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Date Posted: 19:37:44 06/02/03 Mon
Author: Alan Michelson
Subject: Adventures While Working at the C.M.S.I. Foundation

I had quite some memories while working at the California Museum of Science and Industry Foundation back in 1992. First, I was on jury duty where we were being picked for a multiple capital-murder case that was going to last for several months. But when I told the judge that I was going to start a new job at the C.M.S.I., he excused me so that I can start that job.

At that job, I would enter data into a computer about school field-trip reservations. At that time, the only exhibits were in that then thirty-year-old wing that was east of the main building. The field trips involved four scientific areas #5-#8. (I guess that scientific areas #1-#4 were closed along with the main building!)

I also entered data regarding students and their schools regarding science projects at the annual State Science Fair. There were fifteen subject areas, and the contestants were divided between the junior high and the senior high divisions.

I was working for C.M.S.I. at the time that the riot broke out. Rodney King's police assailants were let out, and all hell broke loose! I called up the office, but nobody answered the phone, therefore since they stayed away then I should stay away from the area, too! As a result, we didn't work for a few days, and the Science Fair that was scheduled for May was postponed until June!

C.M.S.I. had an excursion to see the San Andreas Fault at the Mojave Desert. The cost was $25, but since I worked at their Foundation, they let me on for $5 off. We met in the earthquake exhibit in preparation for the bus tour. Professor Sammis of the U.S.C. Earth Science Department was our lecturer. We were touring Los Angeles County learning about earthquakes. When we were going up Bouquet Canyon, we were stopped by an undercover sheriff! We went up to the lake to learn how they are trying to predict earthquakes. I had lunch in a Chinese restaurant in Palmdale. We saw the emergency gates on the California Aqueduct. Then we returned by way of the San Andreas Fault back to the Cajon Pass.

By late June, a pair of real earthquakes struck. (Landers and Big Bear.) I say that I had a real adventure at the California Museum of Science and Industry!

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