Bob Mclean

As a child, Bob often escaped his home life by imagining himself participating in the lives of his favorite TV or comic book characters. He was always drawn to colorful people and unusual situations. First, it was cowboys and rodeo people he met while competing in horse shows. Then, it was rebellious juvenile delinquents and the local police. At the age of 14, Bob ran away from home in Detroit and went to California. It was the first of several such trips. He looked for work among the migrant farm workers and a travelling circus but was told he was too young. He found a job at the famous Nu Pike amusement park in Long Beach and rented his first apartment nearby in an area known as "the Jungle", where he witnessed a fatal knife fight. It was also on this trip that Bob first saw a professional film crew at work. He can still describe the action being filmed. Bob hitch hiked across the U.S. several times while still in his teen years. He stood cold and alone on pitch black mountain road