Gordon Kirschbaum，At age 19, Gordon Kirschbaum left Granite Falls, Minnesota with four buddies in a 2-door rumble seat coupe and $8 in his pocket and headed to California. He found work at Lockheed building P38 Lightnings for the War. In 1946 he got into the studios doing set construction. In 1947 he met and married Audrey Schuermann.