More memories plucked from the plastic crates and cardboard boxes stored out in the shed: Easy Rider, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, premiered about the same time I got my first job in advertising. Apparently I looked a bit like Fonda, which was not always a good thing. He played a drugged-out hippy biker in the film and quickly became a symbol of the seventies counterculture. I worked on Wilshire Boulevard, where most of Los Angeles’ ad agencies were gathered, and when I walked down the street at lunch, construction workers looked down at me from their work stations several stories above the street, and hurled obscenities in my direction. ”Fuck you, Fonda,” was one of their favorites. Not particularly creative, but … Continue reading Los Angeles, California, circa 1999: A tale of double doppelgängers