From Newsgroup: alt.fan.frank-zappa

On Monday, February 18, 2019 at 3:28:15 PM UTC-8, dorm...@gmail.com wrote:

On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 6:46:28 AM UTC-8, stvr...@gmail.com wrote:

Did I meet you at the Addison Rowe gallery about five years ago? Was/is your father an artist? I managed Jett Gallery for about fourteen years and seem to recall Jett talking about you though I don't remember the specifics.

Sorry to reply so late, but I just happened across your post & question. Yes, I believe we met at the Gallery several years ago. I was born in Santa Fe, and my step-grandfather (the only grandfather I knew, actually) was Jozef Bakos, one of the Cinco Pintores of Santa Fe. I believe you and I met at the gallery when it opened a retrospective of Bakos' work and I happened to be visiting Santa Fe.

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All, I'm a journalist writing with The State Hornet rCo student run news site at Sacramento State Uni (where Bill worked for 41 years as mentioned). I'd heard that he knew FZ when they were kids, but my source wasn't sure of the story he related when Frank died.
Bill recently passed and I'm writing up a story about his life and affect on the community. To stumble across this GEM of a thread has made my day. I'm so grateful for the nerds (I'm one, this is not an insult) that archive anecdotes like this and keep stories like this alive. Also amazing to be able to read Bill's words confirming things like this even after he died.
Thank you all. Be well.
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