ghost of Christmas past ~1953~ Canton ,Ohio my older sister with her new dolly and me in my new dump truck that Santa brought us.

I passed the Quonset hut style la Puente/ Star Theater 2 times a day all the way through high school. It was opened in 1947,closed in 2007 and demolish in 2019 .in the late 70's and 80's it declined due to newly built malls and megaplex's and began showing porn movies for a while .

With thanksgiving soon upon us, I reminisce of my days working on a turkey farm during the holiday breaks from school.paid a dollar more per hour then the min wage of 1.65,plus a free breakfast of fried turkey eggs and meat and lunch of turkey spaghetti, everyday the same thing.

Where I grew up, we had 2 things available to us that no longer exist . Milk delivery from Alta Dena dairy in glass quart returnable bottles for about 30 cents Bread and pastry neighborhood street vendor from Helms bakery .i was always hoping to buy a day old donut for 3 to 5 cents

with temperatures soaring in southern California this week, i thought that a little cooling off was needed. Here is Norma Jean at the beach in 1957 having fun with her friend and photographer, Sam Shaw

The Nike missile project was a defense shield during the cold war that was deployed in allied countries and the united states. I grew up in the shadow of site LA29 in the Brea/Puente hills of los Angeles . It was active from 1958 to 1971.the only thing left of the site is crumbling concrete.

During the great depression, pres. Roosevelt started the Civilian Conservation Corps(1933-1942) giving jobs to 3 million unemployed men from 17-28,working the national and state parks. They received food,shelter,clothes and 30 dollars a month, 25 of it had to be sent home to help the family.

On August 26, 1970, the Women's Strike for Equality, a nationwide demonstration for women's rights, took place, marking the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the largest feminist demonstration in US history

when people remember or think of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in August 1969 ,it is done through rose-colored glasses. it was a little more trying then sex ,drugs and rock n roll .they had 1 inch of rain on Sunday the 17th.

Taylor camp, a commune founded by Howard Taylor (Liz Taylor's bro) in 1969 on 7 acres on the north shore of Kauai .it lasted until 1974, but some stragglers remained until 1977. google it for the complete story

61 years ago, January 16,1964, the whiskey a go go in Hollywood opened its doors with their first musical guest, Johnny Rivers. That year he released 2 live albums from these appearances.

#rocknroll,#rockabilly Original rocker, Eddie Cochran ("summertime blues and twenty flight rock") and song writer and girl friend ,Sharon Sheeley ("poor little fool" for rick nelson and many other artist ) shopping for records at Wallichs Music City at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood in 1959

#marilynmonroequotes, #marilynmonroefans Marilyn at an after party of JFK's birthday party at MSG may 19,1962 bobby ,Marilyn, john

this Christmas story has been my favorites for some years ..it touches my heart .. www.npr.org/2005/12/09/5...

John Henry Faulk's Christmas Story

The gifted storyteller and former radio broadcaster John Henry Faulk recorded his Christmas story in 1974 for the program Voices in the Wind. It remains a perennial favorite with NPR listeners.

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Marilyn in the Korea peninsula , February 1954 ,on a solo tour doing 10 shows in 4 days