SFO - SAN FRANCISCO Days - 1980-1997

I was friends with the traffic guy at KRON channel 4 & got to go up in the Traffic Helicopter during rush hour!!! INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!

I was friends with the traffic guy at KRON channel 4 & got to go up in the Traffic Helicopter during rush hour!!! The circled place is my first place I had in San Francisco - 1163 Pine Street - between Jones & Leavenworth (Nob Hill) - a block from the California Street Cable Car line & 2 1/2 blocks from my FAV Friday night Happy Hour at the Tonga Room at the Fairmont Hotel!!!!!! Such a FUNNNN LIFE!!

1980 - When I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area I lived ON Alemeda Island ON the military base - across the street from the Officers Club with my uncle that was the commanding officer of the base. What times!!!! Hanging out at the "O Club" & dating Marine pilots (I always thought I'd marry a Marine Pilot like my daddy - till I got THIS experience & REALLY saw what the military life/military was about!! I got to experience/live the life of the military "wife" without doing it by dating a few officers. NOT for me!!! [do you know there's actually a "Marine Corp Wives Handbook" that tells you how to help your husband move up in ranks - basically by giving up your OWN identity!! NOT for me!!!)

What an AWESOME TIME!! I had JUST moved to San Francisco & I got to be the Volunteer Coordinator on the John Anderson for President campaign & this picture was when I got to drive the media in a Motorcade!!!! (more on that story later but it involved me getting to drive 85mph on the freeway at 4am!!)

Uncie Bob Skinner's Retirement Party & ME Vicki Skinner - 1980

1980-1981 - My 2nd party in my TINY San Francisco studio at 1163 Pine Street!!! Left to Right: ??, Phil Gomez, Brian Vouglas, ME - Vicki Skinner (yup - that blonde is ME - the ORIGINAL "Sarong Goddess"!!), John???

ME - Vicki SKinner - the ORIGINAL "Sarong Goddess"!!) & Brian Vouglas in San Francisco!! (around 1982)

Phil Gomez, Paul Schwartz & Me (yup - that blonde is ME - Vicki Skinner (yup - that blonde is ME - the ORIGINAL "Sarong Goddess"!!)

Per Nordquist, __, ____, Karlu Werner (middle), Vicki Skinner, & Swedish actor•comedian Mikael Tornving - San Francisco, California around 1982

Per Nordquist, __, ____, Karlu Werner (middle), Vicki Skinner, & Swedish actor•comedian Mikael Tornving - San Francisco, California around 1982

___ (Sweden), Karlu Werner (Germany), Per Nordquist (Sweden), Swedish actor•comedian Mikael Tornving, Robert•Bob Skinner - San Francisco, California around 1982

Boyfriend John Burke & ME - Vicki Skinner (yup - that blonde is ME) going to some military ball.

ME - Vicki Skinner (yup - that blonde is ME) at my 25th b'day celebration (hours before I broke up with my fiance as I had set intentions for my life when I was 16 (be a newscaster, married & with kids by the time I was 25) & though I was engaged to a standup solid guy - what he represented was suffocating to me as I knew then that my FREEDOM was IMPORTANT to me!! NOT the white picket fence CPA he represented.

Albert Cisneros, Karlu Werner & Uncie Bob Robert Skinner at my 25th Birthday Party in Alameda

I started the Northern California Chapter of the "Go Go Dodgers Fan Club" - heading out to one of the Dodger-Giant's games (I could get away with being decked out in Dodger Blue because - well - look at me!!!)

Albert Cisneros & Vicki SKinner - at a San Francisco Giants vs Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game. I had started the Northern California chapter of the Go-Go Dodgers Fan Club!!

Albert Cisneros & me - Vicki SKinner (hair slicked back in my Dynasty more "sophisticated" look), ???, & Tricia Cowden

ME - Vicki Skinner (yup - that blonde is ME) grabbing some gay guy's tush at one of Gary Beck's (my Kitchen Window Buddy) parties.

What FUNNNN TIMES!! We used to regularly have Sunday Brunches on the rooftop at my apartment at 1163 Pine Street. Left to Right: Mark Rouche (RIP my sweet friend), Gary Hicks, Ann___, ___, ____

Off to my 10 year high school reunion (El Modena High - Class of 1975 - Orange, California) fresh off the airplane from 3 months traveling by myself around Europe on an Eurail Pass!! EVERY thing I had one - from top to bottom (including jewels & make up & undergarments) was from Europe including my gorgeous "Dynasty dress" that I had a good college friend - Ellin Brown who was a haute couture designer in Paris make for me!! I'm blessed to have big boobs all my life but them to be more under my arms pits so I'm quite flat in the middle hence can pull off these kind of dresses!! It was funny as MANY were watching me dance - expecting me to fall out - but I ain't no fool!! There could have been a 8.0 earthquake & those babies weren't going no where!!

Lake Tahoe - 1982 with Laurie Corwin, ME - Vicki SKinner, Vilma Masi & ____??

1982 with Laurie Corwin, Vilma Masi, ME - Vicki SKinner, & Wendy Ferrari

Me - Vicki Skinner with my boss at Foote, Cone & Belding Advertising Agency - Angela Moore Evans at our FAVORITE Friday Happy Hour - the Tonga Room at the Fairmont Hotel - just 2 1/2 blocks from me!!

Lorraine Barnard, Kent Taylor & Me - Vicki Skinner

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Lorraine Barnard & Me - Vicki Skinner

Kent Taylor, my "Little Sister" ____ (from the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program) & Lorraine Barnard - 1982-ish

Vicki Skinner, __, ___, Eugene Jones Jr at San Francisco Giant's Game VIP area.

Eugene Jones (far left), Vicki Skinner (holding t-shirt/red socks) at Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Francisco Kite Festival Vicki Coordinated.

Eugene Jones at a Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Francisco Kite Festival

Eugene Jones at a Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Francisco Kite Festival

Eugene Jones

Eugene Jones at a San Francisco Giants baseball game

I had helped organized a Celebrity Bowl-a-thon for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of San Franciso & we were doing a PSA•Public Service Announcement (commercial) & seconds later Ollie the orangutan from Marineworld stuck his LONG tongue INTO MY MOUTH & grabbed my tush!!!!!! They took him out of service after that (they're known for being horny little things)