Sunday, April 17, 2005
Me and my sister, Dorothy Lee, in Tampa, Florida...This photo was taken at Clearwater Beach on the Gulf of Mexico, where we would go all the time when the weather warmed up...I was twelve years of age here and my sister was 20 years old and married to my first brother-in-law, Kenneth, who was stationed at MacDill Air Force Base at the time....I only spent one school semester living with my sister and her husband in Florida...Everyone seemed to think this would be a good change for me and I went along with it, being very naive, at the time, and thinking my guardians must know what they are doing and if they say this will be good for me, then they must know what they are talking about...However, I did notfeel at home. at all, living with my sister and her husband, and that they were not all that much older than myself at the time and not all that qualified to be my parents, or to take the place of my parents...So, the only explanation one can come up with as to why my mother saw fir to dump me off onto my older sister and her husband, 3,000 miles away, was that she had enough of me, and I was getting a little older now and not quite as cute and easy to handle as I was when i was littler, so she simply didf not want to deal with me, or any of my problems, and just let someone else handle me..."Out of sight, Out of Mind"....The same explanation can account for why she also, the next year, sent me to military school in San Diego, CA...And while I was attending school in Tampa, I felt very strange there, indeed, and everyone would call me a "Yankee"...I felt like a "Fish out of Water".....Please click on photo for larger image....
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The United States Courthouse, Downtown Los Angeles
United States Court House, downtown Los Angeles and behind it, a good view of City Hall....The courthouse was built in 1939...To the right of the courthouse building you can see, I think it is called either the Hall of Justice, or The Hall of Recoreds, but i know that the top floors are the old "County Jail", (I was never inside it, myself)...Los Angeles has a new County Jail now, and has had for some years now, located on Bauchett Street, further south of where this photo location is....
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Edward G. Robinson, 1893-1973, One of the very first to portray a gangster for Warner Brothers,which started out as just "First National Pictures"...The first of Edward G. Robison`s films was "Little Ceasar" (1931), a Vitaphone release with First National Pictures, which was their process during the transition from "silent" to "talking pictures" using the sound on a phonograph record to be syncronized with the moving picture, itself....For better viewing of photo, please click on it for larger picture....
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Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall, built in 1927, World Famous Landmark and scene of many movies... One, for example, "The War of the Worlds" (1953), showing the Martians destroying the building, and of course, the "Dragnet" TV series with Jack Webb in the 1950`s.....
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John Garfield, born in 1913...Died in 1952...Movie tough guy for Warner Brothers during the 30`s and 40`s..H e was targeted by the McCarthy "Witch-Hunt" Hearings, seeking out communist sympathizers in the movie industry during the early 50`s, which, people say, contributed to his untimely death, he never "ratted" on his fellow colleages in the industry and stuck to his higher moral principals....He made some damn good movies too during his shortened career.....
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby in earlier years...Always enjoyed his singing..He was the one who singer, Frank Sinatra modeled himself after...
Fairmount Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa....Our house in Council Bluffs was on a street which was also a steep hill and at the top of this hill was this park where the family would go for picnics, etc...We lived in Council Bluffs before moving to Pomona, California...I attended Kindergarten, first and second grade at Dodge Elementary School in Council Bluffs and while I was at mid-term in the second grade is when we moved to Pomona....I was at the age of seven at the time....Please click on photo for larger image..... 
Sunday, April 10, 2005
The Los Angeles County Fair at around 1951
Los Angeles County Fair at around the year 1951...My Grandfather died during which time he was working, helping a friend at a eating snack booth at this fair in Pomona, California...Our first house in Pomona, located on Kenoak Drive, was a very short distance from the fair grounds and I used to walk to the fair as a kid, alone, by myself....This area which was called the "Fun Zone"..Well, now that sign is no longer there and all the fun activities sort of syncronize along with everything else as you enter the area...
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The Hotel Rosslyn, downtown Los Angeles...
The Hotel Rosslyn, a very historic landmark located in downtown Los Angeles, California..Erected in 1913...
GW Bush
Our "Asshole" President....Causing Big Trouble Everywhere in the World and Including the United States...He stole the election now, for the second time...When are people going to wise up about this guy!!....Trying to mess with old people`s Social Security when that`s the only income they have in the whole world!!!...Taking from the Poor and giving to the Rich...A Fuckin` Reverse "Robin Hood"...Get Rid of this ASSHOLE!!!...."
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Saturday, April 09, 2005
Knott`s Berry Farm
Knott`s Berry Farm, located in Buena Park, California...Over the years it has become a famous amusement park...The family used to go here all the time when we were kids and you didn`t have to pay to get in....
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Thursday, April 07, 2005
About Me...
Hello...
I was born in a small town called Fairbury in Nebraska...
I never had a father as my mother separated from her husband before I was born...
I was raised by my grandmother, grandfather and my mother...
I have one brother and one sister both who are older than myself...
The family moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa when I was around three years of age..
And then we moved to Pomona, California when I was eight years of age...
My grandfather died at the age of 73 when I was at the age of nine
and therefore leaving only my grandmother and my mother to raise me from then on...
My mother, I suppose, decided that raising three children with only the help from my grandmother was more than she had bargained for...And I guess this was the reason she sent me to Florida to live with my sister and brother-in-law when I was twelve years of age..
My brother-in-law was stationed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa at the time...
I only stayed there with them for one school semester and when they left to return to California for the summer vacation period, I felt better to be back home where I felt I really belonged...
And when my sister and her husband wanted me to return to Florida with them the following Fall Season, I refused to go, and therefore upsetting my mother`s plans for me as she really wanted me out of her house and out of her face...
However, that same school year at the beginning of the second semester, my mother talked me into going down to San Diego to attend a military boarding school and telling me it would very good for me, indeed, which, of course, was not true at all...
My grandmother and my mother, both, even said if I did this, (bribing me, in other words) they would buy me a television set for my bedroom when I returned home for vacation..
I was thirteen years of age at this time in my life..
However, I did manage to get myself back into public schools again for the following school year and my guardians, at the time, (my mother and grandmother) hated me for doing it...And actually that`s a whole other story in itself...
Well, I did manage to graduate from Pomona High School at the end of all this turmoil...
So there you have the summarized edition...
I was born in a small town called Fairbury in Nebraska...
I never had a father as my mother separated from her husband before I was born...
I was raised by my grandmother, grandfather and my mother...
I have one brother and one sister both who are older than myself...
The family moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa when I was around three years of age..
And then we moved to Pomona, California when I was eight years of age...
My grandfather died at the age of 73 when I was at the age of nine
and therefore leaving only my grandmother and my mother to raise me from then on...
My mother, I suppose, decided that raising three children with only the help from my grandmother was more than she had bargained for...And I guess this was the reason she sent me to Florida to live with my sister and brother-in-law when I was twelve years of age..
My brother-in-law was stationed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa at the time...
I only stayed there with them for one school semester and when they left to return to California for the summer vacation period, I felt better to be back home where I felt I really belonged...
And when my sister and her husband wanted me to return to Florida with them the following Fall Season, I refused to go, and therefore upsetting my mother`s plans for me as she really wanted me out of her house and out of her face...
However, that same school year at the beginning of the second semester, my mother talked me into going down to San Diego to attend a military boarding school and telling me it would very good for me, indeed, which, of course, was not true at all...
My grandmother and my mother, both, even said if I did this, (bribing me, in other words) they would buy me a television set for my bedroom when I returned home for vacation..
I was thirteen years of age at this time in my life..
However, I did manage to get myself back into public schools again for the following school year and my guardians, at the time, (my mother and grandmother) hated me for doing it...And actually that`s a whole other story in itself...
Well, I did manage to graduate from Pomona High School at the end of all this turmoil...
So there you have the summarized edition...
This was Brown Military Academy before being torn down some years ago.located in Pacific Beach, California....I attended this school at the age of 13,
I only attended this school for one semester.......
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