This is from a Facebook memory as Google removed my memorial post of Juanita, claiming it went against community standards. I thought it was spam egging me on so I ignored it. Mistake. Now it’s gone and there is no back up—not even in the Wayback Machine. I didn’t even find out about it until Google again removed 13 of my posts in May, 2021. So this is a placeholder. I’ve put the gleaned material in quotes.
This is what I gleaned from Facebook Memory: “It's been confirmed: Juanita Musson's Memorial Service is on Sunday, April 3rd at Olompali Ranch in Novato—Noon to 3pm. Please wear bright muumuus & Hawaiian shirts! A cock or a monkey on your shoulder, bedpans of food and wild Juanita stories will do...what a peculiar tribe we've been!
We met a lot of folks I sorta knew or looked familiar or were at the same place/time thing. I recognized Jerry Tomlinson who lived at Rancho Olompali when it was a Grateful Dead commune. I remember going to big parties there, wading in the grotto. Falling in.
Before Olompali was a commune it was Martin Ranch, I got my saddle fixed there—so it was a three wave tier of memory rolling in. One woman I met, Caron McCloud was with Greg Davis—so her kids were related to my old flame, Geoff Davis! That’s how I met Caron, Shiloh, and Shannon McCloud-Davis, and Kurt Crowbar Kansas. Shannon McCloud went to school with my brother Guy.
Afterwards, we all trundled off to Sonoma Valley—up Nuns Canyon to a sculpture ranch, Relais du Soleil right next to Beltane Ranch. We drank and feasted on chicken until the stars sighed. We recited Juanita stories. "The food's good but not necessarily the temperament of the cook". —Juanita's Galley, Gate 4 and a half, Sausalito.
It turns out our host, Tim was a friend of Norton Buffalo's—so sad to see Norton's Ovation guitar silent, by the fireplace. Neil sang some folk songs. We walked in the sculpture garden. Big sheet metal horse running into rust. Amazing place over the hill from Beltane Ranch.”
I wrote a lovely log blog piece written ca. April 3-5, 2011, commemorating the memorial and the funereal supper. This group photo was from a 2016 FB post on Juanita’s page, and it gave me the terminus post quem date, so the missing blogpost that Google removed was still up in 2016. That’s all I know. Since it was all my original writing and photos, it couldn’t have been a copyright issue. But then again, what do bots know about writing?
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| Link to Juanita’s page. |
We were all trying to remember the 60's with little success — with Jerry Tomlinson, Yerushalmi Ben Yehudah, Larry Otis, Kurt Crowbar Kangas, Shannon Cinnamon McCloud, Stuart Ramsey, Lynn D Kircher, Neil O'Neill, Julia Brigden, Letitia Graves, Caron McCloud, Laurie Steese, and Shiloh Sophia. (Stuart's gone now...).
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| Friends not in the main photo: Pagan Neil and Carolyn Heal |
Alas, Picasa Web Album is no more, but the URL gave me the name of the ranch we went to, Relais du Soleil. Not only did I lose all the stories and tributes, I lost the names of the folks who attended the memorial service. I’m still so angry, I could spit.
Added 4/1/23
Juanita's Gallery restaurateur Juanita Musson diesMy original tribute to Juanita
You rarely got what you wanted at Juanita’s Restaurant, but you got a lot of it
- DEAR GOOGLE, Blogger removed 13 of my blogposts May 13, 2021. At least they restored these posts.
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