Our friend June, Willa and I went up to Sierra Madre to spend a couple of weeks at Grandpa Millards'. His downstairs wasn't rented so we girls slept down there and ate our meals with grandpa. We enjoyed hiking up in the canyon and going to the park, the police dept. and inspecting the jail, also visiting the fire station where they showed us their living quarters upstairs and let us slide down the pole they used to answer fire alarms.

Grandpa and some townsmen formed a little group and played in the park and in church halls in the evenings; we would go with him and how we loved it when he would put down his guitar and dance with us. He danced the old fashioned waltz and you felt like you were in another world. There was also a boy living across the street and his friends spend a lot of time over there too - so naturally we met them and started going hiking with them even driving into the upper canyons. June liked Andy and Willa and I liked the twins, Ralph and Ray. We were all sitting out under the big pepper tree in Grandpa's back yard talking and it got friendlier, pretty soon arms around shoulders and eventually a little kiss. This led to a game - Willa went in the house and got a clock and we proceeded to set the clock and see who could hold the longest kiss. Sweet sixteen is such a good age. I think - no, I know - looking back as an adult now - the worst thing we ever did was tell Grandpa after dinner that we were so tired that we were going downstairs and to go bed. After a while we girls climbed out the window, met the boys in front and went riding around over to Pasadena, by the Rose Bowl, to La Canada, stopped for malts and returned home and had to climb back in the window. (I shudder now to thing what a terrible thing it would have been if we'd had an accident. We had no identification and Grandpa had no idea where we were - God does bless us so much - even when we do foolish things.)
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