By 8:30, a great many more people began to arrive -- and things began to pick
up speed. None of us knew precisely how best to lay the paper down with a
high degree of alignment, so it was "on-the-job" training for everyone
involved.
 
In this picture are: Jon Diercks (the American flag shirt), Rich Trapp, and
Tony Shepard (both Rich and Tony are wearing blue shirts and facing away from
us). Also in this picture is Ken Sletten (at the far right), one of the
original co-conspirators on the poster project. I've included this picture
especially because Ken is in it. He later disappears for two hours in a
desperate search for more roofing nails. We had brought with us 5,000 1-1/2"
to 2" roofing nails from New Mexico, but it became obvious very early on that
that number wasn't going to be nearly enough -- something we worried about
before we left New Mexico. Unfortunately, we had bought out every roofing
nail in Southern New Mexico and there just weren't any more to be had.
 
In a quick pass through every one of the roofing supply stores in Anaheim,
Ken Sletten was able to obtain another 4,000 nails, buying out all of
Anaheim. But that too, wasn't enough -- and Ken had to go back out and look
for more. In his second outing, he was gone so long that I began to worry
that he'd had an accident.