Whatever Happened to . . . .

OLD PRODUCERS NEVER DIE, THEY JUST . . . . .

                 If you may have thought this was going to be a small web site, you were incorrect.  There was no way I was going to be able to sift through nearly 500-plus photos, documents and newspaper clippings - - seven years with 80-plus Shows worth of memories - - - and, come up with a couple pages!?  Give me a break! 

                 My thought has been that this was going to be an historical record for future Archives of this era; I wanted it to be as complete as I might make it for the record so veterans might have an enjoyable trip down Memory Lane.  I hope you have found it to be so.  You have actually been able to view around 400 photos plus other documents.

                 For me, LIFE is a book we create through chapters . . . . What a chapter 1966 through 1972 was!

                 Will there ever be another Show in the future that will become “the longest running” in Armed Forces history?  Who knows, but I would surely hope there would be no War as lengthy as Vietnam was.  It is my own personal opinion there will be more Wars though, and, our heirs will need to be supporting those Military personnel who will be involved. 

The Jamieson and Lundon bridge from then to now

      Three decades have passed since the final Jean London Show at Camp Pendleton, but the Show’s co-producers have kept in touch over the years even when physically separated by hundreds of miles.  Today, Bob Jamieson lives in Redding, CA.  His memories of the Show are ever present on his home office wall photo collage.

       Five and a half years after the last show, he retired from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and returned to more schooling.  He was graduated from the American Film Institute (AFI) as a producing fellow in 1979 after producing three student films; one of which was directed by Dorothy Puzo, Mario “Godfather” Puzo’s daughter. 

     Over the following years, Jamieson also worked with one of the Jean London Show’s semi-regular Hollywood Panelists, Ford Clay, who was a co-AFI writing fellow.  They now have two screenplays being selectively presented: “Sunflowers” and “This Land Yesterday”.  He also developed two more screenplays with actor Dick York of Bewitched fame and has waited to show these properties out of respect for Mr. York’s death.

      Following AFI, he began work in the Older Adult Department at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA.  During those years he authored a book titled Exercises For The Elderly – Emerson Books, Inc. NY, as there was no material available regarding older adult exercises.

       He is proud of the honor to be the first person at Mt. SAC, and one of the first in California, to be elected to the Academic Senate from a part-time, non-credit Department; serving five years traveling to State Community College Conferences in California, representing non-credit, part-time faculty.  A very large percentage of faculties at Community Colleges are part-time professors.

     His screenplay writing labors have continued over the years, including receiving some technical advice from astronaut Pete Conrad on a story he was working on; Captain Conrad's life was taken in a motorcycle accident a few years later.  Jamieson is currently working on the screenplay adaptation of Ace's new novel Through The Needle's Eye.

      Upon finalization of his divorce in ’82, he remarried and is nearing his 25^th Anniversary in April 2007 with Jonette (better known as Jonnie).  He’s a grandpa a few times over - - as one might note by the teddy bear in the photo. 

       A twist of fate brought Ace Lundon back to his birth State of South Dakota in February ’96; he now lives in Rapid City - - - ‘the banana belt’, where the year around weather is identical to Reno, NV where he lived for eight years previously; additionally he had spent stints of time in Hollywood, Sylmar, Whittier, West Hollywood, Burbank and Truckee, CA; Laughlin, NV and Ruidoso, NM.  He jokes about his life being a “moving experience” and his years in the entertainment industry as being a ‘prep school’ for Bohemian survivalists.

     In 1973 he stopped his labors in Personal Management and Public Relations and in the late-mid ‘70’s created the curricula for a class called Acting For Everyone, teaching it over the next twenty years in CA, AZ, NV, NM and SD.  He is developing it to become a self-help book.

    Being what is called a ‘Type A Personality’, he never seemed able over the years to simply do one thing at a time: Managing Editor of two national publications, human rights activist, doing handyman labors for the rich and famous with his daughter, Mara, an old friend and his soul mate.  His love for restaurant work, which he learned during his early years in modeling after leaving the farm, continues to this day, as does his passion for all aspects of tourism and Hotel design and management.

     He has recently completed two fiction novels – A Passage In Time Through The Needle’s Eye and The Legend of the Planet Itnava. Please Google search on Ace Lundon for further information.

    Ace’s primary focus over the years, however, has been to see the physical reality of a vision quest experience he had back in 1959; he’s called it his Cornstalk Project.  He has worked with scores of experts in their individual fields over the past decades in the research and development of the Project in accordance with the vision quest experience.  Today, the Project is ready, and he is seeking what he calls the correct youthful billionaire to finance the Project who would have the passion to complete the vision after Ace’s death.  It would begin with the ‘Town of Cornstalk’ and ‘The Space Probe Hotel and Tipi Village’ phases.  The photo shows Ace standing by a photo of the unfinished model of the Space Probe Hotel, created by CO architect Gregory B. Adams, who passed away prior to completion of the model.

     The divorce from Jean was finalized in 1974 and his soul mate died in his arms December 10, 1989.  As he believes life is a series of Chapters, the ’66 through ’72 Jean London Shows he considers one of his most memorable Chapters and feels privileged to have been able to share this with everyone now through the Internet.

He wrote a nationally syndicated column for three years titled "From The Poop Sheet"; traveled as an EmCee/guest speaker and still accepts selective speaking engagements at Universities, Military, and Organization's and Corporate gatherings.