Our Grandmother at nine years of age emigrating to the United States.

Dad’s 120th Birthday

Recycling in the 1950s.

Sailing from Marina Del Rey to Catalina and back. The hard way.

Gary had a problem.  He needed to evict his tenants for two reasons.  First, they hadn’t paid rent in nearly a year, and second, they were destroying his house.

This was the 1950’s when we were kids. Eating Tide Pods wasn’t the first detergent-eating scare.

A really old story about being poor in a small town in the 1950’s.

Vala saved her sister and herself when they were attacked by a pair of pit bulls.

My family left western New York when I was 12 years old.  Somehow we ended up in Albion Indiana….

Yes, Richard Ramirez. That “Night Stalker”.

Ted was a feral cat that lived in the neighborhood.

Dancing the Virginia Reel and building Snowmen in Southern California.