Nathaniel Ray Baker

Paid a visit to Mt Sinai / Hollywood Hills on what would have been Ned's 74th birthday. Shared a beer and a few fond memories. RIP good friend.

Having visited the grave of Oscar Schindler I was familiar with the custom of leaving a stone as a token of my visit. The folks at Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills were kind enough to give me a small packet of soft pebbles [I guess we do not want to mess too much with the lawn mower blades] to leave as a token of my visit this Passover 2022. Rest easy good buddy.

It is so very hard to believe Ned left us three years ago today 19 February 2019. Your wicked sense of humor, your laugh, your love of skiing and the outdoors...they linger still. RIP buddy.

Ned was a classmate when we were both undergraduates at UCLA and we both lived on the Fifth Floor, Bacchus House, in the Sproul Hall dormitory. Ned was an engineering major and we both shared a love of things automotive. He helped me to remove the stock exhaust manifold on my 1969 Boss 302 Mustang and replace them with Hedman after market headers. He helped me to re-jet my Holley 4 barrel carburetor. One of the projects he worked on at UCLA was the Hydrogen Car Project where they modified...