We had been at Al's a couple of months, when one morning l approached the
mess hall and saw on it's bulletin board one of the greatest hand made notices l've seen. The year before, Marlon Brando had a hit titled "The Wild one"
A dramatization of an event that took place in Hollister,Ca apparently in the late 40s involving the people of that town and members of a motorcycle
club, which terrorized the town for about three days, damaging a lot of property and hurting some of the townspeople but none seriously. MAD mag-
azine had done an illustrated review which was, l thought hilarious.
A student at Al's was ready to sell his 1949 Indian Scout. He cut up the MAD
magazine and rearranged the pictures to support the image of high excite-
ment in motorcycling. (With a generous serving of humor) Soon after that,Bill
and l were cruising the Monterey Peninsula, Carmel,the Valley.We made a few trips on the bikes to the Santa Cruz Mountains, visited his family in San
Mateo, even to San Francisco, Oakland, and to the north bay. Every day l cel-
ebrated Al's administrators for giving Al's students so much free time. l
totally took advantage,too.
Dulce answered my recorded message with a phone call in a few days and we
talked about getting together. Since we each had a couple of friends in the student bodies of the schools we attended: All of the girls were from very
prominent families, at least in their home towns; Dulce's family owned a
Chevrolet dealership in Nevada. Her friend,Marla is the daughter of the man
who first used big-name entertainment to increase traffic in his casinos. She
ls also a Nevadan. Number 3 (and looking back on that time from now) my
favorite,Natasia. Her dad was a diplomat;Polands ambassador to Mexico.
She said Polish and Russian had some simularities and she often understood what we were saying in our informal drills.
The six of us; Ron and Natasia,Bill and Marla,Dulce and l would pile into the
big Buick, Bill and Marla in the front seat, the rest of us in back. We'd go to a
couple of jazz clubs and when it was late we were always hungry and most often we'd choose Japanese and plenty Sake (except for our driver, Bill).
Under the circumstances, the relationship between Dulce and l grew to
include adult conduct. Soon we were absent from the triple-dates as we went
our own way; in her Chevy, of which she always had one of the current year model.By the time l graduated Al's we were talking Matrimony. and acting in
such a way that might produce a pregnancy to help the parents to like the
idea of a marriage.
On my last day at Al's l was hanging out at the lunch tables, waiting for
Dulce, who had volunteered to pick me up at school and after lunch at Carmel,
drive me to the train jn Oakland. By that time, it had been four or more months since l had seen Rita and Sandy.But they showed up that day, where l
had first met them. Somehow they knew it was class R6/38s last day. Dulce
drove up just a few minutes later. That was the best part; l had told her about those two ladies, but she always kidded me, saying she thought that
they were part of my dreams. l was stoked that they met; it made me feel
that everything was in it's proper place and time.
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