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Click on photo for larger view - that's my sister directly to the left of the left guitar player. She has the blue top and the blue bell bottoms.


My friend Pierre Le Page in pose.
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The Cain's german shepherd, Abriego - retreiving a stick.
Cars left to right:
Gordon Cain's red Road Runner.
Doug Cain's Barracuda.
Bob Cain (father) truck with refridgerator.
Family Chrysler station wagon - that Gary Cain ran through a neighbors wall when the steering gave out.


Gordon Cain, "Puppy" and Mike Zane.


Front of our house at 624 Coventry Rd., Kensington, CA.
• Retaining wall of concrete test cylinders that my dad and I would build.
• "Andy" our Pekingnese dog dragging his leash home after our walk.
• Dad's PKS (Peter Kiewitt & Sons) truck with a full load of cylinders. On the weekend my Dad and I would go down to the Richmond plant and pick up thrown away concrete cylinders that they would crush test for strength of different concrete composites. My job the rest of the week after school was to pound a screwdriver with a hammer down the seam in the metal mould and split the concrete cylinder out. The I would haul the 25 - 30lb. cylinder up to the back yard. Some cylinders had lava rock in them and were about 10lbs. lighter.
• The present owner of the house said the walls throughout the backyard were an engineering feat!
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• I also had to paint those dark brown shakes on the upper floor with a wobbly extension ladder.
• The house was fairly plain but we did a lot of sprucing up. We had to take out a big old cottonwood that was where the cylinder wall is.
• When I got older I moved down into the garage - my sister, Sue, got the other bedroom upstairs.
• Was more freedom downstairs for a growing teenage boy - even though a constant flow of water would run across the garage floor. Dad built a raised wooden platform where my mattress rested on.
• Friends would knock on the garage door or just come in - the squeaky door would wake me up and sometimes my parents upstairs.


Hey Dad!

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