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programmer_guy said:
Why was Bent sad about Sue?

I didn't know her that well but I knew Paul a bit as fellow musicians.
(Sue really avoided any course room study as much as she could. She had a lot of trouble in reading. But she was a sweetheart in personality.)
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Sad because she was said to be still in Scientology at that time.
It made me sad too because she was a very nice person.
I cannot imagine what her personality is like now.

PG, there is another recently on another thread who said they were from Hawaii Mission.
That person asked about Riverside.
I hope they find this thread and catch up with us.
 
HCObringOrder? said:
Sad because she was said to be still in Scientology at that time.
It made me sad too because she was a very nice person.
I cannot imagine what her personality is like now.

PG, there is another recently on another thread who said they were from Hawaii Mission.
That person asked about Riverside.
I hope they find this thread and catch up with us.
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So, you are saying that Bent said that AFTER he dismantled Sciologos and started using his building for WOG businesses?
A "yes" on this would put the comment into a better time-frame for my understanding.

I would guess that she either went to the Buenaventura mission (with Tom&Cathy Steiner and Jim Hamre),
or Sarge in Northern CA (with Rodney and Joanie and others).
 
programmer_guy said:
So, you are saying that Bent said that AFTER he dismantled Sciologos and started using his building for WOG businesses?
A "yes" on this would put the comment into a better time-frame for my understanding.

I would guess that she either went to the Buenaventura mission (with Tom&Cathy Steiner and Jim Hamre),
or Sarge in Northern CA (with Rodney and Joanie and others).
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That would be a yes.
At that time he was renting/remodeling the Ethics area for the body building business that was moving in at the time (and is still there I think).
He was sad that Sue was still involved, and sad for his effect on myself and all others from his actions.
He stated that his book was his amends, as well as other things he has done in the background.
I accepted his amends for myself, because I had read the book and understood it.

Where he said she was at, I do not recall.
My file clerk hates names of places I have not been this life.
But I think he did say Tom and Cathy's names in the same sentence.
 
HCObringOrder? said:
At that time he was renting/remodeling the Ethics area for the body building business that was moving in at the time (and is still there I think).
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Yes, that is now a "fitness" business. The area you are referring to is very large (more than any ethics offices).
(I am thinking that your memory is worse than mine. :))

The East-side (of the stairs) of that basement was the HQS course room.
The West-side (of the stairs) of that basement was the HSDC course room.

I was a course sup on both of them at one time or another.
 
programmer_guy said:
Yes, that is now a "fitness" business. The area you are referring to is very large (more than any ethics offices).
(I am thinking that your memory is worse than mine. :))

The East-side (of the stairs) of that basement was the HQS course room.
The West-side (of the stairs) of that basement was the HSDC course room.

I was a course sup on both of them at one time or another.
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Wrong stairs.
You are talking about the stairs under the main lobby stairs.
I am talking about the stairs back in the South Gym which led down to the Ethics area.
That is the location that was being remodeled when I had my long talk with Bent.
Maybe they have expanded from there up to the HQS course rooms, but I do not know that.

"The East-side (of the stairs) of that basement was the HQS course room."
Since the stairs are perpendicular to the main street out front, and that is perpendicular to the freeway a few blocks away, I have been referencing those stairs as going East and West, with the freeway to the south from there and the Mission Inn as North North East from there.
That would make the HQS room on the South of the stairs, with the Comm Course above it.
The HQS room was where the Friday Night entertainment was at.

What do you think?
 
HCObringOrder? said:
Wrong stairs.
You are talking about the stairs under the main lobby stairs.
I am talking about the stairs back in the South Gym which led down to the Ethics area.
That is the location that was being remodeled when I had my long talk with Bent.
Maybe they have expanded from there up to the HQS course rooms, but I do not know that.

"The East-side (of the stairs) of that basement was the HQS course room."
Since the stairs are perpendicular to the main street out front, and that is perpendicular to the freeway a few blocks away, I have been referencing those stairs as going East and West, with the freeway to the south from there and the Mission Inn as North North East from there.
That would make the HQS room on the South of the stairs, with the Comm Course above it.
The HQS room was where the Friday Night entertainment was at.

What do you think?
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Thanks for the info. :)

I think that you and I are remembering and talking about different time periods... as usual.

Regards
 
dianaclass8 said:
A friend told me that nowdays they only have 2 students and one staff, no auditors. They are very busy trying to sell the "basics"

Diana
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I am not sure what you are referring to. The Riverside Mission died many years ago.

AFAIK, the building is still owned by Bent Corydon but it is now a WOG small business building (e.g. there is an exercise gym business there).
 
HCObringOrder? said:
Anyone have more info, or news about Riverside, or former Riverside Mission Staff?
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After I left I lost touch with all of them for many years.
However, I did briefly get back in touch with Corky (email and one phone call).

I am guessing that Corky (in Div5) and her hubby, Tim (in Div2), left before you came to that mission. (If you knew them I can tell you in PM a little more info).

Other than this, I have no further info for you.
 
IMMORTAL said:
Oh, ooops. Sorry. I had this mixed up with Redland, CA mission. That's where John is, not Riverside.
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Redlands?

D-Rad and Tom Padget (former OCMB posters) had showed up near their downtown outdoor table a few years ago to dissuade the public, who were passing by, from any chance of getting caught into that web of SCN promotion.
 
TG1 said:
John Crittenden? As in husband of the long-ago-deceased Patty Crittenden?
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Yes, Patty was his first wife and she died. He has since remarried but I forgot his current wife's name. Far as I know, he's running Redlands, or at least he was still running it in 2008.
 
mate said:
I remember the days of the IBM/360 and Fortran IV and Algol and Cobol. The computer took up the whole floor of a building and had nothing like the speed and memory of today's notebook computer. I also remember knocking my stack of punched cards off my desk accidently and spending hours getting them back in order.:duh:
David
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Most of these mainframes had all of 64kb to 256kb of memory; linear memory, not random access memmory. Yes, I wrote "k" and not "M". At my university we had a Cyber 3600 (or something like that) that predated IBM products. With itself and peripherals, it took up a 100x100 sq. ft floor in a refrigerated room. I cannot remember how many tape drives it had, but it was at least 30-40. The Cyber 3600 was state of the art for about a year!

And, yes, it was 80 column Hollerith cards in the long boxes the blank cards came in . I cannot count the number of times that fellow students fell or otherwise tossed the card boxes, and if the cards were not numbered, they had to essentially regenerate their code on the cards to sort them. It could take weeks!

I hated the Hollerith punch machines with a passion! I must have refused 2-5 cards for each one that would pass the compiler! ...and, as an undergraduate, I had to wait for days before I found out, from the printer output, that my code failed the compiler for errors. I would spend weeks trying to find the single coding error. I was a sophomore, and started to drink to relieve the pain.

$10-20 million for a computer system in 1966 than today can be had for under $50, used. To think we launched men to the moon with these computers! To think that the moon vehicles has miniaturized versions with very limited compiled code for these computers!

BTW, I converted some of my 1966-1980 (some professional code) Fortran IV code to Macintosh Basic in 1984 in my 128Kb original Macintosh with the single 128KB disk drive and no hard drive, and the progs worked just fine, except maybe 500x faster. I was overjoyed, even if the programs were dated and irrelevant!

Those were the days!
 
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Gawd, you're old, guys. Punched cards. Jeez. (I remember 'em, too.)

But they were so ... physical! You really HAD something when you'd finished a deck. Remember?
 
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