From left: Chime, Tony, Shelter, Ivory at a small town 4th of July parade. I’ve known Tony for 60 years, twins Shelter and Ivory since the day they were born. Not many people know that Tony was a star high school athlete (Lincoln H.S., San Francisco, 1949-’52). Fullback on the football team, he also passed and punted, and he excelled at baseball and basketball. No one does that nowadays, what with sports specialization.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
From left: Chime, Tony, Shelter, Ivory at a small town 4th of July parade. I’ve known Tony for 60 years, twins Shelter and Ivory since the day they were born. Not many people know that Tony was a star high school athlete (Lincoln H.S., San Francisco, 1949-’52). Fullback on the football team, he also passed and punted, and he excelled at baseball and basketball. No one does that nowadays, what with sports specialization.
hi Lloyd, nice to meet your friends..
something you said there, struck a chord in general, in today's world..
"No one does that nowadays, what with sports specialization"…
it seems, these days, most everything is a specialization. very tough to find someone, in any profession/career/trade who has a widely general, usefully competant knowledge base.
I worked with Tony and the Free City Puppet Theatre in his '72 Platypus Party Mayoral bid- Tony do you still have that paper mache Platypus?