neighbors formed the Magnolia Park Improvement Association. They held regular meetings, usually they commenced with box suppers and to all we children they were a real picnic. Our parents worked real hard to get Magnolia Park annexed to South Gate. The election that made this a reality was real exciting. Mother's kitchen was like a small restaurant as she fed election workers all day long - who [would] picked up voters and drove them to the polls. It rained all day. When the votes were counted and "We had won," all the families piled into their cars and we had a parade up thru Huntington Park and back home - now South Gate.

Our home was the gathering place for the holidays as long as I can remember. Our grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends - the one exception was New Years Eve which we spent with Aunt Wanita and Uncle Forrest and Marguerite. After seeing the old year 1926 out and the new year 1927 in we were driving home and came upon an auto accident. My dad stopped to see if he could be of any help and left all of us in the car. In a few minutes a drunk driver sped through the police stop and struck my father. When it happened mother said, "That looked like Daddy," but we kids were sure it wasn't. The ambulance driver chased the driver and caught him when he crashed is car. He came back and took daddy to the hospital. The police thought daddy was dead. Mother couldn't drive and a man and his wife offered mother help but she said she didn't want anything to happen to them or family. Mother couldn't drive and a young sailor in the crowd offered to take us to the hospital or any place we might need to go. He said he had no family and not to worry about him. The emergency hospital was so full - people were
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