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Second Sight: The memoir of Frank Frost (Part 1)

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COMMENT 128640	2010-12-18 11:09 AM
I hope Frank will turn his pen to the local music scene and give us stories of those illuminaries, including Tony Dark.
SBJULES	2010-12-18 11:10 AM
I was taking a break from classes at UCSB & worked at the UCEN. I sold tickets for the Kunsler speech.Incredible times and the UCEN became the "new free university" for awhile. I look forward to the next installment.
COMMENT 128655	2010-12-18 11:51 AM
Keep it coming, good stuff! I remember hearing about it over the radio, my Dad wanted to drive out there with all us kids to watch, but fortunately Mom's cooler head prevailed.
COMMENT 128813	2010-12-19 09:06 AM
Thank you Frank! You were one of our best County Supervisors ever. Looking forward to more of your writing.
SPAGNOLA	2010-12-19 09:14 AM
I love reading about the history of SB, and look forward to more of Frank Frost's wonderfully written and informative memoir.
EL BARBARENO	2010-12-19 09:36 AM
Wonderful Frank! And thank you for relating the true story behind the "legend" of Bill Allen. I was a student at San Marcos High at that time and a number of my classmates thought it was "all fun" and would head out to IV to throw rocks at the cops. It was sad that so many of them had no idea what they were protesting, they were just there for the "party" and the number of people who were innocent by-standers and ended up getting arrested and knocked around. Looking forward to more.
BOOKLADY	2010-12-19 01:04 PM
Can't wait for the next installment!
COMMENT 128914	2010-12-19 01:17 PM
I am glad to see this writeup but it just hits the highpoints. For me, as an observer of most of this and one of the 667 arrested in the June civil disobedience, the thing that has stuck with me ever since is how easy it was for law enforcement (SB and LA both) to act with impunity, attacking innocents at random in IV, spraying CS gas thru the whole community and inflicting many injuries as they roamed thru apartments at random looking for "hippies" to beat. For those who think "it can't happen in America", believe me it can. Chaos is not that far beneath the surface of any society. Our elected officials of those times (Judge Lodge a notable exception) were afraid to appear to side with the agitators and restrain the sherriff so they were free to spend their own violent anger on us. They hated us because we looked different and we were against the war that many of them had fought in and returned from.
SUMMERTIME	2010-12-19 06:44 PM
brings back so many memories of that time period, I love reading this history and where I was and what I was doing at that time of my life - can't wait to read more....
COMMENT 129010	2010-12-19 09:39 PM
I recall the helicopters and their spotlights roaring overhead. They made easy targets for guys with wrist rockets(a really accurate slingshot). Also remember the evening I stopped heckling the "pigs"...someone yelled that they would find out where the cops lived and rape their wife and daughters. Sounds stupid, but that was when I realized they had homes to go to and a family to care for. They were as human as me, even if we had differing viewpoints. I still believe there was something right and righteous in our protests, and something wrong in the police response, but at 19 I did not know much more than anger and friendship.
EARO65	2010-12-20 12:12 PM
I was not nineteen, a graduate student, working full-time, living in IV, at that time. 914 writes well, but the fear we, who lived and worked in that area had concerning the police and sherrifs was horrendous. I rode my bike to work and class, then home, all the while fearing I would be seriously attacked. Homes were destroyed, and a life was lost, those in SB did not see or hear the truth, and, as a ninth generation Santa Barbaran, my relatives would not speak to me. Only when Joel Honey was seen in his full insanity, did Bill Huddy have the strength to give an editorial that night condeming the carnage. I have not trusted the pro-police/sherrif press since then. I thought Judge Lodge was the only rational person in County Government.
COMMENT 130601P	2010-12-25 03:22 PM
Very interesting article, reminiscence. I was in Santa Barbara at that time, supportive of the first bank building (but not present for it) - and thought that what was local began to get lost. Ah, yes, Joel Honey! ...And Judge Lodge, indeed he had courage --- which makes me reflect on how this present city council, none of whom, except for very Bendy White, were in Santa Barbara at the time, refused to appoint his equally rational widow, Sheila Lodge to the city council.
COMMENT 132625	2011-01-02 12:58 PM
"I am, by profession, a historian. But I had never written about the history of my own hometown until I started writing this memoir. " This is the work of a "professional" historian? "haranguing the mob"? "a cliché in the mouths of malcontents and delinquents"? Your profession seems to have very different standards than mine.

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