom at my official adoption proceedings, Family Court, Los Angeles - 1965
Me and the same stuffed tiger, with even more tigers in the background - 1965
Mom and me at our first Christmas together, at Tyrone - 1965
My first birthday. Tyrone Terrace - Jun 1965
Mom and Dad and me - 1965
Circa 1966, in a studio portrait that hung prominently on the breakfast room wall of 15472 Huston Street, Sherman Oaks.
Me, very proud of my Las Vegas vanity plate, waving from atop my shiny red tricycle in the driveway of our new home, 15472 Huston Street, Sherman Oaks - 1967
On the toilet with tigers in hand, at Huston Street - 1967
Happily reading the funny papers on the floor of the breakfast room - 1967
Me in front of the bears (possibly at Knott's Berry Farm) - 1967
Pretty happy about my big stuffed camel, at the Huston Street house - 1967
Escaping the afternoon heat on the cool dichondra lawn of our Huston Street yard, with a Japanese White Pine and Blue Fescue ground cover behind me - 1967
Getting a closer look at that curious tree - 1967
With a stuffed Tommy Trojan (that's USC Football's mascot) - 1968
Hosin' off the built-in bench in our back yard, Huston Street - 1967
My Aunts Roxy and Sheila, and me, with Tommy Trojan and Dobie the dog. Christmastime at the Huston Street house - 1967-ish
Dad and me and my cool Fire Dept car, on the back patio of the Huston Street house - 1968
Me and Dad on Mission Bay beach, right beside the Bahia Motor Hotel, in San Diego, CA. We vacationed there and visited friends in town, practically every year - 1968
With Mom and a horse - 1968
On a carnival motorcycle - 1968
Aunt Roxy holding me tight - 1968
Beside our first-floor Tower room at the Bahia Motor Hotel, on Mission Bay - 1969
At the balloon-popping game - 1969
My favorite photo of my Dad and me, taken in the driveway of our Huston Street house - 1969
At an unknown location overlooking the ocean - probably 1970
In a ride at the carnival - 1969
With our family nativity set, assembled as it was every year on the flagstone hearth of our living room fireplace, at Huston St - 1969
Fourth Birthday party - 1969
Carefully eyeing a spinning red UFO atop a stick in the front yard, 15472 Huston St - 1969
Mom, me and friends at table - 1969
Halloween with Mom and a pumpkin-full of candy. Butterfinger candy bars remain my favorite to this day - 1969
Mom and me at the L.A. Zoo - 1969
My Great Aunt Evelyn, my Mom, my Great Uncle Rob, and me in front of the Japanese Pine tree in our front yard. Uncle Rob had a pacemaker the size and shape of a deck of cards he would show off, implanted beneath the skin of his chest; freaky stuff for a kid! - 1969
Aboard my first two-wheeler bike (with training wheels) on the patio outside my parents' bedroom, 15472 Huston - 1969
At the petting section of the Los Angeles Zoo - 1969
With Dad at the L.A Zoo - 1969
At the petting section of the Los Angeles Zoo. I still recall the smell of the dust, and the handfuls of animal feed pellets we could buy, and the feel of the animals' hot breath and snouts tickling my palm as I fed them - 1969
Dad and me at Los Angeles Zoo - 1969-ish
Upon my distinguished graduation from the Kindergarten grade at Hesby Elementary School, situated safely right around the corner - 1970
At an unknown location overlooking the ocean - probably 1970
In full Superman regalia, with Dad - 1970
Still in Superman mode, with Mom and a strange mystery man (LOL) - 1970
Pointing at some ducks fleeing into the lake at Reseda Park, Reseda, CA - March 1970
Japanese Gardens, possibly at the Yamashiro, Hollywood, CA - 1971
Sixth Birthday party, Aunt Roxy on the dining room patio behind me, at the Huston Street house - 1971
With our tiny Poodle-and-Papillon mix Baby Doll, Christmas morning in front of the tree - Dec 24 1971
Dad and Mom dressed as Old West characters - Halloween 1973
Throwin' them peace signs whilst sporting a bold motocross shirt, vacationing in Hawaii - 1973
With Baby Doll and friend Lauren, on the back patio of the Huston Street house - 1973
Dad and Bruce (again with the peace signs) on the sidewalk in front of Aunt Sheila's Van Nuys house, on Ranchito - Thanksgiving 1973
With our family friend Kevin, on his family's boat in San Diego. We vacationed with them almost every year; a lovely memory that now runs the full extent of my youth - 1973
Posing proudly with two teammates and the trophies we earned on the Encino Little League "Pirates" baseball club - Summer 1973 (Tragically, during my mother's brutal robbery and murder in our Huston Street home just nine years later, this very trophy would be used to repeatedly beat her over her head.)
My Ninth Birthday party - Jun 1973
In my All-Stars team (the "Reds") uniformed photo - 1975