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Ken Rudine
on Ken Rudine
I am one of those
rare folks, “A Native-Born Houstonian”. My father was from Wharton
County and my mother was from Angelina County. I was born during a
time before hurricanes were named, when St. Augustine Grass was being
introduced to Houston from Florida and the “Star” on top of the San
Jacinto Monument was being built by Mr. Martin who lived 2 doors down
from my parent’s house.
My railroad loving father gave me Miles as a middle name in honor
of the engineer on the locomotive on which he was fireman. An auto
mechanic for 38 years, dad introduced me to the photographic process
before I was a teenager. It was a time my high school, Reagan being
known as “Heights High”. Our Graduation Prom was held at Glen McCarthy’s
new Shamrock Hotel. Next I studied portraiture and lighting at the
U of H under the two “old maid” Pyke sisters. And I was bored by Mr.
Mobley’s math theories as applied to photography and the processing
of latent images.
The Korean War and my enlistment in the USAF changed my attention
to the top secret work of breaking Russian codes while stationed in
Europe and mostly North Africa. Until my discharge, that work continued
in San Antonio, where I first appreciated the Hill Country in particular
Bandera.
When a mostly unknown Elvis made his first visit to Houston, I was
starting an entrepreneurial darkroom business known as 5P Processing
Laboratories. As Houston was still in its first decade of building
air conditioned houses and my brother asked me to manage his business
of air conditioning southwest Houston homes.
My defining work ethic began just a year before the Astrodome opened;
managing a manufacturing company making roof mounted, wind driven,
rotary ventilators that cooled attics. The benefit was to reduce the
heat load on air conditioning systems. They were simply called Turbo-Vents.
I have four U. S. Patents relevant to ventilation although none are
worth the cost to defend.
During these times I had photo-journalism articles published in Popular
Mechanics, Camping as well as photos used in advertising, but mostly
my photography was for me. Which brings me to “fast-forward”; to my
now age, where travel is prolific and satisfaction with sharing those
scenes is only a “click” away from my friends Johnny Stucco and Kate.
© Ken Rudine
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