My Long Lost Friends       Return to previous page
Have you ever lost touch with someone?
Here are  dear friends I would love to contact again.  There are a number of lost friends, but I only had pictures for a few of them. As I contact them I will provide new pictures or information about them.

Bruce S

I was working at PERTEC Computer Corp in Irvine, Ca. I was asked to check out a perspective employee.  I liked him and he was hired.  Later he moved on to much higher positions in other companies. We lost touch after I went into field service, and he moved to Texas (I think it was Texas

Recently we have exchanged emails. I can now take Bruce off of my lost friends page.

Bruce

June,1978. This photo was taken on the night Bruce was headed to Colorado for a job interview. He came by my house very late at night, and just wanted to go out for coffee or something. We talked for quite a while. I had an old manual focus you-guess-the-light-setting 35mm Kodak camera. Some 24 years later, I look at this picture and wonder how he looks now. I would love to see him again. I wonder if he feels the same way.
The only lighting came from the streetlights and the dome light in the car. The picture turned out very well.

Doug R

Doug also worked with me at PERTEC Corp in Irvine. He was a temp hired in the shipping and receiving department for the small customer service department where I worked as a tech. It wasn't too long before Doug was a roommate. The picture on the left was taken in the garage bedroom in my home, at the time in Santa Ana. The picture on the right was taken in Michigan, after a successful hunting trip that Doug had taken with a local friend of his. When Doug lived in So. Cal, he rode with a motorcycle gang, Devil's Disciples, i think. He has a twin brother - David. They are identical twins.

 You notice the hand that holds the Olympia Beer can seems to be flipping a bird? It is. Doug later pointed that out, he had done it deliberately. When I last saw Doug, it was Christmas of '82 and he was happily married in Grand Rapids Michigan. We went hunting together and I have pictures to prove it.

Jim Mc

Jim and I lived together in Huntington Beach. We were almost exactly the same age. He was born July 31, I on July 23. We lived in a row of tiny, single-room, cottage apartments that were later torn down to build a tire store. We were located just north of the intersection of Ellis and Beach Blvd. AKA 5 Points Jim's mom - Irene Waterman was murdered in Garden Grove about '72 or '73. Leaving him and his younger brother alone. 
I last saw Jim when he came back from Ohio to visit. He was driving an old blue panel truck of some kind. We had made arrangements to meet late one night at a home near the pier. I was late to the rendezvous and arrived in time to hear his vehicle starting up out front. I ran around the house only to see him driving up the road, I ran after him hoping he would see, but he did not. I have never seen him since. None of the pictures I took of him exist to this day. 

Bob M.  December 2003
The Tribute To Robert Milfeld page has been taken down due to lack of pictures 

Bob was a surfer. He first introduced himself as "Sniffer" He didnt say how he got that name, but most of his fellow surfers knew him by it. He claimed to have been 5th in Men's Surfing at one time. Bob worked as a silk screener, then printing, commercial artist and finally when I last saw him he was doing air brushing on vans and trucks. He had his own shop in old Huntington Beach. After I moved out of the apartment, he stayed behind and took in another roommate, with almost the same name as I. That similarity between names has caused me a few problems since.

 

  In the picture above Bob is on the left. It is 1971 and he has placed high in the surfing competition in Huntinigton Beach , California. Look how he stands, with just a touch of attitude.  Bob and I  have been in touch again since early 2004. It was good to talk to  him and to see a recent picture of him.. In the 33 years since we lost touch, he had married and raised a family and become a grandfather [not sure about that but I think so]  I had planned on flying to Florida to visit him several times but it was not meant to be.
Sad news: On Friday, March 23 2007, Bob passed away.  Don't put off visiting your friends  as you never know. I am proud to say that I know Bob, very proud indeed.

He wore a feather braded into his shoulder-length straight brown hair. He and I lived together in Dana Point about 1971.

 Ronnie C.

Ronnie was my roommate for several months. I worked at Borg Warner Controls at the time, 1970 to 1971. He had draft board troubles and had to leave for home in Shreveport Louisiana. 

Debbie was a roommate in my Santa Ana days. She and I lived together for almost 3 years. She had an urn of dirt from the grave of a Civil War soldier. I forget the name she called him, but he supposedly did things that let her know he was around. I never saw anything, but she swore by it. She ran off and got married and moved to Washington State.

Left,Debbie pats a pumpkin we grew. Right, Debbie looks up from the campstove to smile.

DAJenous