  In this note, I recollect a two-week period in September 1968 when I
factorized the Veneziano model using string variables in Chicago. Professor
Yoichiro Nambu went on to calculate the N-particle dual resonance model and
then to factorize it on an exponential degeneracy of states. That was in 1968
and the following year 1969 he discovered the string action. I also include
some other reminiscences of Nambu who passed away on July 5, 2105.
