- Ken lost the majority of his memorabilia collection in the Russian River flooding of 1995. Among the items destroyed by river flooding were his photos and negatives documenting the counterculture revolution of the 1960s, his collection of over 800 movie posters, collection of published works from the 1960s through the late 1970s, and his career spanning collection of films and video tapes.
- Member of Vito Paulekas' Freak Out Dance Troupe, commonly known as Vito's Dancers, from 1966 to 1968 when Paulekas left Los Angeles and the group disbanded shortly thereafter. The dancers performed at hundreds of iconic rock concerts and night club appearances during the 1960s. Ken arranged the "farewell" performances of the troupe at two Grateful Dead dance concerts taking place at The Bank nightclub in Torrance on December 13th and 14th 1968.
- Working what amounts to both sides of the 1960s cultural street Ken was a contributing writer and photographer to both the prestigious Los Angeles Times and underground newspaper The Los Angeles Free Press. Ken's association with The Times continued through 1977, the date of his last published photographs for the paper.
- Known for wearing wild striped pants and dressing in vintage all black clothing.
- A fan of obscure 1960s muscle cars, Ken has owned two Avanti automobiles, one 1963 Studebaker Avanti R1, retrofitted with a stock Paxton Supercharger, and one 1980 Avanti Motor Corporation Avanti II.
- Designed and installed Hollywood's first major independent video cassette facility, Video Associates, in 1980 providing exclusive editing and duplication services to home media pioneers The Nostalgia Merchant, Starlog Video, and Video Gems.
- When asked a question he didn't want to answer, Ken would often say "what do you want, the truth or the real reason? Pick one, but just one" and usually in the resulting conversation the questioner would forget about the original question.
- Ken's car has the California personalized license plate "41 FALC" a reference to "The Real Maltese Falcon" statue given to him by Johnny Wilson, stage manager on The Steve Allen Playhouse (1962).
- The Maltese Falcon statue featured in The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006) was provided by Ken Patterson's Haunted Studios. Ken has been selling castings of his "Real Maltese Falcon" since 1963.
- Ken Patterson was hired in February of 1968 as photographer and cinematographer for Hollywood based light show producer Omega's Eye, best known as creator of psychedelic light shows for Pinnacle Productions dance concerts. Ken created a series of films that were used in Omega's Eye light shows at the famed Kaleidoscope night club on Sunset Blvd. Later the same year Ken created several "LSD trip" films that were used in the drug induced hallucination scenes in the film The Big Cube (1969). Ken traveled to Mexico City's Estudios Churubusco to oversee onset projection of his films.
- Produced psychedelic light shows at several Sonoma County, California music events in the early 1970s.
- With Randy Black Fox, AKA Randy Perez, owned Fat City, the first and only Cotati, California head shop operating from 1969 through 1971. Black Fox was also part of Ken's commune that took over Vito Paulekas' Hollywood studio when Paulekas moved out in 1968.
- Was a featured performer with Vito's Dancers during the opening week of the West Coast version of the musical Hair at the Aquarius Theater (formerly the Earl Carroll Theater, Hullabaloo Club, and the Kaleidoscope) in the fall of 1968.
- Ken designed and tailored unique hippie clothing made from tapestries, lace, and old velvet castoffs. Ken's creations were worn by The GTOs, Vito's Dancers, Kim Fowley, and many more on the Hollywood fringe scene in the 1960s. His unisex clothing was sold at Vito and Sue Paulekas' "Sculpture/Garments" shop as well as boutiques on the Sunset Strip.
- In the 1970s Ken celebrated his life long love of Mexican food by opening a small Mexican restaurant that thrived for several years prior to its sale when Ken returned to Hollywood in 1976.
- Ken Patterson and artiest David Doty created a full size, historically correct Native American Tipi (aka teepee or tepee) that was used as a community center at many Los Angeles area Love Ins during 1967 and 1968. In the winter of 1969 the Tipi was moved to a commune near Cotati, California where it was used as a sweat lodge for several years.
- In the fall of 1980 Ken and his wife Lisa unknowingly moved into a haunted house high in the Hollywood Hills above Los Angeles.
Located next to the infamously haunted Barbara Stanwyck estate, aka the Holly Mont Castle, on Primrose Avenue, the sprawling mid-century ranch house would become their own paranormal challenge for the next two years.
The ghostly activity, which included doors opening and closing on their own, disembodied voices, disappearing and reappearing books, money, and clothing, was centered in the guest bedroom, basement, and one of the hall closets.
The haunting continued until the Pattersons moved out following the birth of their daughter in March of 1982. - Taught television engineering and production at Pasadena City College from 1984 through 1989.
- Appeared annually as Count Dracula in Dusty Dawn's October production of Old Haunts Cabaret during the 1970s.
- For his 70th birthday in 2020 Ken purchased a vintage Mellotron and has been tinkering with it ever since.
- In winter 2020 Ken Patterson began performing and recording his original compositions with the Symphonette Obscura.
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