California Is Dying

[Ron61]

Wes,

No my family never gravitated here during the depression. My Father was a construction foreman for M. & K. construction and I spent my whole life moving from state to state and one end of California to the other. I only know of one living relative that I have and he lives in Arkansas and is the one that I sold my Cobra to. We were very fortunate that my Father made good money and during school breaks he would get me on the dam or tunnel jobs they were doing which was a fortune for me back then. We were never wealthy but were comfortable and I had a very good life. Then when I got out of college and went to work for the telephone company and they decided I would be better working for Bell Labs, I spent my working life traveling all over the country and living in motels. I know about those long hours as they had records of where I had worked for over 60 straight hours several times when we had problems in several different computers at the same time. That was what led to my eventual breakdown and near death. So you don't owe me any type of apology or anything at all like that. I don't even remember some of the schools that I went to and I get class reunion notices from 4 different high schools. Three here in California and one from Arkansas as I went to school there for a short time during my senior year while Dad was on a Dam job back there.

Actually I guess my family would be considered as having migrated from Germany to West Virginia and then all over. At least my early relatives the best I have been able to trace, we came from near Cologne, Germany originally.

Ron