dances and always finished by winding the Maypole.

When the circus came to town they stayed at Tweedy Blvd. and Alameda. While putting up camp the older boys in the neighborhood would go over and work watering the animals, etc., and earn a free ticket to the circus.

I have always loved babies and children and was always "tending" little ones. Mother said when I carried some of them, they looked as big as I was. Willa and I would get mother to make us a picnic lunch and we'd take the little ones in wagons up to a grove of eucalyptus trees up on the corner of Alameda and Kansas.

My daddy and brother Danny bought a kit and built our first radio. Up till then we just had crystal sets. We thought they were super, but when our radio was finished we were all thrilled and would gather around it to listen to the shows. Amos and Andy, One Man's Blue Monday, Family Jamboree.

President Calvin Coolidge

Mother didn't like baseball games so I'd listen to them with my Dad. I liked to play baseball with the kids. If there were enough of us we'd have teams - if not we played work up or three flies up.

We didn't have trash or garbage pick-up then and the neighbor boys would dig a huge big hole, then fill it with water and we'd all play in the water - then all the neighbors would bring their trash, etc. and bury it in the hole.

At this time in my life, Calvin Coolidge was president of the United States. He is the first president I can remember. My parents got involved in politics here in Magnolia Park. They and other
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