Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [48]
Lecture Mix: This is where all Hubbard’s lectures are restored, mixed and made ready for high-speed duplication using Clearsound technology.
Music Rehearsal: This is where the musicians rehearse for upcoming concerts and performances.
Upper RAV: This is where LRH’s Audio Visual Unit, or RAV, is located. This is the unit that is responsible for maintaining LRH’s arsenal of personal audio equipment. They are also responsible for running all of the programs in the Audio division of Golden Era Productions. They are the unit that produces any LRH special edition audio releases that Gold is not allowed to produce.
Lower RAV: This is the mixing studio that RAV uses to mix special edition products.
12 Mic: This is the recording room located in Lower RAV. It is called the 12 Mic because it has 12 separate microphones that are used to get the most realistic recording possible.
Horwich House: This is where Jon Horwich and his daughter Roanne lived. Roanne is LRH’s granddaughter and lives on the property.
OGH: Old Gilman House is the house that the family that owned and ran the property for most of the early and mid 1900’s lived. This house was used for temporary staff lodging.
ISO: This building was right next to Old Gilman House. This is where you went if you were sick. Isolation. There was a men’s section and a women’s section. If you had a cold or got sick, you would have to stay here until better. You could not go back home or do any work on your post or with the general crew because you might make more people sick. The smell that came from isolation was enough to keep most people from ever getting sick.
M&M or Maintenance Man House: This house was originally the place where the maintenance man for the resort lived. It is now used for staff berthing.
The Lake: The lake is a huge man-made lake just west of Building 36. It even had fish in it. It was more of an eyesore than majestic, with dead animals and several feet of sludgy muck beneath the few feet of water. There is a small island at one end of it with a stone veneer bridge that allows access to the island and has a huge cottonwood tree on it.
Golf Course: This is the public golf course located to the east of the main Golden Era property.
Sublet Road: This is the public road that is adjacent to the main property and runs along the golf course. Several houses are located along this road. Some were purchased and used as staff housing units while others had local residents living in them who had nothing to do with the base.
For my orientation, I would go to each and every building on the property and answer a question about each. This exercise took me two days.
For the most part, it was business as usual in most buildings. People were generally uniformed in the Sea Org garb and people were at desks and computers working away. There were, however, a few exceptions. Most of these exceptions occurred in Gold.
When I went into Studio Two, the mixing facility at the top of the property, a man was sitting at the main mix board console. He was in boxer shorts and a T-shirt. He was sitting in a large leather chair and had his feet up on the mix board. He was wearing socks but no shoes and seemed rather unresponsive to my entrance into the room.
“Hello,” I said.
“Hey,” he answered back. “Who are you and what are you doing here?”
“My name is Marc Headley and I am doing my Orientation Course.” I answered back, almost laughing.
“Well, Marc, I’m Jesse Prince and this is Studio Two. Now - get out! I am trying to work here!” he said, half joking and half serious.
I walked out of the studio and laughed. Of all the areas I had been to, this was the only one where someone was out of uniform and kicking back during post hours.
Beside a few random characters on my route, my orientation was pretty uneventful. I