My Sister – Willa Dadine Cunningham

Mother told us that one day our housekeeper was so upset with we girls - we decided to play barber. I cut Willa's hair then she cut mine and we decided mine should have some greasy stuff on it like we'd seen the barber use. Willa put nearly a whole jar of Vaseline on my hair. Mother said Willa's hair wasn't so bad because it was real curly, but mine being straight was a real mess and she though she'd never get the Vaseline washed out of it.

Dress Up – Willa and Marjorie

Our daddy got up very early to go to work to get the bakery goods ready and baked in the big brick oven. He also had a donut machine to fry the donuts in and the last bit of dough he braided and fried. We kids thought this was real special and the first one of us up and dressed got this treat. Needless to say, we'd hide each others clothes, tie underwear and sox in knots, anything to slow the others down so we could be first. I also loved raw pie dough and would slip in the side door of the bakery where daddy was making up the pies and grab me a handful of dough and run away real fast - it sure tasked good!

Being the youngest of we kids I got home from school first and daddy would have his money ready to deposit at the bank and he would let me take it down to the bank for him. I remember how important this made me feel.

During Christmas vacation Fatty Arbuckle, the moving picture comedian, came to Sierra Madre Park, in the center of town. Our whole family went down that evening to see him. He gave all us children balloons and when we blew them up we found they had a nickel inside - that was a whole lot of money at that time.

The big events in town each day were the blowing of the siren on the Fire Station at 12 noon and for the 10 o'clock curfew at night. At 5 p.m. every day but Sunday we'd go down to the Pacific Electric depot in the heart of town to wait for
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