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The map, as you claim, that was given to Bob Ward by Ted Degrazia, is as bogus as was himself. Ted never liked Bob Ward. He thought that Bob was too self centered and was looking for fame any way that he could get it. Know Bob as well as I did, I have to concur with his sentiments. The first real map was done by Ted DeGrazia on one of his paintings in an invisible ink that only showed up under blacklite. That painting was the original “Donkey” that was painted by him as part of the Yellow Period and was personally placed by him in the tailings pile of his desert friend Pete Zapeta who lived in Tucson. I met and talked to Pete at his home on numerous occasions in 1981, and I can see why Ted chose the Donkey for his friend. Pete was as stubborn as a donkey, and so stubborn that he believed that Ted left him nothing, when in fact if Pete would have gone back to work on his mine as Ted always told him to do, he would have found that critical piece of evidence that would have allowed him to find the buried paintings of the "GRAY PERIOD" which are his best real paintings. So, as life chooses those with positive attitudes, it escaped Pete, for Joe Blankenship found the painting with the invisible map on it in Pete’s tailing pile.
Joe came to my Motel room in Tucson to ask me to guide him into the Superstition Mountains to where the map said they were buried. Because Broderick Crawford, my uncle, was Ted’s boozing buddy, he seemed to think my uncle would have told me where the paintings were buried., because he was on that trip with Ted. As usual my uncle was drunk and did not accompany Ted. Philip Casadore and Joe Castro up the proper canyon to where they were placed as a treasure to be had by the true finder against anyone else’s claims, which includes the IRS. Joe Blankenship did not like my idea of splitting the proceeds with the Apaches, and so, I refused to guide him there. Because of his attitude they are still there until I go get them. You can be sure I will not go to get them until I have the qualified buyers up front with their proper bids placed into an escrow account, before I will do the undertaking. If that does not meet with their approval, they shall remain concealed on my “Spiritual Land Grant” where they shall gather more value as time goes along, and leaving in the minds of the greedy, the chance to appese their greed which outwitted them.
Joe came to my Motel room in Tucson to ask me to guide him into the Superstition Mountains to where the map said they were buried. Because Broderick Crawford, my uncle, was Ted’s boozing buddy, he seemed to think my uncle would have told me where the paintings were buried., because he was on that trip with Ted. As usual my uncle was drunk and did not accompany Ted. Philip Casadore and Joe Castro up the proper canyon to where they were placed as a treasure to be had by the true finder against anyone else’s claims, which includes the IRS. Joe Blankenship did not like my idea of splitting the proceeds with the Apaches, and so, I refused to guide him there. Because of his attitude they are still there until I go get them. You can be sure I will not go to get them until I have the qualified buyers up front with their proper bids placed into an escrow account, before I will do the undertaking. If that does not meet with their approval, they shall remain concealed on my “Spiritual Land Grant” where they shall gather more value as time goes along, and leaving in the minds of the greedy, the chance to appese their greed which outwitted them.
