I got on a bus and came to Los Angeles. And I met some people, I don't know, maybe I knew some. Oh yeah, I knew some people, that's right. Oh yeah, there's a funny story here. I'm in Los Angeles and I have two addresses, and I'm just out of high school. One was to a place in Hollywood, you know, where people sometimes go to for whatever need or help or something? I don't know what the hell you call those people. Anyway, they were very nice to me and they say, you know, 'We want to do a favor for you because you seem like a very nice guy. And what we're going to do, we're going to buy you a ticket, go back to Los Angeles'. Well no, no way. No way. But they're going to pay my train fare, everything, to go back to Chicago. But I said to them, 'Thank you very much'. That was the first ticket that I got from my friend. The next one was to a couple of bankers, it was downtown Los Angeles. And I had the address and whatever, you know. And so I… I went back home and, no, are you going to use the… the second address? And the second address was a banker and the banker was very nice, it was downtown Los Angeles, and he gave me $20, so that helped. But anyway, I had $20. But he did tell me about a friend of his who is an artist, and I should go and see him. And that's the worst thing you could tell me because I wasn't that keen. Anyway, I went to this address and I looked around and looked around. And finally, I met the man, he was… he was a painter, and he liked my drawings. So what happened out of that situation is that I show up at 7:00 in the morning at his studio and I draw some pictures of the desert, you know? And then he took them, and I didn't know that. But he put his name on those drawings. Yeah, uh-huh. And I still had to thank him but I did never let on that he using my drawings, he's signing them, you know? And he colors them a little bit, and he was very good at that. But meanwhile I was meeting people and so I got in touch with people. And then they say, 'Oh you should come to Disney'. And I said, 'But how?' They said, 'We'll take your drawings, we'll show it to them'. So I gave them some of my drawings of the desert and stuff like that, and next thing I know, I'm at Disney Studio.
