(includes both posts and timeline stories)
- Karen works at Mr. Bartley’s Gourmet Burgers – Harvard Sq.
March,1974
- Mark-work – Stevens-Arnold in S. Boston – machinist
June,1974
After hanging around at Ba and Al’s house and bakery in Belmont since leaving Cornell PHD program in Spring 1973, Mark decides to become a machinist. Talks his way into job at Stevens-Arnold, Co. a manufacturer of electro-mechanical relays and other… Continue reading Mark-work – Stevens-Arnold in S. Boston – machinist
- Karen places ad in the Real Paper. Mark replies.
August,1974
August 1974
- Karen & Mark meet at Central Sq. T stop. First date.
September,1974
September 1974 Karen and Mark meet at Central Sq. T stop. Mark is easily identifiable as a “big guy in a red checked wool hunting coat” – still in use today. Go on first date; see Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage. Walk back across Mass Ave. bridge.… Continue reading Karen & Mark meet at Central Sq. T stop. First date.
- Karen and Mark have one beer dates on Fridays
October,1974
- Karen and Mark start at Wentworth Institute of Technology
September,1975
September 1975 Manufacturing engineering program. Mark had attended evening classes in 1974.
- Mark takes tickets; Karen serves fish
September,1975
Entrance on side as it was in the 1970s and ’80s. Mark takes tickets at Brattle Theatre working for Harvey Meyerson. Karen serves fish at restaurant near Porter Sq. Theater had a rear projector system. Quite unusual. Current theatre.
- Torrey & Jane Orton visit
January,1976Torrey & Jane Orton visit during heavy snow storm. Fire rages on River St. Jane defeats everyone in air hockey. Example of air hockey table
- Mark moves in with Karen and kids.
May,1976249 Western Ave – right side of building. Picture taken July 12, 2018 Mark moves in with Karen and Andrea and Jonathan at 249 Western Ave. (2nd and 3rd floor). They had been living across the street at 254 Western, Mark at 19 Columbia St. with… Continue reading Mark moves in with Karen and kids.
- Tennis
July,1976
Tennis was a big part of Cambridge life into the early 1980s. The courts at Hoyt Field, directly behind 266 Western Ave. were always busy. There was a very active local tennis culture. Jonathan, Mark, Harvey, Andrea
- Mark work – optics company Bedford MA
January,1977Can no longer remember or discover the name of this company. It manufactured mirrors and other optical devices. Only worked there for two months before it went bankrupt. The other machinist was a guy in his 70s, Frank Scanlon who told told me stories… Continue reading Mark work – optics company Bedford MA
- Karen & Mark graduate from Wentworth
May,1977Associates Degree in Manufacturing Engineering
- Karen works at Arthur D. Little – machinist
June,1977
ADL complex at Alewife on Rte 2 in Cambridge, MA
- Mark and Karen get married. Wedding 6/19/77 at Cambridge Community Center
June,1977Ceremony with a justice of the peace, borrowed tape deck and speakers, and pot luck food took place at the Cambridge Community Center under a canopy of a parachute tacked up.
- Mark works at Minuteman Labs – Acton, MA
July,1977Beginning of transition from machinists to mechanical designer. Minuteman Labs designed and built spectrometers and monochrometers for chemists and physicists around the world.
- Family Camping – Hermit Island, Maine
August,1977
We used an old fashioned heavy canvas Coleman tent given to us by Jack and Ruth London. (photos not contemporaneous)
- Family Camping – Hermit Island Maine – 8/1977
August,1977Not started
- Sweat Equity purchase of 266-8 Western Ave
August,1977 - House at 266-268 Western Ave – first visit
September,1977Karen and Mark visited with Phil Pierce at Homeowners Rehab to talk about how to buy a house, mortgages, etc. On the way out the door he insisted that we look at this triple-decker just down the street. They had been trying to get a family involved… Continue reading House at 266-268 Western Ave – first visit
- Renovations at 266 Western Ave – begin sweat equity
December,1977