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This past Saturday Christie, our long time friend and former Auto Haus employee Mike (Mikey) Olivieri drove to Montrose, CA and had dinner with Doug Gordon. It seems that we are about the only DKP friends that Doug stays in contact with on a regular basis. Our last get together was about 1.5 years ago. At that time Ron Fleming, Jim Holmes, Jim (SARGE) and Sharon Edmiston, Doug & Kathy Haydon and Christie and myself met Doug for a lunch. At that gathering it had been probably 20 years since he had seen some of us.
Doug has worked at JPL for 25 years and is heavily into photography as a hobby. We've seen his work and it is impressive. About 2.5 years ago Doug lost his left eye (the good one) to cancer. The eye was removed and he has a replacement that moves with his working one. He told us that the success for this to happen is less than 10%. Unfortunately his functional eye is not good and he has difficulty in driving long distances. Also, for years he has had bad knees and now uses a cain to assist.
The body is not what it once was and the hair and beard are now gray, but under all of that is the same Doug (THE MASS) that all of us knew and loved. He has been out of the VW scene for some years, but when I should him some of Keith's books with those photos of him I saw a spark come to life.
He will not be able to attend some of the functions during the Bug-In due to the passing of his step father. His mother is 89 and also not in good health, so he needs to devote his time and efforts to her which I think we all can understand.
I've attached some photos of our recent get together for your review.
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Celebrating 61 years of Volkswagens in my life 1963-2024
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2010, 17:14:24 pm » |
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Another shot of the group.
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Celebrating 61 years of Volkswagens in my life 1963-2024
Life is a learning experience and then you die but when you do you've lived a good life if you contributed to your fellow man.
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2010, 17:16:10 pm » |
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Little "Dougie" (I'm the only one that can get away with calling him that) and one of his favorite gals, Christie.
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Volkswagens Limited, Der Kleiner Panzers Founder Member
Celebrating 61 years of Volkswagens in my life 1963-2024
Life is a learning experience and then you die but when you do you've lived a good life if you contributed to your fellow man.
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2010, 17:40:16 pm » |
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We'll forgive you in light of a) your age and b) it's great to see Doug and Christie!  |
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2010, 17:42:36 pm » |
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Thanks for the report, John. A good read!
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2010, 17:55:29 pm » |
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Celebrating 61 years of Volkswagens in my life 1963-2024
Life is a learning experience and then you die but when you do you've lived a good life if you contributed to your fellow man.
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2010, 19:48:01 pm » |
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Family always comes first.
Looking forward to meeting you at the Bug-In Doug !
:-)
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2010, 20:02:23 pm » |
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Wow!!
It's great to see that "The Mass" is still around........and he's wearing shoes!! (Except when he was dressed in his business suit, I don't remember him ever wearing shoes...) <grin>
thanks for sharing, John
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2010, 16:43:36 pm » |
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« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2010, 01:29:07 am » |
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Cool John. Would have been awesome to get Fleming, Gordon and the Underdog united again.
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« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2010, 05:00:53 am » |
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NO WAY ! "The Mass" and John Lazenby ! hey guys...it's Stan....YO I've stumbled upon this forum and am trying to make contact with any one of "the old gang". It's only been about a thousand years !!!!
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« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2010, 05:09:03 am » |
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NO WAY ! "The Mass" and John Lazenby ! hey guys...it's Stan....YO I've stumbled upon this forum and am trying to make contact with any one of "the old gang". It's only been about a thousand years !!!!
This can't be Stan Davis! If so how do you spell your first name? PM me with your response please. |
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