Just add water: the productive partnership between Thomas Church and Sunset magazine

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Let me say at the outset that this will be a personal as well as a professional review of the relationship between San Francisco landscape architect Thomas Church and Sunset magazine, 'The Magazine of Western Living.' knew Tommy Church as the lifelong friend of my parents - Tommy is what they called him - and the man who gave me, at 15 years of age in the summer of 1967, my first job - as his office boy. Now Sunset's Home Editor - that first job inevitably had some effect on my choice of career - I am part of the culture that responded so positively to his ideas and helped to promote his work. So caveat lictor. You are reading the words of a decidedly biased observed. But I think I can see why Tommy and Sunset developed such a remarkable working relationship. Put simply, they were good for each other and they shared a similar point of view.