Born Detroit, Michigan 1926
Father born in Austria, 1888
Mother born in Russia, 1889
Detroit, 1941
The Krieger family were together again in Detroit in December 1945.
My brother and I had shortly returned from service in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
My sister had shortly returned from working in an airplane factory in Los Angeles.
Orphaned 1980
Herzliya, 1981
Married Atty de Vries
San Francisco City Hall, 1966
Education
High School, Detroit
Highland Park High, 1943
US Army Air Corps
Awaiting flight training, I attended a photo school, and became an instructor.
Wayne Univ., Detroit
Wayne University, 1948-51 (I lived in Webster Hall part of the time.)
Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
BA Math, 1956
Ecole des Langues Orientales, Paris
Russian Language
United Bicycle Inst., Oregon
Bicycle Maintenance, 1988
Univ. of Oregon
BFA, Photography, 1994
Foreign Languages:
Nederlands, Français, Deutsch, Русский
Programming Languages:
Fortran, C, Z80 Assembly, HTML
Politics
I am a born and bred liberal
Father: FDR Democrat; Mother: Labor Zionist, (knew Golda Meir)
Work Experience
Newspaper Boy
Liberty Magazine, 1935
Like Warren Bufett, I started with selling the
Liberty Magazine, but we ended up differently.
The Detroit News, 1938-40
Besides papers for my route, I sold Extra editions on the street.
Chemist
W.P. Fuller Paints, So. San Francisco, 1952-3
Programmer
From Abacus to One Laptop per Second Childhood
Via Real-Time Systems, Military Computers, and IBM Mainframes
North American Aviation / Autonetics, Los Angeles and Anaheim 1956-59
Excerpts from 1943 Highland Park High School Yearbook
I worked part-time at Fromm's 1942-3
I worked in the Photo Dept., Packard Motor Car Co., 1943, 1944
I was also a free-lance photographer for the Detroit Jewish News
and the United Automobile Worker newspaper
"To Herman, who wasted a flash bulb on me", Harpo Marx, Detroit, 1948
I worked evenings for the photo concession at The Bowery, 1946-49
Bimbo's 365 and The Italian Village Night Clubs, San Francisco
Evenings I printed the photos taken at these night clubs, 1951-52
