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This was before my time and it was told
to me later that the person who had built them was an SLA or Symbionese Liberation Army member, the one's who kidnapped Patty Hearst, grand daughter of Citizen Kane. But he had gone to the country so don't thing he could have been very active. I did meet him once and he had some stories to tell.
Right off I took a partner in the pottery shop. Since this life style was new to me I thought I would feel better with some support. SusieQ was from Oregon, maybe twenty years old, shoulder length hair, which she liked to wear in braided pig-tails mostly, height/weight proportionate as they say these days, a rambunctious personality, good looking and usually wore the clunker shoes called clogs, that were popular with woman in that time, that liked for everyone to know that they were coming from about half a mile away.
I think the deal was she could use the shop at will, and give lessons for her own profit. The rental of space of anyone she brought in was to go to me, since my rent was so expensive. She was a go-getter and acted for me as motivational carrot and stick. She hadn't told me, but it turned out she had a boy friend and this guy turned out to be always a problem. I lived in SF for ten or fifteen years without a car. She and her boyfriend Marco didn't have a car either, but she was good at facilitating transportation from her friends to go and buy materials and sometimes equipment.
Electric kilns were very expensive and pretty much out of my league. It so happened that a guy on the other side of the hill, who was also into pottery and had a small studio under his house, showed up one day and said he had a hot kiln and did I want to buy it.
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