Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir, Jann S Wenner, September 13, 2022.

 Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir, Jann S Wenner, September 13, 2022. 

Part One: Beginnings

Chapter 1 -- Rainbow Road 

rural suburbs of San Rafael, CA -- county seat, Marin County

Ruth Naomi "Sim" Simmons
Edward Wenner

Originally NYC

US military during WWII -- stateside
she: New Orleans, a quartermaster, US Navy
he: Lt, Monroe, LA -- Army Air Corps; taught pilots how to bomb targets

Married, 1943 -- NYC

Jann b. January 7, 1946.

At the edge of the generation that would become:
the largest,
the best educated,
the wealthiest
in American history.

 

In NYC, his pediatrician -- Dr Spock.

Parents started a company in the Bay Area -- BABY FORMULAS

custom-made bottles of formulas for Bay Area hospitals

Two sisters:
Kate, b. 1947;
Martha, b. 1949

Jann was a problem child; expelled from school early on, twice 

His parents, with others, founded Marin Country Day -- private school

Summer camp: Camp Lagunitas -- rented later by the Grateful Dead

Mother: Democrat activist; with Alan Cranston
ultimately led to Pat Brown, Jerry Brown

First record player he recalls: 78 rpm GARRARD!!

BABY FORMULAS: ultimately 90% of all babies within 125 miles of San Francisco hospitals -- p. 9

Mentioned Robert Heinlein -- p. 9