This shot of my grand father Pete Korelich, I took in his record mastering studio in Hollywood Ca. He was once a rocket scientist who came up with the idea for the heat seaking missile and then led the team of engineers to create it. Too bad he was an employee of a larger corporation so he didn’t hold the patton cause I’d be rich. Well I don’t think he liked that work anyway cause he left it and then eventually opened a record pressing company. He also mastered and produced records. Mostly tajana music before he died. He was born in Yugoslavia and moved to Mexico when he was 7. I have a few records from the jazz drummer Roy Porter that he syndicated on one of his record labels Vistone Records. They are really cool and one is even a Hip Hop album.
WOW…..so nice to have so creative relatives!!!In Rusia we have a proverb:”Nature has a rest on children”,so it means that usually grandchildren take more skills and talents from their grandparents and become even more extraordinary persons!!!!
Dylan, it was cool to see this pic. never met grandpa Korelich, nice to learn more about him than just where he came from.
Thanks for posting this!! I LOVED Pete Korelich. He used to print record labels for me back in the 1990′s. he was the LAST guy who did the real old school style of record labels, made with letterpress printers and linotype machines. It was like a trip back to the 1950′s in his shop. I assumed that he died but I never heard any details. I miss him a lot, he was always very very kind to me, and he did great work. Thanks for the photo, it brought back great memories for me.