I haven’t discovered the circumstances of Art’s passing but thought that I would post some remembrances.
Art lived a couple blocks down from my family on Fulton Street just above University. There was a school bus to Jordan that picked up at the old Lytton School at Lytton and Middlefield, which is how I first met many of the people in the neighborhood.
Art lived with his mother Ruth and sister Anne. Ruth was a very sweet lady and worked with her brother (and Art’s uncle) Fran Hinson, who ran Fran’s Smoke Shop on the corner of Lytton and Cowper. Fran’s house was on Middlefield and backed to Art’s house on Fulton. (Many separate memories of hanging out at Fran’s.)
Art had some of the great R&B albums of the time. I really got into Billy Preston after seeing the Let It Be movie (at the Stanford Theater) and Art lent me his Billy Preston albums (and likely some others) so I could tape record them on cassettes.
Earl Beamon lived across the street from Art and Earl and I played on a local baseball team the summer before we all entered Paly (Robert Scher was on that team as well but I can’t recall anyone else from Paly). A couple games in, the webbing of my ball glove broke and Art lent me his ball glove for the remainder of the season, which was an awesome Rawlings “Heart of the Hide” professional glove and a major upgrade from my glove.
I last saw Art at our 30th Reunion at Rinconada but we spoke only briefly, unfortunately. Mostly, I remember Art as a really nice guy, soft spoken with a great laugh.
John Morrow
RIP Art - You were always smiling at our reunions
And I remember your mom. She was a hardworking
Nice Lady
Blair Swezey
I haven’t discovered the circumstances of Art’s passing but thought that I would post some remembrances.
Art lived a couple blocks down from my family on Fulton Street just above University. There was a school bus to Jordan that picked up at the old Lytton School at Lytton and Middlefield, which is how I first met many of the people in the neighborhood.
Art lived with his mother Ruth and sister Anne. Ruth was a very sweet lady and worked with her brother (and Art’s uncle) Fran Hinson, who ran Fran’s Smoke Shop on the corner of Lytton and Cowper. Fran’s house was on Middlefield and backed to Art’s house on Fulton. (Many separate memories of hanging out at Fran’s.)
Art had some of the great R&B albums of the time. I really got into Billy Preston after seeing the Let It Be movie (at the Stanford Theater) and Art lent me his Billy Preston albums (and likely some others) so I could tape record them on cassettes.
Earl Beamon lived across the street from Art and Earl and I played on a local baseball team the summer before we all entered Paly (Robert Scher was on that team as well but I can’t recall anyone else from Paly). A couple games in, the webbing of my ball glove broke and Art lent me his ball glove for the remainder of the season, which was an awesome Rawlings “Heart of the Hide” professional glove and a major upgrade from my glove.
I last saw Art at our 30th Reunion at Rinconada but we spoke only briefly, unfortunately. Mostly, I remember Art as a really nice guy, soft spoken with a great laugh.
R.I.P.