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Valley Arizona & Utah | Ken
Rudine on Ken RudineI
am one of those rare folks, “A Native-Born Houstonian”. My father was from Wharton
County and my mother was from Angelina County. I was born during a time before
hurricanes were named, when St. Augustine Grass was being introduced to Houston
from Florida and the “Star” on top of the San Jacinto Monument was being built
by Mr. Martin who lived 2 doors down from my parent’s house.
My railroad
loving father gave me Miles as a middle name in honor of the engineer on the locomotive
on which he was fireman. An auto mechanic for 38 years, dad introduced me to the
photographic process before I was a teenager. It was a time my high school, Reagan
being known as “Heights High”. Our Graduation Prom was held at Glen McCarthy’s
new Shamrock Hotel. Next I studied portraiture and lighting at the U of H under
the two “old maid” Pyke sisters. And I was bored by Mr. Mobley’s math theories
as applied to photography and the processing of latent images.
The Korean
War and my enlistment in the USAF changed my attention to the top secret work
of breaking Russian codes while stationed in Europe and mostly North Africa. Until
my discharge, that work continued in San Antonio, where I first appreciated the
Hill Country in particular Bandera.
When a mostly unknown Elvis made
his first visit to Houston, I was starting an entrepreneurial darkroom business
known as 5P Processing Laboratories. As Houston was still in its first decade
of building air conditioned houses and my brother asked me to manage his business
of air conditioning southwest Houston homes.
My defining work ethic
began just a year before the Astrodome opened; managing a manufacturing company
making roof mounted, wind driven, rotary ventilators that cooled attics. The benefit
was to reduce the heat load on air conditioning systems. They were simply called
Turbo-Vents. I have four U. S. Patents relevant to ventilation although none are
worth the cost to defend.
During these times I had photo-journalism articles
published in Popular Mechanics, Camping as well as photos used in advertising,
but mostly my photography was for me. Which brings me to “fast-forward”; to my
now age, where travel is prolific and satisfaction with sharing those scenes is
only a “click” away from my friends Johnny Stucco and Kate.
© Ken Rudine
September 14, 2005 |
