Early Life
Charles grew up in Copeville, Texas, working summers at an onion packing plant in Farmersville to pay for college. He attended college for three years at University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. It was at this point that Charles says he lost interest in college. During his junior year in college, he worked as a baggage handler for Braniff International Airways, which afforded him travel opportunities. After visiting a college friend who had moved to California, he decided to move there. He briefly attended college, but soon dropped out and opened his own wig shop called Love Locs, which quickly failed. One night, Charles says he picked up Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys who was hitchhiking, and was invited back to Wilson's home on Sunset, where he met Charles Manson.
Read more about this topic: Charles "Tex" Watson
Famous quotes containing the words early life, early and/or life:
“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)