It was a small office in the Pacific Mutual Building with our boss Chris and Marilyn. Pam and Delaine joined us a few years later.
After graduation, they hired me full time and I worked there until I landed the job in the Governor's Office in Sacramento in early 1983. Two events we helped organize was a California Farewell luncheon for president-elect Ronald Reagan on January 14, 1981 and a dinner in March 1983 where Hollywood honored Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at the Paramount Studios.
I loved being downtown. Our building was across from Pershing Square, in the same block as the Biltmore Hotel, and it was a time when the neighborhood was just starting to reinvent itself with shops, new hotels and good restaurants.
One of my favorite projects was to research the new commercial developments that were planned and under construction. This photo was the topping out ceremony we held for one of the new high rises on Bunker Hill. The press event was on the top floor of the building, and we all had to take the construction elevator up the outside of the building to get there.
