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Albums contain few photos for the years 1969 and 1970 because of the cost of film and processing it when Grandpa Roy was a young, low-paid Airman attending Czech language school at the Presidio of Montery.
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Air Force Flight Test Museum

Edwards Air Force Base, California. Visited in 1987 and again in 1991.

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Free Rolling Stones Concert at Altamont

Grandpa was there with Aunt Terri (who was not quite a year old), an Army colleague and a Marine Colleague.
Concert attended on 6 December 1969.

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Calico

A ghost town, Grandpa Roy visited it in 1969 long before it became a California state park and was spoiled by too many tourists.

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Disneyland

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Edwards Air Force Base

Both the NASA part of the base as well as the Air Force Flight Test Center portion. Visited twice, these photos are from those trips at the end of the 1980s.

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Lake Elsinore

Grandma Bert, Grandpa Roy and Aunt Kelly stayed here in 1984 while visiting California.

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Monterey

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Palmdale, California

Location of plants where military aircraft are constructed. I was there in the 1980s.

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Pinnacles National Park

Visited while Grandpa Roy was studying Czech at the Presidio of Monterey in spring 1970.

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San Diego

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San Francisco

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San Juan Capistrano

Visited August 1984 with Grandma Bert and Aunt Kelly.

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Sequoia National Park

Sequoia trees are the largest in the world. In addition, they are virtually fireproof.
Grandpa Roy visited while he was attending Czech language school at the Presidio of Monterey 1969/1970.

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Universal Studios

Visited August 1984 with Grandma Bert and Aunt Kelly.

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