Yoda bike trail

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So touching to hear so many people praise Steve Lieberman, fire chief, lawyer and ski patroller at his retirement party.

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Feels like I was just here 2 weeks ago.

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What a perfect way to spend a birthday.

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At least this dog’s good for something…

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Hangin’ with the fellas, post Republic game. Thanks for the tix, Steve Cook.

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Thanks for keeping it hard tonight, Byron. I think I shot my wad three times tonight thanks to you.

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Why this memoir? When I started putting pieces together for what I figured was my memoir in 2011, I considered I was going on the ultimate ego trip. Who would give a tinker’s damn about slices of my experiences? Who would bother to read it? In other words, who was my audience?

To have a goal I decided my memoirs—plural seems to fit better—would be written for my offspring and various descendants with the idea that a few surviving friends might also have an interest in some of my doings. My progeny can take it or leave it. This would not be a full-fledged autobiography. So much of my life has been boring. Who cares that I went to kindergarten when I was five?p

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In 1939 and 1940 Norma and I went to the Saturday double features weekly at Washington Theater in Pasadena. Admission was 12 cents. Candy bars were a nickel, The theater was just three blocks from our duplex .The 900-seat movie house was loaded with kids, an admission line forming clear around the block up North Lake Avenue. We would sit through two films, a cartoon, newsreel and an episode of the current adventure serial. That was the big attraction. Although many serials were the less expensive westerns, they could cover the gamut of genres including crime fiction, spy stories, adventures in outer space, jungle adventures, and often popular comic book characters.
The 900-seat movie house was loaded with kids, an admission line forming clear around the block up North Lake Avenue. We would sit through two films, a cartoon, newsreel and an episode of the current adventure serial. That was the big attraction Although many serials were the less expensive westerns, they could cover the gamut of genres including crime fiction, spy stories, adventures in outer space, jungle adventures, and often popular comic book characters.

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