(text from the Striking Distance Facebook page)
Easily one of my favorite photos from this history. A young Bruce Lee (just days before his 23rd birthday) in Ralph Castro's kenpo school on Valencia St. in November of 1963, with Ed Parker and James Lee (not pictured). Bruce was down from Seattle visiting colleagues in Oakland, and Parker was up from Pasadena staying with Castro...so James Lee arranged for them all to meet.
After dinner in Oakland, the bunch of them braved the ...stormy weather (hence the raincoats) and traveled to San Francisco to visit Castro's school on Valencia (essentially, just past 22nd Street across from where the Community College building is today). Castro and Parker would be key martial arts collaborators with Bruce in the coming years. Most notably, Parker arranged a demonstration for Bruce at his inaugural Long Beach International Tournament, in the summer of 1964....which would effectively introduce Bruce to Hollywood.
(Photo courtesy of Greglon Lee)
After dinner in Oakland, the bunch of them braved the ...stormy weather (hence the raincoats) and traveled to San Francisco to visit Castro's school on Valencia (essentially, just past 22nd Street across from where the Community College building is today). Castro and Parker would be key martial arts collaborators with Bruce in the coming years. Most notably, Parker arranged a demonstration for Bruce at his inaugural Long Beach International Tournament, in the summer of 1964....which would effectively introduce Bruce to Hollywood.
(Photo courtesy of Greglon Lee)
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