((Above) From the Riverside College 1964 Yearbook. The guy on the right is captioned as “Sam Milam”. This is his only picture. He is not photographed as a student or listed as a student who missed the yearbook photo session. I thought he looked a bit like suspect KJC.)
When you do this sort of thing you end up with bunch of photos that are probably duds but you can’t bring your self to delete. Here’s some of my collection. I don’t take these too seriously and, probably, you shouldn’t as well.
I’ll start with a photo is a regularly photographed guy at RCC around ’63. He looks bit like the Zodiac sketches. I’ve seen it mentioned that everyone does. I don’t quite agree. Z’s look wasn’t rare, necessarily, but uncommon enough that people who do look like him stand out. But there certainly have been a few that have caught my eye looking through the archives. The context of this photo is people mourning JFK’s assassination.
Here’s another RCC guy – this time staff I believe – who has a Z look. A bit skinny but he looks a lot like the Z sketches, in my opinion.
Here’s another fella that has a Z type build, this time from the back. This one might be Ross Sullivan in a skinnier moment.
Another Z like profile:
This is an interesting one. We have RCC librarians here including Winifred Turner who is a bit famous for being the one who brought Ross Sullivan to work in the library. Bach is holding the Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn. Bach seems to have been a fan of Miller as he is noted in other publications for having singled out other books of his.
Miller was a bit of a wild man. He was into astrological signs. Tropic of Capricorn in general is a wild book. I’ll leave a quote from it after the picture and a couple interesting links.
“If I longed for destruction it was merely that this eye might be extinguished. I longed for an earthquake, for some cataclysm of nature which would plunge the lighthouse into the sea. I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. (I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a change to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard – and in order to forget. I wanted something of the earth which was not of man’s doing, something absolutely divorced from the human of which I was surfeited. I wanted something purely terrestrial and absolutely divested of idea. I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and the light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night, so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think. To be englobed and encompassed and to encompass and to englobe at the same time. No more pity, no more tenderness. To be human only terrestrially, like a plant or a worm or a brook. To be decomposed, divested of light and stone, variable as the molecule, durable as the atom, heartless as the earth itself.”
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1190908-tropic-of-capricorn
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-astrological-henry-mi_b_5397661
1969 Hippie scene. Check out the top of the sign.
This is the only anonymous submission to a publication at RCC. This is Expressions, a magazine compiled of poetry and literature submissions through the year that stopped shortly after this 1962 copy. Sadly no “rh” authors. Pomponazzi was a theologian whose ideas may have meant something to the Zodiac. There is a slightly disturbing picture below it but that one is linked in the magazine to an author and was not anonymous. I’ve linked a description below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Pomponazzi
Accredited to a person but kind of an interesting addition in this Oct. 15th, 1964 Tiger Times RCC newspaper. It’s on the right. Then again, reading Expressions, these types of poems/short stories were uncommon but not rare.
Caught this one hiding in the background of the photo. “Editor” Just had to add this one!
For comparison:
Please Rush to Editor 