They actually did NOT hire me to join them. I went along with some things anyway. I don’t know all the deals and negotiations that went on in the 1970s. I CAN VOUCH that I was TOLD that I was “RETIRED” and I tried to argue my way out of it and that man (also named or nicknamed “Peterson”) who told me shook his head. I don’t know if he was Oil Can Harry’s people or not. He may have helped arrange for them to work in L.A. and keep me out of the mafia’s way.
Oil Can Harry’s peoples ARE THE ONES WHO have worked in L.A. as far as I know. They may or may not be the ones winning the awards and getting published about in trade magazines and television.
Far back in the 1970s I told some people I’d like to join in, participate even if retired. Just help out. I am not certain what year. I got grabbed and mistreated a lot in my youth. Not certain it was necessary. My goals were about story telling and being creative. I was not one of the money gathering or giving people.
*It was probably a combined identity anyway, not my own personally. So when I was retired others may have also been told they were done.