The other fun thing we did almost every day on our way home from school, June, Willa, Betty and I would walk over to Manchester and Broadway to the Kress Dime Store and we'd each buy a different kind of peanuts or candy to share and munch on our way home.

We spent a lot of afternoons at June's house. Her mom and dad were Finnish. Her mom made a Finnish round flat bread that we all loved. We played cards (Hearts) at her house and her mom would play with us too. Her parents belonged to a Finnish club and they would take us girls with them and we learned to dance the Shadish and Polka which was lots of fun. This is beside the point but Willa had a gift for setting hair and she did this for June and her mom. She gave up on my hair, it was so straight, I finally had my first perm in the fall of 1932 - what price for beauty - in those days the big overhead machines that did the curling were so hot and heavy --(lots of burned ear tips - nothing like today).

One of the scariest things to happen in any of us kids lives was the big Long Beach earth quake on March 10, 1933. We had been to a track meet at school and our bleachers were full of kids. (Heavenly Father sure looks after young people) if the quake had happened an hour before it did, there would have been lots of injured people. Willa and I had just gotten home a few minutes before it struck and we were on our way to the corner store for a loaf of bread, needless to say we never made it to the store - we headed for home as fast as we could. Mother was visiting in South Gate and Danny was driving along Broadway just Willa, Dad and I were home. We were about 12 or 15 miles inland from Long Beach, the center of the quake, where parts of that city were demolished and 120 people
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