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.

The Blue Café played a significant role in our family history on two occasions.