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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
WHAT ??? you know Tom Waits personally ???? i LOVE Tom Waits, i would sell my left kidney to spend an evening with him... well ??? tell me every story you can remember about him !!! what are you waiting for ? don't tease me like that. so where was this school ?? because someday i'm going to make a Tom Waits pilgrimage and go to as many of the places he names in his songs as possible (Burrito King, anyone ?), and i could add his old school (where he sang in the chorus... i wish i could have seen THAT...) to my itinerary.
and scan that photo TODAY !!!
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Barely knew, and it was a looooong time ago, back before he was famous. Back when he was 14 years old.
I'll scan the photo today ... and post it today. You will have your very own photo of Tom Waits at the ripe old age of 14.
The school was called (at that time) Hilltop Jr. High. It was (and still is) on the corner of Hilltop and J Street in the Southern California city of Chula Vista.
My sister and several of my friends ended up going to high school with Tom, but I lived on the other side of the dividing line, and when they built the new high school (Bonita Vista), I went there instead of Hilltop.
Other notables I have known, been friends with, gone to school with ... or all of the above, include:
Mark Harmon, Guy Kawasaki - the Apple "Evangalist", and Tom Selleck. I'm just realizing that a lot of them are named "Tom." How strange is that.
OK .... off to scan my Jr. High yearbook.