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This story collection radiates from an Anaheim taco stand called The Bean Hut. Around this Mexican restaurant, War Babies live in Fantasyland. Forever young, the Class of '64 surfs crisp waves as they circle the Sun endlessly. They are the stars of private beach-blanket-bingo movies, the young people of Orange County. The Gann family beams in to Disneyland from space (Texas) in 1956. Formally known as the La Palma Drive-In, Joe Cano's Mexican restaurant is where Marlon Brando comes for a quiet lunch after he picks up his son from Saint Catherine's Military Academy. This drive-in diner is near the Travelers City barrio, where the Street Sweepers Car Club, the original bad asses, invent hotrods. The Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley, and Bobby Hatfield, sing our souls eating Joe's refried beans and rice. This Anaheim diner is where Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno has everybody's back, while West Coast Mafia boss Jimmy Regace and his son Anthony have tostados with Mickey Cohen. John Griggs, president of the Street Sweepers, teams up with Timothy Leary to form a religion in this taco place. This church is based on Orange Sunshine LSD, spiced with Maui Wowie weed, and served with a Mexican dinner plate of beach life, and surfing. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the church is called. It's a big success, imagine that. We cruise through the Bean Hut and on to the beach, mountains, desert, or all over Mexico. Beach parking along the coast is open all night. At secret coastal spots around fires of dead orange wood, teenagers sing folk songs with Steve Noonan and Jackson Browne. Boom Babies bust out to invent life in the fast lane. We race our post-war-freeway world in (and on) sunshine. See eternal youth in shimmering victory-garden cars with the tops, almost always down. Gas is less than a quarter, roads are new, and we go further with Further into Ken Kesey's, Chckoo's Nest. Disneyland admission is a dollar, and Knotts Berry Farm is free. These are eye-witness accounts of the Bean Hut Days.
About the Author: Bill Gann graduated from Anaheim High School in 1964. He became a news photographer and worked in military intelligence as a Navy photographer in Vietnam. He was a photojournalism teacher and taught photography at the International school in San Paulo, Brazil. Forever young, he writes his memoirs as we speak.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781548662721
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 374
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1548662720
  • Publisher Date: 02 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 548 gr


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