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    What If?: Letters and Postcards from C&B
    What If?: Letters and Postcards from C&B
    What If?: Letters and Postcards from C&B
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    What If?: Letters and Postcards from C&B

    By Robert Balser and Cima Balser

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    Bob, a professional animator from Hollywood, and his wife Cima, a would-be writer, decided to take a sabbatical to Europe in 1959.

    With limited funds and a copy of Arthur Frommers Europe on $5 A Day, they hoped to stretch their adventure to six months. Forty years later, they were still on sabbatical.

    In this memoir, they draw upon postcards and diary entries to share how they lived out their lives as expatriates in Europe during the second half of the twentieth century, living the dream of a free-spirited life that so many can only long for. Numerous pictures help illustrate the story.

    They enjoy French onion soup at the Eiffel tower, experience the culture shock of using bidets in water closets, gorge on croissants, try getting used to two-hour lunches, and enjoy meeting fascinating and eccentric people along the way.

    Take a step back in time with Bob and Cima as they do the unexpected, and dare to ask, What If?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateSep 22, 2017
    ISBN9781480850453
    What If?: Letters and Postcards from C&B
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    Robert Balser

    Robert “Bob” Balser was an animator in Hollyood and Europe who worked in various capacities on many prize- winning commercials and documentaries. He and his wife, Cima, were founding members of the Benjamin Franklin Foundation and International School. He was a board member of the Animation Branch of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and a noted lecturer and consultant until his death in 2016. Cima Balser graduated from UCLA and worked in the offices of Motor Trend magazine, as an executive secretary at National Dyeing and Finishing, and as a liaison with Herman Miller Furniture Company before she left on a sabbatical to Europe with her husband in 1959. She wrote film reviews, subtitles, translations, and lectures at the American Institute and the American Society of Barcelona while traveling and volunteered at the Benjamin Franklin School.

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