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Debra Juhl Jones-Miller: AN IMPERFECT CHILDHOOD... SCHOOL DAYS.... The ... |
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Catherine Browning McFarlane: Docklands: World War II London Blitz and ’home’ to Scotland When I was 6 years old we moved from Docklands to East Ham, from St Leonard’s Road in Poplar to 63 Gainsborough Avenue in East Ham; my mum and dad with ... |
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Elizabeth: Your Neighborhood Hmm now this is not a subject i have alot to say about. I grew up in Georgia i never really had any friends so i always jus kept to myself its not alot to say about that. Again i didnt really have any friends so therefore i dont have any important friendships.
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Rev. Theresa M. Lister:
I was the only child ... |
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Paul M. McLaughlin: Donora, Pennsylvania to Portland, Oregon by a Handicapped and His One Man Campaighn on Child Abuse Paul is a twin of Paula McLaughlin and Paula had ... |
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Christy Johns: We Loved All Of Our Neighbors I lived in a new housing track in West Covina directly backed up to the people who did the subdivision. I just loved Pat Sappenfield and her husband. They were always so nice to me. Our ... |
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A New Beginning:
Growing up as a child, I stayed to myself and I don’t remember having many friends as a child. The only life style I remembered was my family cousins who were my ... |
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DEVONTE ERVIN:
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charlotte gibbs: Family, Love, Hope I grew up in a neighborhood, surrounded around family. My mothers mother had 12 children, so therefore i had alot of uncles and auntieslol. We lived in a 4 bedroom mobile ... |
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Tammi:
Hello MY Name is Tammi ilived there for 25 years,I went to some of the worst schools there all colored was born in the midwest and veryly any whites i was ... |
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Florence Louise Light Manning Flynn: Astoria, New York Life in Astoria |
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MARVA:
I remember ,Sobrante Park, in my life and times were good,everyone knew each other, people looked out for each ,a friendly place , we grocery store,cleaners, laundry mat,shoe repair shop ,liquior store,tax place, gas station schools, park church |
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Kathleen M. Plona Rogers: The Happy Home...until. We were finally settling in as one big happy family. 1967, we lived on Fulton Rd, in Cleveland Ohio. The house seemed big, but I was just a little one then. It had ... |
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Timmetria Thomas: Hi, My name is Timmetria Natae Thomas. I did alot of moving around as a child. My mother was a single parent raising three girls so it was tough. I was partially raised up in Acres Home and then my older days we relocated to Humble Texas. Hi, My name is Timmetria Natae Thomas. I did alot of moving around as a child. My mother was a single parent raising three girls so it was tough. I was partially raised up in Acres Home and then my older days we relocated to Humble Texas. |
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Ella Glover:
I turned 50 this year and have made it a goal to write my life story. I want to write it now while I can still remember! I was born Ella ... |
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Peggy Cartwright: Sixth Grade in Cincinnati --College Hill Area Funny, but I can't find any photos of me in 6th grade, or even any of our house in the College Hill section of Cincinnati, the school, my friends...nothing but my ... |
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Betty Endrek: I Hated to Milk Cows, So I Washed Dishes Well, I didn’t like to milk cows and so I was delegated to washing all the dishes at supper time!! |
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Ron Westerman: Dog Bites, Lightning Strikes and The Happiest Times of My Life During that time in Park Ridge… let’s see. I got bit by a dog and had to have the first in a series of rabies shots because they weren’t quite sure ... |
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Jason Teague: NEIGHBORHOOD TIME CHAPTER 2 I GREW UP IN SOUTH PARK IN HOUSTON WERE THE HOOD WAS THE BOMB. WE WAS CONSIDER TO BE KOOL IN OUR DAY,GROWING UP IN OUR HOOD WAS GREAT WE WAS ... |
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Dorothy Zeyen: Our Home was a 10-by-18-Foot Wooden Shack This was the house I was born in. Mom and Dad had been married and they had a child that was born dead. And then two years later I came along, ... |
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John Matson: "How is it den, Hermione, dat you dares to wear chiffon stockings ven you have such hairy legs!? It was very common, in our clan, to have a celebration that included all of the relations. All of the aunts, uncles, children, and their children were in ... |
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Lou Urbanski: Lou Lived in a Polish Neighborhood Well, I lived in a Polish neighborhood. Our streets were still mud streets. But the great street was a main thoroughfare. My father had brothers who would take LaGrange Street and Striker ... |
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Eugene C. Robertson: My Grandfather was a Blacksmith and the Strongest Man in Town Well, when I was growing up we were all pretty close; a close-knit family. My grandmother and grandfather lived across the street from us, and my aunt and uncle lived next ... |
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Dorothy Gibson: I Always Remember It As The Best Of Times. I had a brother named Joseph Marshall. He and I got along all right but we were never real close until later in life. He went his way and I went ... |
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Juanita Marie Schuck-Harris: A Large Black Family in a Small Black Community Well, let’s see…my dad was a deputy sheriff. Well, he came up to Minnesota from Topeka to work on the railroad because St. Paul, Minneapolis was a big hub for the ... |
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Nancy Tucker: We Move to Hungry Horse to Help Build a Dam Hungry Horse was a pretty nifty place. My father was sent there to build Hungry Horse Dam. At the time that it was built, it was the third highest, fourth largest ... |
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Faye Stone: Robin and I Grow Up Tormenting One Another My brother Robin was so different from me in personality, temperament, interests. We tormented each other. I remember his being so upset. When were on the boat coming over from England, ... |
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Than Bischoff: My Neighborhood Was Just Like Happy Days Growing up in the Santa Clara valley was very pleasant. As you know during the nineteen fifties it was mostly orchards. There were strawberry fields and lots of other kinds of ... |
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Aldo Cooper: We Move From Mobile, Alabama to Lutz, Florida If I’m not mistaken, we moved to Mobile, Alabama when I was less than a year old. We lived there for a year or two and then we moved to Lutz, ... |
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Zora Thompson: Stories from the house on Woodmont Street MY MOTHER & STRENA GOYKOVICH GOT ALONG VERY NICELY, BUT THERE WAS A DISAGREEMENT WITH MR. GOYKOVICH ... |
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Tony Channin: I Grew Up in San Diego My mother met my father while they were both in their early twenties. They’ve met through mutual friends, but what I could never figure out was why they didn’t meet through ... |
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Vern Tucker: A Typical Suburban Upbringing My neighborhood was typical residence suburbia. We had track houses and vacant lots across the street from us. For entertainment once we made sleds with runners of two-by-fours. Each runner was ... |
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Scott Bloom: We Move Into a Brand New Neighborhood Then about third grade or so we moved from that neighborhood to Centerville area where my parents built a house and a lot of the friends from the old neighborhood moved ... |
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Ruth Schimpl-Gremling: Three vivid Memories One is sitting out on the back wooden steps with my dad eating a piece ... |
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Ruth Sampson: We Trace our Roots to England Askam is from Pennsylvania. There’s a town in Pennsylvania called Askam, but one of my grandmother’s sister found out in England the name is spelled Ascham, years ago. Well, her brother ... |
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Robert Hutchinson: Our House: A Political Meeting Place When we were growing up, our house was the meeting point for all kinds of people. The governor would often drop by and bring my grandmother a bottle of rye whiskey. ... |
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Robert Ede: I Was a Good Kid Originally I lived in Belmont which is another suburb of Dayton. Then we moved to Oakwood. My father was subdividing a farm. I went to Oakwood elementary school, Oakwood junior high, ... |
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Robert Berryessa: We Leave Pearl Harbor a Week before WWII Starts My dad worked at Pearl Harbor and I remember going with him to look at the ships. Some of the ships are now under water because of December 7, 1941. ... |
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Rikki Willett: We Put Down Roots Why Santa Cruz? I think it’s the only ... |
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Rick James: We Move to Downey, California, and Experience the Prejudice of the Suburbs My mother had no idea of what tribe she was, nor did her mother. They were raised out of the culture in Los Angeles. The family was completely assimilated into the ... |
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Richard Magen: Surfing, Family Tensions, and Things Go Downhill I grew up in Atlantic City surfing. We’re the first kids to buy surfboards in about 1965. We bought these big old pop – outs at the sporting goods store. We ... |
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Ralph Hempfling: I was in High School before I Traveled the 3 Miles to Town for the First Time Ours wasn’t a very big farm compared to nowadays. We had 80 acres and my dad bought 40 more later. The 80 acres was given to us by my mom’s father, ... |
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Ralph Appio: It was wonderful growing up here It was wonderful growing up here. It was absolutely beautiful. Only in the last twenty years did it go to hell. They sure ruined a beautiful Valley. I hate to see ... |
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Phoebe Katherine Cookson Plassman: I Helped my Brother with His Newspaper Deliveries My brother had jobs with the newspapers. He had a morning route with The Courier, at that time it was called the Republican Courier. In the evening he had Lima News ... |
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Phil Camacho: My Dad Started a Chicken Ranch Back in those days, I mean, kids respect everybody. You never saw any of these people killing each other or anything. I mean, it was just a livable town. Like I ... |
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Pauline Dora Zeltner: Life Was Much Simpler Back Then It was a much simpler life. I think it was much more enjoyable. For me, it was a much more enjoyable life. They have so much aimed at them now. They ... |
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Norma Starr: I Drove Horse Teams and “Old Hoopy” He had one horse and he drew a plow and he farmed with that. I would disk. Daddy bought a tractor. It was an old John Deere and I drove that ... |
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Niswander & Bowers: Our Family Owns Jewelry Stores Colleen: He ... |
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Monserrat Sanz: In Our Working Class Neighborhood, Everyone Knew Everyone Family businesses, old fashioned ... |
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Bozitza Popovich: A Move to McKeesport A MOVE TO EAST MCKEESPORT CAME NEXT AND IN 1923, BROWNIE WAS BORN. MY FATHER HAD A NEW BRICK HOUSE BUILT FOR US AND HELEN WAS THE FIRST BABY TO BE ... |
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Bob Stahl: At a Young Age, I Lost Three Important People in my Life ... |
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Bertine Hancock: A Small, Friendly Neighborhood There weren’t many children. There weren’t too many children in our neighborhood; there were older people, but it was friendly. We had good neighbors. I always remember it was important to have good neighbors and be a good neighbor. |
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Bernard "Barney" Bricmont: The House on Acacia Street I was born in San Jose. My dad was born in Campbell. My parents had a choice of buying a very small two bedroom house in downtown San Jose or buying ... |
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Bequia Cooper: We Spent Summers at the Pool We lived on a hill, and there weren’t very many hills and North Dakota. We used to ride the toboggan and sled. We use to pig-pile on top of one another ... |
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Ann Urbanski: Annie Was the First Class President of Findlay Senior High I went to Findlay Senior High School. I did not get to go to college because there was no money at that time, but the three oldest of the family did ... |
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Anne Phipps: We Move to A Foreign Country: America! My grandfather was the captain of the Kent cricket team. His picture was on trading cards in England (similar to baseball cards in the US). He actually has a website. He ... |
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Analydia Scoggins: Amazing Lessons from “Illiterate” Farm Workers We moved to a farm that was owned by my grandmother when I was about five or six years old. Part of my education was observing in nature and asking questions ... |
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Florence Hunter: We Lived Close to the Barbershop and Candy Store Well, I was born in Deshler. I was there until I was about three and half and then that was in town. We lived right within a couple houses from a ... |
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Emilia Gallegos: Family stories from the USA, Vietnam, Mexico During this time I stayed home raising my child. My son went to high school, and then went to college. But when the war came along, he was drafted. Actually, he ... |
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Elnora Taylor: Growing Up in Oklahoma My oldest sister was named Pearl, and she got hurt at school. She was the eldest. When she was eleven or twelve years old, she fell down and cracked the bone ... |
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Elizabeth Lucille Rozelle: As a kid, I was just as ornery as they come I had my days; I did what I had to do, what I was told to do. Believe me my parents didn’t believe in sparing the rod, but then we, you ... |
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Eddie Rojas: I Start Doing Odd Jobs Around Town And then we came to Laredo, and then I start to work when I was 13 years old doing things - you know, doing the things that I can do at ... |
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Doug and Ginger Levick: We Moved 17 Times in 17 Years My father was in the oil business. The oil company was Esso, Exxon actually, so he moved around a lot. In fact, my parents moved 17 times in the first 17 ... |
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Doris Robertson-Polley: Hanford Went Crazy over Softball Softball was very big during that time I was growing up and the whole family used to go to the game. As the youngest and the last one at home I ... |
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Don George Alexander: We Didn’t Know We Were Poor Growing up in the 1920s in this area was great. We didn’t know we were poor. Everybody else was, so it didn’t make any difference. We didn’t have – I didn’t ... |
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Denise Morra: I Grew Up in the Real West Side Story When my parents moved to the neighborhood when my brother was very young, it was an Italian and Jewish. When I was growing up it was mostly Puerto Rican, a little ... |
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Debra Hummel: As a Preacher’s Kid, All Eyes Were On Me My childhood was probably different than most any other kid because when you were the preacher’s kid everybody was watching you no matter what you did. Good, bad or indifferent, they ... |
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Darwin Hintz: The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s Affected Wisconsin, Too Times were really tough back in the 1930s. The economy was pretty harsh and the years of dust storms and things like that, even though they were supposedly confined to Texas ... |
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Dale Townsend: Winter and Summer, an Outdoor Childhood My childhood was all about outdoors. We played baseball. We rode down to the creek on horseback to go swimming. In the winter we went ice skating every day and the ... |
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Chris Beaudoin: I Was an Odd Kid. I Was Fearless Saratoga, you would not describe, I don’t think then or now, as a very ethnically diverse community. It was a very sort of middle class, white community and very, I would ... |
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John Donovan: Away from home I had a good time! My childhood was filled with fear because of my father’s drinking. I didn’t do well in school, and I wasn’t dumb. My sisters weren’t dumb, and I wasn’t down; it was ... |
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Jim McGovern: Mom Teaches Me How to Fool People My mother had an expression that she used with me quite often. She used to say: “Jim, act like a gentleman and you’ll fool the people most of the time!” ... |
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Jeremy Lezin: Everyone Knew Everyone The memory that I think is so different from Santa Cruz today was walking down Pacific Avenue back in the, let’s say early 60s. You could walk down Pacific Avenue and ... |
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Jean Disher: Frugal to this Day I was a pretty good kid most of the time. I’m an only child and we kind of were struggling to keep ends meet. My dad would bring the food home and ... |
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Ginger and Doug Levick: During the Depression We Were Down to one Maid, a Chauffeur and a Cook I was born in Summit, New Jersey and I was a second child. I have an older brother, and what I remember of my childhood is a couple things. One is ... |
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George Newell: I Grew Up in Stillwater, Oklahoma So, I was born in Lafayette and it was during the war in ’45, toward the end of the war and we moved around. We went from there to Brentwood, Maryland ... |
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Frank Maxwell: “I Got Sick of Fighting Cars!” He had an old clunky car, and worked delivering ... |
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Mickey Frazer: Uncle Paul Carries on With the Teacher, and Learns a Lesson One year, they moved the schoolhouse. It was a country schoolhouse, and I went there. They taught us… more or less! When I graduated I went to Bozeman, Montana. I was ... |
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Michael Popovich: Christmas, 1909: I Get Settled in My New Homeland IT WAS A TWO WEEK JOURNEY TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. WE LANDED IN NEW YORK PASSING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. FROM THE PORT WE WENT TO UNION STATION ENROUTE TO JOHNSTOWN, ... |
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Mary Margaret Donovan: We Were Always Afraid of the Commies I have memories of sitting in the living room with the black-out blinds and listening to the radio that was very low. And the Civil Defense men walking the streets with ... |
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Marjorie Hook: We Lived Inside Historic Ft. Laramie We lived in Ft. Laramie. That’s where the first fort was build west of the Mississippi years ago. We lived out at the old fort one time in one of the ... |
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Walta Lou Wilcox: I was one of 30 “Golden Girls” And then nice thing about it was the girls that I started in grade school with; we went through junior high and high school together. When we graduated, probably there was ... |
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Marilyn Patton: A lot of Yelling, but not a lot of Discussion When I was growing up we didn’t sit around and talk at dinner. When you are done you ... |
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Mardi Brick: I Grew Up in Reno, Nevada My family moved into Reno in my father continued selling cars. We grew up doing everything a normal family would do. My dad loved music and he had each of his ... |
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Madonna Wagner: Grandmother’s Quick Action Saved Grandfather’s Life I was raised on a farm that was very, very active. We had short-horned cattle and my father also designed a barn that was for raising pigs and we had a ... |
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Lenny Hobbs: When I was Five, a Team of Horses Smashed My Ribs I don’t remember much about growing up as a kid, I used to follow a team of horses to work ground down years ago when I was a kid. I was ... |
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Larry Coppes: I Was Very Close to My Dad One housing area off of Bernard was a farm. I lived there until I was twelve years old. ... |
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Kathleen Gambogi: I Was Raised on an Apple Ranch Bob lived ... |
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Lela Coppes: I Did all the Normal Stuff Girls Do I went to school in Vanlue. I was in first grade when my mother had a blood clot in her head and we had to move to Findlay. We moved to ... |
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John Urbanski: I Looked Like Beaver Cleaver I looked like Beaver Cleaver when I was a little kid, with the freckles and the brown hair. I was only seven years old when we moved to Tucson. Before that ... |
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John Rialson: My Father Catches German Spies; My Cousin Trades On-Screen Jibes with Dean Martin My father was in the coast guard during world war two. He was ... |
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Peggy McGovern: Good Times, Despite some Family Friction In My Neighborhood My father’s parents came from Bavaria and they came to the United States. My ... |
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