Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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When I was in ninth grade we moved to the sub-suburbs of Newhall, California. Actually, it was an area called Saugus where tract builders had rushed in ... members of a latter-day tract building gold rush. Houses bloomed up seemingly overnight with every house a clone of one out of four plans. The area reminded me of the Pete Seeger song, "Little Boxes." Anyway, we were far from civilization. The first summer my younger sister and I would rise early once a week and make our weekly pilgrimage to...
I started noticing how bad my television in my bedroom was getting. The picture was fuzzy, and the subtitles were getting worse and worse. How could that be because it was a new TV? I bought a larger TV and the picture improved somewhat, and the subtitles were a little more legible. But my new TV started to fail as well. Soon, I was standing one foot away from the screen to read the large letters. It got to the point where I did not enjoy watching TV at all. My 2-year-old glasses were no use as...
If my dad had not been my dad, I would have been blessed to have just known him. It seemed everyone loved my dad and children adored him. We called him the baby whisperer because whenever there was a fussy baby at a gathering the baby would be handed to my dad to deal with. In a matter of minutes, the cranky baby would become a cooing giggling baby. In fact, when our friends were up with their very fussy 8-month-old, they were reluctant to leave her with my folks as we went to a meeting. Our fri...
My dad worked in a garage and my mother was a stay-at-home mom who kept everything going. They were a great team. She was, by necessity, very frugal. Growing up, I didn't get a store-bought dress until I was entering the seventh grade. She sewed most of our clothes and touched up the hand me downs, so they looked new. They were able to feed and clothe us and we all were given musical instruments and lessons. My older sister got a piano, and my younger sister got an oboe. I got an accordion,...
