back yard of Laver's home. They had lights all over the yard and a little alter where their Bishop married them. It was really beautiful. Their wedding date was May 16, 1934.
Let's go back to Sept. , 1931 when June, Betty, Margaret and I and all our 8th grade grammar school graduation class started school at John C. Fremont High School. Talk about a scared and overwhelmed group it was us. My first year of high school was my brothers senior year. Danny drove us all to school that first year and after he graduated in summer of 1932 Mr. Oxberg, June's dad and my dad took turns driving us to school, ball games, track meets, etc. My brother wasn't heavy enough for varsity football but he played on the B-team. I don't think I missed many football games and track meets all through school. I would usually wind up with no voice over the week end from yelling so hard for our team.
My brother worked with my dad plumbing, then in the gas station at 99th and San Pedro Street where he earned the money for his first car in 1930. A green Ford coupe - I don't know the year it was. Someone who had it before him had lowered the roof. It was real neat. He took me to Sunday School one morning and it was raining and when he went to turn the corner we spun around like a top - He also had 2 L.A. Examiner paper routes and on Sunday the papers were so big and heavy my dad would drive for him. His senior year, 1931-1932, he got a Dodge touring car. In 1931 he also started driving truck for Purex Co. (Gus Roese got him this job). One week he went up to Sacramento and the next week to San Diego delivering bleach. He had a scary trip home from Sacramento one time when the brakes went out on the truck as he was coming down the Grape Vine from Bakersfield.