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- John Faas
- John Allen Faas was born 01 July 1938, the second son of Alfred J. and Larane J. Faas of Inglewood, California. The Faas family moved to Downey, California when John was in his teens. John Faas was deeply involved in Boy Scouts and participated in the famed Boy Scout Jamboree that was held in Orange County. He earned his Eagle Scout rank. During high school, John and older brother, Alfred (Al), tinkered with cars, built boats and helped their dad with various home construction projects. Faas graduated from Downey High School. He subsequently served as a clerk in the U.S. Army between the Korean and Vietnam Wars and was stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco. After fulfilling his military service, Faas studied drafting at Long Beach City College in California. In the late 1950s, John and Al Faas became interested in surfing and formed Allen Surfboards, one of the early surfboard manufacturing companies. They were located in Long Beach and pioneered the use of foam board construction. The Faas brothers and Allen Surfboards were an integral facet of the early surf culture of Southern California. Their popular surf shop advertised in Surfer Magazine, sponsored concerts, and promoted screenings of some of the first surf movies by Bruce Brown (such as Endless Summer), which were viewed at local high schools and Long Beach City College. The Faas brothers were business partners throughout their lives. They transitioned from their surfboard business into real estate ownership, construction and apartment rentals. Their project schedule allowed John time to travel. He spent several years traveling the world; he lived in Australia and Europe. After the Faas brothers developed an interest in skiing, they identified an opportunity to develop property in Vail, Colorado and built Alpine Apartments at 1764 Alpine Drive. This became John's home base for much of his life. The Faas brothers were also home builders in Huntington Beach, California between the 1970s and 1990s. John designed the houses they built with his most notable design being a distinctive 5000-square-foot French Country-style home that endured as a Huntington Beach landmark. His attention to detail was apparent in all their projects. Between building projects, Faas managed his Vail apartments. John "The Wizard" Faas served as an instructor with Vail Ski School and as a Mountain Host for more than twenty years. He was also an member of the Ravinos, which was an unofficial Vail Mountain ski club known for aerials and freestyle skiing in the 1970s and 1980s. Faas left Vail in 2019 to reside at Mesa Valley Estates in Mesquite, Nevada and later moved to the Retreat at Sun River in St. George, Utah. He was preceded in death by his parents and a twin sister, Carole, who died in infancy. Faas is survived by his brother, Alfred and sister-in-law, Linda of Mesquite.
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- John Fellows
- Contributor to "2020: The Hammer and The Dance: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source:2020: The Hammer and The Dance : A Gunnison Valley Journal).
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- John Fielder
- John Fielder is an award-winning photographer who has been capturing Colorado's beauty for over 40 years - artist's website
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- John Fleming Baker
- He was born to John S. and Caroline Baker in New York State. US Census records show the family living in Seneca, New York in 1870, when John F. was 9. He married Alice M. Gauthier, the daughter of French Canadian immigrants. They lived with their children in Kankakee, Illinois. Following John's younger brother Homer, who was ranching near Cedar Mesa, they moved to Delta County, Colorado, arriving on March 8, 1908. There John raised horses. According to the recollections of Baker's daughter, Eda (Baker) Musser, the family lived primarily in Delta, but also seems to have lived in Cedaredge, in Grand Junction, and back in Illinois. The family lived for a time at 12th Street and Grand Avenue in Grand Junction, near the racetrack at Lincoln Park, so that the horses could participate in races there. Baker raced his horses all around the state and elsewhere, for both large and small purses. He exercised his horses on the small Cedar Mesa ranch owned by Homer.