Catherine Sevenau's Blog: Writings~Rambles~Rhymes, page 51

1.32 Larry’s Diary, Apr-May 1947

1947 • Larry’s diary (age 13) Apr 1  Dad made me walk up and down the stairs 100 times as punishment for running too fast down the stairs Apr 7  Gave my sisters most of my old comic books Apr 13  Won game of Monopoly with Carleen Apr 16  Bought Levis and shirt Apr 18 […]

1.32 Larry’s Diary, Apr – May 1947

1947 • Larry’s diary (age 13) Apr 1  Dad made me walk up and down the stairs 100 times as punishment for running too fast down the stairs Apr 7  Gave my sisters most of my old comic books Apr 13  Won game of Monopoly with Carleen Apr 16  Bought Levis and shirt Apr 18 […]

1.31 Heathens and Hellions

1947 • Sonora, California ~ They ran through the house like heathens and hellions, my parents’ children before me. Dad left their guidance to the church, Mom left it to the winds. The kids not only had the run of the house, they also had the run of the town. Most summer days the three older ones […]

The Summer of Love

1965 thru 1968 • The Haight, San Francisco ~ I worked for Dad in his store on Haight Street during the summers, and when I got older, Christmas and Easter vacations, saving my money for French fries, milk shakes, school clothes, and college. In the early ’60s the Haight was a middle-class white neighborhood with a […]

1.30 Larry’s Diary, Feb-Mar 1947

1947 • Larry’s Diary (age 13) Feb 1  Made $10 payment on new $50 bike for paper routes Feb 7  Got 50 cent tip on route, customer said I was best paper boy he ever had Feb 8  Our family went to visit Uncle George and Aunt Verda Day in Redwood City. Bought some more […]

1.30 Larry’s Diary, Feb – Mar 1947

1947 • Larry’s Diary (age 13) Feb 1  Made $10 payment on new $50 bike for paper routes Feb 7  Got 50 cent tip on route, customer said I was best paper boy he ever had Feb 8  Our family went to visit Uncle George and Aunt Verda Day in Redwood City. Bought some more […]

1.29 Larry’s New Diary, Jan 1947

My mother, brother, and sisters loved to read. They regularly checked out books from the local library, and in every room at home someone would be sprawled somewhere with his or her nose buried in one. Larry’s favorites were historical adventure stories, dog stories, and biographies. He would buy books when he wanted a special […]

1.28 Nothing but the Best

1946 • Sonora ~ Mom decided life would be easier if Claudia, the youngest at the time and the only one still at home, went to school. Dressed in her netted hat to set off her pinned-up hair, a pastel polka-dotted shoulder-padded two-piece outfit, pearls, silk stockings and white open-toed wedge heels, she trundled Claudia […]

1.27 Wolf at the Door

1946 • Sonora ~ Squatting on the front stoop in the low afternoon sun, Betty, all of six, and Claudia just four, sat wondering what kind of trouble they could get into when their plans were cut short. An eerie howling, like a trapped animal with its foot caught in a snare, floated through the front […]

1.39 Brusha, brusha, brusha …

Late 1940s • Sonora ~ Lorna Harrington, Betty’s best friend since kindergarten, was unusually shy. My sister took her under her wing from the beginning, and as birds-of-a-feather they flew everywhere together. Betty saw no reason why she and Lorna shouldn’t participate in all camp activities and school events. Even in their fifth grade production about famous people […]