Canyon run.

 

Cousin Patricia's Wedding

Leonard and Brother Pat at the reception for Cousin Patricia & Alfred's wedding.
Patricia's Wedding took place in the chapel of the Sisters Of Incarnate Word And Blessed Sacrament Convent located in Victoria, Texas.
The Catholic Sisters Convent has been in service since the year 1866 and Patricia claims that her wedding with Alfred is the ONLY wedding to take place in the Convent Chapel's history.
Leonard, once more a part of history.

...hand in the cookie jar

Leonard "getting his sandwich on"
God Bless you Leonard and enjoy that sandwich.

---photo from pat---

ZZTop's "First Annual B-B-Q and Barn Dance" 09/01/74

concert ticket stub


Leonard with State Capital Dome in background.


Leonard working his way thru the crowd.


Leonard and Bonnie.


When "smoke" gets in your eyes.

The radio announcement went: "All roads lead to Austin on September 1st for ZZ Top's First Annual B-B-Q and Barn Dance".
ZZ Top Headlined that day with Santana, Bad Company and Joe Cocker warming up the crowd.

air-headzzz???...NO!...ROK GODZZZZ!!!!!...BOW DOWN!

The slogan going around those days was: "Beautify America, Get A Haircut."
That slogan/bumper sticker came and went!
These "wild-n-crazy" guys lived by, the never old saying: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

THE "ONE"

zippo + christmas tree pyro trick....

Leonard's favorite outside "party favor" was to light up the old discarded christmas tree laying in the back yard. Leonard did this "favor" for the party goers at his b-day party in Tommy's back yard.

---photos courtesy of Tommy---

Tommy's Back Yard off Colorado St.

happy b-day, Leonard



Leonard and life long best friend, Tommy "dutch lane" Hernandez hanging out at Tommy's back yard on Colorado St.

---photos courtesy of Tommy---

Hair Nation

Leonard and some "boyz in tha hood", the flip, wench & lucky j btl.

chunking the disk at Mustang Is.

Leonard called playing frisbee, "chunking the disk."
Leonard's large frisbee collection kept the Wham-o Toy company busy in producing many, many frisbees in deferent designs, colors, weights and sizes.
A favorite "chunk" was to go to the beach, throw the frisbee into the wind and retrieve the disk with a boomerang technique.

"shag-a-delic" entertainment center, 70s style

Leonard was into "techno" stuff way back in the day.

Items in Leonard's early 70s "entertainment center" include: record/LP turntable, vinyl disk cleaner, 19" color TV with rabbit ears, AM/FM amplifier/receiver, 8-track tape player and stereo headphones.

other items include: gold plaster cast cobra, gold plaster cast rampart lion (headphones on lion's head), 8-track collection, record/LP collection, little brown jug, ivy plant, palm plant, Persian design rug and wall covering.

SHAG-A-DELIC BABY!

Need for Speed

Leonard on Sonny's hot rod 3-wheeler.

Young Blood

"Back in the day was when i became hooked on sickles welding fabricating and wishing i could have learned Blacksmithing.. those DeLeons were just plum addicting to me...." Quote by Lucky J BTL

leonards pop watching us crazys

"Leonard's pop was the greatest I loved him as much as I would have loved my own father. Here he sits and watchs Leonard chopping that 69 shovel and of course wondering what in the hell we are trying to acomplish because we were jumping around going crazy gettin er done. BOY WAS I EVER GLAD HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE WERE ON....SID." Quote by Lucky J BTL

PARTY TIME

eye ball it!

Leonard just got thru tack welding a fabricated bitch-bar, "eye-balling", to make sure the bar is plumb.
Leonard and Lucky J BTL at their best in total concentration, getting the job done.
Lucky J BTL sez...leonard always in my mind........

"open range"

Leonard "griz" and others admiring a couple of leaver action rifles.
No doubt...44-40.

...3...2...1...BLASTOFF!

Leonard would often say about riding a motorcycle, "The only thing holding you down, is gravity"

...my close-up...

"...I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille"

A famous quote uttered by Gloria Swanson, from the classic movie, "Sunset Boulevard."

Leonard would say that famous line from time to time and just crack one up into total laughter.

Leonard had an outstanding ability in wit, possessing a comedic-genius mind.

riding shotgun

"riding shotgun"

Leonard with some of the "river rats" in 1970s.

Leonard with his collector M-97 "trench broom" along with, wench, black betty, deb deb, miss python, fast eddie, rok & little toonch along with the "usual suspects" tacked to the wall, Josey Wells, Marx Brothers, Gary Cooper, Spiderman, Pancho Villa, Wild Bill Hickok, The Valdez Cattle Company, Warren Oats, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pop, Pat, Cervantes, Little Ceasar, Captain America, Tarkus Bug, Bruce Lee, Mona Lisa and The Magnificent 7.