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Sherman : How did you both end up in New York City ?
David : We were both working for Design Research before it dissipated in the late 1970s . I was headhunted by a much bigger company called The Workbench . They had 40 stores throughout the East Coast , and I became their corporate display director .
Sandy : I stayed with Design Research until it disbanded , but I had also worked at different galleries in Boston . I moved to New York and started doing the same thing down there . I went to Vassar College , where I majored in Art History . I spent every weekend down in New York City going to museums like the MoMA or the Whitney . Those experiences drew me back there , because there was so much happening in New York at the time .
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Sherman : After New York , you both ended up in Los Angeles . How did you make your way from New York to L . A .?
David : It was similar to how we transitioned from the Boston area to New York City . At the time that I moved to Los Angeles , Sandy was actually still managing a furniture store in Columbus Circle . I had taken the corporate retail gig as far as I wanted to take it , and I was always interested in moviemaking and movies . Mount Anthony Union High School had a great film class , which made a lasting impression on me . I decided that I wanted to try to break into doing art direction for movies , so I moved out and set up an apartment . A year later , Sandy moved out there and joined me , and we ended up living together for a number of years before we got married .
Sherman : How did you manage to break into the film industry in Los Angeles ?
David : To be honest , I was pretty aggressive about it . Sandy and I moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1980 . At the time , Los Angeles was a lot quieter and sleepier than it is today , and there
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