I really did like older men!Īt Peter Burnett I ran with Kirk Meyer (still my best bud since Kindergarten), Larry Metzler, Lee Dale, Steve Westphalen, Danny Cook, Glen Travis, Joey Spencer and Billy Vazquez (my boyfriend). Theresa used to run home with me every afternoon to watch part of "The Thin Man" with Peter Lawford and part of "The Private Eye" with Craig Stevens. Dana with Diane Nezgoda and Theresa June. I used to walk to school every day to Peter Burnette and then R. On the days we stayed home, my mom would put out a red triangular flag that meant all of the kids in the neighborhood could come over to swim with a parent or guardian or not. kids wearing hand stenciled white T-shirts with our teamname -the Tiger's-riding bikes to the east, one day a week to Hawthorne Bowl and, swimsuit clad with towels around our necks heading west to El Segundo Beach two days a week, knowing that we were just fine and nobody worried about where we were, how we rode there or what we did as long as we made it back home by five o'clock for dinner. The Yuban coffee rata-tat-tat was never far away. The neighborhood doors were always open, the morning coffee always brewing, and the mom's were almost always at home. For a real game we'd go over to Peter Burnette for some tackle football. Our street lacked girls my age for quite a few years, so I became an acceptable quarterback in our street football games. Patricia Mann was my dad's secretary and revealed years later that while I threw fast-balls, my brother learned how to bake cakes and caused our dad much mental turmoil. Hoodward after he'd come home from work at the Paul Hoodward Real Estate office on Inglewood Ave. Boy, I can still feel the searing pain and gross embarrassment of those futile attempts at flips. I learned to do swan dives off of that great diving board, jack-knifes off of the platform and belly-flops off of the 12 foot high board. Until I won the privilege of riding my bike to the beach, I enjoyed those 10 cent afternoons with all my heart. I learned to swim in the HHS baby pool in 1956-57 along with most of the neighborhood. It was take-out dinner night before my folks left to play volleyball at Holy Park Auditorium with the YWCA group for about 10 years straight. with his partner Cecil Zumwalt, (Denny, Bruce (who passed away about 10 years ago in Tahoe, CA), and Jeff's dad.) My mom, Janet, was the best, and still is!Įvery Monday night my mom stopped at Green's Farm for their hot barbecue beef and sheepherders bread, cole slaw and Pepsi. My dad, Jack, was the State Farm Agent on El Segundo Blvd. Our closest neighbors were the Hale's, Johnston's, Bowers, Hildebrandt's, Frederick's, Harrington's, Pat's, Deals, Evans and Hoodward's. I lived in the middle of 142nd St in HollyGlen at 1148, now 5448. This Remembrance from Kristen Rice Wakefield
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