During the sixties and early seventies, he was married to Fruede
Bartlett, founder of groundbreaking independent film distributor
Serious Business Company, one of the only distributors of cutting edge
shorts and animation at the time. The two of them had previously owned
the former Grand Hotel in San Francisco, whose tenants during that
period included Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. A fire destroyed
the historic building in the 1970s, leaving no trace of its psychedelic
legacy.