Feb 8, 1950 • Sonora, California ~ Mom’s ham and cheese sandwiches were our favorite lunch. She ground the ham with her metal meat grinder which she vise-locked onto the edge of the yellow Formica kitchen table. After filling the soft hot dog buns, she rolled them in waxed paper, twisted the ends, … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2017
1.41 Larry’s Diary, Dec 1949
1949 • Larry’s diary (age 15) Dec 1 Had first pep band rehearsal, missed Junior play Mountain Justice to do homework. Missed T.C.O. and went to finals on Opportunity Time with Grace. Dec 2 Both the A's and B's won their first home basketball game with Calaveras. Got all ads in. Went out … [Read more...]
1.40 Larry’s Diary, Nov 1949
1949 • Larry’s diary (age 15) Nov 1 Saw show Every Girl Should be Married. Washed Mode O' Day windows for $1.50 worked from 7 to 9:15 in evening. Washed Schultz Nov 2 Washed Dr. Parker's windows, appointment made long time ago. Side of tennis shoe completely gave out Nov 3 Had … [Read more...]
1.39 Larry’s Diary, Oct 1949
1949 • Larry’s diary (age 15) Oct 1 I was guest radio announcer at KROG radio for 45 minutes on Teen Time. KROG often broadcasts from store for advertising for store. T.C.B. (Tuolumne County Band) marched for Elks, had to use tin base. Oct 2 Printed 600 Wildcat and folded them. Moved … [Read more...]
1.38 Buck Fever, Sep 1949
September 1949 • Twain Harte ~ September is deer season. My father was initiated into deer hunting up in the Twain Harte hills above Sonora in the canyon behind Sugarpine. He’d been pheasant hunting with his brother-in-law, Jim Fouch, up near Colusa a few times, but hunting deer was a whole 'nother … [Read more...]
1.37 Larry’s Diary, Aug 1949
1949 • Larry’s diary (age 15) Aug 1 Sold boy U.S. album and kit. Band practice consisted of talk. Band has $320 in bank. Owes Pennies $328.70. Paid them $200. Aug 2 Had dinner at Bob and Doris' house. Had false alarm. Whole town on street. Polishing up horn completely. Aug 3 Had a … [Read more...]
1.36 Holy Cards, Hell, and High Water
Summer 1949 • Sonora, California ~ As Sonora was a backwater with no Catholic school, five Franciscan nuns in black habits and white wimples were imported every summer to bring the local schoolchildren a proper religious education, and for five weeks the nuns had complete charge of the Catholic … [Read more...]
1.35 Larry’s Diary, Jul 1949
1949 • Larry’s diary (age 15) Jul 1 Raked the leaves up on the ground for garbage man, took walk around town and up to Grammar School with Peckham Jul 2 Sold all sparklers but had about 2 gross of them. Took some out for kids. Got $10 for cleaning off roof. Got 8 pack of BB Jul 3 … [Read more...]
1.34 Larry’s Diary, Jun 1949
1949 • Larry’s diary (age 15) Jun 1 Cut Spanish because I was 20 minutes late. Watched some practice for pageant. Got impressions for new tooth. Windy. Jun 2 Had last big meal at R&B. 3 weddings, 3 engagements, 1 pinning. I announced Mary Alice engagement with borrowed cat. Chased … [Read more...]
1.33 Benedict Arnold & Eleanor Roosevelt
“Bettyyyy. Claudiaaa.” Mother’s nightly yell for supper bounced across the yard until it floated down to the soft shadows of the creek where the girls fooled away their afternoons with tadpoles, skimmers, and leaf-hoppers. Betty paid no attention to Mom whatsoever. Claudia, emptying her large Mason … [Read more...]
1.32 Dad, God, and the Holy Ghost
1949 • Sonora ~ Our parents never argued about how to raise their children. They argued about my mother’s smoking and drinking and about her housekeeping, but not about the kids. Mom gave the older ones a swift kick or a snapping backhand when they didn’t move fast enough or do as they were … [Read more...]